Here's an extremely hopeful and uplifting TED talk from linguist Steve Pinker regarding the decline of violence in the modern world.
A great viddy. Check it out:
I think John, Paul, George, and Ringo said it best:
(as sung by Kaiser Chiefs)
dude this has MADE MY DAY I am so happy to have seen it. THANK YOU! What's exciting about this is what's to come - progress is inevitable! Death by violence - down! Death by disease - down! This reminds me of some great Buddhist lecture I heard where they talked about farmers 3000 years ago and what their perception of the heavenly realms would look like - very possibly, like the world we live in today. heaven.... i'm in heaven.....
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