After a second and even more horrific [cataclysm], the romance had finally been drained from war, and peace became the stated goal of every Western and international institution. Human life has become more precious, while glory, honor, preeminence, manliness, heroism, and other symptoms of excess testosterone have been downgraded.

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, p. 166