Rob Samartino
Steven Pinker’s most recent book ‘Enlightnement Now’ describes the exponential progress of modernity and how our hightened perception for negative news distorts our understanding of reality. Richard Wolff attacks the foundation of our society’s capitalist economic system while advocating for ‘system change’
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Richard Wolff VS Steven Pinker
Richard Wolffs audience is definitely light weights but I wouldnt say they are college students. If you go into the comments section it's a bunch of 30-60 year olds who say dumb shit like "we need to end the system vote for Bernie 2020". I haven't even seen an actual anarchist in a video of his, me being the only Marxist-Leninist to talks in the comments I have seen.
It didn't take off at the beginning of the 20th Century. 1905-45 was one of the most destructive periods in human history. It actually took of in the 1940s. And the forces behind this wave were already nacent in the 30s. So this great flourishment of the human condition is a phenomenon of the post-war era.
How does one rejoice around the accomplishments in practice and what does that have to do with actual political discourse?
Past accomplishments shouldn’t be frowned upon, obviously, but are they relevant to the improvement of society, aside from in a historical context?
And does that mean we should retain status quo?
Because it sounds kinda like a vague centrist argument, if you catch my drift?