Future Crunch

It's interesting to read this first hand account after having read some more science focused stuff. >The power of war, like the power of love, springs from man's heart. Both actually almost certainly arise from evolution. Love helps reproduce the species, wiping out the adjacent tribe and grabbing their resources helps also and if you are too nice they may wipe you instead. See 'Demonic Males' and the like for how chimps and early man did much the same kind of thing with of the order of a third of males dying in war like activities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic_Males Now we're getting quite good at not having wars (see Pinkers stuff or https://medium.com/future-crunch/the-decline-of-war-8760f9a5b5ce) through things like the UN, EU democracy and so on but the warlike instincts remain and come out in football, political battles, video games and the movies. Also I've found things like high altitude mountaineering have some war like aspects - bunch of mostly blokes fighting the mountain with some risk of death - and are quite fun.

> There were periods of relative peace in world history for longer than that That is definitely not what I have read¹. What era are you thinking of? ¹ One quickly googled up article: https://medium.com/future-crunch/the-decline-of-war-8760f9a5b5ce