communication and wealth. communication, because we can talk and interact with those who might be demonized as 'the other'. wealth, because fewer of us are ch

communication and wealth. communication, because we can talk and interact with those who might be demonized as 'the other'. wealth, because fewer of us are choosing between violence or wasting away. the places where we still see pre-civilization-scale violence perpetrated are precisely those where communication can be controlled and the desperate taken advantage of.