A former soldier describes how losing his sense of purpose after leaving the military led him to prison, then argues the UK faces the same crisis: a collapse of shared identity and culture driving the country toward anger and civil unrest.
When you have no identity, you have no sense of purpose and no sense of belonging. What does that create? Creates frustration, creates confusion. Where do I belong? What are we? Who are we? Anger and then violence. I've been there. When I left the military, I was lost. 6 months later, I ended up in prison. Didn't recognize myself. I didn't know where I belonged. I didn't have an identity. I was trying to refigure this everything out. And guess what happened? Frustration. I got confused. I went down that road to where it hit violence. Where us as a society right now, we're in that anger, extreme anger, teetering into violence, teetering into civil unrest. It's because of our lack of culture, our lack of identity.
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