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http://www.ted.com Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species’ existence.
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Fact is The so called white man loves violence and have been cultivating this concept for centuries. They do it for a number of reasons. One being for entertainment especially in this country.
Sem dúvida, a violência parte como um mecanismo de defesa…
Très intéressant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom
Nice job, stevie, you are saying because we have a larger population now, the genocide in Rwanda constituted a less violent world because it's a smaller percentage of the total population. Please crawl back in your hole.
"Don't do to your neighbour what you don't want him/her to do to you"… Centuries of Christian education in the West.
Not convinced.. You can spin it any way you like via scales and logirithms
intellectual masturbation – cherry pick your facts, ignore inconvenient ones – the mind is a wonderful playground – Don't forget, there's a substantive difference between our "maps" and the "territory" itself.
"Only one of the seven societies cited by Pinker (the Murngin) even approaches being an intermediate-return foraging society. The Murngin had been living with missionaries, guns, and alluminum powerboats for decades by the time the data Pinker cites were collected."
Get a begging bowl. Use it for food, hygiene, sanitary, and beg.
Love pinker
During the 20th century we've witnessed the atrocities of… He should have started from century 1. Common threads.
Society moved from slavery to modern equality, not because we evolutionated biologicaly, it happend because of philosophical idea of equality, christian tenets. Without idea – who you are to me? Why your life is valuable for me? From the times of greek philisophy it was stated that this Source of universe is superior perfect good, after that – christian teology postulated that God is perfect Love. Only because that reason people gained humanism! Wars was emanation of ancient savagery, which has been eradicating by centuries only because of the reason of having ideas about God and creation, which is source of others ideas – as meaning of the life and spending life in accumulating knowledge. Without global (metaphisical) ideas about source of creation, all humanism values will be destroyed.
You bought the Bible up for a history lesson….. gooodbye
Here's Edward Herman discussing the nonsense in this book: https://isreview.org/issue/86/steven-pinker-alleged-decline-violence
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But the real question is, how does Pinker maintain his massive mane consistently over decades?
Not surprising at all due to testosterone levels dropping at an exponential rate. If men’s testosterone levels drop does that make people easier to control? Religion and anti-violence rhetoric have also taken center stage as humans develop. People do what is easiest to survive, even if that means going against their violent nature. Do these facts make humans easier to control, subjugate, enslave? Some of Those in power are messing with your food and water to create a bunch of pansies that will take the easiest and most convenient path to satiate their survival instincts. Now we are passing down estrogen fueled genetics to make people more agreeable, one generation to the next. Our violent nature was there for a reason, violence is part of the universe, we are losing power on multiple levels and being controlled by insidious dictators.
It's all good in the hood
At least 2 problems. 1) Today, 14.6 out of 1,000 women "of childbearing age" is the latest abortion rate. If we (CONSERVATIVELY) extrapolate that to 14.6 out of 10,000 total population, then we have 146 infanticides for 100,000 population. That EXCEEDS the 100 homicides per 100,000 people, which PInker cites as the bad high-murder rate for the Middle Ages. Once we rightfully included abortions as homicide, we are not less-violent, but worse. 2) Steven Pinker's ignorance of scripture is selective. I would love to see his solution (using bronze age technology) for the embedded social disease of the Midianites (and all Amorites), as a result of their documented moral impurity.
The sad thing is that we are living at a time when most conflict could be eliminated if only the Western democracies of the world would, together, link trade to human rights in a positive and consistent way. It is primarily the global market race-to-the-bottom that keeps exploitation, oppression and the military industrial complex, profitable.
Linking trade to human rights would make everybody better off by creating a stronger incentive toward freedom, than the current overwhelming incentive toward oppression. Oppression is what leads to conflict, and conflict leads to unstable governments by encouraging hatred and blame.
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yep, things are getting better if you live in a rich country siting with a MacBook in a Starbucks listening to ted with your earpod pro's and thinking that, I'm getting smarter than others! f outta here
Lol I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for this but this is such a shallow analysis of prehistoric violence. ‘look at this graph that uses data collected decades after the tribes came into contact with the west and got weapons from them. It proves the ancient state of humanity was violent savagery.’ None of them are even close to the ancestral hunter gatherer state of humanity, which was in fact very peaceful until the advent of agriculture, which is when hierarchies and violence began in earnest
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