Status Updates From The Oxford History of the W...

“Abortion has replaced infanticide in some parts of the world. Spanking has dropped out of the parental armoury, while sadism has achieved tolerance, even a certain respectability.”

“People had free will, and could (and did) choose to resist some or all of these trends, but across thousands of years, groups that moved towards ‘growth-friendly’ institutions and values—including patriarchy, hierarchy, and slavery, as well as literacy and high culture—replaced those that did not.”