Great. We can afford fancier toys, but otherwise how does this differ from pretty much any time in the past or anywhere else? Were we less violent before mass s

Great. We can afford fancier toys, but otherwise how does this differ from pretty much any time in the past or anywhere else? Were we less violent before mass schooling came in after 1848? Somehow we managed to make our writ run from the Alleghenies to the Pacific, partly by purchase, largely by violence. Were we less conformist? A reading of Tocqueville would suggest not.