This is a place where libertarian left and right are deeply divided. The pessimism may be self-defeating, but I don't think it is unwarranted.
It would be worth exploring, @jordanbpeterson.https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/990333082489286657 …
What do you think of @sapinker Steven Pinker's new book Enlightenment Now and its claims?
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Jordan, Retweet this tweethttps://twitter.com/Shuwen22973519/status/965811467009363970 …
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Reading it now. Interested on your opinion.
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Average conditions are better than ever, but existential risks are also higher than ever. Interconnected world spreads prosperity and vulnerability. Everything is improving at the same time, but everything could also break at the same time.
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Overall yes, the world is improving but there are massive demographics paying for those benefits instead of enjoying them. It's a great book but it leaves out the perspective of a lot of people that are sick and tired with the establishment.
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People care about relative conditions vs. absolute conditions; the latter is a good reminder, but did not make contact with any substantive thing people are actually concerned about nowadays. Like, no one is worried about the 2018 life expectancy.
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I agree with him the world has improved a lot in the past few decades
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Acknowledging progress is very valuable, the easier it is to imagine progress the easier it is to find the motivation to contribute.
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This debate was hashed out quite well by
@nfergus vs@FareedZakaria. Niall: "Steven Pinker's book will be like Norman Angell's "Great Illusion", proven wrong in the 1st nuclear war...the potenial is there to invalidate that entire thesis in a day"https://youtu.be/ifGxnlu94hQ?t=2120 … -
I believe Niall is referring to Pinker's book "The Better Angels of Our Nature"
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