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Absolutely, but the sort of violence in preindustrial societies tended to be predictable and chronic (like tribal conflicts), whereas the industrial revolution
by smallnamespace 10y ago
Absolutely, but the sort of violence in preindustrial societies tended to be predictable and chronic (like tribal conflicts), whereas the industrial revolution enables total war, genocide, nuclear war, and other industrialized, sudden forms of human butchery.