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re: The world in general is becoming an ever more angry, blood thirsty, and violent place.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:57 am to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:57 am to RogerTheShrubber
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You dont sound like the athletic sort, but politics dominates everything, including sports today.
Impossible for you to not take a personal shot. Moving on.
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Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:59 am to Clames
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The pendulum swings back, that's why if you knew your history here you'd understand why this isn't new.
The violence isnt. The total lack of common sense and loss of intelligence is.
The world is dumbing down.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:10 am to Mike da Tigah
I don;t know or remember who the poster was.. He was older than most here...
He said: Their fault was that they did not instill such things as manners, compassion and etiquette into their children because they believed that these were inherent traits. And it turned out they they were wrong.
He said: Their fault was that they did not instill such things as manners, compassion and etiquette into their children because they believed that these were inherent traits. And it turned out they they were wrong.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:13 am to Mike da Tigah
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he world in general is becoming an ever more angry, blood thirsty, and violent place.
Yep. The first step is seeing through their goal to their end game. The media is the strong arm of the government and they want to divide us
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:15 am to ElRoos
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Social media brings out the worst in people
Algorithms in Social Media and sites like YouTube are major problems. Never interacting with someone who thinks differently than you only creates more division. Get out of your bubble.
For example: listen to someone who’s never been to the South talk about it.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:19 am to WWII Collector
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He said: Their fault was that they did not instill such things as manners, compassion and etiquette into their children because they believed that these were inherent traits
I think it started in the 60s, parents wanting to be best friends rather than creating better people.
As the population dumbs down, skills required to succeed in a high tech world increase. Most of the population will be left behind in the near future.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:22 am to Salmon
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Because you were ignorant to the violence around you.
And that isn’t a bad thing.
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.
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.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:28 am to Mike da Tigah
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but the fact that life is far different than the one I lived most of my life in is simply impossible to miss.
The dividing line is those raised on computers and video games vs those who were free range.
People are less capable because machines think for us.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:30 am to Mike da Tigah
Society was horrible and violent, but by the end of the 20th century it reached its peak of peace and prosperity (in the US.) The negative you see is that the progress slowed to a stop and is starting to roll backwards.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:30 am to Mike da Tigah
There’s an impulse control issue. Also, Grand Theft Auto 3 came out 22 years ago.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:36 am to Rick9Plus
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Society was horrible and violent, but by the end of the 20th century it reached its peak of peace and prosperity (in the US.)
Peak intelligence was in the mid 70s. People born after that are facing decreasing returns.
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scores increased by almost 3 percentage points each decade for those born between 1962 to 1975 – but then saw a steady decline among those born after 1975.
This post was edited on 11/5/23 at 8:40 am
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:36 am to Rick9Plus
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Society was horrible and violent, but by the end of the 20th century it reached its peak of peace and prosperity (in the US.) The negative you see is that the progress slowed to a stop and is starting to roll backwards.
We've peaked at peace in the 90's and now we're rolling backwards? That's funny.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:42 am to Mike da Tigah
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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.
How do you know it was isolated? Unless you watched the 30 sec clip on the nightly news, you didn’t know about all the other shite happening in the city.
That kind of stuff wasn’t as isolated as you think. You just were not aware of it.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:43 am to SlimTigerSlap
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We've peaked at peace in the 90's and now we're rolling backwards? That's funny.
Yes. It’s my opinion (yes, just my observation, i don’t have a meta-analysis of research studies) that people are generally more angry than they were then. Nowadays more people seem to vent their frustration in small ways, like road rage or being rude to others on the internet.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:48 am to Rick9Plus
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or being rude to others on the internet.
Makes sense.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:58 am to Mike da Tigah
Not your imagination. It’s the result of information warfare, psychological warfare, and economic warfare, with a side dish of cultural Marxism to divide people. It’s all blatantly obvious
Posted on 11/5/23 at 9:03 am to Mike da Tigah
Things are more peaceful now than ever. Just think back. Europe was at war for centuries. There was hardly a time Britain and France weren't killing each other. Germans were causing trouble in the east. Balkans were in a non-stop war since forever. Muslim attacks on Europe, Crusades in retaliation. Ottomans trying to take over world. Mongols committing genocide in Eurasia. Oh and let's not forget the Chinese and other east Asian commie dictators killing millions of people. And those guys named Hitler and Stalin, can't forget them.
As bad as losing soldiers is, we only lost 2,402 in Afghanistan (over 20 years). Compare that to 16,899 deaths in Vietnam during 1968 alone. 58,000 in total.
I agree civil society has degraded a lot, but when it comes to organized violence, we are nowhere close to the bad old days.
As bad as losing soldiers is, we only lost 2,402 in Afghanistan (over 20 years). Compare that to 16,899 deaths in Vietnam during 1968 alone. 58,000 in total.
I agree civil society has degraded a lot, but when it comes to organized violence, we are nowhere close to the bad old days.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 9:17 am to FLTech
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Where I live everybody seems happy, polite, friendly and everybody loves God and our country. I have no complaints. Now, what I see on TV, the internet, etc is a whole different thing because where I live is nothing like you see on tv and in the internet
My daughter (no pics) lives in Houston and loves it. My close friend lives in New Orleans and loves it. Real life and what people see on social media are striking differences. If people spend hours all day reading TD, other social medias, news, they’re going to think the world is bad. Once you get out in the world, you realize it’s not as bad as you think.
Your post is accurate for the vast majority of folks.
This post was edited on 11/5/23 at 9:22 am
Posted on 11/5/23 at 9:18 am to AUstar
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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.
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.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 9:19 am to Mike da Tigah
Unfortunately, history shows violence solves problems. And there are out there right now a lot of problems.
This post was edited on 11/5/23 at 9:20 am
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