It may also be powered by cosmopolitanism, by histories, and journalism, and memoirs, and realistic fiction, and travel, and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as sub-human, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station Whatever its causes, the decline of violence, I think, has profound implications. It should force us to ask not just, why
歴史 報道 記憶 リアルな小説 旅行記 識字― こうして かつて人間以下に見ていた他人の姿に 自分の姿を重ね合わせることを可能にして 自分の人生の立場が偶然の結果と気づかせます 誰にでも起こり得るということです 原因は何にせよ 暴力の減少には 深い意味があるため “なぜ戦争をするのか” と問わずに