Pinker's 'Better Angels of our Nature' has an interesting take on how political violence always ends up self-defeating because it inevitably goes too far and al

Pinker's 'Better Angels of our Nature' has an interesting take on how political violence always ends up self-defeating because it inevitably goes too far and alienates its constituency. It took a lot of political courage from all sides to resolve to move forward peacefully, but ultimately it was ordinary people's desire for that "normal life" that was the engine imo.