Books: This Age of Violence
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But for all his indictment of violence as the "cancer" in society, Wertham Believes that there is a cure. It is nothng less than a gradual change in nearly 11 of man's ways of looking at life, at war, at himself. Poverty and racial rejudice are obviously powerful incitements to violence, but so, he says, is the lassie American emphasis on getting head. The individualism and selfishness inherent in an acquisitive society beget a climate of violence, as does hypernationalism. A Sign for Cain will give readers a healthy dose of "the dignity of indignation," but it does not offer much hope that man will take the cure.
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