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The conversation is between Curt Jaimungal, Peter Glinos, and Steven Pinker.
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Flew on Epstein's plane?
Identity politics as I understand it to be, is very much a center-left thing. His definition of what the real left believes is nothing but strawman nonsense. Just proves that this guy is flying by the seat of his pants.
it always bugs me when steven pinker does not talk about the best ideas of the "left". the corporatists have taken over the DNC and forced identity politics on us, and convinced old people we cannot have progressive ideas. i wish pinker would just say what he thinks on social democracy and if the US can have. basically can we have what norway has or is our population to big and dumb to have it?
he is a great thinker so why has he never laid out what taxation should be, what healthcare should be, key regulations, describe major climate action, military spending and how many countries we should control/invade/sanction.
it would take an hour aand 30 or so slides to go over the main issues.
I guess you can call it "radical left" relative to how far right we have move in the last 40 years.
Universal healthcare is only radical for the insurance company and big pharma,
More strident environmental laws is only radical for polluters.
What is radical is privatisation of the basic needs for a society to function.
Not very insightful in his failure to properly catagorize the modern left as authoritarian. In fact the modern left is nearly entirely antithetical to liberalism. Even someone as analytical as Pinkerton has difficulty rationalizing their own social group.
Absolutely love Steven Pinker
There have been CIA plants in colleges and uni's since the beginnings of Op Mockingbird in the 60s and most likely earlier too. There is SO much manipulation going on and has gone on!!
Oh look a right wing pedophile speaking outside of his area of expertise. This documentary sure is shaping up to be the biased shitpiece we all knew it would be. Sham neutrality to shift the center further to the right. We see you.
Steven Pinker's work to highlight the accomplishments of the enlightenment is very much what the world needs today.I'm not sure why he would place Jordan Peterson in the anti enlightenment camp.Peterson praises and promote Pinker's work on every occasion. Peterson points out that these accomplishments of western Judea Christian culture are a direct result of a development that started long before the Enlightenment.
Peterson is a scientist just as Linker. He just dares to say that modern science is not the root of our success as human beings in this day and age.
I don't think it's fair to say that the right is pro Russia. In my experience, those on the right to whom Pinker was referring are anti interventionism, not necessarily pro Russia.
Merit based immigration & assimilation is #1 on my list to combat Climate change!
Pinker's position is of course well established, him having written the whole of BAOON on the topic, but the more recent (and similarly large!) book "Behave" by neuroendocrinologist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky, of similar stature to Pinker, challenges this (to me oversimplified) view that it's the case that the nomadic tribes of the past were more violent than current day. From Behave, a more subtle argument comes forth that agrarianism, and particularly postoralism engenders violence, whereas hunter gatherers much less so. i say this as someone who used to propound the same argument as Pinker, but who had enough arguments with people of differing opinions that i went digging and the literature is pretty convoluted with no obvious consensus. i was certainly sold most by Sapolsky's view, which was in line with the best of the papers i read on the topic until then. i'm not an expert by any means though, just a biologist who likes to read.
i would like to know if Pinker thinks destruction of property (of, say, a large corporation) is or isn't violence
thank you so much time!
Stop being so mean, internet.
Pinker's critique of the Left does not seem very accurate. It sounds like the kind of complaints that alt-right propagandists make. He is an embarrassment to his fellow neoliberals.
many decades ago…?—more like lifetime ago..oldman haha
I don't understand Pinker's point about Trump/Bannon national philosophy. It seems a little like TDS
It's easy to see why Chomsky doesn't take this man particularly seriously.
I really like Pinker, sorry he believes in anthropomorphic climate change as a real threat.