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,