ipoopcandycorn

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Hi. Sorry for the confusing question above, but I can't seem to word it right.

There is a term for a long period of time where humans go without conflict and begin to lose empathy and basic human decency. I can't remember what it's called.

So the theory is that humanity cannot go 40-something years without a major conflict to reset things. When we lived in small communities before globalization, each small community, country or continent had their version of WW1 every few years or so. Then we lived through the age of conquests.

So, through recorded history, the end of WW2 was 75 years ago, making it the longest humanity has gone without a major conflict.

And based on the theory, that's

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