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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 20 Sep \ on: were we more united as a society before, or is this an illusion? FiresidePhilosophy
Compared even to recent history, and without exaggeration, we have been living in the most peaceful times at world wide level in recorded history. The only major event to disrupt that tendency was the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The thing is that we have also been able to have increasingly more access to information, so existing conflicts are more public, giving the impression that things are more violent than they used to be.
i've read Gladwell and while i agree to a large extent, the middle east is still fucked, we have the ukraine - russia thing, isis, hezbo, taliban, NK, china and taiwan ready to pop off. lifespan is actually regressing (for Western pops)
but, what I'm getting at though is maybe there was always a base level of discord in the world that perhaps we didn't notice so much, but it feels magnified because of social media,
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