Now, in the decade of Darfur and Iraq, a statement like that might seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. But I'm going to try to convince you that that is the correct picture. The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years, although there seems to have been a tipping point at the onset of the Age of Reason in the sixteenth century. One sees it
ダルフールやイラクでの紛争が起きている時代に このような陳述は 幻覚か不当にすら感じますが これが正しい理解であると説明していきます 暴力の減少はフラクタル現象です これは数千年 数百年 数十年 そして数年のスケールで観測できます 16世紀の理性の時代の始まりが