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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He doesn't put it all down to enlightenment thinking. Better Angels relied heavily on role of contingent social processes, as first outlined by Elias.
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