- but empathy is in short supply everywhere in US society
How could people not be hardened? The US is a terrible country to be sick in. Illness or injury brings with it a threat of debt or bankruptcy. And in a country where so many die from guns and opioids, the architects of both the gun and opioid crises make a lot of money, and suffer nothing like the victims of their profiteering., was instantly translated into memes is revealing.
To “bring the war home” was a motivating cry during the Vietnam War. “The Vietnam War made us crazy,” Flanagan says in that documentary. The drafting of young Americans into it against their will was an extreme situation. That violence abroad would foster violence at home was something of an inevitability. This is not a new concept.