Examining the deleterious impacts of modern urban culture on the American social fabric and its future prognosis.
We shall fight in the airport terminal, we shall fight at the Dollar Tree, we shall fight in the movie theaters and in the emergency rooms, we shall fight on the Carnival cruise ships; we shall never surrender.
-The Urban Creed
Honest to goodness, I have lost count of how many Walmart gang beatings I have witnessed over the years.
It’s basically a national urban sport now.
Walmart fight 😭 https://t.co/vl1CBNrzW9
— The Net Daily (@TheNetDaily) March 20, 2025
Walmart battle royale fight video https://t.co/NILgRFi59h
— SHABOOTY 🎥: #90DayFiance 🪬 (@SHABOOTY) October 14, 2022
Insane fight inside a grocery store #StreetFights #fightvideos https://t.co/vCVhUNrr2w
— viralfights (@fightvids_inc) October 30, 2026
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In addition to the pervasiveness of the violence itself, what makes the kinds of scenes we’re covering in this mini-series all the more egregious is the utter senselessness of the violence — hence the title of this mini-series. “Addicted to Senseless Violence.”
Whereas, in each of the historical instances below, there was at least some ostensible purpose to the violence, regardless of how morally unjustifiable or ineffectual it might have been:
- Ted Kaczynski mailed all of those bombs to academics and airline executives because he wanted to halt technological progress, which he viewed as an existential threat to humanity. (Given the current uncertainty around AI, he was probably onto something, but that’s a story for another day.)
- The CCP cracked heads in Tiananmen Square so as to make an example out of any reactionaries who might think about challenging the regime. The Revolution must go on indefinitely, and that requires some watering of the tree of tyranny from time to time.
- ISIS beheaded and otherwise brutally executed all those people on tape because they believed that young Muslim men worldwide would think it looked cool and would join the caliphate in the hopes that they could maim and kill for Allah too — effectively a heterodox marketing ploy. (It worked.)
In each of these instances, again, there was some ostensible reason to perpetrate the violence, in the service of achieving a defined aim, even if one might find it morally repugnant.
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In American urban culture, in contrast, entire rap songs have been written about senseless violence — like this one encouraging listeners to throw gang signs in the club just to start fights with other people in the crowd who throw up different gang signs:
Well, shake yo' drink up and spray the mother****in' crowd
Shake yo' drink up and spray the mother****in' crowd
Throw yo' clique up and say it mother****in' loud
Throw yo' clique up and say it mother****in' loud
Now drop yo' 'bows on 'em and get buck-a** wild
Drop yo' 'bows on 'em and get buck-a** wild
You supposed to act up, play with a Black-and-f***in'-Mild
You supposed to act up, play with a Black-and-f***in'-Mild
'Cause them east side n****s don't give a f**k
Them west side n****s is quick to buck
Them north side n****s will cut you up
And them south side n****s will put you in a trunk
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Billy Corgan: Rock was intentionally sidelined by MTV, music industry in the late '90s in favor of rap
Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame claims that the popular displacement of rock music in favor of rap in the late '90s — which definitely happened, whether it was organic or not — was an intentional project of shadowy forces.
Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins has been calling this out for a while now. This actively tracks since both rap and pop are for the rubes. https://t.co/YEaojp30zv
— Louis T. Getterman IV — 🇺🇸/acc (@ltgiv) September 4, 2026
If we grant for a moment that it is plausible, what would be the social engineering purpose of popularizing rap music?
One could speculate — and admittedly this is veering into conspiratorial waters — that the senseless violence and all of the other degradations that the genre promotes serve to further decay both urban culture and the culture at large, as functional family systems and strong moral foundations confer no benefit upon aspirational totalitarians.
Just one man’s humble theory.
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