25 February

Violence is increasing. Populism creates violence, because it's the removal of status distinction between people, leading to continuous and ongoing rivalry, for position and status, in imitative teams battling each other. Social media is the main driver, because it's a populism-imitation-rivalry machine. Likes and followers. The more social we become, the more equal we become, the more violent we become. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-26/albanese-bomb-threat-political-violence-data/106384704