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🗓️ 25 October 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm going to read you something that he wrote. |
0:05.0 | I'm going to try to tell you today why the events in the 20th century happen. |
0:12.0 | So, the map that I wrote was a part of, |
0:16.0 | and I'm going to try to tell you something that I wrote. |
0:22.0 | I'm going to try to tell you today why the events in the 20th century |
0:27.0 | happen, so the mass genocidal movements in particular, |
0:31.0 | which were probably the defining characteristic of the 20th century. |
0:35.0 | And then also what that has to do with individual psychology. |
0:40.0 | My first degree was in political science, and I was interested in political science |
0:44.0 | because I was interested fundamentally in the reason that human societies went to war. |
0:49.0 | And when I was studying political science, which is quite a long time ago, |
0:53.0 | the fundamental theory that underlie political scientists' explanations for conflict |
0:59.0 | were economic. |
1:00.0 | People fight over resources, and that never seemed reasonable to me because, |
1:06.0 | first of all, obviously, many wars are fought for other reasons than resources. |
1:11.0 | Two Central American countries, I think it was Guatemala and the Honduras, |
1:15.0 | if I remember correctly, went to war over a soccer game. |
1:19.0 | So the outcome of a disputed outcome of a soccer game. |
1:24.0 | And even if you do think that the reason that groups of people engage in conflict |
1:29.0 | are for economic reasons, that doesn't exactly explain much because |
1:33.0 | that doesn't explain whether they're fighting for, |
1:37.0 | because of absolute differences in wealth, or because of relative discrepancies in wealth, |
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