Violent Crazy People

In the U.S. where I grew up in California and Washington in the 1950s until I was 17 in the mid 1960s  there were many more violent people than now. The culture was much more harsh than today (reminiscent of the pioneer days before 1900). So, though people were more innocent, naive and uneducated than now, they also tended to be more cruel and unthinking because of being less educated, (especially under age 20). So, everyone had a much bigger chance of being killed or driven to suicide in a variety of ways then.

For example, if you didn't fit down a fairly narrow path in life people would torture you psychologically or physically as a child and often there was no one there to protect you and so unless you could be a little more like an animal than now you were not going to psychologically or physically survive.

Now I would say there tend to be less physically violent people in general in our culture here in the U.S. but a lot more crazy people tend to survive who at some point where they can't fit into society in any useful way to themselves or others, they sometimes snap, find a gun and try to go out in a blaze of glory realizing they can never have a life that is meaningful to them or something like that. So, their intentions are to have others kill them instead of having the courage to kill themselves.

People these days are more interdependent but in the 1950s people were more independent and rugged that survived which is much different than today. So, the way it worked then is people generally were so mean to each other (under 20) that people killed themselves a lot more than they do now. However now, the people that wouldn't have survived the 1950s (because they would have been killed or tortured to death by those around them often survive now only to realize they have no place in society and decide to go out in a blaze of glory by them shooting people and people shooting them.

I'm not sure which system is better but there were less mass killings because of the old crueler system I grew up in. The old system was "Natural Selection" among human animals. The new system appears to be "Idiot Compassion" that doesn't work effectively in the real world.

After all, at some point people must come to terms with the actual fact that humans are actually "Conditioned Animals". And the more conditioning we receive often times the more subtly crazy individually and collectively we become.