Is There a Future?

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I was reading some of the literature before this interview on the violent violence and shootings, and how 80 per of people who were incarcerated, who had participated in shooting, had actually had suicidal thoughts before that. And what it takes to basically believe that you, you know, that there isn't a sort of a better future, there isn't some other thing tha's going to happen. I think that's a very interesting, invisible belief that people hold, whether or not there is a future. For me, it's not surprising that we are having such an increase in mass shooting, an racial shootings, as we've seen over the last two years. It's an indicator that something seriously wrong

“You can binge watch an ideology in a weekend,” says Tony McAleer. He should know. A former white supremacist, McAleer was introduced to neo-Nazi ideology through the U.K. punk scene in the 1980s. But after his daughter was born, he embarked on a decades-long journey from hate to compassion. Today’s technology, he says, make violent ideologies infinitely more accessible and appealing to those who long for acceptance. Social media isolates us and can incubate hate in a highly diffuse structure, making it nearly impossible to stop race-based violence without fanning the flames or driving it further underground. McAleer discusses solutions to this dilemma and the positive actions we can take together.