The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Believe it or not—and I know that most people do not—violence has been in decline over long stretches of time, and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.Steven Pinker
The decline of violence, to be sure, has not been steady; it has not brought violence down to zero; and it is not guaranteed to continue.Steven Pinker
We enjoy the peace we find today because people in past generations were appalled by the violence in their time and worked hard to reduce it, and so we should work to continue the decline for the generations to come.Steven Pinker
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined is not a pacifist's manifesto. I believe there are circumstances in which using force to prevent greater violence can be justified, notably in the Second World War.Steven Pinker
The Humanitarian Revolution was driven in part by the reading revolution. As people consumed more fiction, histories, journalism, and personal memoirs, they expanded their empathy to people unlike themselves.Steven Pinker
Statistics not only shine a spotlight on the luscious detail of the data, but they are a salve to the cognitive frailties of the human mind.Steven Pinker
Certain ideas about the nature of reality can have implications for the way that we comprehend events.Steven Pinker
Today we're living in a relatively peaceful era. Fewer of us die violent deaths than ever before. We take this peace for granted and may even find it boring.Steven Pinker
History is not an escalator, but a drunken stumble, marked by regressions as well as advances.Steven Pinker
Just as we don't assume that anyone who lived through a warm spell in 1976 'believes in' a nonexistent Global Cooling, we shouldn't conclude that anyone who lives in a violent neighborhood 'believes in' a nonexistent End of Civilization.Steven Pinker