The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined



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ISBN: 1101544643, 9781101544648
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Publisher: Viking
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It should not be a mystery: violence is a natural concern for anyone who studies human nature. Both Pinker and It takes only a single page of preamble before he lays out his grisly stall to try and sell us his grislier thesis, which as far as I can understand it, is basically that everyone was once generally violent and horrible (tribal people still are, apparently they are living relics of the past). We have data, comprehensively compiled by the Harvard University social scientist Steven Pinker in his new book entitled The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Viking, 2011). BOOK (2012) The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. And its once thriving comments section is dry, not long ago a reader responded to something I wrote with a warm recommendation that I read Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined . Review of “The Better Angels of Our Nature” by Steven Pinker. Steven Pinker's new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, is a propaganda windfall for the leaders and supporters of the U.S. I started this book 99.5% sure I'm just going to tell you what's wrong with this book and Pinker's thesis that violence has declined over time. Many people have asked me how I became involved in the analysis of violence. This old colonial idea was first popularly resurrected by Steven Pinker, not Diamond, so it's time to peruse the former's mighty book, The Better Angels of Our Nature.