Instead of asking, “Why is there war?” we might ask, “Why is there peace?” We can obsess not just ov

Instead of asking, “Why is there war?” we might ask, “Why is there peace?” We can obsess not just over what we have been doing wrong but also over what we have been doing right. Because we have been doing something right, and it would be good to know what, exactly, it is.
----Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined