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This old colonial idea was first popularly resurrected by Steven Pinker, not Diamond, so it’s time to peruse the former’s mighty book, ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature’.īoth Pinker and Diamond rely for their ‘Brutal Savage’ myth largely on numbers reported by Lawrence Keeley, 1 who in turn refers to only a tiny handful of original sources. I recently attacked his view that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare, that is until the cavalry storms in, pennants proclaiming ‘peace to all men’. Corry replies that Pinker is promoting a fictitious, colonialist image of a backward ‘Brutal Savage’ (Corry’s phrase, not Pinker’s), which pushes the debate back over a century and is still used to destroy tribes. Pinker thinks his critics are lost in a Noble Savage myth. Corry demonstrates that a single – highly controversial – anthropologist provides half the data Pinker uses to characterise all the settled tribes in the world (outside New Guinea).
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Corry shows that Pinker has many facts wrong, misrepresents others, and omits evidence that contradicts his thesis. Steven Pinker claims to prove scientifically: that the world is now more peaceful that people were morally retarded and less intelligent until very recently and that most tribal peoples live in a state of chronic war ended only by state intervention. Why Steven Pinker, like Jared Diamond, is wrong, by Stephen CorryĪ version of this article was published by Open Democracy on June 12, 2013. So if I can bring my energy off the bench, I think that’d be great for the team.The case of the ‘Brutal Savage’: Poirot or Clouseau? “And you know we have a good team, and I believe we can be one of the top teams in the NBA. “I think that’s what I’ve been bringing to the team since last season,” Watanabe said last week. He’s under no illusions about what he has to bring: energy. What the Raptors need from Watanabe is what he gave them last season, albeit in a reduced role on a team that missed the playoffs by a substantial margin. We know Chris (Boucher) has had some really good games and then consistency has been missing a little bit from him.” “Whoever’s been available has been somewhat different night in and night out. “I think it’s been a little bit inconsistent off the bench at that position,” Nurse said before the game. Some of that has to do with an ever-revolving roster - along with Birch, Achiuawa missed some recent games because of injury - but most of it has been due to up-and-down play. The Raptors hope Watanabe’s return will smooth out some inconsistency in the frontcourt off the bench. Either we weren’t keeping them in front, or we missed the help, or we missed the contest or we’d not block out. “We were taking a breath at some point for one of four points and it was hurting us. “We were cutting corners on most of the defensive possessions (in the first half),” coach Nick Nurse said. But as bad as they were in the first half, the Raptors were that good in the third quarter when they outscored Memphis 32-21 to get right back in the game. The Raptors gave up a season-high 71 first-half points - 42 of them in the paint - as Memphis shot 61.5 per cent from the field in the first two quarters. None of Precious Achiuwa, Pascal Siakam or Chris Boucher provided any kind of physical presence near the rim and the Grizzlies punished Toronto. Missing OG Anunoby (hip) and Khem Birch (swollen knee), the Raptors were unable to protect the rim or the paint while the Grizzlies scored almost at will inside in the first half.