. >> if you go with melanie klein, the purely good and purely bad is hard to live and acknowledge the ways in which we fall short of our own ideals, aggressive not only towards people we don't know and strangers to us whose differences we might find confusing but aggressive feelings toward people we love. one way to live with it is in an unconscious way to be manipulated on a larger scale, the negative feelings we find unbearable and destabilizing transferred to ready-made objects who we learned are safe to hate and it is possible to live in the space of discomfort and not have to act out but going into bad, it has catastrophic consequences, not just at the level of fantasy, some bear the brunt of being the bad object so others feel like we are good citizens. >> that category is growing, proliferating. >> to what extent do you see this as uniquely american, when we think about nonviolence, i associate that with availability of weapons, but america is the only colonial or imperial power, this comes from english law, how is it different in the united states? >> that is a great point, we