The Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World Thornton Matt
The Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World Thornton Matt In today's modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced…
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The Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World Thornton Matt
In today's modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Our hard-earned and hard-wired instincts--our evolved and trained ability to survive and overcome violent encounters--have been compromised. Although violence was as natural to our evolutionary development as sex and food, it has become foreign to most of us: at once demonized and glamorized, but almost always deeply misunderstood.
The Gift of Violence tells the story of this vulnerability and provides the average person with all the knowledge they need to reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim of violence and to increase their chances of surviving a violent encounter. Based Yet, as even a cursory look at news headlines or a police blotter will reveal, the threat of violent crime is ever-present, and those we've entrusted to protect us cannot always be relied upon.