inherently violent leaks out all over the place simply because it cannot be contained indefinitely.

Sure, you can look at these events as merely random incidents. That's your choice and you are welcome to do so.

I see it as entirely interdependent and very much connected, (as we are learning in relation to our behavior and our environment) and no longer single out any event and find myself aghast, judging it as if it were some strange and bizarre anomaly. Maybe I am wrong, but that's the feeling-tone and sense of it and it even makes sense from other standpoints like philosophy, spirituality and even physics.

We are not alone and we are in this together and we are watching the very system we find ourselves embedded into perform exactly as it should and not in aberrant and surprising ways. That is, if we are not playing into the game of denial that helps to make it function the way it does. It is very methodical and there is a certain kind of precision to it when you see through the facade.

Are we really in this together? Well, if we thought of ourselves as a sort of tribe, then that might make perfect sense. Our system conditions us to be able to ignore the results, look the other way, and come up with perfect and even logical excuses as to why we are all very separate and unaccountable. That's the price of a fallacious contrivance of being independent from our surroundings and each other, even when we know we essentially want and need the very same things when we are not under the hypnotic spell of advertising and manufactured consent.

We are the entire village and everything that happens in it reflects rather faithfully the terms and conditions we are subscribing to each day, by choice, and maybe with too little concern about the overall consequences. Yet, we seem to be easily shocked and dismayed and eager to contain the results just to ease our minds and sooth our weary consciences. That is a heavy burden to bear and maybe we will someday call the game, open up and try for a real civilization based on an undeniable and functional form of democracy. For now, we have only fantasies, dreams and wishes and hopes, but very little, (and less and less) to show for them.