Technology left my world to burn. The Flame is all my people have by way of technology. [Unless people get into discussing Foucault, which is not going to happen here. Lexa thinks of Sam and what his people went through, with civil war and unrest, and more.]

But you are seeing parallels where they have been artificially created. What we've seen is an escalation of issues with this. The violence is meant to bring that reaction out of you.