• 1953, overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mossadeq and supported the king of Iran to come to power;
• 1954, the CIA overthrew Guatema President Arbenz was elected President Arbenz, during which 200,000 civilians were killed;
• 1963, supported the assassination of South Vietnamese President Wu Tingyan;
• During 1963-1975, the United States caused 4 million deaths in Southeast Asia;
• September 11, 1973 , The United States instigated a coup in Chile, the elected President Salvador Allenda was killed, the dictator Augusto Pinochet was supported, and 5,000 Chileans were killed;
• In 1977, the United States supported the military ruler of El Salvador, and 700,000 Salvadorans were killed. kill;
• 1980, the United States to support Osama bin Laden against the Soviet Union, the CIA gave Osama bin Laden $ 3 billion in funding;
• 1981, the Reagan providing training and funding to "Rebel" (contras), during which 30,000 people were killed in Nicaragua;
• 1982 In 1989 , the United States provided Saddam with billions of funds to support Saddam’s development of weapons against Iran;
• In 1983, the White House secretly delivered weapons to Iran to allow Iran to fight against Iraq;
• In 1989, CIA agents and Panamanian President Noriega (Noriega) disobeyed Washington’s command and was ousted, during which 3,000 Panamanian civilians were killed and injured;
• In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait under the armed forces of the United States;
• In 1991, when the United States launched the first Gulf War, Bush Sr. re-supported the King of Kuwait to power;
• In 1998, Clinton bombed the "Arsenal" in Sudan, and later discovered that the factory was originally producing aspirin;
• After 1991, American aircraft Bombing missions against Iraq are carried out almost every week. As of the time when Michael Moore produced this film, the United Nations estimated that 500,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of bombing and sanctions;
• From 2000 to 2001, the United States provided 245 million "aids" to the Taliban regime. ;
• On September 11, 2001, bin Laden used the expertise he learned from the CIA to carry out the 9/11 terrorist attack, killing 3,000 people.
Then, Moore's film let us see: On April 20, 1999, the United States launched the most violent bombing of the Kosovo War. Non-military targets such as hospitals and civilian houses were attacked during the bombing.
However, the irony is that one hour after the bombing, the wall was hit, and a student shooting occurred at Columbine High School in Colorado. 12 students and one teacher were killed, and countless people were injured. From the live video, the scene looked like a Hollywood movie. With the help of military power, abolishing a head of state is like killing a chicken. But this did not eliminate the violence, just as the Great Wall did not stop the doom of the Qin Dynasty's decline and fall.
Michael Moore was a man who was denounced as a traitor, and was regarded by others as the conscience of the United States. Judging from his "Violence in American Society", he is a rare patriot. He was thinking seriously, what caused this violence? Is there any way to fix it?
Many people began to blame the singer Maryln Manson, because this person is decadent, not male or female, and looks like a living ghost. The murderer likes to listen to this person's music. It's like making Cui Jian responsible for the murder because Ma Jiajue loves listening to Cui Jian's music. Michael Moore asked: Why don't you blame the bowling ball? Because the murderer also played bowling before the murder! It’s not that the culture represented by this person has no responsibility, but because of his horrible image, it is easier to prove the opposition between good and evil on TV, and all the responsibility is assigned to him. This people find a simple explanation that allows the thinking brain to be able to It would be very dangerous to take a rest and let more evils "get away". The police pushed all the nearby murders to a guilty perpetrator. The unfinished case was settled and the police "successful", but at some point in the future, maybe the real murderer will come out for harm.
Some people say that TV and computer games caused violence, but Michael Moore said that there are more violent games in Japan. How come there were less than 100 homicides in Japan, while there were more than 11 thousand homicides in the United States? It was also said that this was caused by the conflict between whites and blacks, but Michael Moore ran to Canada and found that his social composition was more complicated, and that there were very few homicides in Canada. Similarly, Germans also listen to the music of weird singers like Marylin Manson, and do not see so much violence? Why is there so many in the United States?
Social violence is a complex phenomenon, and there are multiple factors at play, including the above-mentioned reasons. Finding the cause of an event is actually a kind of practical research. If you want to establish a causal relationship between things, you have to rule out alternative explainations in order to be truly convincing. However, the more complex the phenomenon, the harder it is to find a simple cause and effect relationship. For example, the influence of violent thinking, personality, family education, community environment, poverty, racial antagonism, discrimination, and school safety may have caused the Columbine incident. But as we Chinese often say, there are direct and indirect reasons.
To change, only comprehensive prevention and control. Michael Moore is calling on people to take action on his website to correct deviations in some social areas that the current regime has neglected or made mistakes. This is often a systematic project, involving a wide range of areas. It may not be successful overnight, but it requires a brick-and-mortar effort. If we allow the continuation of the status quo and remain indifferent, what kind of world will we give to our children and grandchildren?
In addition, to push the responsibility to the entire society and seek social improvement, a very likely result is nothing. There are many reasons for violence, but these reasons have different effects. Some reasons are more worthy of attention. For example, the foreign military militants mentioned at the beginning of this article have affected the overall deployment of social resources, and people do not have enough funds to pay attention to internal social reforms. Its indirect impact is immeasurable. Another example is the proliferation of guns, and it is more worthwhile to work hard to change. In this incident, the guns were all legally purchased, and the bullets came from the nearby K-Mart supermarket. Ten days later, the American Firearms Association held a rally in Denver. Denver Mayor Wellington Webb warned the host of the meeting not to come, saying that he was not welcome. The other party replied: "This is the United States, I can go wherever I want!" When this sentence was repeated, there was thunderous applause on the court. If you love guns so much, defend your gun ownership, and don't want to be victimized, how can you have both fish and bear paws?
In addition, some small efforts may produce big results, which we call leverage points. For example, security measures in schools, dress codes (make weapons inconvenient to hide). However, these palliative measures, when combined with the fundamental human engineering and social engineering, can produce long-term results. For individuals, whether they are in the court or the opposition, if you want to accomplish something, you have to start with specific actions and make a little change every time, gathering sand into towers and gathering arms. It affects one person at a time. For ordinary people, this may be a tactical approach.
Fortunately, China is a country that implements gun control. Otherwise, there are already creepy school homicides. I don't know how much more it will increase. If you don't look for spiritual, social, educational, family, and personal reasons, the situation may get worse. The antagonisms and contradictions, prejudice and discrimination in the society will also become hotbeds of violent growth. Michael Moore's wake-up call to the United States, we might as well listen to it together.
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