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Steven Pinker has built a writing career out of telling people who are doing really well that everything is fine and that they should keep on enjoying.
by RodericDay 12y ago
Steven Pinker has built a writing career out of telling people who are doing really well that everything is fine and that they should keep on enjoying.
- gjm11 12y agoHe has built a writing career out of writing books about cognitive science and language, and then more recently diversified into history and writing style. Exactly one of his books, so far as I can tell, has anything to do with telling anyone "that everything is fine". But it doesn't claim that everything is fine (only that violence is on a long downward trajectory). I'm guessing that your real objection is to The Blank Slate, which you see as justifying entrenched discrimination. I'm not at all convinced that it does any such thing, but in any case it's a long way from "Pinker wrote one book that some wealthy right-wingers might find comforting" to "Pinker's writing career is built on comforting wealthy right-wingers".