Are people more angry and violent than before?

[Ogata]

I do not really go out besides yoga related stuff. Last time I used to really go out to parties and clubs were the 2000s. I remembered tons of street gangs and people giving each other dirty looks and what have you.

With smartphones, you have people glued to their phone and everyone is on the net. I do not see street gangs. From my perspective, it seems like people have mellowed out, teenagers seem nice and more focused on fame and money as oppose to " keep it gangsta" like my days.

So for me, life seems better but then I hear how everyone is angry, random shooting, suicide at all time high and random violent gone up like crazy. I have no idea what is going on, people are going crazy about the Idaho murders and that the world is filled with angry hate fueled people who get exposed to others social media and are filled with rage and malice.

I am curios, is the world getting better or worse?



Cliffs:


Life better in 2000s or now?

 

[Simple Southerner]

The world is getting worse en serio?!

Life better in 2000s or now?

Better in the 2000`s IMO

 

[ROKKO]

People seem less violent to me. Seems like less people will fight one on one. Most people just don't want to fight. However, mob rules, always. That's just standard sociology.

 

[Alphaboy]

Everyone thinks the past was a utopia / "good old days" and the present is the absolute worst!

Studies will show that crime has plummeted since the 90s.

I don't know about anger, but I believe anti-depressants use is at an all-time high. It could be due to more people who are depressed, better awareness of mental health, or both.

 

[Smokes]

Everyone thinks the past was a utopia / "good old days" and the present is the absolute worst!

Studies will show that crime has plummeted since the 90s.

I don't know about anger, but I believe anti-depressants use is at an all-time high. It could be due to more people who are depressed, better awareness of mental health, or both.

that is why I am surprised a lot of people in here holds the 90s with such high regard. The 90a was full of race wars and gang banging at a Alltime high. People were killed for wearing Mickey Mouse shirts or buying shoes. And racist were out lynching folks and dragging them down Main Street like it was the thing to do. The 90s were dark times and I feel lucky enough to survive it. I know a few that didn’t make it.

 

[Five Fingered Fresh Fist]

that is why I am surprised a lot of people in here holds the 90s with such high regard. The 90a was full of race wars and gang banging at a Alltime high. People were killed for wearing Mickey Mouse shirts or buying shoes. And racist were out lynching folks and dragging them down Main Street like it was the thing to do. The 90s were dark times and I feel lucky enough to survive it. I know a few that didn’t make it.

Yea but Jurassic Park was fucking dope as fuck

 

[MC Paul Barman]

I do not really go out besides yoga related stuff. Last time I used to really go out to parties and clubs were the 2000s. I remembered tons of street gangs and people giving each other dirty looks and what have you.

With smartphones, you have people glued to their phone and everyone is on the net. I do not see street gangs. From my perspective, it seems like people have mellowed out, teenagers seem nice and more focused on fame and money as oppose to " keep it gangsta" like my days.

So for me, life seems better but then I hear how everyone is angry, random shooting, suicide at all time high and random violent gone up like crazy. I have no idea what is going on, people are going crazy about the Idaho murders and that the world is filled with angry hate fueled people who get exposed to others social media and are filled with rage and malice.

I am curios, is the world getting better or worse?



Cliffs:


Life better in 2000s or now?

You only go out for “yoga related stuff”?
Well, reading shit like that is enough to make me violent. Then seeing some of the twats who commented before me…. That too.

 

[Alphaboy]

that is why I am surprised a lot of people in here holds the 90s with such high regard. The 90a was full of race wars and gang banging at a Alltime high. People were killed for wearing Mickey Mouse shirts or buying shoes. And racist were out lynching folks and dragging them down Main Street like it was the thing to do. The 90s were dark times and I feel lucky enough to survive it. I know a few that didn’t make it.

Don't you know, Smokes? "Everyone got all sensitive and racial in the past few years!" /sarcasm. Forgetting that LA went up in flames in 1992 over Rodney King just like many cities did over George Floyd. It's nothing new, just more incidents due to access to footage.

Gang banging was crazy too, I agree. The movie Dangerous Minds was a product of its era. Of course there are still rough places plagued with violence now, but I for one can say I remember walking through Brooklyn, cautious not to wear too much red or blue in neighborhoods that are now populated by baristas, yoga moms, and skinny vegans with handlebar mustaches riding bikes. Lol.

I don't say this to be on some "back in my day we were more gangsta" shit... obviously violence is bad, but one thing I wish more people understood is that we look at the past with rose-colored glasses.

Sometimes because folks were too young to fully understand things, but mainly because our brains prioritize the pleasant parts of the past and try to conceal the shitty parts, hence the recollection bias.

 

[NoSmilez]

I feel that overall people are less violent now but the ones that are disturbed are worse. There are also a lot of footage of random crazies on the street now.

 

[Ogata]

The world is getting worse en serio?!


Better in the 2000`s IMO

En serio...means?

How was 2000s better?

I felt it was dangerous to go to the mall. Tons of mall rats, street gangs, brawls, fist fights and people looking to give you a hard time.

People seem less violent to me. Seems like less people will fight one on one. Most people just don't want to fight. However, mob rules, always. That's just standard sociology.

Same here, I mean shitty behavior moved to the internet. People are not out there starting fights. Seems like violence of 2000s was due to boredom. That and with teenagers today, its about the fame and lifestyle. Mine was about the Gang life and being a Gangsta!

Everyone thinks the past was a utopia / "good old days" and the present is the absolute worst!

Studies will show that crime has plummeted since the 90s.

I don't know about anger, but I believe anti-depressants use is at an all-time high. It could be due to more people who are depressed, better awareness of mental health, or both.

I agree and it feels less violent in terms of going out there, getting robbed, stabbed. Also people have social media to get distracted and use their energy on their phone as oppose to paying attention who is doing what. That and world is global, don't like being where you are? You can just move to places you like and be stuck becoming a product of your environment.

that is why I am surprised a lot of people in here holds the 90s with such high regard. The 90a was full of race wars and gang banging at a Alltime high. People were killed for wearing Mickey Mouse shirts or buying shoes. And racist were out lynching folks and dragging them down Main Street like it was the thing to do. The 90s were dark times and I feel lucky enough to survive it. I know a few that didn’t make it.

I was too young to be in the 90s but I agree about 2000s. It was very dark for me. Tons of street gangs and its not like today with world being global. Now you can leave and go different places. Google map allows you to see a glimpse of places you may want to see and YouTubers also talk about their travel experience.

While in the 2000s, everyone was trying to intrude on you. It was distracting and extremely annoying. Tons of assholes trying to give dirty looks. Now everyone is on their phone and you can just do your thing.

Yea but Jurassic Park was fucking dope as fuck

Great movies in the 90s. No doubt.

 

[chimpoehurricane]

The world is getting worse en serio?!


Better in the 2000`s IMO

Agreed.

 

[Simple Southerner]

en serio means

Means are you serious. Anywho I think it's way worse these days look at all the stuff going down these days with police brutality & school shootings amongst other things. Imo they're was way less fuckery back in the day.

Off topic but do you remember when someone in the heavies made a thread about you once saying you were Phil baroni
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[cheachea]

Maybe we just think so because all the instances are pretty much recorded and put on YouTube.

 

[AristotleAmadopolis]

Don't you know, Smokes? "Everyone got all sensitive and racial in the past few years!" /sarcasm. Forgetting that LA went up in flames in 1992 over Rodney King just like many cities did over George Floyd. It's nothing new, just more incidents due to access to footage.

Gang banging was crazy too, I agree. The movie Dangerous Minds was a product of its era. Of course there are still rough places plagued with violence now, but I for one can say I remember walking through Brooklyn, cautious not to wear too much red or blue in neighborhoods that are now populated by baristas, yoga moms, and skinny vegans with handlebar mustaches riding bikes. Lol.

I don't say this to be on some "back in my day we were more gangsta" shit... obviously violence is bad, but one thing I wish more people understood is that we look at the past with rose-colored glasses.

Sometimes because folks were too young to fully understand things, but mainly because our brains prioritize the pleasant parts of the past and try to conceal the shitty parts, hence the recollection bias.

90s were still awesome.

donkey kong country 1, 2 and 3.
nintendo 64 and the first 3d mario game.
awesome toys.

 

[Alphaboy]

90s were still awesome.

donkey kong country 1, 2 and 3.
nintendo 64 and the first 3d mario game.
awesome toys.

Of course.
Good movies, good sports, good economy, etc. Every decade has its good and its bad. In 20 years folks will talk about the 2020s as if this were a perfect time period.

 

[Smokes]

90s were still awesome.

donkey kong country 1, 2 and 3.
nintendo 64 and the first 3d mario game.
awesome toys.

the games put today are ten times better than what they were in the 90s. Nintendo Switch is 20x better than the 64. The Switch has all those games and more and in HD.

 

[AristotleAmadopolis]

the games put today are ten times better than what they were in the 90s. Nintendo Switch is 20x better than the 64. The Switch has all those games and more and in HD.

90s was the first release of those things

not a lot of games today are better than dk1-3 IMO

 

[clutchCAT420]

No theyre more pussy. And would have been killed long before they reached adulthood in ancient and medieval times. Fuck this generation. Theyre lucky they were born in this time period.

 

[TheTickG]

I do not really go out besides yoga related stuff. Last time I used to really go out to parties and clubs were the 2000s. I remembered tons of street gangs and people giving each other dirty looks and what have you.

With smartphones, you have people glued to their phone and everyone is on the net. I do not see street gangs. From my perspective, it seems like people have mellowed out, teenagers seem nice and more focused on fame and money as oppose to " keep it gangsta" like my days.

So for me, life seems better but then I hear how everyone is angry, random shooting, suicide at all time high and random violent gone up like crazy. I have no idea what is going on, people are going crazy about the Idaho murders and that the world is filled with angry hate fueled people who get exposed to others social media and are filled with rage and malice.

I am curios, is the world getting better or worse?



Cliffs:


Life better in 2000s or now?

Honest answer is that I have no idea, if we're talking about the entire planet. Because wars and violence always happen throughout human history.

But, the examples you stated are much more about tech, and not about anger and violence. There are billions of stories that can be shared each day, but your source of info is choosing to focus on things like Idaho murders even though you probably don't live nearby.

30-1000000 years ago, the tech wouldn't have been available to access such distant info, spread it globally, nor would news companies know which stories people respond to the most (fear and anger stories).

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Everyone thinks the past was a utopia / "good old days" and the present is the absolute worst!

Studies will show that crime has plummeted since the 90s.

I don't know about anger, but I believe anti-depressants use is at an all-time high. It could be due to more people who are depressed, better awareness of mental health, or both.

Exactly. The recent spike in crime, which puts us nowhere near the 90s in terms of violent crime, is probably frustration due to Covid. I’m sure it’s temporary. But since the 90s all crime, and especially violent crime, has dropped and continued to do so for the most part.