Steven Pinker must be the apotheosis of this progressive view. And Taleb the Wellington giving Pinker, and his followers, their Waterloo.
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“The Blank Slate” is an important book, however.
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Successful sociopaths learn very early in life the number one rule to maximize what you can extract from others is the APPEARANCE of being the most morally superior person in the room This is why they gravitate towards the image controlling leftist media who will “clean me up”pic.twitter.com/pU14zHU4IN
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His comment on the paternalism of the cathedral is interesting. They already use children in order to justify why certain laws exist or should, like gun control or drug laws. The reality is they see no possible alternative to the world they want in their heads.
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So they gotta think of people with alternative ideas as "childish" or "uninformed" or "naive" in order to dismiss them without having their own ideas challenged
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I’m seeing more open discussion, from people who would very recently regard the subject as beyond the pale, around defunding public broadcasting and universities. I pray for more brazen antics.
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The new priesthood
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They even make up fictitious worlds where this math works out to justify their preconceptions of what "ought" to be.pic.twitter.com/LFitJ8S4bz
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