I Fart In Your General Direction

AITOOW will reveal the true reason for the coarsening of contemporary culture (although at least we are just yelling at our leaders now and not assassinating them)? It's all about the age old battle about physical force versus mental force. I would also like to add that it is possible "that the good old days weren't all that good and tomorrow isn't as bad as it seems" or it was the anomoly and today is more in line with "normal" behavior.

Clever people use their brains to fight their battles. They either have a weaker physical constitution or they calculate that the injuries they would sustain fighting an equal or weaker being would make the confrontation less desirable. Therefore, they rely on a mental battle in which they trade physical injuries for mental or emotional or financial ones. The theory is that these injuries are more easily remedied than the ones to the physical vessel (which is irrepareable at a point). They also probably believe they have the superior or more cunning mind.

In today's America (and probably since the beginning) we attract a lot of immigrants (and grow our own in areas of squalor) who do not have the mental acuity to achieve in battle of wits. They must rely on physical contests. If they do not intimidate physically, they must adopt other devices to appear intimidating (harsh language, tattoos, fierce clothing, nasty glares, etc). So this is why we have a violent, coarse society. We let in unevolved human beings and we mix them with the permanent underclass of mentally retarded (as in under developed) individuals. We never stem the supply of new miscreants. And we replace every Neandrathal we elevate from our old stock with two miscreants (immigration and child bearing) from the new.

Most people would boil it down to cultural or genetic differences or the result of pockets of people being angry at their lot in life (racial, financial, social, sex, etc motives). I say it's just a measure of group intelligence demographics. Not that it isn't sometimes (maybe most of the time) smart or necessary to use force. As every non-victim learns early on in life. This inflates the number of people using the "physical" as a pose or to protect themselves.

So, it's no wonder in times when our supply of people is increasing that our levels of civility (if you measure civility as the absence of confrontation) is decreasing. Plus add in those experiments with population density and happiness, theories on the loss of responsability in crowds and the fact that since the early 20th Century our top immigrant pool sources are stereotypically irritable areas like the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and Latin America and you see why we're in the state we're in.