A fascinating incident. Bad habits are so much easier to develop than good ones. That is why society was so ‘oppressive’ towards young people back when we had an intact family structure and a functioning national culture. Even with a culture that had very long teeth there were plenty of boys from ‘good’ families that ended up wearing stripes. The difference, and a big one, is that they were considered disgraces and not ‘cool’. The crumbling of the family is bring the thug culture to white middle class America right along with soaring illegitimacy rates and the plague of fatherlessness.
Exactly correct. You get an A+. His father had been totally absent. While his mother had really tried to keep him on track and did a good job until he wanted freedom from rules. At 18 he moved in with his deadbeat dad and had free rein. Pretty good deal to have no rules. It only cost him his life.