Nice to readSteven Pinkersupporting my 2011 post as he writes, “extreme poverty has plummeted and may disappear; and both international and global inequality coefficients are in decline. Now, it’s true that the world’s poor have gotten richer in part at the expense of the American lower ...
So, the first one is by Steve Pinker inHow the Mind Works. And he writes, Nature does not dictate what we should accept or how we should live our lives. Well into my procreating years, I am so far voluntarily childless, having squandered my biological resources reading and writing, ...
matriarchal bonobos. Bonobos resolve conflict with sex, rather than violence. Researchers speculate that male bonobos may have the potential for violence, but this proclivity is kept in check by groups of “alpha females.” An innate predisposition for violence does not mean it can’t ...
“This is the formula for a nation or a kingdom decline. For no kingdom can maintain itself by force alone. Force does not work the way its advocates think in fact it does. It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of the adversary. On the contrary, it reveals th...
What’s interesting is how fatalistic most people are about this. One person interviewed by the BBC commented: ‘It’s just progress, I guess.’ But progress towards what? The illusion of progress Looked at with a long lens, progress does appear to be on a sharp upward curve, yet this ...
Pinker, S. The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity; Penguin: London, UK, 2011. 47. Bell, S.; Morse, S. Resilient Participation: Saving the Human Project? Earthscan: London, UK, 2012. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article...
Pinker, S. The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity; Penguin: London, UK, 2011. [Google Scholar] Bell, S.; Morse, S. Resilient Participation: Saving the Human Project? Earthscan: London, UK, 2012. [Google Scholar] © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Ba...