All one needs to do is go to the "other board" and you can see lots of anger and even rage over the simplest of issues like whether someone should be vaccinated or not.
And BTW: there are young girls on their computers, smart phones, etc., playing video games that involve points for killing as many bad guys as possible. In the United States, twice as many adult women play video games as do boys, according to the Entertainment Software Association, the industry's top trade group. But I don't see many, if any at all, involved in mass shootings. Is that purely genetics or something more-or less? Are boys trained to be "winners, always come out on top, no matter what it takes"? Do girls play the same video games with the same intensity as boys? If so, can we really blame video games for people involved with tragedies like Indianapolis.
I have a theory that we have, in this country, a higher percentage of "unhappiness" and "isolation" and "depression" than any other "advanced" country in the world. If I'm correct then the real -and most difficult-question is "why".
In that light, I do believe there is a connection with how we "socialize" today (by internet) compared with "the good ole days" when we actually interacted personally.
There is a very perceptive article in this month's magazine "The Atlantic". It is titled - "The Internet Doesn't Have To Be Awful". Here's the opening salvo: "The civic habits necessary for a functioning republic have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here's how to fix that".
While the piece is quite illuminating I haven't yet arrived at the "fix". .
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