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Actually worth reading or complete meme?

>> No.13548645

>the case for reason, science, humanism and progress

>> No.13548659

Jesus lol, who the fuck would actually read that? Like who will remember this shit in 100 years?

>> No.13548663

>>13548568
Total meme, debunked by that other meme Taleb

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>>13548568

Con job for neo-liberals. As usual, a book like this can't tell you what it leaves out.

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>>13548568
Propaganda for whig historiography.

>> No.13548786

>>13548568
statistically illiterate and intellectually dishonest

>> No.13548798

Worth reading because it’s a meme.

>> No.13548871

>>13548568
>Progress
I shudder whenever I hear that term.

>> No.13548954

>>13548568
John Gray’s review of this book is devastating to the point that it stands on its own as art.

>> No.13549041

>>13548954
For posterity.
http://archive.is/kH1r6

>> No.13549053

>>13548954
>>13549041
was gonna post this

>> No.13549161

>>13549041
What was Pinker answer to this? I mean, the guy totally destroyed him and made him look like an illiterate bufoon.

>> No.13549174

>>13549161
Pinker made a response:
https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/578919510377406464?s=19
Also here is some Pinker fanboy who wrote a response too:
https://medium.com/@criticallythinking/unenlightened-thinking-john-grays-embarrassing-review-of-steven-pinker-s-new-book-is-a-feeble-fac3d3a7cce5

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>>13549161
pinker was too busy riding lolita express to give a shit

>> No.13549206

>>13549175
Is that Lawrence Krauss?

>> No.13549209

>>13548568
I'm so enlightened guys now excuse me I've got to tell some children that me fucking them is much better and safer now than it was years ago!

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>>13549206
Yes.

>> No.13549313

>>13549249
Don't look up the ethnic origins of those three; it's just a coincidence, Anon :)

>> No.13549368

>>13549313
lol as if you need to "look up" Krauss's ethnicity... just "look up" at his face lmfao

>> No.13549375

>>13549313
>having to look it up
Phenotypes don't lie m8

>> No.13549389

>>13549174
Neither of these address that the statistical basis of Pinker’s violence-in-decline argument was completely disassembled by the great Arab philosopher Nassim Taleb.
If massive wars arrive at random in a poisson process, it would sure be stupid to announce that they don’t exist anymore after a period less than the historical interarrival rate, yet that’s exactly what Pinker did.
Charlataned and imbecile-pilled.

>> No.13549444

>>13549313
Wow, go back to your containment board friendo, we are getting sleepy in this one and would like to go to sleep thank you.

>> No.13549462

>>13548568
More like Steven Boomer.

>> No.13549470

>>13548568
>science, humanism
Gonna say no, no it’s not worth reading.