TED’s Steven Pinker and his brief history of violence

September 12, 2007 by James D Kirk
Filed under: Notes 
Steven Pinker’s Brief History of Violence

One can never get too much of really smart people talking about our history and how it is likely to affect our future. Steven Pinker is clearly one of those really smart people, Below, un a preview of his next book, Steven Pinker takes on violence. We live in violent times, an era of heightened warfare, genocide and senseless crime. Or so we’ve come to believe. Pinker charts a history of violence from Biblical times through the present, and says modern society has a little less to feel guilty about.

The original post at ted.com

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