It's funny how, as US citizens, we think we have to behave according to certain rules that we've established for a civilized society, whereas in some other cultures, people just cut straight to the chase and don't bother trying to pretend that others will respect their right to be left alone without the threat of violence. As time goes on, I'm starting to wonder which society is really further along the evolutionary scale.

At first glance, it seems the barbarians are behind the times. But after struggling for decades trying to get the government to voluntarily back off and stay out of our lives, you start to wonder if that's a real possibility. After all, the violent cultures, in many cases, are actually older than the United States.

Maybe they've just figured out that the law of the jungle is really the only law that works on this planet, no matter how much we don't want to believe it.

A few years back, such post would sound somewhat ridicules to me.
Not so any longer.

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