The past week in America saw three unprovoked spasms of public mass violence in Gilroy CA, El Paso TX and Dayton OH. The perps were young single males.

While violent crime is hardly the preserve of unmarried men, statistical evidence across the world shows a disproportionate amount of crimes are committed by this group. Societies that place a heavy premium on marriage, lineage and financial success add to the frustration and low self-esteem of those who fail to start families and successful careers, raising the risk of violence within a group that is most prone to it.

Men who get to marry in these societies tend to have higher socioeconomic status. Those who can’t are poorer, less educated, under- or un- employed and live on the margins of society. With little to lose, they exhibit a greater propensity for violence and more reckless behavior, especially if they band together (gangs or mobs).

With no opportunity to develop successful relationships and vested interests in a rapidly changing social and economic systems, it is no surprise that these depressed and restless males can snap after gravitating towards solutions based on physical force. They are like leafless tree branches who cannot add to their family trees, who then snap and crash down, bringing many healthy branches from nearby trees with them.

These falling bare branches are not just an American or white male issue. We see this playing out in various forms and fashions in China, India, Africa and the Middle East​.

These events are bitter harvests, whose frequency and take are increasing. Are these cruel cullings by these falling bare branches precursors to something more ominous? That we don’t know is disturbing.

Toxic singlehood soup of hyper socially mediated, extreme and unnatural solitude, sadness & a growing grievance subculture

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