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If it bleeds, it leads. Science shows that we are living in the most peaceful era in our history, yet any evening news broadcast will have us believing anything but. Is our perception of violence being skewed by the blood-addicted mass media? Is the global spread of democracy driving a reduction in violence, and is democracy enough to ensure stability and peace? Oksana is joined by Harvard cognitive psychologist Dr. Steven Pinker to examine these issues.
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good interview rt
22:20 more and more we accept violence against women is bad? what about violence against anyone is bad. female on male violence exists you know that right?
Wow , there you go , like we always said we learn by ours mistake.
Good interview RT. Would like to see this DR in to some more interview.
RT has gone down so low its below the dog shit.
This guy is just another Harvard CIA tool. His mission (surprise, surprise) is to claim that we have our system to thank for how great a shape the world is in. If you consider being subjected to industrial pollution a form of violence, then we a living in the most violent time in history. The 20 th century was the most violent time in human history. North Korea is a very low violence society, much less than america, so how does the argument about democracies being less violent….. This guy is disgusting… just look at his idiotic hair style
Ask a Palestinian, Dr. Pinker, who has discovered a way to quantify suffering.
It was recently in the news that 25 percent of women who attend college are raped….is that a statistic of progress? Were less women raped during feudal times? 70,000 men a year are raped in america's prisons. Is that a form of violence? Should we consider america's world leading number of incarcerated persons as victims of a state sponsored violence, depriving them of their liberty? Should Palestinians, living under Israel's brutal occupation celebrate this time of peace? Oksana Boyko has to understand that America does not have intellectuals, they have business tools. Harvard University is responsible for Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, the weirdos who say america's police can check your asshole any time you are arrested and you can be arrested for a traffic violation. Harvard gave us Obama, the dronekiller. Harvard is just what it was once accused of being, a place where the sons of the rulers go to meet each other. The actual "intellectual" product is just drivel and propaganda like this meatball with this silly book that jst by coincidence seems to suggest that amercian policy is the greatest thing that ever happened to man. Again Harvard will never do an intellectual paper explaining how american foreign policy creates terrorism, or a paper talking about victims of mk ultra etc. So PLease Oksana don't call this hairdresser from brooklyn one of the world's leading intellectuals.
Not one of Oksana's better interviews. She let Pinker off the hook too much as he praised so called "democracy".
I would have liked to see him challenged on the issues of debt slavery and the banking system, Zionism and the fake war on terror.
If it's so great, why are 20 pct on psych drugs and 70 pct on prescriptions?
Must be nice in his ivory tower. Another academic singing for his supper. An elite pet. Good boy.
For a whole host of reasons, I usually recoil from RT, but I have to say, the interviewer asked some excellent questions. Wow. Thanks.
If I were Mr. Pinker I would react violently to my hairdresser
you let your desire rule over reality. You should have known it was one of your own by the fact that it occurred on the day of the finals.
I think of Harvard students as being nobodies as well. So young, so little accomplished, right? I'll be honest. I live in an apartment where they run a background check and don't let the bad ones come. The rent is a little higher, but the trade is heaven-sent. These people are peaceful., and they can even decorate outside of their doors without fear of theft. Obviously, you need to screen your students for character disorders a little more. Bad inclinations/karma have bad outcomes, especially if they gain power.
What is the purpose of this book? And Pinker's whole career for that matter? It is to make the things the US ruling class does look good. This is why Harvard has such a huge endowment. all invested in the system they work so hard to protect. If a scientist, or a sociologist came up with research that suggested that America was a military dictatorship, with a dual party system providing a veneer of legitimacy, they would not be at Harvard. Again this is propaganda, creating a base of literature that justifies what the rulers of america do…. In the old south, slave owners were constantly telling their slaves how lucky they were to have such nice masters, keeping them fed, and busy , and a roof over their heads… Pinker's work is a modern version of that.
the masses are asses. people will believe anything. remember…if its stupid, its cool!
imposing new ideas on communities which are not ready can backfire and produce a negative image about the idea in these communities, and it is a good weapon too if used to DESTROY an idea 😉
Democratic government is rule by propaganda. Common people only think they have control, while big money interests dictate what choices they have.
So long as a critical mass of people believe in such a system and are unwilling or incapable of addressing the reality of it, they become unwitting zealots for the tyranny of big business, falsely believing they are free, going wherever the controlled media leads their short-sighted minds.
This is why nowhere has a truly democratic system according to the USA unless the elections can be bought.
Many many great points!
Wow, what a shitty host, she is such a antagonistic negative person. She needs to stop trying to debate, an try to give a decent interview.
Great interview. The strength of a well structured Democracy rests on the protections of the individual from the easily controlled and manipulated whim of the masses. That is paramount in a successful one.
The historical evidence in the reduction of violence over time goes hand in hand with the increasing faith in money creation.
my objetction to analytical philosophers like Pinker is that they think of such concepts as democracy or state in a complete vacuum, without acknowledging the fact that, e.g. states are indeed manufactered in a particular contextes – i.e. the "absolutist" state of Louis XIV (and to a certain extent that of Henry VIII) were the by-products of particular historical developments. Each one of them presented certain similarities or "Ähnlichkeiten" as Wittgenstein would put it, but still they differed from each other in many ways. So the absolutist state of Frederick the Great was completely different from those of the former two. We have to be always aware of the contextes (historically and politically), specially if we´re trying to transpose concepts which are indeed first formulated cognitively-linguistically in our heads, and indeed subscribe to a certain metaphysical paradigm
All this guy is good for is to turn him upside down and mop the floor with his hair!….it certainly won't do his brain any harm!….The world is only less violent when you live in a non violent country or area. Every country in the world had to fight to overthrow their foreign rulers, try not fighting these guys and they'll kill until their subjects are quiet again. If the countries of the world who had been invaded had not fought for freedom they would still be under foreign rule. If the English had talked and not fought Hitler where would we all be now, bending under the jackboot! God save us from pacifists intellectuals!
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