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

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I agree civil society has degraded a lot, but when it comes to organized violence, we are nowhere close to the bad old days.

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But, is the degradation of civil day-to-day society an indicator that the pendulum has begun to swing back the other direction? I hope not. I like to think humanity could never go back to the days of constant war and killing, but what’s stopping us? Did people say similar things during short windows of peace in the past, only to be surprised by another large-scale war? I think the “little things” matter more than people realize.