A History of Violence

I was going to make this an extension of the below thread, but have made it separate as it is an interesting talk in of itself and has it's own strand of discussion points

http://www.templeofthejediorder.org/forum/Jediism/59255-Jedi-views-on-War

A History of Violence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk

Bravo, Akkarin --

Pinker is insightful. And he's right. This is the most peaceful time in recorded human history.

A/O

thanks for that, very interesting / not depressing

Didn't Pinker give more or less the same talk to the Royale Society recently ?

Alexandre Orion wrote: Didn't Pinker give more or less the same talk to the Royale Society recently ?

To be honest with you I don't know, but I'm tempted to start scouring through some of the videos on that website to find some good ones

I'll post up any of the nice ones I find

Akkarin wrote:

Alexandre Orion wrote: Didn't Pinker give more or less the same talk to the Royale Society recently ?

To be honest with you I don't know, but I'm tempted to start scouring through some of the videos on that website to find some good ones

I'll post up any of the nice ones I find

Mon cher, You'll be posting up the whole bloody site !

Well, that is an exaggeration, but there are many great interventions : Pinker, Roman Krznaric, Alain de Botton, Richard Sennett, Roy F Baumeister, Martin Seligman, Paul Bloom, Barbara Strauch, Sir David Attenborough, Robert Rowland Smith, Martha Nussbaum, Sir Ken Robinson ... &c &c &c

If I kept going on, this reply post would just be a list of names. And we could maybe work to getting their books into ('onto' ?) the library.

Watch this one, it's brilliant ! But don't post it ... we would get into trouble.