During the misnamed and mostly preposterous debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a moderator fact-checked Trump’s claim that crime is up.
In contrast to Trump’s claim, moderator David Muir said that the FBI reports that crime is down, a claim that likely struck every viewer as obviously wrong.
Surveys have shown that 26 million people in the U.S. believe that violence is fine to keep Trump from regaining the presidency.
There's private violence, public violence and many forms in between including vigilante violence.
This springs from the culture of our times which has been heavily informed and even defined by the deployment of state violence in service of policy goals, at a scale, scope and depth never before seen.
It's a form of violence that interrupts the free flow of information: the ability to speak, and the ability to learn.
This censorship coincides with a strange valorization of violence that we are presented with from all over the world: Ukraine, the Middle East, London, Paris and many American cities.
What purpose are all these soft, hard, public and private exercises of violence serving? The standard of living is suffering, lives are shortening, despair and ill health are main features of the population and illiteracy has swept through an entire generation.
The decision to deploy violence to master the microbial kingdom did not turn out well.
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