re: The world in general is becoming an ever more angry, blood thirsty, and violent place.

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Because you were ignorant to the violence around you.

And that isn’t a bad thing.

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But I wasn’t. I went to the absolute worst JR high school in EBRP in the 70’s, and we were sent home for a riot and a stabbing the first year I was there, so it’s not as if I lived under a rock or something. It was a really really bad school, but this just wasn’t reflected in the rest of the city at the time, but an isolated piece of doo doo in the city, but now that’s become more of that which makes up the city.

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We weren’t meant to consume every bad thing happening in the world at all times.

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You are absolutely correct, and that’s my rub with social media and media in general these days is that it pumps it into people’s heads all day long, and maybe that is one of the drivers that affects people IRL, but the fact that life is far different than the one I lived most of my life in is simply impossible to miss.