This combination of essays by @gcaw--together--is particularly powerful and suggests why we might not want to have a degenerate culture that glamorizes violence. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/there-no-defense-looting/615925/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-and-sheepdog-mentality/615805/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc...
There& #39;s actually no politician who can change this culture. You can reward or punish politicians who luxuriate in it at the ballot box--and Trump is an obvious candidate for this sort of punishment. But you can& #39;t vote for or against a culture.
What you can do is *not participate in it.*
Boycott all forms of violence porn.
Don& #39;t glamorize, esteem, or valorize it.
And women: Don& #39;t reward men--especially young men--who are caught up in the mythos of violence with sex.
Boycott all forms of violence porn.
Don& #39;t glamorize, esteem, or valorize it.
And women: Don& #39;t reward men--especially young men--who are caught up in the mythos of violence with sex.
Throw the spanner of reason into evolutionary biology at every juncture you can. Give men who make beasts of themselves the Lysistrata treatment.