UBS Center
Award-winning author Steven Pinker from Harvard University closed off the 2015 Forum for Economic Dialogue with a tour de force on the history of conflict and violence, presenting an absolutely impressive amount of historical data that historians, criminologists, economists, anthropologists, and other researchers had been collecting and producing over the past few decades. The main message that this data conveys is that violence has been in decline over millennia and that – completely contrary to the picture we get in the media and in public discourse – the present is probably the most peaceful time in the history of the human species.
#EconomicsForSociety #UniversityOfZurich #UBSCenterForum
Source
goooooooooooooo Pinker! you know what they say; 2 in the pinker one in the stinker!
what first seemed counterintuitive is now more convincing
its unfortunate that more people havent seen this, though its likely most people wont understand most of the presentation.
Dr Pinker rocks the Q and A like a fucking boss!
missing information about mexico and south america all the numbers would rise.
death, assassinations and civil wars are still underway
This guy was cool back in the 90's when evolutionary psychology was all the rage. One of the best popular science writers of the era.
One very day human kind will abolish violence whithin self.
Now we on the decline again
Chickens have a point of view?
Dont kill your debtors? Tell that to the mafia or drug cartels….lol.
He seems to omit the main point that religion has been the cause of much of the violence. With the enlightenment, came a decrease in religiosity as well. Religion seems to be the cause of most evil in the world.