He actually used to box competitively so I am.sure he would actually agree with you, as do I since I enjoy bloody Rob Zombie films (one of my favorite scenes in any movie ever is when she goes primal and kills Mike Myers at the end of Zombies Halloween)...most normal people find a sane outlet for aggression, it could be something as unrelated as hard exercise like running, or slapping someone during sex. But we REALLY are under a lot of structural control now as a society and I duck it as much as humanly possible ...some people can't take it and something is wrong, whether we call it stupid or mentally ill. In my opinion there also seems to be misguided sense of entitlement involved in public rampages, like oh.poor little serial killer...but you know it was easier to get away with murder as recently as the early 80s.
Well you've hit on something here that has been on my mind for a long time. It seems as if everything happens like it's a giant chemical reaction to an event and it doesn't have to be singular, it can be any event you can think of, in this context though I'm thinking of events in human history. Elements get pushed together in our species' own personal pressure cooker and then it all becomes a massive explosion of activity. Usually this results in a change or shift from one state to another.
But when it dies down an external structure often comes up to give security to people after the event. It's because it's comfortable and I think we often mistake external security for internal security, or assume having the external means we will have the other. But too much of that structure, as you said, is stifling. It essentially bores people into activity again.
True there are other motivations as well, of course there are, idealistically and physically and security based again but not status quo as much as basic stability of land conquest or possession. What bothers me more, however, is there are a lot of people for whom the external human structure is the only real guiding force in their considerations.
Think of Lord of The Flies, that division between those individuals who were able to reason or rather rationalise their understanding of what morality is, of what a society is and a better understanding of it's structure, where it can fail and where it can succeed and whether or not it is a trap for molding people to what suits it or if it is a necessary framework for stability, (and all the lovely grey in between). And those who just drop all pretence of those aspects because the external structure is removed.
At the end of the book when the navel officer discovers these kids, that's what they become; just kids. The social structure is instantly imposed upon them in their minds and for those who forgot the external structure; suddenly things are back to 'normal'.
On some level I think most people are aware of this danger, but rather than recognising it as a lack of internal structure, or rather internal considerations of aspects that question a status quo and the questioner's place within them, they believe the answer is more external structure and more control. But that just intensifies the problem.
So you end up with the pressure cooker on a micro-scale individual level, because besides the problems that this person faces, you also see the issue with not being given the space to expand and express on internal considerations.
Meh but that's just my theory.
Genetics of aggression
