Manipulativ … #Kapitalismus braucht keinen Hass … er braucht Grenzen! #Pinker spricht nicht von Hass sondern von kognitiver Dissonanz zum unlimitierten Kapitalismus. Nur wer die Überhitzung des Systems kühlt, kann Fortschritt wirklich erhalten. #LimitCapitalism #RationalFuture #TaxTheRich 🖖

“New opportunities for the creation of common knowledge present themselves unceasingly in our #feeds, and, as a result, #Pinker argues, we now devote excessive time and energy to the rituals of affirmation and expulsion that its manufacture involves.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Do You Know What I Know?

“It’s precisely because such #ideas are contentious and nonobvious—they’re a far cry from asserting “that the sun rises in the east,” #Pinker writes—that they serve as reliable signals of group membership.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Do You Know What I Know?

A new Dan Brown #DanBrown and
a new Steven Pinker #Pinker

Which to read first?

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-secret-of-secrets-a-novel-dan-brown/4f3084aa38ae7141

https://bookshop.org/p/books/when-everyone-knows-that-everyone-knows-common-knowledge-and-the-mysteries-of-money-power-and-everyday-life-steven-pinker/9e1f00fcf6cd9f6a?ean=9781668011577&next=t

Progress Is Real! - Mike Israetel on Steven Pinker

#cognitivebiases #progress #pinker #humanimprovement

@sindarina It's never a good idea to suppress opinions:
https://archive.is/4J3vM

#Pinker #NRC

Steven #Pinker hatte ich schon länger aus den Augen verloren bzw. das Interesse an ihm. Seine populären Bücher wurden zunehmend populistisch. Jetzt ploppt er im Zusammenhang mit Harvard auf und findet, die Angriffe gegen seine Uni seien „aus den Fugen geraten“. Aber ein bisschen Verständnis zeigt er schon…
Interessante Diskussion drüben bei Bluesky. https://bsky.app/profile/tedmccormick.bsky.social/post/3lpwa4wibsc23

L'agresseur sexuel multirécidiviste qui a enablé Trump et le mouvement MAGA avec ses fantasmes sur le wokisme commence à se plaindre quand son institution est attaquée. Libé, trouvant qu'on n'a pas assez de trumpisme en France, trouve bon l'idée d'importer son discours en France. #pinker #harvard

Steven #Pinker, #professeur à #Harvard : «Le #wokisme pose quelques problèmes, mais les #attaques de l’ #administration #Trump contre la #démocratie sont infiniment plus #dangereuses»

https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/steven-pinker-professeur-a-harvard-le-wokisme-pose-certes-quelques-problemes-mais-les-attaques-de-ladministration-trump-contre-la-democratie-sont-infiniment-plus-dangereuses-20250422_CN5HBRPSZRG4JEK3CRXWFR4L5A/

Steven #Pinker, #professeur à #Harvard : «Le #wokisme pose quelques problèmes, mais les #attaques de l’ #administration #Trump contre la #démocratie sont infiniment plus #dangereuses» www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Steven Pinker, professeur à Ha...

Part Two of the If Books Could Kill podcast on Pinker's book The Better Angels Of Our Nature has been released:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-better-angels-of-our-nature-part-2-campus-lies-i/id1651876897?i=1000652124469

#Podcast #MichaelHobbes #IfBooksCouldKill #Pinker

Capitalism lifts people out of poverty, right? You've seen the graph?

Unsurprisingly, no. As Jason Hickel here so patiently explain neoliberal nitwit Steven Pinker, that claim relies on bad data, bad assumptions, and bad attribution.

#Economics #Neoliberalism #Pinker #Hickel #Capitalism #Colonialism

https://jacobin.com/2019/02/steven-pinker-global-poverty-neoliberalism-progress

Die Welt ist schlecht, das Leben schön.

War schon in den 80ern so, aber irgendwie scheint #Pinker nicht Recht zu haben mit seiner These, dass alles besser wird.

#sagsMitMusik #DerPlan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVNjtq5YNOI

Bought more books, skimmed "The Darker Angels of Our Nature" and it looks like an excellent dismantling of Pinker.

#books #pinker

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169?via%3Dihub
"Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century"
Une critique détaillée de la position de #Pinker selon qui le capitalisme industriel a permis à l'humanité de sortir de la pauvreté. Je parlais de cet argumentaire et de ses détracteurs dans cette note de blog :
https://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2019/08/26/triomphe-des-lumieres-ou-faillite-de-la-raison/
#econometrics #StevenPinker

Habe angefangen #Anfänge zu lesen.

Das ist immerhin mal ein Anfang!

Was mich freut, ist, dass Steven #Pinker widerlegt wird. Dieses „Wir haben uns alle lieb und alles wird immer besser“-Gesäusel war mir immer schon suspekt. Und mit dem Ukraine-Krieg war es ja auch eh erledigt.

"#Sociobiology and #eugenics is once again being repackaged for the public as part of the #TESCREAL ideologies, pressed into service to rationalize why those with power and resources are morally justified in doing everything they can to retain it. This rebrand is made possible by those like #Pinker, #Wilson, #Dawkins, and #Dennett, who have carried the gospel of biological determinism...into the public sphere for the last 30 years."

https://medium.com/@Keira_Havens/box-of-rocks-3-never-change-80b879237314

Do u think things have changed in these two last centuries? #Pinker would answer yes, but what if I looked into your eyes and told u that that while u are unemployed Society benefits from your misfortune?
Unemployment increases number of people who offer themselves for any job in any place under any conditions and that lowers wages.Also, as long as you don't work and don't receive a salary, you have no purchasing power and inflation slows down.

Fact that a person with aptitude can hold a denial attitude made me read a lot about #Pinker
I found the moment when Pinker is aware of how fragile his world is as a member of an elite that receives everything without having to work.
What gave Pinker a reality check from seeing himself as a young anarchist were bombing campaign(1963-70)that escalated on #Montreal terror night(1969) and murder of Pierre Laporte(1970) driven by
Front de libération du #Québec a local Marxist-Leninist terrorist org