The scope of violence in the 20th century is one of the most significant anomalies in Pinker’ theory of an historical decline in violence.
In the third part of our
critical review of the theory we focus on Pinker’s shabby attempts to argue that the theory and the enlightenment project didn’t fail despite the 20th century. That is while of course omitting the most violent factor in the world history which was extremely intensified during the 20th century – factory farms.
