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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It’s hard to say things are worse when it comes to issues like nutrition and health care.
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So eating salt beef and groats and living without penicillin was better than today? You can argue that nutrition & health care should have improved more but by any measure they are better than 100 years ago.
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Of course. That’s my view, too. And I agree that Pinker is Panglossian. But also a needed corrective. Even if an overcorrection.
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I'm planing to read "Enlightenment Now" and "Why Liberalism Failed" back to back. Should be an interesting experience :-)
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Whatever comforting story we tell ourselves, history does not have a “right side”. Progress is not guaranteed. The only way to ensure a better future is to create it. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/the-wrongness-of-the-right-side-of-history …
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@dmarusic: "We must resist the temptation to think in missionary terms—to save supposedly “fallen” liberal democracies. At the same time, we must not succumb to cynicism either." https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/02/05/dangers-democratic-determinism/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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