Outcast_Searcher wrote:theluckycountry wrote:The cycle of history, from Great moral Nation to depraved cesspool in a few short generations. Morals? What the fuck are they? They used to mean something once, not today.
Yet in the real world, overall violence is decreasing as a long term trend.
It is from the peak in the 80's and 90's, but it's still way above the earlier decades of the 20th century.
I'd say that treating people decently re race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, etc. overall as a modern societal moral imperative for the majority of first world folks is a very positive moral development compared to how things were in the 50's, for example. (And I know, that upsets a lot of haters with a very narrow point of view).
Ahhh, anyone who doesn't agree with the experiment of socialism is a HATER, got it, got it.
Things were very orderly and peaceful in Russia after the revolution too, before the murder squads went out, before the gulags were set up. The whole political push to make people go against their natural instincts re: race, sexual orientation, etc, is merely the government and a bunch of childless, insulated, institutionalized professors, trying to fix problems created by former governments and institutionalized professors.
But it's actually much simpler than that. Societies grow corrupt with age, and as stated above, and collapse under the weight of their own excesses and bureaucracy.