(07-14-2023, 09:05 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: As I’ve said before, technology is why we’re so divided now . The physical safety of social media means people no longer have to encounter the people they attack. There was a time not long ago when a person called someone a pedophile or a Nazi, they were subject to an [BLEEP] whoopin’. Now everyone can sit in the comfort of their home, or anywhere, and say the most vile things about others with no proof of their assertions or risk to their safety.

We now live in the age of cowardice and unaccountability.

Exactly.
And it escalates.  You used to get an [BLEEP] whooping for making any racially charged insult.  Then those became acceptable and even considered funny online.  Then anyone you disagree with is not just racist but a full blown nazi.  Then nazi or commie isn't enough anymore and they're all pedophiles or lizards or vampires as Caldrac mentioned.

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(07-14-2023, 10:23 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(07-14-2023, 10:10 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: I don’t advocate violence in any way. But the absence of the threat of personal violence has turned people into spiteful venomous snakes. What this signifies is at our core, humans are still barely evolved animals.

Yeah. It's a game of give and take. I agree with this. We went from debts and insults being settled with duels by sword and flintlock pistols to media and social media mob shaming. I think violence is in our core. It drove our survival instincts for years. Fight or flight. Adapt or die. Sink or swim. 

We have become too comfortable and too cozy now as a species. That's why it's heavily populated now and why people are pushing for things to slow down. Standard of living is too good now for most people. We've overdue for a reset. This is by far, my favorite meme I have seen in years. 

I say it a lot on here and around my family. Humans are creatures of habit. Everything is cyclical. Rinse and repeat. We always look back in history books and dub specific civilizations and empires "great", yet, those great moments in our history always come to an end at some point. What most people don't like to remember or accept, is that, often times? Those moments in our history were birthed and laid to rest via, what? Violence, Slavery, Bloodshed and piles upon piles of death and destruction. There can be no progress without pain.

Sometimes in order to move forward? We must deconstruct and throw our inhibitions aside.

Yup.

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