I’m Team Harari, but you’re both in my top 5 authors right now.
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”If Pinker paints a rosy picture of human progress and its achievements in the hope that both will continue, Harari sketches a dystopian future in the hopes that doing so will prevent it. Like all prophets, he prophesies to prevent the prophecy, not to predict it.”
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This is why we need a conversation between Pinker and
@harari_yuval I’m so deeply grateful for both of your books Sapiens and Enlightenment Now. Please have a conversation. So many questions beckon. With@SamHarrisOrg as a host/mediator
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I am enjoying both writers immensely. It’s great this conversation is happening at all.
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Great title!!!! https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Prophet-Remarkable-Scientists-Tomorrows-ebook/dp/B071D3CZG4 … great book too!
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Is Steven the husband of Susan Pinker who wrote the book Sexual paradox?
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He's her brother.
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Both authors have many good points. I enjoy and learn a lot from both. One thing I would say though is that Harari is easier to read than Pinker. He gets the the point a bit quicker and is more concise
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I wonder if Pinker has revised his opinions about nationalism being a movement of the right. I think, especially in the US, more and more people are waking up to the nefarious activities of a certain powerful group that has swindled democratic processes. Pinker himself might be
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of the three branches of government. It does not work on behalf of the people, it does not answer to the people. In my opinion, we are nearing the end stages of Rome. There is very little opportunity for the system to correct itself considering less and less public control over
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the government, more and more restrictions on free speech, and increasing levels of subversion of educational systems in order to propagate greater and greater degrees of indoctrination.
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“Be that as it may, I suspect that these men agree on most matters and want the same things of the future.”
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Are we sure this isn’t a shaven Gandalf and Stephen Miller?
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Interesting article. Aside from him attributing Robert Nozicks argument to you!
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Are you the wizard or the prophet, Pinker? I can see you as both, tbh.
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