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Cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author Steven Pinker explains why he thinks the world has become a better place in this interview with Scandinavian talk show Skavlan.
Also present in the studio is filmmaker Michael Moore.
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Lovely fellow that Pinker. I didnt realize he was accused of being right wing?
Across the pond from y'all but I absolutely love your show. Better than what we have here in America today. Unfortunately the corporations who control television in my country won't allow long form conversations to take place. These are the conversions we need to have as a species if we're ever to find common beliefs & understanding. Thank you for these amazing interviews & thought provoking conversations.
Pretty awkward…
you have moron Moore on – -I'm gone,,
I believe the murders went down due to a change in rights of women and their bodies. Check out malcolm gladwells look into it
His haircut should be an automatic disqualification for whatever he says.
Provided you ignore the epic slide of the working class into poverty and despair…
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!
The West has killed more people through bombings and such these days. It is getting worse for most, but better for a few.
"Sometimes facts aren't always the truth". Oh, dear Lord.
as complaining increases, life is increasing.
just feels worse emotionally, as it gets better physically.
To those who criticize Pinker, try to read his books and understand his arguments before disqualifying him for things he has never said. And he is not right wing.
Love the left and right poll analogy
A video about the world getting better right after one about the climate getting worse. That's a strange combination there.
Saying "thank you anyway" like that at the end implies "in spite of something having gone wrong."
I am a non scientist and do not have the sophistication of people like Pinker, but I would be very happy to debate anyone on Climate Change, and 2000 years of Western Jurisprudence has taught us how to separate lies from truth and applying principles such as the "four corner" rule show us that Climate Change is very likely a fraud. The new meaning of the four corner rule is not the same as the original. The four corner rule tells us that is a document contains an element of fraud the whole thing gets thrown out. Climate change advocates have created documents and movies filled with fraud.
Pinker juxtaposed with Moore. A scientist who spends his life immersed in facts & genuinely understands the data and the data’s implications combined with a documentarian who is largely lost in tremendous bias driven by the headlines Pinker calls out. Stark.
He is a good looking man Ngl
Moore is a fool.