Tao Te Ching

“During most of the history of nations and empires, war was the natural state of affairs, and peace a mere interlude between wars. Today war between countries is obsolescent, and war within countries is absent from five-sixths of the world. The proportion of people killed annually in wars is about a quarter of what it was in the mid-1980s, a sixth of what it was in the early 1970s, and a 16th of what it was in the early 1950s.”

— Steven Pinker 1954 CE –
Humanistic scientist, insightful cultural commentaror
from Enlightenment Now