Interesting...sounds very Russian. My favorite book of all time, Blood Meridian, tracks a 17 year-old adolescent known only as "the kid" and a motley band of cowboys he falls in with as they run across Texas/Mexico/California in 1850 killing indians, mexicans, and each other. Perhaps I'll enjoy what sounds like its polar opposite.

We used to have work and war to keep the youth busy. Now, in developed countries, we have...virtual work and war...video games. Part of me thinks that Japan got hit with this phenomenon earlier than the US because they were outlawed from having an army for the past 60 years.