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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jun 22

    Christian Gonzalez's excellent review "We Still Need Liberalism" quotes Richard Posner: "“Declinist works get much of their rhetorical force from contrasting an idealized past, its vices overlooked, with a demonized present, its virtues overlooked.”https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/book-review-why-liberalism-failed-patrick-deneen/ …

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      2. Gyeff‏ @Gyeff Jun 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        The "selfishness is virtue" boomers keep crying out in pain while they look down at the suffering youth from their high rise penthouses. Too much liberalism has created a system that rewards thieves and charlatans and liars, and that punishes labor and honesty.

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      3. Gyeff‏ @Gyeff Jun 22
        Replying to @Gyeff @sapinker

        It is illiberal to steal property from thieves who have stolen your property, the liberalists cry out. What kind of society do you expect to get if thieves are allowed to practice thievery without consequence. Where the rights of thieves are sacrosanct!

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      2. Musa al-Gharbi‏ @Musa_alGharbi Jun 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        I think you and @xchrisgonz would also greatly enjoy this essay by John Gray in @laphamsquart: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/disaster/anomaly-barbarism … as well...

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      1. Joe Smith  🇨🇦‏ @joesmith323 Jun 22
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        Not sure when they think that idealized past happened. When I was in high school the National Guard murdered college students for peacefully protesting on campus against government policy.

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      1. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Jun 30
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        Global warming, overpopulation, peak minirals, are not problems because we had no aspirin is the middle ages... - Steven 'Bad Old Days' Pinker. This 'good old days' bs is a straw man which is a blatant lie about what the argument is. 'Lying Steve' everybody.

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      1. John Q. Public‏ @johnqp33 Jun 23
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        Absolutely wrong.

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      1. Loretta‏ @StagaZigfried Jun 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        The virtues of the present are the product of our workplaces. Politics hasn't improved much....but the products have.

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