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Almost every big positive change in society is a result of people feeling negative about the status quo. This reminds me of Steven Pinker who goes around sayin
by pron 7y ago
Almost every big positive change in society is a result of people feeling negative about the status quo.
This reminds me of Steven Pinker who goes around saying, please stop whining; some/many/most/all things are better than they used to be! while somehow neglecting the fact that to the degree things are better, they usually are because people didn't stop whining.
- eej2ya1K 7y agoWhining doesn't help. Steven Pinker is not telling people not to do what they can to make the world a better place. Your resentment is showing.
- rinchik 7y agoWell, yeah I agree that makes sense. I misspoke. Only idiots are always happy and this endless treadmill, our ability to see possible improvements in systems that were already perceived as decent, drives the progress.
- schnable 7y agoI think Pinker's point is that many of the people whining are trying to "fix" things by changing the very things that got us here in the first place -- much of which was luck, or success after many failures, not just people whining.