On Violence

[Ivan Denisovich]

I don't see point two sorry, is there any indication humans are moving away from violence as a means to achieve what they want? If so I must have missed this, just watch the news for a few days. 

Yes, the data has been argued to show that human history has had two major trends: First, that the further back you go humanity becomes increasingly and unrecognizable violent, second, that the further up you go humanity becomes increasingly more progressive. And so, a good example of the two would be to contrast the Dark Ages with the Enlightened.

Humanity sure was really progressive in XX century. Let's just check:

- Herero and Nama genocide
- Armenian genocide
- Holodomor
- Shoah
- Great Leap Forward
- Cambodian genocide
- Rwanda genocide
- Bosnian genocide

One or two could be argued as statistical outlier. Several however... What changes is that violence became industrialized and increasingly under control of states rather than some tiny princedoms, city states or tribal chiefs.