#hermanonpinker — Public Fediverse posts

> #StevenPinker’s #BetterAngels is terrible as.. scholarship and as a guide to the real world. But it is an outstanding snow job, with over a hundred figures, a great many footnotes, and a flood of assured words and arguments that require a certain amount of work to understand. That it['s].. well received in establishment circles is perfectly understandable. Less so is its uncritical treatment by so many people who should know better.

https://isreview.org/issue/86/steven-pinker-alleged-decline-violence/index.html
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> #StevenPinker’s.. book, The #BetterAngelsOfOurNature: Why Violence Has Declined, is a propaganda windfall for the leaders and supporters of the U.S. imperial state, currently engaged in multiple wars, with over 800 military bases across the globe, asserting and using the right to kill untried “terrorists” any place on earth and still operating a torture gulag abroad and a record-breaking and abusive prison system at home...
https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/stephen-pinker-on-the-triumph-of-angels-by-edward-herman/
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