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bradly1101

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Boko Haram is threatening to sell the kidnapped girls. Rebels are on the march in S. Sudan, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine... Look at just since 2000:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions

China has its own uprisings:

The dark side of China’s economic rise has been a shocking widening of the gulf between the prosperous coast and the poverty-stricken interior, a flourishing of corruption among local officials and, by such data as we can gather, widespread anger and discontent. The government has acknowledged tens of thousands of yearly “mass incidents,” which can range anywhere from a handful of elderly widows protesting a corrupt real estate grab to communities in open revolt (like the southern village of Wukan) to murderous ethnic rioting, as occurred in the last few years among Tibetans and in western Xinjiang Province and Inner Mongolia.
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Some argue that our intervention in Iraq sparked the Arab Spring, which sparked a militant Muslim movement replete with all sorts of firepower, some made right here in the good ol' U.S. of A.

And of course we have our own brand of regular violence. It's kind of a combination of Yosemite Sam, Adam Lanza and Al Capone.

I don't remember a time when it seemed like there was so much bloodshed in the world. Could it be just a result of the intersection between a bunch of really pissed-off people and the saturation of the market by arms makers? If that's true I don't like how the future's looking.
 
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Victorian Gray

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bradly1101 said:
Boko Haram is threatening to sell the kidnapped girls. Rebels are on the march in S. Sudan, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine... Look at just since 2000:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions

China has its own uprisings:


Some argue that our intervention in Iraq sparked the Arab Spring, which sparked a militant Muslim movement replete with all sorts of firepower, some made right here in the good ol' U.S. of A.

And of course we have our own brand of regular violence. It's kind of a combination of Yosemite Sam, Adam Lanza and Al Capone.

I don't remember a time when it seemed like there was so much bloodshed in the world. Could it be just a result of the intersection between a bunch of really pissed-off people and the saturation of the market by arms makers? If that's true I don't like how the future's looking.
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The world has *always* "been on fire". You are either very young or just haven't been paying attention.
 
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brycejones

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OP did you just wake up? There are lots of f'd up places in the world its nothing new.
 
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v-600

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Welcome to the internet. It allows people from all over the world to communicate rapidly and share news.

I think there have always been atrocities and problems, you just rarely heard about it as much. For instance did you read up on the wikipedia page about the problems round all around the globe between 977AD and 991AD....nope?.... I'll bet there was religious persecution, military conquest and subjugation. It just happened a long time ago and very few people outside of those involved heard about it and bothered to report it.
 
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dmcowen674

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bradly1101 said:
The World is on Fire

I don't remember a time when it seemed like there was so much bloodshed in the world. Could it be just a result of the intersection between a bunch of really pissed-off people and the saturation of the market by arms makers? If that's true I don't like how the future's looking.
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Imagine if there wasn't any of this population control.

The planet can't sustain the humans already overunning it.
 
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IronWing said:
Um. You're going to get slaughtered here. Just saying.
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Back around 0 BC, 1 in 5 died a violent death.

I must need to start welcoming my neighbors into the fold.

Oh, wait. All of my neighbors are dead already. Shit.

Sad.
 
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cubby1223

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bradly1101 said:
I don't remember a time when it seemed like there was so much bloodshed in the world. Could it be just a result of the intersection between a bunch of really pissed-off people and the saturation of the market by arms makers? If that's true I don't like how the future's looking.
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I don't remember a time when we had such immediate access to world news that informed us of how much bloodshed there is around the world.

Coincidence?

The world is overpopulated, oil supplies are dwindling and water resources are trying up.

If solar power doesn't progress in the way it potentially can, there will be more fighting in years to come. If solar power tech does break through, there will be much calmer regions as they can turn the salty seawater into clean usable fresh water in massive abundance.

But it's a big if on technology.
 
Orignal Earl

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bradly1101 said:
Boko Haram is threatening to sell the kidnapped girls. Rebels are on the march in S. Sudan, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine... Look at just since 2000:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions

China has its own uprisings:


Some argue that our intervention in Iraq sparked the Arab Spring, which sparked a militant Muslim movement replete with all sorts of firepower, some made right here in the good ol' U.S. of A.

And of course we have our own brand of regular violence. It's kind of a combination of Yosemite Sam, Adam Lanza and Al Capone.

I don't remember a time when it seemed like there was so much bloodshed in the world. Could it be just a result of the intersection between a bunch of really pissed-off people and the saturation of the market by arms makers? If that's true I don't like how the future's looking.
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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenberg's H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide...

Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
Rock and Roll, cola wars, I can't take it anymore
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http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/billyjoel/wedidntstartthefire.html

The world is actually getting better all the time
Things are so good now that even educated people make up things for themselves to be scared of
I've watched the end of the world come and go, several times just here in P&N
It's fascinating the frenzy some folks can work themselves up into
 
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bradly1101

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v-600 said:
Welcome to the internet. It allows people from all over the world to communicate rapidly and share news.

I think there have always been atrocities and problems, you just rarely heard about it as much. For instance did you read up on the wikipedia page about the problems round all around the globe between 977AD and 991AD....nope?.... I'll bet there was religious persecution, military conquest and subjugation. It just happened a long time ago and very few people outside of those involved heard about it and bothered to report it.
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Yeah I thought about that. But I've always payed attention to the news. Since I started caring about this stuff in the late '60s it just never felt so widespread. There were hotspots (and yes I know the world has a history of brutality - it is the history of humanity), but not so widespread at the same time; Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia. They're really hot.
 
Kadarin

Kadarin

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There are always regional conflicts going on; the world hasn't really been on fire since 1945.
 
JEDIYoda

JEDIYoda

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bradly1101 said:
Boko Haram is threatening to sell the kidnapped girls. Rebels are on the march in S. Sudan, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine... Look at just since 2000:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...and_rebellions

China has its own uprisings:


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The dark side of China’s economic rise has been a shocking widening of the gulf between the prosperous coast and the poverty-stricken interior, a flourishing of corruption among local officials and, by such data as we can gather, widespread anger and discontent. The government has acknowledged tens of thousands of yearly “mass incidents,” which can range anywhere from a handful of elderly widows protesting a corrupt real estate grab to communities in open revolt (like the southern village of Wukan) to murderous ethnic rioting, as occurred in the last few years among Tibetans and in western Xinjiang Province and Inner Mongolia.

Some argue that our intervention in Iraq sparked the Arab Spring, which sparked a militant Muslim movement replete with all sorts of firepower, some made right here in the good ol' U.S. of A.

And of course we have our own brand of regular violence. It's kind of a combination of Yosemite Sam, Adam Lanza and Al Capone.

I don't remember a time when it seemed like there was so much bloodshed in the world. Could it be just a result of the intersection between a bunch of really pissed-off people and the saturation of the market by arms makers? If that's true I don't like how the future's looking.
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we could always go into the old -- The end is near--repent for the kingdom of God is at hand....
 
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Victorian Gray

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zanejohnson

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it's not quite.......golfing in flames yet....but it's close


and it's officially my birthday now..................so ..... fire and brimstone, old testament style!!
 
Jaskalas

Jaskalas

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I wonder how nations return from violent anarchy?

In older times a warlord simply killed all his opponents and became king. Eventually strong kingdoms were stable enough to ferment an economy, which empowered the nobles, who eventually overthrew the kings. Enter modern democracy. If you overthrow that, don't you have to start all over again?
 
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Harabec

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Yes, technological advancement in itself does not make us any less primite, bloodthirsty idiots.

The world is DOOOOOOOOMED.
 
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