Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noam Chomsky, Law, Collective Action
15 May 2020
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The decline of violence - video: steven pinkers thesis: our era is less violent than any era in human history, evidence (is it true?) and explanation (why?) Democracy (democratic countries don"t fight each other, more democracy now than ever before), reduction in genocides and civil wars, humanitarian revolution: noam chomsky: (1) states generate large scale violence, (2) moral progress alongside potential nuclear annihilation. Some examples: elections political phenomenon where citizens choose their politician (formal, demonstrations political phenomenon (protests, policy decisions ex. Environmental decision made by the government (natural gas, nuclear power, solar and wind power. ) ex. Health decision (decisions on university tuition, health care. : law making making the rules (legislation) Politics matters why: decisions that affect you, laws assign rights and duties, decisions are enforced. Primates: a biological order that includes humans, apes and monkeys, cruelest primate us, we are closely related to primates dna and politics wise.
