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LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY
Violence and War Are Not Genetic
Most humans are not war mongers and savage killers
War and violence by societies is a choice. Don’t listen to the madness people post online who have not studied the topic or read credible books in depth. I am not talking about the ancedotal support they offer where a person cites one or two instances of violence and savagery as proof human beings are just hopeless killers and butchers.
The violence currently going on around the globe can end immediately. These groups, societies, countries, ethnic groups, etc., have chosen the path of violence and war. They have decided for whatever reason to kill and brutalize others.
It is, in fact, “a recurring assumption…that all societies engage in war (Wilson, 2001; Wright, 1942).” Extensive “anthropological data” demonstrates the opposite. (Fry, 2006; Montagu, 1978; Sponsel, 2018; Souillac and Fry, 2014, 2015). In some cases, non-warring societies are organised into peace systems, defined as clusters of neighbouring societies that do not make war with each other, and sometimes not at all (Fry, 2006; 2012; Souillac and Fry, 2015).
This is the conclusion of a group of anthropologists who researched and wrote an article entitled “Societies within peace systems avoid war and build…
