Bill Gates
Bill Gates had a chance to sit down with author Steven Pinker and discuss some of the points from his book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.
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Bill Gates with Steven Pinker: Did the Social Revolution of the 1960s Make People More Violent?
This is a great series! And I am so glad to see Pinker on it! I love his work, Open my eyes to literature
Great video, but the panning of audio, (Gates and Pinker in each speaker) is really not a good idea. Makes it hard to listen to. You could do it VERY subtly if you want, but I'd probably not do even that.
Thanks for this series! Fascinating discussion by two fascinating people!
Good series. I'm surprised the topic of drug prohibition wasn't mentioned. I would have thought that to be significant. Also instead of talking about 'violence' as a homogeneous phenomena, it would be interesting to talk about specific forms of violence, and their causes. I would imagine not all the violence in the 60's fell out of the sky but was probably provoked in the majority of cases.
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For why would anyone watch 'free-to-air' TV with all the unimaginative ads when you can listen two the most intelligent people in the world talk 'one on one'. Actually, I'd like an in-depth analysis of the psychology of Gates' 'Maths 55'' class, but I'm happy to concede that this far more important and equally as interesting.
Nonetheless, the cultural explanation fits, with the obvious contribution from hard drugs driving up violence in the sixties. But were people in the nineties then less violent, or was there a lesser number of violent people in the nineties?.A subtle but critical distinction, which is possibly explained by the increased frequency of, or access to, family planning for all social classes from the early seventies.
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Does he perm his hair? Can't wait for my copy of Enlightenment Now to come
2:48 So youre saying that ppl like MLK Jr. indirectly caused more violence? Wow
It actually got worse in 60's! I've been deceived!