The Bayeux Tapestry and it's lack of women also illustrate your wider point about women being the victims of violence as one of the few scenes with a woman in it, is one where she and a child are escaping from a burning building as the Normans pillage the countryside.
Tho mentioning a possible (likely?) future AGI threat is a bit off. Especially since the obvious & clear reduction in D.C. crime since Trump escalated enforcement against criminals, a perfect example of strong state reducing homicides, nor any other prior year intervention was noted.
Sadly, there has been a big increase in rapes in South Africa, along with more homicide & other crime. Due to weak, ethnic over state law focus. It’s likely that where there is more murder, there s also more rape, tho less skeletal evidence survives from the past.
I read The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by British primatologist Richard Wrangham. It was illuminating. As violent men, and some fewer women, were eliminated our species became more domesticated. Though the stats of modern violence are high, they are still less than other hominids.
That book is very good at explaining the (zoologically unusual) contours of human violence: humans are much less likely to snap and commit random acts of emotionally-fueled violence than our closest relatives but human men are shockingly good at planning and executing group violence, mostly against other men and outside groups.
The Oxford story is a perfect example of that kind of human violence.
It’s why violence seems to tied to social conditions—punish group violence and stop it from earning status and it will happen much less. Give the men money, medals, wives, or land and watch them paint the countryside red.
Good article.
The Bayeux Tapestry and it's lack of women also illustrate your wider point about women being the victims of violence as one of the few scenes with a woman in it, is one where she and a child are escaping from a burning building as the Normans pillage the countryside.
Great post on violence thru history.
Tho mentioning a possible (likely?) future AGI threat is a bit off. Especially since the obvious & clear reduction in D.C. crime since Trump escalated enforcement against criminals, a perfect example of strong state reducing homicides, nor any other prior year intervention was noted.
Sadly, there has been a big increase in rapes in South Africa, along with more homicide & other crime. Due to weak, ethnic over state law focus. It’s likely that where there is more murder, there s also more rape, tho less skeletal evidence survives from the past.
I read The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by British primatologist Richard Wrangham. It was illuminating. As violent men, and some fewer women, were eliminated our species became more domesticated. Though the stats of modern violence are high, they are still less than other hominids.
That book is very good at explaining the (zoologically unusual) contours of human violence: humans are much less likely to snap and commit random acts of emotionally-fueled violence than our closest relatives but human men are shockingly good at planning and executing group violence, mostly against other men and outside groups.
The Oxford story is a perfect example of that kind of human violence.
It’s why violence seems to tied to social conditions—punish group violence and stop it from earning status and it will happen much less. Give the men money, medals, wives, or land and watch them paint the countryside red.