Yeah, i guess I was just kind of struck by the bleak observation, made possible by distance, that these periods of exploitation and abuse, these stories of blood and misery, always seem to end in one big ironic crescendo that's never fair to the kids. Such a horrible self fulfilling prophecy where the powerful will exercise unlimited violence to keep their power, and make any outcome other than open conflict inpossible. It's like they know no solutions to unrest other than ultraviolence, and can't stop even when it comes home to them.