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The Long Peace 18 min video slide show on all war deaths since Fall of Rome -- after 70 million in WWII, lower and lower to now...: Rich Murray 2016.11.06

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The Long Peace 18 min video slide show on all war deaths since Fall of Rome -- after 70 million in WWII, lower and lower to now...: Rich Murray 2016.11.06

http://www.fallen.io/ww2/

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Steve Smith

[ SPAM ] Re: The Long Peace 18 min video slide show on all war deaths since Fall of Rome -- after 70 million in WWII, lower and lower to now...: Rich Murray 2016.11.06

Rich -

Aside from the clever presentation, the implied numbers were rather staggering.

I particularly liked the "negative space" argument about "the number of people who are not dying"... and the way it complements Steven Pinker's arguments in "The Better Angels of our Nature".

One might ask, "if the violence we participate in is so much lower, why does it seem otherwise?".

A simple and possibly misleading answer is our global media... we simply *hear about it more*. I wonder what some of the other factors might be?

- Steve

On 11/6/16 11:18 PM, Rich Murray wrote:

The Long Peace 18 min video slide show on all war deaths since Fall of Rome -- after 70 million in WWII, lower and lower to now...: Rich Murray 2016.11.06

http://www.fallen.io/ww2/
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Owen Densmore

Re: [ SPAM ] Re: The Long Peace 18 min video slide show on all war deaths since Fall of Rome -- after 70 million in WWII, lower and lower to now...: Rich Murray 2016.11.06

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Steven Pinker's arguments in "The Better Angels of our Nature".

I haven't, sigh, gotten around to reading Steven Pinker. I found:

http://stevenpinker.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions-about-better-angels-our-nature-why-violence-has-declined

What's he all about?

-- Owen

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Steven A Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

Rich -

Aside from the clever presentation, the implied numbers were rather staggering.

I particularly liked the "negative space" argument about "the number of people who are not dying"... and the way it complements Steven Pinker's arguments in "The Better Angels of our Nature".

One might ask, "if the violence we participate in is so much lower, why does it seem otherwise?".

A simple and possibly misleading answer is our global media... we simply *hear about it more*. I wonder what some of the other factors might be?

- Steve

On 11/6/16 11:18 PM, Rich Murray wrote:
The Long Peace 18 min video slide show on all war deaths since Fall of Rome -- after 70 million in WWII, lower and lower to now...: Rich Murray 2016.11.06

http://www.fallen.io/ww2/
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