Co-worker brandishing his Steven Pinker hardcover. Wish I could do him the favor of defenestrating it.
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It kills me that this is a gesture of fidelity to the "life of the mind" in the eyes of the masses- they've really been duped by advertising into thinking that whatever NPR talks about is the height of sophistication.
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They are well trained at vocal intonation- makes people think that they're detached where am radio is heavily involved
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It's really bad of a mass market coffee table monstrosity when even the Atlantic is pointing out the glaring inconsistencies in Pinkers enlightenment apologia. Pinker simply does not know philosophic context, so he treats the enlightenment philosophers like a gradeschooler would.
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In other words, he's bought into the narrative that they were all a whigist monolith that wanted "humanist progress". of-course he ignores the more minor ones, even the minor writings of most period thinkers that make them more cynical and metaphysical then pinkers narrative.
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