[ExI] Death follows European contact (Mirco Romanato)

[BillK]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:38 PM, William Flynn Wallace  wrote:
> If you guys like this sort of pondering, try Pinker's 'The Better Angels of
> Our Nature', as masterful synthesis of evolution,morals and violence and why
> the latter has declined so much.  billw
>
>

By coincidence Next Big Future has just posted a critical review of
Pinker's article.
<http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/04/looking-at-pinker-thesis-of-historical.html>

One scathing commentator described Pinker's article -

This optimistic theme coincides with the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
laureate's ongoing wars on at least four continents (Asia, Africa,
Europe, and South America) and the US military's spread to more than
eight hundred bases worldwide; the US-led NATO bloc's rapid
post-Soviet growth and proclamation of "out-of-area" responsibilities;
and the United States' declaration of a right to kill its "enemies"
anywhere on the planet.
Such a propaganda windfall for the imperial bloc could only be
purchased with a denial of reality. Indeed, it is in the ideological
and error-ridden narrative with which Pinker sustains this denial for
more than eight hundred pages that the book's real appeal lies.
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BillK