Civilized Society Is Dominated by Violence

[Grouse]

This is a great article about violence, non-violence, gun control and authority.

It explains a lot about why violence will never become extinct.

http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2011/03/violence-is-golden/

[bkln]

Nice "article", JD has at least some "testicular fortitude" to speak about the elephant in the room. I kinda agree violence will never go away and we need to learn how do deal with it. Not that I agree with everything he says, far from it, but his point regarding violence is valid. Check his other books and articles, an interesting read. Good catch Grouse :-)

[wooffer]

^{It is called human nature, we have a good and bad side. The lower the level of civilzation (evolution) the higher the incidence of violence it seems.}

[Doc]

I have to admit that the guy talks about stuff that most of us shove way back into the background. We listen to the pacifists proclaim their philosophy of gentleness and turn-the other-cheek style of superiority, but the dirty little secret is that they are able to preach these impractical and illogical themes with the full force of government backing up that right with all the violence that they supposedly despise. As the man says, they have simply ceded that violence to the government so that they can appear to pacifists.

Nothing too earth-shattering or new, just simply a statement of the obvious, of something that we seldom actually think about.

[Grouse]

Doc, if you think about it, they may do the same thing with meat. They'll eat it, but refuse to hunt it, and often try to stop others from hunting it too.

[Doc]

Sure, there is hypocracy all around us. Along with that hypocracy is the illusion that some have that such views make them somehow superior to the un-evolved masses. I guess that all kind of goes along with having a society, and the natural behavior of those that live within that society. I generally try to simply shrug that sort of silly behavior and mentality off, and write it all off as merely "whatever gets them through the day". When these people begin to feel the need to become aggressive or militant about those kinds of views, that's when I get a bit excited and involved.