The Long Piece

We've been living through this golden age of peace fin the last 75 years, since since the end of world war too. But even before that, when we've got reasonable statistics for large parts of europe, and for some parts of the rest of the world as well, we can see this progressive decline in rates of violent death. And part of this, i think, has been driven by the rise of individual nations, like the british in the nineteenth century, the us. It raises costs of going to war to the point where you've got to be like, as crazy as sedan sane to think it's going to work out if you actually go to conventional, head to