Yes, I was recently reminded vaguely of the fictional story of the long-time feud between the Montagus and the Capulets, which served very well as a plot device for the dramatic effects of William Shakespeare, in the play 'Romeo and Juliet,' which we studied in high school, although beyond that it is actually a matter of complete indifference to persons of 21st century America. Nowadays nobody really imagines that those people ever really existed except in the most generic terms useful to fiction writers who sit around inventing crazy stuff, because no one really wants to be bothered with carrying out these vendettas to such ridiculous extremes of stupidity in real life, as if I should carry which tribe of dreary Italians "won." We leave these stupid vendettas to fiction writers who make up stories warning us about what NOT to do and what attitude problems will probably need serious adjustments in the future. Needless to say.
