"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Abraham Lincoln

Hard to Hear the Angels Sing - Jeff Daniels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1B__nhpXaM

#America #Lincoln #brotherhood #betterangelsofournature #love

> #StevenPinker’s.. book, The #BetterAngelsOfOurNature: Why Violence Has Declined, is a propaganda windfall for the leaders and supporters of the U.S. imperial state, currently engaged in multiple wars, with over 800 military bases across the globe, asserting and using the right to kill untried “terrorists” any place on earth and still operating a torture gulag abroad and a record-breaking and abusive prison system at home...
https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/stephen-pinker-on-the-triumph-of-angels-by-edward-herman/
#EdwardHerman #ZNetwork #HermanOnPInker

"But in all these cases, cooperation is being forced upon the participants, and it’s obviously impractical to get billions of people together in supervised conflict-resolution workshops."
but is it really?
#achievementunlocked #betterangelsofournature

"So far, no one has proposed spraying [oxytocin] from crop dusters to accelerate global empathic consciousness."
#betterangelsofournature #chemtrails

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=empathy%2Cwillpower%2Cwill-power%2Cselfcontrol%2Cself-control&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cempathy%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cwillpower%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cwill%20-%20power%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cselfcontrol%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cself%20-%20control%3B%2Cc0 #betterangelsofournature

"such beliefs can sweep through a closed society and bring it under the spell of a collective delusion." #totalitarianism spreads when we cut ourselves into filter bubbles. Alas, mastadon seems to encourage this. #betterangelsofournature

As of 2011, no one had studied S&M + #fmri.
#betterangelsofournature #fetlife

https://plus.google.com/105395547687614433866/posts/iudyPwBNLpM I'm seeing this over and over #censorship #betterangelsofournature #anarchism #birdsite

"[redacted] is explicitly endorsed by 95% of the world's cultures, and wherever [redacted] is found, it is one of the major motives" #c51makes it illegal to say the wrong thing about [redacted] though.
#betterangelsofournature

every year (other than 1995/2001) more americans died of “ignition or melting of nightwear” than terrorist attacks #betterangelsofournature