Marc Andreessen

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

and Europe.

And so, you know, television has a long history of leading to downstream violence.

You know, the fact that we haven't actually had, like, the fact that, like, political violence is, like, an all-time low in Western society is something that people really don't talk about.

And it feels like we must be in this, like, super politically violent situation.

world because everybody's so angry about politics all the time, but like measured political violence is at like an all-time low.

And so my theory is the ability to directly participate in online virtual combat is shunting away a lot of the energy that in the past would have translated to street violence.

Right.

And so it's sort of this thing as if the virtual world can become arbitrarily rhetorically violent without people actually getting physically hurt.

And that gives people a way to exercise all of their anger and rage over politics and to be able to attack the hated enemy without having it actually be something that translates to physical violence.

And so, yeah, it's like, I don't know, social media wars up, you know, physical violence down.

Nobody wants to hear that because everybody's so mad all the time about what's happening online.

But I think that's character.

Like, if you're sitting at home scrolling social media getting mad, like, at least you're not on the street, like, hurting people.

So that's my moral defense of the whole thing.

Right.

Yeah, so I think people just have a really rose-colored glasses view of the past.

The past gets sanded off, like, in part because we only interpret the past.

You know, number one is we weren't there.

And then the modern interpreters of the past, you know, are often quite honestly not telling us the truth about what happened because they have their own modern kind of, you know, gloss or spin they want to put on it.

And so – but just the edges of the past get sanded off in retrospect.

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