Comments on: In dialogue with Hazel Henderson on Steve Pinker’s thesis of the decline of violence https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/in-dialogue-with-hazel-henderson-on-steve-pinkers-thesis-of-the-decline-of-violence/2012/09/05 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:27:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/in-dialogue-with-hazel-henderson-on-steve-pinkers-thesis-of-the-decline-of-violence/2012/09/05/comment-page-1#comment-492968 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:27:34 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=26142#comment-492968 In reply to Todd S..

I did not read Pinker but as somewhat of a developmentalist thinker myself I’m not averse to seeing some positive evolution in some aspects of social life. This being said from reading the reviews I have a sense that Pinker has no notion of structural violence and what it does to people.

]]> By: Todd S. https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/in-dialogue-with-hazel-henderson-on-steve-pinkers-thesis-of-the-decline-of-violence/2012/09/05/comment-page-1#comment-492964 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:43:22 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=26142#comment-492964 I read a number of anthropology blogs, and nearly every one has posted rather scathing takedowns of Pinker. For one thing, he largely discounts state actors, which are far more violent than any group of individuals could ever be. Pinker is kind of like the “court historian” – he tells authority what it wants to hear and reaps the rewards bestowed upon him for doing so.

]]> By: matslats https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/in-dialogue-with-hazel-henderson-on-steve-pinkers-thesis-of-the-decline-of-violence/2012/09/05/comment-page-1#comment-492963 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:58:54 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=26142#comment-492963 There’s a good critique of Pinker’s selective use of data in the book ‘sex at dawn’ (which everyone should read!).

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