Guess it depends where you live Steven? Stats are not everything.
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pfft, stats are the least biased way of knowing anything meaningful about the world. Individual narratives tell us nothing of value; they are always heavily biased. How can the experiences of the few speak to the state of a whole population?
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A few novels & plays have changed the world imho. Just a guess, no stats?
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Statistics are important, but if they are not nuanced by the stories of people's experiences, something of our understanding of the human being is incomplete.
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I'm not sure that I want to know the answer, Steven.
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Crazy counter-hypothesis to
@sapinker: It is *not* a broadly held perception, particularly not among progressives or intellectuals, that the world is getting worse. It feels like this talk should start with showing that, before trying to disprove it. (does the old book do so?)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Famine, drought, mass migration, fascist nationalism and thousands of nuclear weapons on a hair trigger... meanwhile Trump and his fossil fuel masters are trying to destroy the EPA and the Paris Climate Accord....https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/20/world/world-bank-climate-migrants-report-intl/index.html …
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@SebHenbest when I read the transcript something about this sentence “...and intellectuals who call themselves progressive really hate progress” reminded me of you
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Not better or worse...perhaps "older" could be a better term. Maybe we're going through an awkward teen phase.
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Loved it! Your book has changed my world view dramatically. I feel so positive about the state of the world now.
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You used statistical and mathematical tools to justify that world is getting better as the time passed by! The word "progress" is most misinterpreted word. Progress in which direction? And consequences of the same?!
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I love this book and Pinker’s talks on it because from a mere pedestrian point of view, there are always people lamenting “what this world has come to” and “this new generation.” I’m glad to have a wide-reaching counter to those arguments.
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No pride on getting better if we are fakin up the planet in the process
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Humans are like music, limitless within the architecture that brings us into being.pic.twitter.com/Z8nVqDnH8h
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I listen to you here, and in other venues (Harris). I appreciate your optimism, but it seems predicated upon data sets that are not comprehensive and quantifying experiences in simple terms. eg. # of Deaths vs how people live. Eg. Population | Environment issues.
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@BretWeinstein) have made astute observations that we are in the present living on "future". I don't think I have ever heard you address this fundamental function. The present gains/successes seem to ignore how the systems are being built & the LTerm consequences.
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Progress made possible with increases in complexity using ever more finite resources. Here are a few numbers: co2: 408ppm and rising. World debt: $72T rising. Microplastic ocean: 12k per liter rising. Oil: 93 bbl/day rising.
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AppyPollyLoggies. World Debt is $164 Trillion dollars. Because money is created as debt and more debt is created than money this can never be payed off. The only way to keep the system going is infinite growth. Which families create money/debt is a secret.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/world-debt-hits-record-164-trillion-as-crisis-hangover-lingers …
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