Most look like ill-educated down-and-outers saturated in a celebrity culture of opulent consumption, wondering: why am I not rich, attractive, clever, beloved, desired, employed? To such sullen waifs there will always be cynics seeking profit or political advantage ceaselessly hissing "It's not your fault...it's them!" At some risk of sounding like a bizarro-world version of the caricature liberal making excuses for ghetto gangstas, these deluded crackers are likely living miserable lives on the edges of this faltering economy, and given that public education largely gave up on its primary mission and fell back to mere crowd control a couple of generations ago, even the 45 year-old "patriarch" has likely never had the opportunity to develop patterns of critical thinking. Dull, coarse, brutish and potentially homicidal they may be, but looking at the mugshots I see rather lost potential, however modest, than objects of ridicule, and in that lost potential we are all at least a bit complicit.

cordially,

[Edit: rather a superfluity]