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Complete program available for free at http://fora.tv/2012/10/13/Steven_Pinker_A_History_of_Violence
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker links the Humanitarian Revolution, an historical decline in violence, to widespread literacy. “It’s plausible,” he explains, “that as people consume fiction, drama, history, and journalism, they start to inhabit the minds of people unlike themselves, which conceivably could expand their empathy and decrease their taste for cruelty.”
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you can thank the moors for that!!!
WHEN BLACKS RULED EUROPE -HISTORY OF THE MOORS
youtube.com/watch?v=Ed5I9NO586c
The Moor Empire
.youtube.com/watch?v=fcULWaFeLA4&feature=related
Moors pulled Europe out of the dark ages!!!!! Their pope was hell bent on destroying books and universities.
Moors in Europe 3: Who was that Head-Banded Man?
youtube.com/watch?v=f7FnTGU0-3A
oh one more thing not everyone lived in the dark-ages or had the dark-ages!!!
really??? where did you get that information from?? last time I checked very word moor means black! do you have any proof that they were musty all Arab??? because all historical books say they were black!!!!
wiki is racist they show real paintings of moors!!!!
wiki is not a creatable source of information!!! Google up Moorish kings and how me an Arab!!!!
when your done some where Arabs have called them self moors!
I am going to stick this right here
Malcolm X Speaks on Mis-Education of Afro Americans
youtube.com/watch?v=R_KOQKObkm0
ok ok ok far enough but Africa had schools of learning and books way before Europe like nubains!
When the Moors (Muslims) Ruled Europe: Documentary (full)
youtube.com/watch?v=PM8HnvuKbAo
Who are the Moors? pt3
youtube.com/watch?v=0dNyrA8M-rU
Nice video. Thanks
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Indeed. Considering the recent discovery of Neanderthal DNA as part of our own, not only do we 'get around' we 'get it on' quite a bit. I've always thought of the Moors as being native Africans who had been converted to Islam and then continued the pattern of Islam having bloody borders, which is where they came in contact with the Europeans; it makes more sense that Africans would work with Arabs in spreading the faith, so upon entering Europe, they represented a mixture of ethnicities.
Please elucidate. What about his talk are you finding to be nonsense? And what do you mean by "the 'just so' story"? Do you have evidence that runs against what he's stated here, and if so, what is it, and where can I read more about it? (Links aren't needed, just keywords I can punch into 'the Google')
In science fiction, it's a very common theme for there to be widely varying cultures who learn to get along with each other, and you get used to seeing things from widely varying perspectives.
Origin of the ancient Egyptians
youtube.com/watch?v=FciCAXYWx3s
THE REAL GREEKS 1
youtube.com/watch?v=Oum18txyVjU
THE REAL GREEKS 2
youtube.com/watch?v=wWeh1Pam4Bc&feature=g-user-u
THE REAL GREEKS 3
youtube.com/watch?v=HvpwxnQ9pPk&feature=relmfu
i don't understand the graph at 0:35. Does that show the number of titles per year, or the absolute numbers of books published?
The Enlightenment lumps together intellectuals with conflicting agendas. Voltaire basically wanted to make religion less harmful while maintaining the social order he depended on for his lifestyle, while the radicals like Baron d'Holbach and Denis Diderot wanted to abolish religion and reform a social system they considered superstitious and harmful. It looks like the radicals may get their way in the long run if religious belief continues to decline.
Sorry I am not a Pinker Fan. I find him … ummm of the same vein as Gladwell and further Dan Brown. Cyberlectuals. Published, Yes. Poignant, arguable. Popular, Yes, pervasive .. in the context of popspeak, Yes. If Pinker were a Linguistics Prof. He would be somehow more brilliant. It is pseudoscience in it's most artistic form. I think his medicine cabinet has adult Ritalin in high dosage. There I said it!!