STEVEN PINKER
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason,
Science, Humanism, and Progress
I’ve decided I’ll get everyone on my Christmas list this
book. A positive statement. Don’t worry, you’re not on the list. Buy your own.
This is a book that scolds us for not realizing that the
world is getting to be a better place. Crime is down, so is suicide, and all
kinds of other nasty parts of society.
More countries now have some form of democracy, by a long
ways, than a few years ago. The United States is not doing quite as well in a
lot of areas as most of the rest of the world, like income inequality. War and
violence have declined, the examples of WWI and WWII plus the long Cold War
have increased the power of the state and decreased the willingness to murder
millions and millions of soldiers and innocents.
Worth a read. If nothing else, to take another look at this
guy’s hair!
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