Countless historians have spend generations debunking this sort of simple-minded Whig view of history but Pinker doesn't care because he writes off the humanities. https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/962011654346043394 …
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But technology developments have been influenced by the enlightenment, at least in terms of setting the incentivized stage from them to be invented and expanded on
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And technology can just as efficiently reverse human progress, so "largely due to technology" is an inadequate argument. It's technology in a particular social context.
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This is the tweet you should have gone with instead of critiquing "simple-minded Whig view of history". You're great but you need to dumb it down for us sometimes.
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What measures would you use to show that they aren’t?
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