Years ago I knew a guy who wanted to be a cop, but he was rejected (twice IIRC) after the tests. He was intelligent enough, but it was the psych tests. I can only guess as why he was rejected, but from my interaction with him he did exhibit very regimented thinking, a classic black-and-white, it’s-the-law type of opinions.

We humans are still in the process of “domesticating” ourselves. We aren’t exactly wild, but we still can revert to very crude tribal behavior.

This is one of the reasons why I detest the politicking of fear. The so-called primary “debates” of the last two elections were full of fear-mongering.

Power brokers exploit people’s fears. Fear of this… fear of that. Fear of drugs brings on the Drug War, which amped up the militarization of police forces, but I think that began a couple of decades earlier, in the 1960’s.

We are still fighting the societal battles of the 1960’s now a generation later. It’s still the struggle for equality, it’s still the struggle of the “other” to be allowed to exist in society.

I wonder what will happen in Ferguson and St. Louis county. I wonder what will happen in Missouri politics, if anything will change.