At first I thought the grapic showed Trump, thought SP had lost his marbles.
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You are suffering from TDS. Take two self reflections and call me in the morning.
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The Father of Techno-Optimism, he has long been my hero. A quiet, brilliant man who leveraged technology to save 2 BILLION lives. I say to the luddites; don't fear fire, the wheel, and vaccines. Tools and tech are what will allow the human race to thrive - and suvive.
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I had the privilege to meet him as a student. All thanks to Dr. Verghese Kurien of Amul fame in India.
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There's a real meta-lesson here. We've somehow fallen into the fallacy of thinking that human improvement comes through the world of politics and persuasion. Borlaug's career shows how innovation is infinitely more powerful.
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I’d nominate the Catholic Church who made cousin marriage illegal and put Europe on the path towards progress and prosperity.
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Please read The Wizard and the Prophet before leading your fans over the cliff of "progress"
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Oh Steven Pinker doing the hagiography of a person who promoted industrial capitalism model of agriculture to the detriment of a lot of common people and to the harm of the world.
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You haven’t made an argument, you’re just whining because your ideology isn’t useful or helpful.
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I have stated a reckoning.
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Wow, it's so classic that a rose-color-technophile like Pinker will hero-worship the industrual agriculture hero Normal Borlaug---- the tapestry is ever more complete as the propaganda mesh is woven.
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Umm...are you blind?
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Ummmm no. Can you speak clearly and tell me specifically what you’re thinking?
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What I’m saying honestly is that Steven Pinker is a purveyor of a specific kind of propaganda and he will try to convince you that he’s absolutely right but he’s not really absolutely right.
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And also I have many times noted the confluence between capitalist propaganda and industrial agriculture propaganda and this is one such case.
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Borlaug, father of GMOs and Monsanto?
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Read the article. High yield wheat and rice varieties produced by regular plant breeding. GMOs would have been produced more quickly. Too bad tech wasn’t available.
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