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Pinker argues that we are probably living in the most peaceful time of our existence. He says that violence has been declining and our ancestors were far more violent than us.
Jan 31, 2022 · Pinker’s move here is to distinguish between what he calls the reality mindset and the mythology mindset. The reality mindset is concerned with how things really are in our immediate surroundings, the people we deal with face to face, our factual memory of previous interactions, and the rules and norms that regulate our lives (p. 200).
- Jonathan Dancy
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Oct 24, 2022 · Pinker argues that humans have a “mythology mindset” when it comes to things outside their personal experience: we are happy to believe things for which there is no evidence.
In the end, however, Pinker himself reverts to a simple dualism between the “reality mindset” he endorses and the “mythology mindset” that underpins supernatural faith, elects frauds who tell 30,000 lies to the US presidency and — most recently — has killed thousands of conspiracy-prone anti-vaxxers.
- Boyd Tonkin
Pinker argues that modern science has challenged three "linked dogmas" that constitute the dominant view of human nature in intellectual life: the blank slate (the mind has no innate traits)— empiricism. the noble savage (people are born good and corrupted by society)— romanticism.
- Steven Pinker
- 2002
Read transcript. Watch next. Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.
HM1116 .P57 2011. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined is a 2011 book by Steven Pinker, in which the author argues that violence in the world has declined both in the long run and in the short run and suggests explanations as to why this has occurred. [1] The book uses data simply documenting declining violence across time ...
