My mother’s family come from one of the southwest desert states, and I’ve read memoirs written by family members about the 1880s to early 1900s where gunplay was an even more common feature of life than it is now. Not OK Corral sorts of violence, either. Typically it involved domestic violence (shooting a partner, the person having sex with that partner, or both), disputes over land and mining claims, or drunken bar fights that escalated. I recall elder family members who had souvenirs from knife fights too (“Grampa, what’s that scar on your face from?”).
As Rap Brown put it: Violence is as American as cherry pie.
A question is whether it is by design or not, it is. By design, to justify a police state.
By design, or at least by malign neglect, to kill off the urban working class. And to justify a police state.
That is true, very true, not just in the west, the midwest was even worse in many ways perhaps.
But it’s a world apart from what we have going on now. Apples to mechanically separated concentration camp animal farm meat.
The future fucking sucks, but I digress. Yes violence was at the heart of conquering a continent, but the post war era is a different beast than what came before. This design is to take from the working class what they wrested from the rich during the great depression and with the labour movement.
My mother’s family come from one of the southwest desert states, and I’ve read memoirs written by family members about the 1880s to early 1900s where gunplay was an even more common feature of life than it is now. Not OK Corral sorts of violence, either. Typically it involved domestic violence (shooting a partner, the person having sex with that partner, or both), disputes over land and mining claims, or drunken bar fights that escalated. I recall elder family members who had souvenirs from knife fights too (“Grampa, what’s that scar on your face from?”).
As Rap Brown put it: Violence is as American as cherry pie.
By design, or at least by malign neglect, to kill off the urban working class. And to justify a police state.
That is true, very true, not just in the west, the midwest was even worse in many ways perhaps.
But it’s a world apart from what we have going on now. Apples to mechanically separated concentration camp animal farm meat.
The future fucking sucks, but I digress. Yes violence was at the heart of conquering a continent, but the post war era is a different beast than what came before. This design is to take from the working class what they wrested from the rich during the great depression and with the labour movement.