> > Steven Pinker's arguments in "The Better Angels of our Nature".
I haven't, sigh, gotten around to reading Steven Pinker. I found: http://stevenpinker.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions-about-better-angels-our-nature-why-violence-has-declined What's he all about? -- Owen On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > 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/ > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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