Steven Pinker: Academic freedom prevents us from getting trapped in circles of delusion

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1. So let's build more "safe spaces" in schools and protest any non-leftist speakers!!

2. I recently got booted out of the Buzz50 forums for questioning religious beliefs. I just asked the theists to provide ANY proof of their invisible "God" existing and they kicked my ass out. Religions rely on half truths and lies to keep their followers donating money every Sunday for as long as they live. Believe or burn is their motto.

3. What is this Academic freedom of which you speak? If you point the LIE that is man-made global warming, you are ruined, so stop lying! Oh, sorry to hear about your friend Epstein by the way, who will “massage” you now?

4. But but… hate speech… *cries*.

5. Lmfao," we need to let people express ideas" Oh, unless I don't like them, then I will call them anti-Semitic and ruin your life. What a joke

6. Give in to the Dionysian. Let in a little madness.

7. I'm pretty sure most of us are trapped in bubbles of self referential meaning anyway.

8. Here's what Steven Pinker and people like him miss. Feelings of discomfort are not always the enemy. When you feel uncomfortable around a certain idea, it's because it's triggered an emotional reaction in you that says something is wrong. It's the same reason we can detect bullshit artists a lot of the time. This emotional reaction isn't always right but nor is it always wrong. The "emotional" part of the brain is the amygdala linked with the hippocampus. So you when you receive a stimulus, you receive the stimulus and that reacts to certain memories in your brain. Other aspects of the brain are of course also recruited, including the areas that control your sense of self and identity. But people like Steven Pinker often completely dismiss this emotional reaction as incorrect or wrong. The correct way to view it would be; it depends on the person, and it's not always wrong.

   The emotional part of the brain, left unchecked, can hijack a person's ability to rationally respond to the world. However, left undeveloped, we left blind to certain cues with people that only our emotions can tell us are correct, even if we don't instantly have a rational and calm answer as to why.

9. Don't worry. If you ever have something you want to say and afraid you can't say it just go into the basement at the Capitol.

10. Listen to other people's ideas? That's a crazy idea! It sounds like radical extremism! Where's my safe space?

11. Harpo Marx?

12. We are already caught in a few of those circles of delusion. If any "scientific" study starts with invalid presumptions then it ends with invalid conclusions. A lot of the methodology in "science" is flawed to say the least, and in a lot of cases look like deliberate deception to me. I am rather cynical though, and I don't just blindly trust the "trusted institutions". I am the ultimate arbiter for what is wrong and right for me, and you are for you.

13. Most of american academia is living in a bubble of socialist delusion.

14. Feminism doesn't like this.

15. Marxism!

16. I knew that this is the same video and had been uploaded twice before however great speech and this is so true, keep an open mind people! You'd probably think that he told a lie,too late to realized, or said that there s nothing we can do with it, or whatever or even you're being apathy but come on this is an excellent thought to regenerate, if the mistake is on us then let the right thing for the future. this is what we called improvement, as what Freud ever said no one who disdains the key will ever able to unlock the door.

17. As long as there are people sustain or get off on consuming profits earned depending on the suffering and sacrifices of others the world will not truly be at peace or free of injustice and morally wrong.

18. bribery isnt free speech its a straight out crime.

19. Here’s is an idea that makes people uncomfortable: Different racial groups have different brain capabilities, caused by evolution.

20. There is a 0% chance history looks back kindly on Pinker's reactionary "Enlightened Centrism". In his recent book Enlightenment now and many public talks he says that people who call themselves progressives "actually hate progress" and suggests their push for aggressive reform in the face of global catastrophe actually demonstrates some kind of ungratefulness for the bells and whistles of western hegemony. What is there to complain about when GDP is so high? We have an economy run on sweat shops but you have access to surgery with anesthesia! His dropping deplorable watchwords like "Social Justice Warrior" and "regressive left" are probably enough to make one lose interest in sticking around to hear another word this curmudgeon has to say, though the curious might stay tuned and witness his greatest hits such as: pessimism cloaked as "Optimism", cherry-picked data, empty (though eloquent) rhetoric, and an insulated, misguided cheer-leading for the status quo. Lucky for us, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward sweeping reforms that Pinker's apoligetics can only get in the way of. Steal Enlightenment Now and take a drink every time you roll your eyes!

21. Western moderates are the "Good Germans" of the 21st century

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