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Steven Pinker:
1. Enlightenment and reason drives progress and we should engage rationally to progress and solve conflicts
2. Talks of ‘the pacifist’s dilemma’ to consider why multiple historical forces are pushing the rates of violence down
3. Things like trade and commerce are encouraging increasing cooperating and making the distinction between hurting others and hurting ourselves through violence less clear
4. Another cause is the expanding circle of sympathy; as we consume more fiction, understand more history and engage in more person-to-person contact its harder to dehumanize others making violence more difficult
5. The empowerment of women has also been a factor – less macho violence.
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It isn't. Progress is a myth.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/more-than-half-of-women-killed-in-2017-died-at-hands-of-partner-or-relative
"The gender-related killing of women and girls has been examined in a global study.
UPDATEDUPDATED 26 NOVEMBER 2018
BY BIWA KWAN
Six women are killed every hour by people they know, a global report has found.
The United Nations study found that, in the last year about 87,000 women were killed with that number indicating an overall increase compared to previous years.
More than half (58 per cent) – 50,000 women – were killed by their partners or family members."
Violence against women ? For every femicide it is estimated that not only has the victim been violently abused routinely for on average several years – including hospitalisation – but the number of women who have been violently abused but not (yet) killed per each recorded femicide is at least 10 x that figure.
We are not a pair-bonding species. 'Marriage' for women is socially sanctioned, legally enshrined, institutionalised life-long abuse – for the 'wife' it is unidentured domestic servitude, sexual slavery most craven, a rendering of her to the status of brood mare.
Pinker is a lying misogynist of the highest order.
Properly conducted, sociobiology tells us that we have been designed (by nature) to live in matrilineal, matr-locale, matricentric, gynophilic clans.
The various 'women's movements' so far have been heinous farces ……
Until we put women back on the pedestal of worshipful male reverence where we belong, we're doomed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srRfPfDeR2A
Wow, this interviewer is horrible. No biases here.
Anti-Trump, pro-communism questions were ridiculous. Wish Pinker would have ripped into the attrocities socialism/communism has blighted the world with.
SP fantastic as usual!
We live in a three-class society. With my slow of thought laboring-class being the lower-half of society and known as the 50% working poor. With the genus rich being the 25% ruling-class. With the 25% intelligent middle-class being the over-bearing supervisors, the killer-cops and all of the other slave-drivers of society.
For since the beginning of civilization, the more intelligent upper-half of society has hoarded all of the land, wealth and political power. The fake morality being that we have a right to be enriched upon the misery of those who have less education, less wealth or less whiteness of skin.
For wealth is the property we own above what is needed to have a comfortable life, a luxury that no one among the 50% working poor has ever experienced.
And so, to overcome global warming we need to give everyone a desire to enjoy life without wealth, a desire to not hoard wealth, but to keep wealth flowing in the economy and used only to improve the health and wellbeing of society and planet earth.
Progressives are alive–and well.
human are better…… this guy live in a bubble