Quote of the Day
Our accelerating cavalcade of bloodshed rests on three pillars:
First, the massive tech media platforms, which feed us a daily diet of misinformation and tribal distrust. Sex sells. But Big Tech — 40% of the S&P 500 — has found something even better: rage. Eisenhower rightly warned us about the military industrial complex. In the decades after he left office, weapons manufacturers, think tanks, and politicians — the violence entrepreneurs of their era — conspired to make foreign wars and proxy conflicts into billion-dollar businesses. Today, Meta dwarves Lockheed Martin. “Make Memes Not War” is the trillion-dollar strategy.
My argument is not that politics is unrelated to the violence. (Or that there isn’t actual organized political violence, mostly from the far right, as has been well documented.) On the contrary, the ever more violent and inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation and the relentless demonization of every available scapegoat have left their marks all over the lives of the perpetrators. But demagoguery, dog whistles, and tribalism aren’t new. The dangerous novelty of our time is the fusing of capitalism and technology to make rage, and violence, profitable.
We’d go a long way toward dismantling the rage machine if we exposed its makers to liability, as we do with every other corporation. Reforming Section 230, which insulates online platforms from the externalities of the conspiracy theories and Chinese misinformation schemes they peddle, would be a massive first step. Age-gating social media would be a good follow-up.
And online media is an accelerant to our problem. As I often say, (including in my next book), the fire it fuels is disconnected rage. Rarely has a cohort fallen further, faster than young men. Most angry young men find peace. Some grasp a gun instead.My friend Richard Reeves wrote a book, Of Boys and Men, that’s replete with good ideas: recruit more male teachers, invest in vocational training, destigmatize mental health problems. We should raise the minimum wage and create tax breaks for people paying off student debt and saving for home ownership. Implement national service to get young people off their devices and into their communities. Use tax credits that unleash the private building sector and anti-Nimby laws, to help us build 8 million new homes in 10 years. Enforce retirement ages and term limits so older people make room for the rising generation.
The third leg of this stool is the most obvious, but also the most politicized. This post comes nine days after Kirk was killed. In those nine days, 1,125 other Americans died from gun violence. Fifty were children. Two more people have been shot and killed since you began reading this post.
The U.K., where I’ve been living for the past three years, has much in common with the U.S. The problems are familiar: racial division, arguments over immigration, declining opportunity for young people. Yet one difference stands out. It will take more than a year for the U.K. to see as many gun deaths (per capita) as the U.S. experienced in the nine days since Kirk’s murder. Private handguns are outlawed here, and hunting firearms are tightly controlled.
This isn’t complicated: break Big Tech’s immunity, invest in boys, rein in guns. The hard part isn’t policy — it’s courage. The violence entrepreneurs aren’t selling solutions, they’re selling rage. And business is booming.
Scott Galloway
September 29, 2025
Violence Entrepreneurs | No Mercy / No Malice
Interesting… There probably is some truth in what he says about the problem. But what jumps out at me is the mindset of the proposed solutions. Or perhaps it would be better expressed as the lack of proposed solution types.
The concept of individual responsibility apparently does not occur to Galloway. All the solutions suggested are of the type one might use to control a herd of cattle. Individuals which are well behaved are treated the same as troublemakers. Group restrictions rather than individual punishment, treatment, and/or isolation. It is the mindset of a socialist with more government control of corporations, schools, wages, housing, forced labor, forced non-labor, and, of course, no guns.
The one final thing is probably the most mind boggling ignorant. He asserts, “The hard part isn’t policy.” He is certain to get a lot of pushbacks on the first two “pillars”. But regarding the third, he is an alternate reality if he is not aware of the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms. Ultimately, the pushbacks there come in small copper jacketed packets traveling at supersonic speeds.
At “. . .mostly from the far right. . .” he just outed himself as a commie simp and not worth goin any farther. IF the “far right” was in charge of assassinating their enemies in this country, those of us who weren’t determined to tear down the country would sleep peacefully in their beds. The others. . .not so much. (And that so called study that all of the commies are using as their go-to script on “far right violence” has already been disproven by its own graphs.
With the Left every accusation is a confession.
In overview, Mr. Galloway’s mentality is pervasively collectivist. The establishment of America was a distilling event in more ways than one.
Mr. Galloway, sir, men are NOT potatoes.
“This should be entirely obvious, as the British colonists did not gradually turn into American Indians after four generations in the New World. And the descendants of the African slaves imported into the Americas are still observably distinct in appearance, behavior, and educational outcome after many generations of education in the USA.”
Vox Day.
The problem isn’t guns. It’s ignorance and those that use guns for more ignorance.
And if I were in Britistan right now, I would probably get arrested for posting that. So, there is that. How quickly did this moron forget that by giving up his firearms he no longer has free speech?
And he’s about to lose a lot more.
Certain people can’t handle freedom. It just goes over their hard-hat. They see it as a license to take advantage. (Or in this commie’s case an opportunity to lie for the cause.)
It’s far passed time we started dealing with root causes. And start solving problems through truth and reality.
It’s not about what you look like, it’s about what you do.
Jesus taught us that.
And if just can’t bring yourself to have a modicum of impulse control?
This ain’t the country for you.
And we should not hesitate to deport your ass should you prove yourself as incapable.
This country is for us and our posterity, and those that will adhere to our ideals.
Nobody else should be here. And those that are here should no longer be welcome.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams.
Way passed time.
“The dangerous novelty of our time is the fusing of capitalism and technology to make rage, and violence, profitable.”
Actually it’s not entirely a novelty, though the degree of profitability has certainly gone up as a function of social media tech. John Cleese did a great bit on it decades ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhyLbXcJCUQ
Not much has changed except the volume.
True. We have to invent a term for capitalist-type techniques used by Totalitarians in order to be clear on the distinction between motives and means.
OK Johnny S. Were ready for another one of your soro’s sponsored moral equivalency posts now.
Take it away, buddy.
It makes sense he lives in the UK and thus believes repression is the answer. His opening statement about social media feeding rage is accurate, just see what the Left has been posting. The remainder of his screed is bovine excrement
Sidenote: If Galloway is a socialist I’m a penguin. Check out his resume…he’s as capitalist they get.
Seriously? I thought you were in tech?
It’s full of shit-head communists making tons of money.
But are cultural marxists.
More than one kind of commies.
It’s certainly true there are lots of rich socialists in tech (it’s called wishful thinking/hypocrisy), but Galloway is nothing if not a successful capitalist in the truest sense of the term.
NO communist country ever gets rid of capital.
Communist regimes just dictate who has it. And where it gets spent.
Other than that, it’s just rule by murderous bureaucrats (generally well-educated ones.) against a disarmed populous. (Sounding familiar?)
“Capitalist”, is just a name communist give their enemies.
Even if their just poor farmers.
So if you’re not a commie, quit talking like one.
And remember, the end-state Mao was using communism for was a “social democracy”.
“Galloway is nothing if not a successful capitalist in the truest sense of the term.”
Everyone is a ruthless capitalist in the subject that puts groceries on the table.
He may be acting like a capitalist for his own benefit, much like the factory managers in the Soviet Union, but he is not a capitalist. He is indisputably NOT preaching what he practices.
Every day I am glad I don’t like in the place Great Britain used to be. We have our problems but Europe is an authoritarian mess from the Urals to the Atlantic. UK is one of the worst. They arrest people for internet posts at 40x the rate of Russia.
“Yet one difference stands out. It will take more than a year for the U.K. to see as many gun deaths (per capita) as the U.S. experienced in the nine days since Kirk’s murder. Private handguns are outlawed here, and hunting firearms are tightly controlled.”
The man is apparently unaware of history. Back in the 20th century, all the time up to about 1990, guns in the UK were not hard to get. Yet the UK murder rate and firearm incident rate was miniscule compared to the US. Banning most firearms in the UK made squat difference.
See also the recent knife bans, back in the mid 1980s I personally bought in the UK a replica Commando knife and a “Crocodile Dundee” bowie. Friends of mine had all kinds of others. Yet knife crime was almost unknown in the UK in the twentieth century. In the 21st it became common. Also coincidentally the UK allowed in a lot of new residents born in places like Somalia and Pakistan. Weird that.
Not only that, but his figures are off. They work out to 46,000 per year.
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