Anthropologists tell us that the rise of human civilization was made possible largely through the harnessing of agriculture. But this also resulted in the unleashing of violence and the birth of the organized violence we call war. Agriculture-based civilization was a double-edged sword. Cultivating crops allowed for settled and larger communities that gave rise to greater technology and richer culture. Written language originally developed as a means of recording grain stores. But then, it could also be used to record everything from science to sonnets,
