Now, in the decade of Darfur and Iraq, a statement like that might seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. But I'm going to try to convince you that that is the correct picture. The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years, although there seems to have been a tipping point at the onset of the Age of Reason in the sixteenth century. One sees it all over the world, although not homogeneously.
postojanja naše vrste. U desetljeću Darfura i Iraka takva se tvrdnja može činiti zaluđenom ili čak opscenom. Ali pokušat ću vas uvjeriti kako je ispravna. Smanjivanje razine nasilja fraktalni je fenomen. Možete ga pratiti kroz tisućljeća, kroz stoljeća, kroz desetljeća i kroz godine, iako je, izgleda, došlo do prekretnice početkom Doba razuma u 16. stoljeću. Primjetna je u cijelom svijetu, iako ne podjednako.