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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 11:34 am to Mike da Tigah
Posted on 11/5/23 at 11:34 am to Mike da Tigah
quote:This is about as wrong an "observation" as could be made.
The world in general is becoming an ever more angry, blood thirsty, and violent place.
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Posted on 11/5/23 at 11:38 am to Mike da Tigah
quote:I mean, look - violence has ticked back up in the past few years...but that was from a trough that was WAY below the pretend halcyon years of your nostalgic youth. Go back and look at the stats for, say, 1991.
It’s much more dangerous, angry, violent, trashy, and sketchy, and it’s been gradually going in this direction for some time now.
Go back decades and look at how the mentally ill were treated.
Go back to the 60s for god's sake and look at the shite that was happening.
quote:You don't have to worry about that now. And if you ARE worried, then you're no better than the people that have "climate anxiety".
We didn’t have to worry about people shooting people in schools when I was a kid.
quote:Eh. That's partially true. More likely is you were used to monolithic opinions from people who looked and lived exactly like you do.
We didn’t have the intolerance for other people’s opinions like we have today.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 11:54 am to Mike da Tigah
quote:Yes, because the world is factually safer and less violent right now than in any generation throughout the literally history of all time.
Well, I’ve been driving and interacting with other humans for over five decades, and I’ve not seen anything like this, but I guess it’s just my vivid imagination?
Posted on 11/5/23 at 11:54 am to Mike da Tigah
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The world in general is becoming an ever more angry, blood thirsty, and violent place.
I agree to a degree. Never before have humans had to keep up with so much going on and I think it causes anxiety and stress like never before.
24/7 news cycles telling you the worst of the worst
Emails
Text messages
Hundreds of notifications through apps
Phone calls
Voice mails
Noise pollution
Light pollution
Posts on social media of people living the dream life
These are all relatively new things and if you don't shut yourself off from them and slow down it can drive you crazy.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 11:56 am to Mike da Tigah
quote:You weren't ignorant to violence around you, so how do you explain why you think it's more violent now when it was factually more violent in the 60s and 70s and 80s?
But I wasn’t.
quote:Post the crime rates from your hometown in the 60s/70s/80s compared to the 2010s...
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.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 12:00 pm to Mike da Tigah
Oh, like God warned us in the Bible?
Posted on 11/5/23 at 12:02 pm to Mike da Tigah
Stop cruising in the left lane and all of that will vanish
Posted on 11/5/23 at 12:25 pm to USEyourCURDS
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Yesterday I woke up and went into my community to run errands. I had at least 10 positive interactions with complete strangers. Sometimes you just have to talk with people and say positive things. It’s infectious.
I can give more anecdotal proof to this.
There is a guy who works at the Walmart Neighborhood Market I go to occasionally. He's a manager of some sort because he's all over the store, but spends most of his "down time" around the self checkout area. I have never seen him without a smile on his face and presenting a positive attitude. He interacts with people checking out, whether they need or ask for help or not. In all of my life I have never seen more smiling people leaving a Walmart. Usually, everyone is sulled and sour looking, just doing everything they can to get the hell out of there. Not at this one, though. He goes out of his way to crack a joke, ask if you need anything, or help you if you do.
All it takes is effort, but that effort is generally lacking these days.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 1:16 pm to Mike da Tigah
Lol no it isn’t. It’s always been this way. You were just too sheltered to realize it.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 1:22 pm to Mike da Tigah
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I think you see this everywhere in the world, but I don’t think you see it demonstrated to the level that you do in America in particular compared to the rest of Western nations
Posted on 11/5/23 at 7:57 pm to Mike da Tigah
I agree with you I suppose but I started reading the first couple sentences then bailed
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:01 pm to Mike da Tigah
quote:if by "world" you mean "the united states" maybe
The world in general is becoming an ever more angry, blood thirsty, and violent place.
the rest of the world is pretty peaceful right now
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:06 pm to Mike da Tigah
Every day we stray further from are Lord.
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:12 pm to Mike da Tigah
It's not your imagination. It's real. It's terrible and we all know why. It's not all "social media".
Posted on 11/5/23 at 8:33 pm to Revelator
quote:Undoubtedly, you were saying this same thing 15 years ago when we were in the middle of a precipitous drop in crime.
Historically, the world has always been violent. It’s just that our semi-civilized America is becoming more violent and we notice.
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