The Good Old Days Are Now

[jamesq]

The best thing I've read today. Go read it.

In sixteenth-century Paris, [animal cruelty was a popular form of entertainment] Today, such sadism would be unthinkable in most of the world. This change in sensibilities is just one example of perhaps the most important and most underappreciated trend in the human saga: Violence has been in decline over long stretches of history, and today we are probably living in the most peaceful moment of our species' time on earth.

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[ophelia-is-dead.livejournal.com]

thanks.