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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker May 26

    In Enlightenment Now, https://stevenpinker.com/publications/enlightenment-now-case-reason-science-humanism-and-progress …, I show that the progress has continued since publication of Better Angels.pic.twitter.com/ewJnx1ZnpX

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      1. No More Pit Bulls‏ @fishcrow May 26
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        pic.twitter.com/hCd85aNo9s

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      1. Amaury Ramos‏ @MegazineHD May 26
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        amazing book. Changed my whole perceptive on how to view the world. Objectively it has only gotten better. Let’s put our beliefs to the side and look at the numbers.

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      1. Z‏ @frueddz May 26
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        Has the book already been translated in arabic? If so, what are the sales figures and how has i been reviewed? @penguinrandomhouse

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      1. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz May 27
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        Progress is not a trend thats growth forever but rather a bell curve that tracks our resource consumption.

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      1. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz May 27
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        Would be interesting to know how much resources this progress has cost since the market is about to go into a permanent recession due to peak (conventional and unconventional) oil. Progress is added complexity and costs energy & materials.

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      1. Rotem Eren 🤦🏻‏ @RotemEren May 26
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        Cause and effect?

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      2. Christopher Reid‏ @a_dark_knight May 26
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        Has rape been going down in Sweden? I'm fine with optimism but in some places, things are getting worse and we need to understand why.

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      3. Brad ' 🐙 🌐' Hemak‏ @hemakhemak May 26
        Replying to @a_dark_knight @sapinker

        In no way is Pinker trying to say that everything gets better everywhere always. Yes, in some locales, there are short (or long) term worsening of violence (or poverty, or anything else). Can we evaluate the situations getting worse? Yes. Should that be the majority of focus? No.

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      4. Christopher Reid‏ @a_dark_knight May 26
        Replying to @hemakhemak @sapinker

        It doesn't have to be the majority of the focus, but we shouldn't turn a blind eye to it. Certain gov't policies can cause a lot of harm no matter the intentions. We should try to learn from this.

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      5. Brad ' 🐙 🌐' Hemak‏ @hemakhemak May 26
        Replying to @a_dark_knight @sapinker

        Who says we are turning a blind eye to it?

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      6. Christopher Reid‏ @a_dark_knight May 27
        Replying to @hemakhemak @sapinker

        For Pinker to say that "progress has continued" seems to imply that things usually get better. But things have gone backwards before, for example crime rates, single-motherhood and STDs in the 1960s. And now Sweden's rape rates are going way up. Policies matter.

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      2. 𝙏𝙄𝙂𝙀𝙍𝙎ata𝙉‏ @T1GERS0N May 26
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        Please consider. Rates of rate and aggravated assault were much much lower in the 50s. 60s and 70s progressivism caused all sorts of crime to skyrocket due to the breakup of the family and lifestyle relativism. They only went down in the 90s because of abortion coming in.....pic.twitter.com/3o0BM4aSWR

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      3. 𝙏𝙄𝙂𝙀𝙍𝙎ata𝙉‏ @T1GERS0N May 26
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        ...twenty years prior and therefore would-be criminals in poor, dysfunctional households (which exist because of the 60s and 70s) were being aborted; attacking a symptom rather than a root cause. Also violence against women is a vast minority of all violent acts.

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      1. David Lapinski‏ @davidsaemund May 26
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        What about approval of domestic violence (for both men and women)? I'd imagine it's also been decreasing since 1995. Is that the case?

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