SERIOUS GRAVITY (A SANITY PRIMER)

One has to wonder whether collective guilt, self-loathing and unrelenting stridency will get us where we need to go as a nation... We begin with the premise that people love each other - and get along just fine...And why is that again? Another tension-filled, random contentious encounter in today's America...But this cannot be happening right? We "outlawed" all tension-filled random contentious encounters  last month! If we began with the assumption that people are naturally wary, suspicious and untrusting of one another - we would not be so constantly "shocked" by what we see every day...namely, people suffering through the mutual "stress" of encountering a stranger in the public square... Throw competition into the mix...What? People competing with one another - striving to gain partial advantage over their neighbors - enjoying the brief, fleeting illusion of "superiority" (in one regard only) and mulling over a thousand insecurities caused