Rich -
Aside from the clever presentation, the implied numbers were rather
staggering.
I particularly liked the "negative space" argument about "the number of
people who are not dying"... and the way it complements Steven Pinker's
arguments in "The Better Angels of our Nature".
One might ask, "if the violence we participate in is so much lower, why
does it seem otherwise?".
A simple and possibly misleading answer is our global media... we simply
*hear about it more*. I wonder what some of the other factors might be?
- Steve
On 11/6/16 11:18 PM, Rich Murray wrote:
The Long Peace 18 min video slide show on all war deaths since Fall of
Rome -- after 70 million in WWII, lower and lower to now...: Rich
Murray 2016.11.06
http://www.fallen.io/ww2/
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