Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of our Nature

29 thoughts on “Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of our Nature”

1. 48:05 He speaks of the Monkeysphere!!!

2. great talk!

3. NWO propaganda

4. I love his hair, some mix of mullet and afro, but made sexy by it's silver lining and the content of his brain.

5. Facts highlight the weakness of common sense again

6. As I suspected science and reason is a force for peace. Conversely superstition, belief and ideology are common causes of violence. Recommend reading the book if you doubt Pinker's hypothesis.

7. How are "prehistoric skeletons [that] have signs of violent trauma" relevant for a y axis labelled "percentage of deaths in warfare"? Is everyone that dies of a violent trauma a victim of war? What about domestic violence, personal territory disputes etc? Lost me in under 6 minutes, poor reasoning.

8. Merhaba Özyeğin Üniversitesi SOC öğrencileri.

9. Watch the video again and pay attention to what Pinker actually said.

10. Is it just me, or does Mr. Pinker look like a hobbit?

11. Better Angel (2012) movie at icefilms.co.nr

12. starts at 3:26

13. just you I guess – but I can't be sure – do you have very big feet?

14. "dominance….. drive to be alpha male"….only male ?

15. OGUSCAKE

16. He doesn't mention the rise of hate crimes by blacks against whites, which is a blind spot in our society on the national level since it's assumed to be either impossible to occur, impossible to accuse, or both 😉 But, as a white caucasian man who's been assaulted for the color of my skin, I'll tell you that this has risen in the last couple of generations.

17. Certain types of violence have certainly risen, but to surprising non-impact on the overall decline. In other words, you're less likely to be assaulted by another person than you would've been 50 years ago, but _if_ you are assaulted, the person is more likely to be black than they would've been 50 years ago. Not because a higher percentage of black people are assaulting people than before, but because that's what's happened to the ratio of _overall_ violence.

18. Added his book to my reading list. 

19. Oh right hes the dragons den guy

20. I find the audience's random laughter more disturbing than the acts of cruelty being described at certain times in human history 

21. I thought it was a good presentation especially for a mostly statistical format….and I would add that watching 10 news stories about the same violent event does not make it 10 violent events even though it might seem like it……….  

22. So in essence, Hobbes was right. The state of nature is detrimental to human life, and the threat of the state gets people to work together. Who would have thought?

23. Why did he call it a depressing time at 3:15 ????? What was happening in November 2011, financial crisis? Really

24. 35:30 Why doesn't he count hate crimes against whites and other non-black groups?

25. What about if there's the risk of nuclear war, then it could jump to 100%.

26. Skip Intro 03:25

27. The Animal Husbandry practices have become more efficient, but the culture is still volitile?

28. 'Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.' – Ralph Waldo Emerson

29. Here's Edward Herman analyzing the nonsense in this book: https://isreview.org/issue/86/steven-pinker-alleged-decline-violence

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