@sapinker something cultural at work, perhaps. From Oprah to, well, T. Nagel, Americans are tendentious optimists. "hope is a virtue."
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@sapinker those who claim we should stop improving frighten me more than the most manic utopian.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Iterative improvement so far worked best. Utopia is rushing to a "perfect" end solution, bound to fail (horribly).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Here’s a review of John Gray’s review of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: http://humanistni.org/filestore/file/better%20angels.pdf …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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