"We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience."

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When we speak about a culture of violence in the American society, we're not just talking about the mass killers. We're also talking about that we, as a society, and many of us as individuals accept violence as part of life because we have become numb to it, being so exposed to it in various forms of media.

— Jim Steyer