The Gun Culture isn’t exactly rational. As with many things human, it’s shortsighted and not at all thought out. It also stems from a bouquet of wildly contradictory personality disorders - fear, authoritarianism, paranoia, narcissism, emotionalism, hard heartedness…
Vigilantism and self-defense are a rising dichotomy that needs to be addressed - it’s a real slippery slope. I don’t see that it will be addressed in a mature and logical way, though. These things, viewed from a historical perspective, appear to be ruled by unconscious mass movements and are unlikely to be managed by cooler heads in leadership. The general condition looks a lot like contracting a serious illness that works its way through the body with lots of fever and vomiting, which eventually resolves after the fever subsides in recovery or death! A good system of government is one that has robust enough protocols to weather the frequent illnesses of mass insanity.
But enough of that, let’s get back to Fabulous Fungi… I just started reading “Finding The Mother Treeâ€, by Suzanne Simard. I recommend it highly. Fungi can teach us how to live on this planet.
