Keep up the awesome, Kevin. :)

Sure, violence and fear is the best way to do it.

I think we need to redefine "best" as a species within this context. It may be the most effective on a short term basis, but I think, with the invention of the Internet, human beings have access to information like never before. We can educate ourselves, engage neuroplasticity, and change our thinking. We can begin to act as more rational actors which involves not just short term thinking, but also long term thinking. In repeated prisoner's dilemma situations, cooperation is always more rewarding than defecting. Our technology is helping us learn these realities. In the future, I'm hoping, violence and fear will be seen as very primitive, and ultimately (on the long term) ineffective mechanisms for change in events.