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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Sep 18

    Are you a pastoralist or a productivist? A projectionist or a prudentialist? A new era demands new ‘isms.’ (I'm the 2nd in each case.) https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2018/09/15/new-era-demands-new-isms/75Xxhd8TVOVKgUYRHzVZUO/story.html?event=event25 … via @BostonGlobe

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      1. Brad ' 🐙 🌐' Hemak‏ @hemakhemak Sep 18
        Replying to @karan09grewal @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        As a guess, the article explains them.

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      1. Pro UK Anti Theism ⚛️‏ @AyrshireBog Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @AdvanceHumanism @BostonGlobe

        A whole bunch of new "isms" around which we can all adopt new black and white positions? No thanks, that's why things are already so messed up.

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      1. Alex Utopia‏ @alexutopia Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        These are all the ‘isms I know, maybe it's time to update it? However on this scale I opt for Darth Vader, if you can, always be Darth Vader. So it's Imperialism for me I suppose, I like the classics :)pic.twitter.com/TxjrdHDGPb

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      1. Funeral Paul Hundred‏ @paul_hundred Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        That definition of productivist is a projectionist atrocity

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      1. Mark Hannah‏ @ProfessorHannah Sep 26
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I am too! Thanks for giving my column a boost, @sapinker. Big fan of your books.

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      1. Dam Nuwen‏ @Dam_Nuwen Sep 24
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Productivist projectionist. Sorry. I think even the United States is better than Russia, China or islamist regimes...

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      1. Vote Nov 6 or Earlier!‏ @deNutrients Sep 19
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Sustainabilism - promote interests of the planet over short term interests of any one species. Humans are a symbiont after all, we aren't a species that can live well without the aid of our microbiome.

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      1. Crispin Sartwell‏ @CrispinSartwell Sep 19
        Replying to @sapinker @Biorealism @BostonGlobe

        Not really an intellectual, though. Thanks for this revealing info about you?

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      1. Stefan Fincken‏ @artdesignbySF Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Same!

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      1. Richard Hanania‏ @RichardHanania Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        You can always find abstract commonalities between political opponents, not sure how useful the exercise is if they are on the opposite sides of practically every issuepic.twitter.com/TeRvtNpEpu

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      2. The Art & Life of Larry Swetman‏ @TheLarrySwetman Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Isn't this just playing identity politics with ideas?

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      3. Keenan O'Meara‏ @keenanarmstrong Sep 18
        Replying to @TheLarrySwetman @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        No

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      1. Smultring‏ @smultringdotnet Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Putin be like:"People actually eat this?!?" Xi be like:"This conservation spoils the freshness of this product..."

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      1. looper_1234‏ @1234Looper Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        putin looks supprised by what he's saw 🤣

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      1. Julien@D3‏ @JRD3DU Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        #selfservism vs #altruism

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      2. David Staples‏ @DavidStaplesYEG Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Count me in as a productivist and a prudentialist.

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      3. Struan‏ @StruanCurtis Sep 19
        Replying to @DavidStaplesYEG @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I got the impression the writer is biased in that way too.

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      4. David Staples‏ @DavidStaplesYEG Sep 19
        Replying to @StruanCurtis @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Could well be the case...

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      1. Christopher Burke‏ @craznar Sep 18
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        I'm certainly not a believer in prescriptivism ... if that helps :)

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