War! What Is It Good For? - Ian Morris
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War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
Unabridged. 16 hours and 55 minutes.
Just finished this book - one of the best books I’ve read in years. It’s not what you *want* to hear, but it’s as close to *truth* as I’ve ever heard. Utterly fascinating. History, science, biology, economics — the Unified Field Theory of Man’s existence.
A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society—for the better
“War! . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing,” says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.
In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war, going beyond the battles and brutality to reveal what war has really done to and for the world. Stone Age people lived in small, feuding societies and stood a one-in-ten or even one-in-five chance of dying violently. In the twentieth century, by contrast—despite two world wars, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—fewer than one person in a hundred died violently. The explanation: War, and war alone, has created bigger, more complex societies, ruled by governments that have stamped out internal violence. Strangely enough, killing has made the world safer, and the safety it has produced has allowed people to make the world richer too.
War has been historyâ™s greatest paradox, but this searching study of fifteen thousand years of violence suggests that the next half century is going to be the most dangerous of all time. If we can survive it, the age-old dream of ending war may yet come to pass. But, Morris argues, only if we understand what war has been good for can we know where it will take us next.
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This post has 3 comments
February 27th, 2015
I’ve rarely read/listened to such moronic stuff. This book is riddled with false binaries, false choices and strawmen arguments. It’s like it’s written for neoconservatives, libertarians and psychopaths.
March 5th, 2015
Same arguments proceeded the first world war: Von Moltke (the elder) went so far as to suggest, like this author, that war is good for you. For those of us who wore the uniform, the fascination others have for war is, at least, sad.
May 13th, 2015
Not yet read/heard this book, but the mention by one reviewer of ’straw man’ arguments in this book reminds me of the similarly-minded texts — but written from anarchist or orthodox left perspectives — criticizing nonviolent methods of protest & resistance. Those texts also rely, almost exclusively, on straw man conceptions of nonviolence which bear no resemblance to the actual theory and practice of revolutionary nonviolence in the 20th & 21st century. I’m tempted to read/hear this book too, just to discover its fallacies. But really, as one trained as a professional historian, the argument — which is ahistorical in the extreme — is absurd and wrongheaded on its face. (This would be the case too if the author argued that war’s costs always or mostly outweigh its benefits. The “always or mostly” is the problem. Or that’s the most glaring problem, at least…)
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