The Better Angels of Our Nature

“so you again i want to go back to pinker yeah and the better angels of our nature the whole concept that civilization and the act of civilizing has dramatically reduced violence dramatically”

“the Steven Pinker written a great book that conflict all over the world is decreasing in general”

“there's a Stephen Pinker book called better angel of our nature”

“one of my favorite recent books is called the better angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker and he's a remarkable Professor Harvard Anthropologist historian”

“he wrote This truly Landmark book on the decline of violence in the last century that the better angels of our nature came out a few years ago it was like 800 pages on this topic”

“the better angels of our nature by Steven Pinker”

“and I actually I think Pinker's got the best answer to this question which is basically well what structures do you need to put in place to make the world a safer and less violent place and and I don't know if you've talked to him about his book better angels of our nature I know you've talked to him”

“that's like Stephen pinker's work if you follow his work on violence and crime people always want to think that violence and crime is more now than ever before”

“If you look at Pinker's work on violence over time, you see that societies were trending in a very positive direction, at least until 2020. This one change, just because it was one year, but that one year was just three years ago.”

“and dude there's a crazy there's a crazy book on this stephen pinker wrote this book called the better angels of our nature and what he does is he tracks over time kind of the nature of violence in humanity”

“I don't know if you've talked to him about his book better angels of our nature I know you've talked to him about more recent ones”

“people like Stephen Pinker would argue that that it's becoming easier to identify with other people's suffering because we identify with a lot of aspects of how they live their lives”

“I think a great example comes from another one of your books called the better angels of our nature which argues that violence has greatly decreased over time and that doesn't strike me as being a very funny topic”

“I think a great example comes from another one of your books called 'The Better Angels of Our Nature,' which argues that violence has greatly decreased over time, and that doesn't strike me as being a very funny topic. But your synopsis of the Old Testament in that book made me laugh so hard that I could barely breathe.”

“I believe, yeah, there's no doubt, and my colleague Steve Pinker has now written several books convincingly arguing, at least convincingly, I think, that on most parameters, the world is getting better.”

“And I think a great example comes from another one of your books called The Better Angels of Our Nature, which argues that violence has greatly decreased over time. And that doesn't strike me as being a very funny topic.”

“Steven Pinker wrote The Better Angels of Our Nature or whatever it's called. And that was about how everything is better.”

“and right writing books like enlightenment now or better better angels rationality are inherently occurring and they're inherently encouraging”

“The Better Angels of Our Nature. Oh my gosh. It has the two words common knowledge in the title.”

“So, if we follow the reasoning by Steven Pinker in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature, he studied the likelihood of you dying before maturity, or dying before adulthood, which is dying, at the hands of another human from early days of tribal warfare to modern days of state-sanctioned global warfare.”

“Matt Ridley's book Rational Optimist, you know, Steve Pinker's points about the Better Angels of Our Nature.”

“you're referring to his better angels of our nature book and your book on economic growth right”

“better angels of our nature which I think preceded Enlightenment now right”

“according to the number of violent deaths from 2000 until 2015 according to Stephen picker Pinker and his very well researched book called the angels of our better nature essentially said it proves and and makes the case that fewer people have died violently in that span of time”

“that book right there by Steven Pinker and light mr. right book is is all about how great things are”

“but you know particularly the one the better angels of nature where he Compares all of the known data on violence”

“now you explain some uh game theoretical reasons why a strong government may in fact increase violence in those cases but uh in uh in uh pinker's the better angels of our nature he lists out some empirical evidence”

“you read Steve Pinker spoke better I did yeah he kinda I mean I know some people have given it a hard time but it does feel directionally correct”

“steven Pinker called better angels of our nature, he wrote a book called The Better angels of our nature is a tech talk called Ted Talk called the myth of violence and he actually went up there and explained that the chances of a man dying at the hands of another man today are the lowest, and they've ever been”

“you could see this book as a sequel to his 2011 book better the better angels of our nature which argued that the world because of Enlightenment values”

“one of the things so he thinks very much like two p thinks and he wrote the better angels of our nature if i remember correctly as well showing that human aggression has decreased substantially over the last number of centuries”

“I mean that better angels of our nature is one of I think the most subversive books of our time”

“and that in that book better angels blew my mind is there's this line that's that that's been obsessing me with a cracker in teen angst”

“well if you look at Steven Pinker he highlights is pretty nicely in better better angels of our nature where he talks about violence decreasing over time consistently”

“so i haven't um i read pinker you know when it came out better angels of our nature about a decade ago i don't remember him having that argument about nato”

“In fact Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist, who's uh uh sort of famously both liberal but also very rational. He wrote Better Angels of Our Nature, and this is his example on like you need a functional police force”

“but I overcame my bias to some degree in order to include books by like Steven Pinker whom I hate like and stand his books but I read them sort of forced myself like our better angels you know”

“if i remember the blank slate um and better better angels”

“the sort of twitter response to better angels was was was an odd one because you have this it's a beautiful book”

“Yeah, Better Angels of Our Nature.”

“All right, so the Harvard psychology professor, Steven Pinker, has just published a new book called The Better Angels of Our Nature, Why Violence Has Declined. And he argues that our rosy view of history is pretty much entirely wrong.”

“in the better angels i talked about for example the the decline of tribal raiding and feuding and and then blood feuds”

“Pinker's book about about violence and you know that throughout what the Western world the homicide rates did a u-turn in the 1960s”

“I'm familiar with the work; Better Angels of Our Nature, which I think preceded Enlightenment Now, right?”