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> What Pinker and Gates are attempting to impose is a tyranny of faux rationality--"an 800 pg book with sources up the wazoo say that the world is getting bette
by rpedela 9y ago
> What Pinker and Gates are attempting to impose is a tyranny of faux rationality--"an 800 pg book with sources up the wazoo say that the world is getting better, all these whiny poor folk must just be delusional".
That is a pretty extreme reading of what Pinker and Gates are saying. I don't think they are saying that at all.
- mar77i 9y agoI still fail to see the problem at hand? Would faux rationality that the world is getting better constantly not keep us in silent optimism, as opposed to - urm - violently keep fighting for it being made much worse? What cruel bastard would even do such a thing, anyway?