Everything Progressives do is part of a de-civilizing process that will plunge us back into the cruelty and murder that make up humankind’s natural state\u2026<\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to interject here something that neither Pinker nor Elias address. Or at least, Pinker, who summarizes Elias (and I haven\u2019t read Elias myself) doesn\u2019t mention raise two issues I think also affected violence in pre-modern times. There were two constants in the pre-modern era: youthfulness and drunkenness. People were young because they didn\u2019t live to see old age. Few people lived past their 40s. Moreover, because urban water was not potable, people in tight medieval quarters drank only beer or wine. In other words, the medieval world was a time in which most people were young and drunk. It was like perpetually living among 18-to-25-year-old junkies.<\/p>\n
The world started \u201ccivilizing\u201d in earnest when coffee and tea entered Western civilization, because those drinks required boiled water. Nobody understood germ theory, but they did quickly figure out that, if you drank tea or coffee, you were imbibing a non-alcoholic beverage that did not kill. Interestingly, the coffee and tea culture took off with a bang in England which \u2014 perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not \u2014 was Ground Zero for the \u201ccivilizing process.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, back to Pinker\u2019s discussion\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I find the coffee and tea theory interesting. Read the whole post.<\/p>\n
Source: Progressives are engaged in a “de-civilizing process” that will end badly – Bookworm Room<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Everything Progressives do is part of a de-civilizing process that will plunge us back into the cruelty and murder that make up humankind’s natural state\u2026 I\u2019m going to interject here something that neither Pinker nor Elias address. Or at least, Pinker, who summarizes Elias (and I haven\u2019t read Elias myself) doesn\u2019t mention raise two issues … Continue reading Progressives are engaged in a “de-civilizing process” that will end badly – Bookworm Room<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,54,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-history","category-war-on-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}