Archive for June 2009
Pinker: The Myth of Violence
Experimental psychologist and author Steven Pinker discusses how violence has diminished over time, contrary to the widespread inclination to believe that humanity’s brutality is on the increase. (Length ~19 minutes.)
Chomsky: Is Our Society More Or Less Civilised? (The Achievements of Activism)
Chomsky: Distorted Morality?
Noam Chomsky (emeritus Institute Professor at MIT), renowned linguist, cognitive scientist, philosopher, political commentator and activist offers a lecture about the hyporcisy inherent in the sense of morality driving the ‘war on terror’:
