RE: Steemit will make the world an anarchic, voluntary society
The general trend of humanity is to become more humane. A few hundred years ago, it was normal for governments or other organisations of cruel people to talk about torture. Now they have to hide it, using terms like "enhanced interrogation techniques". In some cases, they don't want to even say the word "war". That's because too many people know that these things probably aren't the best way to make a better world.
It certainly seems like it's in disarray. We're always subject to perceptual biases, due to many influences - particularly that of the media. Of course it depends where you live, but personally, I can't remember the last time I saw people fighting. The closest thing in recent memory was seeing a few people arguing about a minor crash on the side of the road, and I live in Mexico, which is supposed to be a very violent place. Can you remember when you last saw people being violent? We can't always trust what we assume about the world, because it may be based on incorrect or incomplete information.
Certain information indicates that the world is becoming more peaceful, though the trend might be too slow for any of us to notice it immediately.
Thank you for that thorough reply. I agree 100% that it is massively distorted by media. I live in Texas so I also haven't seen a lot of real time/place fighting, nor would I expect to with where I live. I was more referring to the riots that happen after what a lot of inner city residents perceive to be an unlawful police/citizen fatality. While that doesn't happen a great deal I do see it echoed and resonated on mainstream media as well as social media, giving the illusion that the entire country in in civil unrest. Maybe that's all it is... mostly an illusion.
I can never be sure, but that's what it seems to be. There was one particular "riot" which the media was reporting on, and despite our best efforts, we couldn't find more than a few snippets of footage of actual people rioting. There was plenty of footage of police officers, some footage of journalists running around, but approximately zero rioters. Of course many people were convinced there was indeed a riot, despite what their eyes were telling them. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
It sure does, no doubt. On a side note, if you're referring to the Milwaukee riot, I did see a YouTube video about 30 minutes long that appeared to be footage taken from an actual rioter. It didn't appear to be edited but rather one long take. Media wouldn't play it though because it shows someone standing just yards away from the burning store, shows another couple of people knocking over and destroying the street light, and then people randomly attacking white people that drove by. The commentator recording even said " better no white person come down here" and yelling " they white.. get them" and so on. Forgive me if you were talking about a different riot on the news but the Milwaukee one was the only I've seen with such raw footage that convinced me it was legit. Mainstream media is desperate to portray BLM as a peaceful group any chance they can so they would never air what I saw. Not that I'm necessarily equating the BLM movement as a whole with the riot acts but it is pretty sketchy that media doesn't play available footage.
@jennane Right, they always have their agenda. Negative, I was referring to a different riot, in Baltimore. I have a friend in Milwaukee, so based on his words, I was pretty sure that there was something going down there.