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Steven Pinker is fast becoming a favorite author of mine. Everything he writes is so interesting. He really knows how to pick a topic and provide relevant research and feedback for that topic. As a non fiction lover he is straight to the point but still interesting and relevant. Perfect voice for his audience. I think his topic of violence is facinating. We are very easily influenced by this idea that the world is less safe and less secure because of the media and our own warped perceptions. Ste
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While I agree with the authors general premise and I feel he argued his case well I feel he went on too long. This book is far bigger than it needs to be. The general point was made earlier on.
The problems is that the book doesn't know whether it wants to be a reference text on the subject, to dip in and out of or a narrative pop stats book. The tone is conversational and narrative but broken up by digressions into stats and explanations of those stats which loses the flow of what you were read ...more
The problems is that the book doesn't know whether it wants to be a reference text on the subject, to dip in and out of or a narrative pop stats book. The tone is conversational and narrative but broken up by digressions into stats and explanations of those stats which loses the flow of what you were read ...more
This book so often comes up when I reflect on how/why humans can be so very good and/or so very bad to one another, and endlessly fascinating topic to me. Steven Pinker does a fairly thorough job of discussing how we've, in many ways, moved away from common acceptance of human sacrifice, child abuse, domestic abuse, rape, at least in our per capita interactions. However, he lets his political and economic identity colour vast swathes of perception. His discussion of "feminization" and rape is a
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Steven Pinker spends the majority of the book trying to convince the reader that there has been an overall downward trend in violence. I was convinced of that fact, but, when he goes on to explain why violence has gone down, I feel like the book frayed. I am not saying that Pinker is wrong in his ideas, I just felt like the connection of cause and effect was tenuous at best. The problem is that our societal system is so complex that I feel like a lot of these conclusions fall into the realm of c
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