I saw an interesting article on Boing Boing a little while back, about human violence today and across history. “A deep look at the history of violence seems to reveal that modern culture may be making us less violent over time, not more.” That matches the impression that I’ve gotten from my history readings too, despite the fact that the US seems to get itself involved in a military conflict of some sort every twenty years or so.

There was also a fascinating article I stumbled over a while back about primate violence, which seems to support the theory that humans can learn to interact peacefully.

It’s not likely that people will ever stop fighting completely. As long as there are limited resources of any kind, there will be conflicts concerning their disposition. But as long as our technology continues to provide for our needs, I think we’ll continue to move away from killing one another over them.

Things are getting better.