Europe’s experiencing the longest hot war since World War II. The war in the Gulf seems to be escalating as we speak. Extremism has been on the rise for years now. Is it actually getting worse or is it simply the fact that we can access information from all four corners of the world so easily as never before?
The first school shooting in the US was in the late 1800s.
During an 18 month period between 1973 and 1975 there were an average of five terrorist bombings a day in the US.
There were more serial killers in the 1970s than any decade since.
Before 1974 a women could not open a bank account unless she had her father’s or husband’s permission.
Do yourself a favor and do not research what Belgium was doing in Africa in the 1940s and 1950s…
At the peak of the Irish Potato famine British companies were exporting 150 tons of beef a week out of Ireland. In fact the Irish Potato famine meets all the criteria of state sponsored genocide.
1816 is called the year without summer. A volcano erupted in Singapore and put so much ash into the air summer never happened. In North American there were heavy snowfalls into July. So many crops died in Europe that food riots erupted and massive disease out breaks occurred.
These factoids are not meant to depressed you. They just illustrate that there have always been major problems and fucked up things to solve. We should not destroy ourselves because of them, we have to address them.