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Old 05-30-2016, 06:02 PM
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Google is your friend.
No...you dropped it, so you should pick it up.

Tell us about Steven Pinker and his connection to this thread.
And please no 2/3 words teaser.
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Old 05-30-2016, 06:21 PM
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The history of mankind makes dreadful reading.

Probably the warrior mode is default.

The Holy Bible, Old Testament laid the foundation. When the New Testament arrived it was too late.

For what its worth: The opening lines from the great poet, Wilfred Owens.

What passing-bells for those who die as cattle?
-Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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Old 05-30-2016, 06:38 PM
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Google is your friend.
Decline of war and violence in modern times, is that your reference?
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Old 05-30-2016, 06:49 PM
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My take on his The Better Angels of Our Nature is that on a per capita basis civilization is less violent than what preceded it and civilization appears to be getting less violent as time goes by.
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Old 05-30-2016, 07:05 PM
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If only we could find life on another planet.

All the peoples of earth could unite in a common cause and work together as one to go beat the living shit out of them.
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My take on his The Better Angels of Our Nature is that on a per capita basis civilization is less violent than what preceded it and civilization appears to be getting less violent as time goes by.
That is interesting.
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My take on his The Better Angels of Our Nature is that on a per capita basis civilization is less violent than what preceded it and civilization appears to be getting less violent as time goes by.
Yet we seem to be getting more selfish and dickish by the day.
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Old 05-31-2016, 07:04 AM
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Yet we seem to be getting more selfish and dickish by the day.
More selfish? No way. More dickish, yes likely. I think this an outgrowth of continued societal maturation.
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Old 05-31-2016, 09:28 AM
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Yet we seem to be getting more selfish and dickish by the day.
That's your perception. Progress isn't linear.
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Old 05-31-2016, 09:30 AM
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Progress isn't linear.
good point
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