10,000 years of peace and lies

Jokes aside, I felt it was a pivotal discussion given the atrocities unfolding in real-time in Gaza. Much research today points at the idea that violence is not inevitable without the supposedly “civilising power” of nation-states. Nation-states are precisely the issue. Hold onto that thought for a moment… All of a sudden, war becomes a less nebulous problem and, therefore, one with a solution potentially closer in time than we thought. What can be more optimistic than that? But, of course, subversive optimism doesn’t sell well in the mainstream. As both an example of peace being part of human nature and a rebuttal of the much publicised but reductionist view that violence is human nature, I offered anthropologist of war <a href="https://sasn.rutgers.edu/r-brian-ferguson" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Brian Ferguson</a>’s findings published in 2013: a remarkable 10,000-year window of absence of archaeological evidence of war in a region within the Middle East otherwise riddled by contemporaneous pockets of war. Ferguson explains it better than me. <a href="https://medium.com/@diggers/10-000-years-of-peace-and-lies-3bc87761cdb6">Read More</a>