Tag: aggression
-
The Big Bang of Human Violence (and Answering Eric Gans)
Eric Gans has had arguably the most significant influence on my ROBA Hypothesis. His Originary Hypothesis posits a moment when the violence of the human community becomes so potentially apocalyptic that someone, or everyone, produces the first signal of deferral. In Gans’ configuration, the protohuman group gathers around an animal carcass, which they’ve hunted. In…
-
A Ledger of Aggression Hypotheses
I change my mind a lot. Some people think this as a weakness. Then I wondered, What other way is there to think? I suppose I could form an opinion and defend it until I die. That would be a very dogmatic and rigid kind of thinking, or it would appear principled and “strong.” At…
-
A Thorndike Approach to the Science of Violence
I just finished Lynn Thorndike’s History of Magic and Experimental Science, an 8-volume series with 5706 pages total (not including indices). I started reading it April 18, 2023 and got through three quarters of it in 8 months. I finished it today August 6, 2024 almost 8 months later. So on average, to finish this…
-
A Stuntman’s History of Violence
The city… is the source of violence, or the product of violence? Lewis Mumford’s The City in History says that the city acquired a propensity for a particularly harsh kind of violence with unlimited expansion due to the emergence of kings. Smith’s The Aztecs details the violence of the Aztec Triple Alliance and how it embarked…