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This is the theme of Steven Pinker’s book Enlightenment Now. It compiles a tremendous amount of data and research on progress in health, wealth. justice, equali
by jwarden 4y ago
This is the theme of Steven Pinker’s book Enlightenment Now. It compiles a tremendous amount of data and research on progress in health, wealth. justice, equality, and happiness.
It is a great antidote to the distorted pessimistic view of reality that comes from constant exposure to news, social commentary, and political activism, which focus relentlessly on the negative.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now
- nickersonm 4y agoI personally preferred The Better Angels of our Nature [0] as a deeper look focusing on the assorted statistics. Enlightenment Now recycles a lot of it and summarizes. There's some minor updates as well. [0] https://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-nature https://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-natu...
- jfengel 4y agoThank you. It's very good to have the affirmation of a fellow straight, rich, white man that everything is hunky-dory. We can just take everybody a standard deviation or two off from the median, and just chop those tails off, neat as pie. Now everybody is doing great and we don't have to think about the negatives at all!