The most peaceful era? Right now.

[The Dharma Bum]

Numbers that are pulled out of the ass of an apologist for US imperialism. See the excellent refutation of the book I posted.

[Spider]

Google it then.

*shrug*

You can't rewrite history to suit your preconceptions/ideology.

[The Dharma Bum]

I'm not the one trying to rewrite history.

[The Dharma Bum]

Here's some history:

Jagdish Bhagwati and Hugh Patrick’s Aggressive Unilateralism, John Hobson’s Imperialism, John Ellis’ The Social History of the Machine Gun, Mike Davis’ Late Victorian Holocausts, Penny Lernoux’s Cry of the People, Gabriel Kolko’s Confronting the Third World, Noam Chomsky’s Deterring Democracy, Robert Engler’s The Politics of Oil, or David Harvey’s The New Imperialism.

Read one of these books, Spider.

[Professor]

[Spider]

[OGPhilly]

Spider seems to be struggling with "Arithmetic!"

[Professor]

Archaeologists found that something around 1-in-10 pre-historic humans died a violent death at the hands of either animals or other humans. So, that time was DEFINITELY more violent than now.

Then, we have recorded history, up until about 1800, when slavery was legal. Basically, the world enslaved the population of an entire continent, killing the vast majority of them before they would have otherwise died. And, the ones that we didn't enslave, lived like the pre-historic people above. So, anything prior to 1800 was more violent.

Anyway, I'd like to know which time period you, Dharma, think was more violent than now? As I've told Comrade, if you want to dispute the truth of something, you must posit an alternate truth for the rest of us to analyze.

[The Comrade]

i think chinese history alone is more violent than the current we're living in. now add the rest of the world.

or, i don't know....look at specific wars and make comparisons? the first and second punic wars were DEVASTATING to the western mediterannean and they lasted close to 20 years each.

[Spider]