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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Feb 22

    The Virtue of Radical Honesty (how David Brooks agrees and disagrees with me, with a surprise on why he likes me).https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/opinion/steven-pinker-radical-honesty.html …

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      2. Stewart Brand‏Verified account @stewartbrand Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        Do you believe his account of declining relational values? I’m coming to realize that decline is probably exaggerated like all the others.

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      3. Brien OToole‏ @BrienOToole Feb 23
        Replying to @stewartbrand @sapinker

        I do in 2 respects. One is the result of globalization's ubiquitous diaspora. In the East that's farm to factory. In the West factory to metro office. Comtech Rev mitigates but doesn't eliminate. Two, w/in the flow-to zones new network channels are still comparatively weak.

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      1. Cam‏ @ckraus501 Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        Except there is a very documented scientific rationale (evolutionary kin bias) to why one feels affection for relations (even 3rd cousins)!! (Response to last line of the article)

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      2. Ben Anderson‏ @InigoMontoya15 Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        I'd like to see the John Gray, Ph.D review of this review.

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      3. Daniel’s gang‏ @Celuchka Feb 22
        Replying to @InigoMontoya15 @sapinker

        https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlightened-thinking-steven-pinker-s-embarrassing-new-book-feeble-sermon …

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      4. Ben Anderson‏ @InigoMontoya15 Feb 22
        Replying to @Celuchka @sapinker

        Gray has to be onto something here. I mean, he is John Gray, Ph.D: author of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus," a book which revolutionized the dating tip.

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      2. Robert J. Reis‏ @Rreis1972 Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        About halfway through “Enlightenment Now” and seeing the stark contrast between your well-documented optimism and Twitter’s crass, pessimistic brevity. Life, like perception, involves choices. Choosing your text before bed seems to be the better way to end the day. #peace

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      1. ape trash‏ @ape_trash Feb 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        How does a study of relational emotionality not admit rational explanations and scientific approaches? The very basis of modern personality and social psychologies rely on them, but Brooks seems to deny that (Esp the last sentence)

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      1. Mr PloughJogger‏ @MrPloughjogger Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        I am halfway through Enlightenment Now and finding worthwhile and profound insight in it. Even here in the sticks of east Texas your work is greatly appreciated. Thank you Dr. Pinker!

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      2. Meir Speer‏ @Real_truth1836 Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        Read article. Author fails to realize that problems we have today w/ social media & other problems pale in comparison to how ppl lived 100 years ago. What type of life was it in 1900 when the avg lifespan was in the 40s? We now have the opportunity to live a longer & btr life

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      1. mark rot‏ @mrkskrd Feb 24
        Replying to @sapinker

        Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago. ( TE 11.27.2017 ) Hardly a " breakdown of family life" - I spent much more than twice the time with my kids than our father did with us. And he was a caring father already.

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      1. Dan (=^-ω-^=)‏ @Uselink Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        I would just like to say I hacked the NYT paywall to read this article muahahahahaha

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      1. Toby T. Churchill‏ @tobytchurchill Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        Yeah, but what does Albert Brooks think?

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      1. Chris O'Connell‏ @chriskadee Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        Glad to see it but @paulkrugman column today was much, much better. He nailed it 100%, not 50%.

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      1. Brandon Baum‏ @baumlegal Feb 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        Brooks refuses to be happy, notwithstanding the evidence.

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      2. Jim Bond‏ @JimBond6 Feb 23
        Replying to @sapinker @nytopinion

        Thoughtful disagreement between these two men is, in itself, highly instructive. Thankfully, there are people with their special gifts to help us make sense of these tumultuous times. @nytdavidbrooks

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