I draw everyone's attention to the widely unknown fact that violence in the world has drastically diminished, which is something to be celebrated (and extended). See the Stephen Pinker book "The Better Angels of our Nature". To give just one striking example that he cites, only a few hundred years ago the murder rate per year per 100,000 people in England was several hundred, but now it is ONE murder! The huge fall in violence of all kinds has gone mostly unnoticed in part because news reports concentrate on violence, leaving the impression that violence has if anything increased.
Pinker also reviews the extensive scholarship devoted to trying to understand the causes of this huge change. Bruce On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Alfredo Covaleda <[email protected]> wrote: > > Of course I was kidding. Doctrine is maybe the term that I like the less. > We, the human kind, need more objectivity, more generosity and less > fundamentalisms; but naturally it is an utopia to think that doctrines will > not rule the world. Societies will continue fighting because of ethnicity, > religion and politics. Doctrine makes us different and is the argument > behind the struggle for the power and the perfect excuse to do what humans > like the most: to make the war. What a savage and pitiful specie is the Homo > Sapiens!!. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
