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Humankind
A Hopeful History
Rutger Bergman . 2019 . BeavLib 128 BRE
- pxiii London shop wrecked during the Blitz: MORE OPEN THAN USUAL
- pxvii civilian bombings strengthened German economy, production of tanks up 9x, fighter jets 14x
- p004 2025 post Katrina New Orleans; journalists, police, governor claim anarchy
- p005 "gunfire" a relief valve on a gas tank, superdome 4 natural cause deaths, one suicide, one overdose, no officially reported rape or murder, "looting" was police-organized survival scavenging
- p005 "Robin Hood Looters" rescue squad
p006 Rebecca Solnit 2009 A Paradise Built in Hell Tigard 303.485 SOL
- p007 Dictators and despots, governors and generals assume average Joe is just like them
p014 Jacobs: Back To Reality news opposite of reality
p016 Frans de Waal/ The Bonobo and the Atheist / Cedar Mill 599.815 WAAL
- p017 "We become what we teach" Robert H. Frank 2011 "The Darwin Economy" PSU Basement HB95.F723 2011
- p017 St. Augustine "Mo one is free from sin, not even an infant whose span of earthly life is but a single day."
- p018 Gandhi, Mandela
- p019 "For every misanthropic argument you deflate, two more will pop up in its place. Veneer theory is a zombie that just keeps on coming back"
p023 William Golding 1954 Lord of the Flies
- p024 Golding alcoholic, prone to depression, encouraged his students to attack each other
- p025 Frans de Waal: There is no shred of evidence that this is what children left to their own devices will do"
p026 1966 October 6 Australian The Age, "Sunday Showing for Tongan Castaways": Six boys marooned on Tongan atoll 'Ata for more than a year.
p027 Peter Warner Mano Totau
p029 Boys at Saint Andrews Anglican boarding school in Nukuʻalofa
- p036 This is real life, unlike so-called reality shows
p075 Raymond Dart 1924 skull of Australopithecus africanus numerous injuries, killer ape theory
p081 Samuel Marshall 1946 Men Against Fire disagreement
p082 1% of USAF fighter pilots brought down 40% Bvtn 355.0019 GRO 2009
p083 After Gettysburg, 90% of 27574 muskets recovered from battlefield still loaded, 12,000 double loaded, 6,000 triple-loaded, one had 23 balls in the barrel .. time-consuming gun-loading an excuse for not firing it, most soldiers not trying to kill the enemy
p084 Randall Collins Violence PSU Basement HM1121.C64 2008
- I would like to believe this, but sadly I'm not convinced by Bregman, and others find flaws with Collins
p086 Australopithecus africanus skull damage actually predatory birds
- p087 Chagnon gave them axes and machetes in exchange for their help, hence encouraged violence says
Robert M. Sapolsky ] [[ https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3392037
- killers have 3x more children? killers 35yo, "peaceniks" 25yo, Chagnon did not correct for ages
- Chagnon only counted killers who survived revenge. in 1995 Chagnon was barred from returning
p088 Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature claimed 14% homicide rates in 8 primitive societies
p089 Anthropologist Douglas P. Fry: NOT "War mortality", actually shot by Paraguayan slave traders and frontiersmen
p091 R. Brian Ferguson Pinker's List. Exaggerating Prehistoric War Mentality
p095 Christopher Boehm 1999 Hierarchy in the Forest. The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior PSU Basement GN281.4.B64
- Nomadic foragers are universally -- and all but obsessively -- concerned with being free of the authority of others
p102 settlements -> oppression, kings
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