The Decline of Violence | Steven Pinker

   

Matthew Drake

 

Published on Apr 17, 2016

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If you read the news it might seem that violence around the world is escalating every day. Only when we look back at history (or at non-western cultures currently stuck in pre-enlightenment ideology) do we see that the human beings today are relatively peaceful.

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Original interview from London Real: https://youtu.be/Bv0Resywg48?t=28m55s

Book discussed by Steven Pinker: http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Angels-Our-Nature/dp/0143122010?ie=UTF8&keywords=better%20angels&qid=1460918031&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1