What's it going to be then, eh?
Life is, of course, terrible.
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.
Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.