Book Review: War! What Is It Good For?
War what is good for? Just look around you.
Author Morris Ian
The atrocity of war cannot be overstated but, Ian Morris gives a different view about it.
In 1945, mostly 100 million people died and the nuclear war begun. Between the First World War and civil war it is said to be the worst but also the best time of humanity.
30 years ago, research of anthropology, archaeology and history concluded that the rate of violent death is still decreasing from time to time.
10 to 20 percent of all people living in Stone Age died at the hand of other people.
Putting 100 years in perspective and compare the 100, 200 million people died from a population of 10 billion which makes a percentage of 1 to 2 who died violently.
Those born in the 20th century are lucky as the average of violent death is 10 times less compare to those born in Stone Age.
This text has one of the greatest paradoxes of human history as it states that war has made the world much safer now.
War is considered as a massive murder and claiming that it has a positive consequence in not right, but the author argues to it as the philosopher Thomas Hobbes once concluded the same in the 1640 during the English Civil war.
Archeology has shown that people has been killing themselves for about 50000 years and their population just increase by twice but during the ice age 10000 BC where there were less wars, the plant and animal multiplied themselves at a very high rate.
Before 10000 BC all humans had been hunters and after 10000 BC human started farming.
Later something unusual happen, the stronger started to include the weaker into larger societies. Slowly from Egypt to Peru many were adopting this method.
The stronger understood that to make lager societies they need to make a stronger government and this was done by suppressing violence among the subjects.
Those who govern stop killing the well behaved as they are easier to govern and taxed that those who are violent thus, this has resulted
Author Morris Ian
The atrocity of war cannot be overstated but, Ian Morris gives a different view about it.
In 1945, mostly 100 million people died and the nuclear war begun. Between the First World War and civil war it is said to be the worst but also the best time of humanity.
30 years ago, research of anthropology, archaeology and history concluded that the rate of violent death is still decreasing from time to time.
10 to 20 percent of all people living in Stone Age died at the hand of other people.
Putting 100 years in perspective and compare the 100, 200 million people died from a population of 10 billion which makes a percentage of 1 to 2 who died violently.
Those born in the 20th century are lucky as the average of violent death is 10 times less compare to those born in Stone Age.
This text has one of the greatest paradoxes of human history as it states that war has made the world much safer now.
War is considered as a massive murder and claiming that it has a positive consequence in not right, but the author argues to it as the philosopher Thomas Hobbes once concluded the same in the 1640 during the English Civil war.
Archeology has shown that people has been killing themselves for about 50000 years and their population just increase by twice but during the ice age 10000 BC where there were less wars, the plant and animal multiplied themselves at a very high rate.
Before 10000 BC all humans had been hunters and after 10000 BC human started farming.
Later something unusual happen, the stronger started to include the weaker into larger societies. Slowly from Egypt to Peru many were adopting this method.
The stronger understood that to make lager societies they need to make a stronger government and this was done by suppressing violence among the subjects.
Those who govern stop killing the well behaved as they are easier to govern and taxed that those who are violent thus, this has resulted