[ExI] Death follows European contact (Mirco Romanato)

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:34 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
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> By coincidence Next Big Future has just posted a critical review of
> Pinker's article.
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> http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/04/looking-at-pinker-thesis-of-historical.html
> >
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> One scathing commentator described Pinker's article -
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> 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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### Sounds like a scathing idiot.

Did he even read the book? Did he notice the per capita statistics of
slaughter, steadily trending down, as opposed to rhetoric which has its
fluctuations?

Looks like he missed them.

Rafal
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