All this reminded me of something... now tell me that this doesn't date me ... but I remember in one of my high school classes, maybe it was psychology, some discussion about how the the Chinese government had their children trained in using firearms at an early age and something else, I don't remember what exactly it was, and I don't know now if that was just propoganda on our part, but it made sense... not that they were Chinese, it wouldn't have mattered who it was, but the anesthetizing thing.

If you watch enough of something pretty soon you become immune to the horrors it and it holds no fear, no reality, no pain. It becomes like the RoadRunner cartoons... the guy gets smashed and he's back for the next cartoon. No reality.

Kate