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Worthwhile criticism of the book here: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlightened-thinking-steven-pinker-s-embarrassing-new-book-feeble-se

Worthwhile criticism of the book here: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlightened-thinking-steven-pinker-s-embarrassing-new-book-feeble-sermon https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlight...

KarenSatantsby 9y ago
https://stevenpinker.com/files/comments_on_taleb_by_s_pinker.pdf https://stevenpinker.com/files/comments_on_taleb_by_s_pinker... He addresses a lot of of John Grey's issues in the forward of his book. I think it is interesting that people have such problems with data.. its so Post-Modern. this book is for people real people not ideals of people - I cannot read philosophy I can even read this book I have to listen to it. I love how Grey tries so hard but when I read it I did not understand what Grey was saying.. so either I am stupid or he is not answering a question that I had.. about the book. Grey goes on about the US prison system .. uhh wow.. even that is getting better - The crackpot in charge of it had to make it worse.. so its getting better because why because we eat so much food we have so much more energy no.. its because we are getting better and we need to work harder to make things better the sun is shining we can progress because well things are considerably better than when I was a kid. Its still tough on American children but we can change this and we want to change it... I mean look at Germany - Look at what happened that place was nearly a nuclear wasteland but now It is a freaking garden of eden for civilization - things are even better in Mississippi - mostly because if you are born there you have a great chance of moving out and up to Colorado.. and things are not that bad yeah there are opiates and school shootings but less and less and less compared to when I was a kid. less childhood abuse less disease.. its a reality that cannot just be denied - I mean you can and Pinker explains why that is so easy and so delicious to our brains.. but hey its for you do do man
JumpCrisscross 9y ago
The writer spends half the article getting offended at Pinker calling religion irrational.
- maldusiecle 9y ago
  If by "half the article" you mean "one paragraph," then yes, yes he does.

KarenSatantsby 9y ago

https://stevenpinker.com/files/comments_on_taleb_by_s_pinker.pdf https://stevenpinker.com/files/comments_on_taleb_by_s_pinker... He addresses a lot of of John Grey's issues in the forward of his book. I think it is interesting that people have such problems with data.. its so Post-Modern. this book is for people real people not ideals of people - I cannot read philosophy I can even read this book I have to listen to it. I love how Grey tries so hard but when I read it I did not understand what Grey was saying.. so either I am stupid or he is not answering a question that I had.. about the book. Grey goes on about the US prison system .. uhh wow.. even that is getting better - The crackpot in charge of it had to make it worse.. so its getting better because why because we eat so much food we have so much more energy no.. its because we are getting better and we need to work harder to make things better the sun is shining we can progress because well things are considerably better than when I was a kid. Its still tough on American children but we can change this and we want to change it... I mean look at Germany - Look at what happened that place was nearly a nuclear wasteland but now It is a freaking garden of eden for civilization - things are even better in Mississippi - mostly because if you are born there you have a great chance of moving out and up to Colorado.. and things are not that bad yeah there are opiates and school shootings but less and less and less compared to when I was a kid. less childhood abuse less disease.. its a reality that cannot just be denied - I mean you can and Pinker explains why that is so easy and so delicious to our brains.. but hey its for you do do man

JumpCrisscross 9y ago

The writer spends half the article getting offended at Pinker calling religion irrational.

maldusiecle 9y ago
If by "half the article" you mean "one paragraph," then yes, yes he does.