Violence: Why History and Politics Predict It’s Going To Get Worse Open any news source, and violence is almost always front and center. It’s not just because editors sadly and rightly believe the concept of “if it bleeds it leads” will attract more eyeballs, it’s because violence is and always has been prevalent in human society. And it’s getting worse. Unfortunately, instead of helping to tame… Violence: Why History and Politics Predict It’s Going To Get Worse Open any news source, and violence is almost always front and center. It’s not just because editors sadly and rightly believe the concept of “if it bleeds it leads” will attract more eyeballs, it’s because violence is and always has been prevalent in human society. And it’s getting worse. Unfortunately, instead of helping to tame…
You Are Not Real Shakespeare’s famously gory “Titus Andronicus” is replete with violence, including fourteen deaths. Yet it continues to be performed, and audiences continue to sign up for a frisson of fear and pity, because this is not real. After the play, the actors get up, wash off the fake blood, and join the playwrights and directors for… You Are Not Real Shakespeare’s famously gory “Titus Andronicus” is replete with violence, including fourteen deaths. Yet it continues to be performed, and audiences continue to sign up for a frisson of fear and pity, because this is not real. After the play, the actors get up, wash off the fake blood, and join the playwrights and directors for…
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