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I recommend reading Pinker's Enlightenment Now. Forget middle ages, median lives in the poorest countries today are better by many metrics than the life on the
by sershe 6y ago
I recommend reading Pinker's Enlightenment Now. Forget middle ages, median lives in the poorest countries today are better by many metrics than the life on the world's richest ones 150-200 years ago.
- slumpt_ 6y agoif you enter the fray by bringing up pinker it’s already lost happy to disagree fucking completely with you now and forever pinkers work on that is and has been a joke completely lacking nuance and is an exhausting and boring mess to litigate with privileged tech employees on the internet cheers
- sershe 6y agoDo you have any actual arguments against Pinker, or really any coherent arguments? See my other comment - while "privilege" is post-modernist BS (really the entire edifice loosely based on foucaultian power/knowledge is), in this particular case I don't even need that - I'm pretty sure I grew up much poorer than you have, in a less stable environment. Yep, still better than any pre-enlightenment and anti-enlightenment system (right or left) ever practiced.