Violent Adolescents: Understanding the Destructive Impulse Book

This is an engaging meditation on what is the driving force in most of the planet but particularly for those of us

United in the
States of
Avarice


The writer introduces a wide variety of takes on the subject by theologians, philosophers, writers and artists. I would have added another star were it not for two shortcomings.

The first is having a set of notes that equal the number of pages in the work itself. They are certainly not to be skipped, but one wonders whether they would have been better off had they been integrated into the main narrative.

The second is with the temporal organizing scheme into three imaginations. While the first two, which the author names physical and intellectual imaginations, are convincing, the third is something she never convincingly fleshes out. I suspect it is because there's nothing really there, and all the rhetorical pyrotechnics can't quite bring it to life.