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Cognitive scientist and Harvard Professor Steven Pinker uses data to share a fresh perspective on human progress and shows how news tend to make us more pessimistic than we should be.
Source: World Economic Forum, Davos. January 2018.
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19:26 It's good to be ACCURATE!
Pinker is one of the greats of this era.
Bullshit. The environment is dying!
Tell this to the children in Syria
This guy needs to get caught up on current events (Fukushima)and what the the white coats, he admires and is associated with, have provided to our misguided "enlightenment".
Anthropocentric materialism is not progress.
I am sorry I agree with him on some things…but I disagree with his ideology about not needing to have a higher power to have substance nevertheless at the end he mentions the word spirituality which is a complete contradiction.
This guy is awesome
Balance=water always seeks it's own level.