THE BLOG OF DISQUIET :Qweir Notions,an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since2008.
Friday 4 March 2022
There is more
world-wide misery than ever before. The idea of Progress is a splat on the floor.
2 comments:
Karl
said...
"In a bitter irony, a new edition of my 2011 book “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” is about to go to press. It is the translation into Ukrainian." - Steven Pinker 3/3/22
I was thinking of Pinker when I wrote the above blog this morning.
The funny thing about intellectuals is that so many of them are compulsive optimists (with tunnel vision). Though it might not be the intellectuals but the editors of the august magazines they write for...
2 comments:
"In a bitter irony, a new edition of my 2011 book “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” is about to go to press. It is the translation into Ukrainian." - Steven Pinker 3/3/22
I was thinking of Pinker when I wrote the above blog this morning.
The funny thing about intellectuals is that so many of them are compulsive optimists (with tunnel vision).
Though it might not be the intellectuals but the editors of the august magazines they write for...
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