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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
4.0
I really enjoy reading Steven Pinker. After reading The Better Angels of Our Nature my outlook on the world has changed. What more could you ask of your book?
This book is not merely a catalog of the decreases in violence. Well it is in the first part of the book. It's difficult to imagine the magnitude of violence before current times. And the common day abuses. The second part of the book looks at some of the potential causes of lower violence (the Leviathan in strong democracies, the Rights revolutions to name a couple) and puts these ideas into the setting of a Prisoner's Dilemma to explain why societies would move towards non-violent options.
This book is not merely a catalog of the decreases in violence. Well it is in the first part of the book. It's difficult to imagine the magnitude of violence before current times. And the common day abuses. The second part of the book looks at some of the potential causes of lower violence (the Leviathan in strong democracies, the Rights revolutions to name a couple) and puts these ideas into the setting of a Prisoner's Dilemma to explain why societies would move towards non-violent options.