Dee • booksbrewsbre’s Reviews > The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined > Status Update
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is 37% done
It has taken me quite a few months to make it through the 1/3 of this book that I’ve read. I’ve found it interesting and have enjoyed the writing. I’d like to finish this book, but it’s become more and more difficult to read; the world was quite different when this was published (2011) and while I think we could all use some optimism for 2026, I don’t know that I want to read this right now anymore.
— Jan 29, 2026 09:22AM
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“People were less likely to become victims of homicide or casualties of war, but they were now under the thumbs of tyrants, clerics, and kleptocrats. This gives us the more sinister sense of the word pacification: not just the bringing about of peace but the imposition of absolute control by coercive government.”
— Aug 17, 2025 07:07AM
