text:  abstract out so when you have societies like ours which have this fetishistic relationship to like soldiers and war and then it's like oh but my 12 year old is reading a violent comic i mean it's so clearly a kind of cultural scapegoating looking at like video games and movies and so on it's just a way of exonerating the people who are really profiting from the violence after centuries of bloodshed i'm finally close to an answer