We live in a culture of violence.
Bryant McGillTag: violence life-and-living culture
I am sometimes asked, "How do you know there won't be a war tomorrow (or a genocide, or an act of terrorism) that will refute your whole thesis?" The question misses the point of this book. The point is not that we have entered an Age of Aquarius in which every last earthling has been pacified forever. It is that substantial reductions in violence have taken place, and it is important to understand them. Declines in violence are caused by political, economic, and ideological conditions that take hold in particular cultures at particular times. If the conditions reverse, violence could go right back up.
Steven PinkerTag: politics society war economics violence genocide ideology terrorism
If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don’t. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.
David GraeberTag: intelligence empathy stupidity violence government
Allah-U-Akbar (God is great) is the most frightening word, because it always reminds me that someone is committing crime;specifically murder.
M.F. MoonzajerTag: violence muslims allah-akbar
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When my trust was suspended from the fragile thread of justice
and in the whole city
they were chopping up my heart's lanterns
when they would blindfold me
with the dark handkerchief of Law
and from my anxious temples of desire
fountains of blood would squirt out
when my life had become nothing
nothing
but the tic-tac of a clock,
I discovered
I must
must
must love,
insanely.
Tag: love humanity death violence
Clearly there are common sense things we can do to help children to have better lives and keep them from becoming so despondent that their only perceived solution is to kill themselves or others. How oblivious do we have to be to the inner turmoil of our own children to not see what they're going through, and then suggest when they completely snap with homicidal violence, it must've been the video games?
Edward M. WolfeTag: violence gun-control social-issues
The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.
Bryant McGillTag: family violence gender-inequality
Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.
Bryant McGillTag: violence modern-life consumer
We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.
Bryant McGillTag: humanity violence culture
We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning.
Bryant McGillTag: change violence conditioning immoral
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