@sarahdoingthing ...decline of violence argument (Pinker etc), end-of-history/Democratic peace argument (Fukuyama etc) is a Big Idea for me
@sarahdoingthing In many ways the noise-signal problem is more fundamental than whether the secular signal is "progress" or "decline"
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@sarahdoingthing If we had a clean secular signal, two sides could just agree to disagree about which way is up and move on -
@sarahdoingthing Most debate is around whether a particular contemporary trend is part of an < 1 lifetime cycle or not
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