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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4351933" data-attributes="member: 4937">No, the violence hasn't gone away.  That's obvious.  But in terms of the percentage of economic expenditure that goes to violence and the tools of violence, this is the least warlike time in world history.  Likewise, in terms of the percentage of the world's population affected by warfare and the percentage of the world's population which suffers a violent death, this is the least warlike time in world history.If you run the numbers, the most warlike societies are the stone age ones.  In terms of the percentage of population which dies a violent death, nothing else comes close.If you compare the percentage of economic activity going to the world's militaries, only a few totalitarian states match what every European society was doing from the middle ages right up to WWII.That isn't to say that we couldn't have another spasm of violence akin to WWII which would wash all of that away - there are alot of potential trigger points out there, including the fact that all of this peace, prosperity and technological advancement is running up population densities the like of which the world has never seen.</blockquote>