Le déclin des passions?
Despite The Headlines, Steven Pinker Says The World Is Becoming Less Violent
Psychologist Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature explains that the world is actually growing less violent, even though the media may give a different impression. MICHEL MARTIN ...
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La violence est-elle en déclin, comme l’affirme Steven Pinker ? Dans certaines régions d’un pays ou du monde règne-t-il une plus grande violence ? La médiatisation fausse-t-elle notre jugement et noircit-elle notre vision du monde ? Difficile de répondre à ces questions. La violence, me semble-t-il est en chacun de nous. Comme l’a dit Edward O. Wilson :
We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions
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John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war
A new orthodoxy, led by Steven Pinker, holds that war and violence in the developed world are declining. The stats are misleading, argues John Gray - and the idea of moral progress is wishful ...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/13/john-gray-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining
In 2007, African Americans were homicide victims at almost ten times the rate of whites, and both blacks and whites in the south were more violent than their counterparts in the north. Black-on-black homicides relative to white-on-white homicides in New York City rose from three times as many to thirteen times as many between 1850 and 1950. In Steven Pinker's interpretation, democracy "came too early" to America, in contrast to Europe, where the state has long ago disarmed the people and acquired a monopoly on violence as a method of policing. The extreme was the American South, where a reliance on " self-help justice" to settle disputes and achieve retaliation was preferred to strong government-based policing.
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In 1966, Stewart Brand started selling pin-back buttons featuring a simple question: "Why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?" The activist and writer distributed the buttons across