Men's Group

Where is this "culture of violence"? Is it in video games? WWE Wrestling? Hollywood? Does it have a headquarters? Meetings? A Board of Directors?

It is supposed to be taken as axiomatic that it exists, it's real, like mashed potatoes and airports are real, and that it has a direct relationship to actual acts of violence, like violent crime.

So answer me this: because I've asked it in several different fashions, and no one - no one invested in these sorts of broad cultural narratives which always seem to come with grandiose pronouncements and ill-defined prescriptions like "we (who?) have to change the culture of ..." (what? where? how?) - seems to want to answer this direct question based upon actual real world information:



Namely, why have violent crime rates- by every statistical measure - dropped over the past few decades? Why are they lower, now? (FBI, June 11, 2012: "Near-Historic Lows&quot Certainly, there is still violence, certainly, violence ought to be opposed and violent crime ought to be prosecuted- but the fact is, it has declined and is declining.

So, are the statistics wrong? Or is the "culture of violence" already changing?

I ask, because the folks invested in this narrative of a massively fucked up culture that is becoming more of a "sewer" by the minute, don't seem to have an explanation for why violence is decreasing if everything is getting worse and, most importantly, needs to change.

Maybe the change is already taking place. Maybe "we" are already doing what needs be done, since violence is going down.

Also, since you brought up race, would you argue that racial and socioeconomic groups with higher rates of violent crime "need to change" more?