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Why Pinker is trash: Takes unwarranted conclusions of mutation, drift, reconciliatory dance between gene and environment and justifies it as self evidentially JUST.

Its the Neo-divination of the Elite.

"[Pinker] told me he had met some amazing people there, like Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, the former secretaries of state to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, respectively. He seemed to enjoy both the absurdity of the experience and its purpose – [to comingle the powerful]."

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Hannu Ikonen, MD

"In the the eyes of his critics, this stance has made Pinker the world’s most prominent defender of the status quo. At a time of rising inequality and ecological catastrophe, his prescription for the world is to do basically the same thing we have been doing."

Yeah, that'll do it.

Thats narcissism, essentially. The status quo oligarchy rules as a consequence of <adaptation and competition> and therefore the justification of inequity, injustice etc is self-evidenced.

theguardian.com/science/2021/s

The Guardian · Pinker’s progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture warsBy Alex Blasdel

Old cis het white guys ALWAYS gravitate toward this direction if you tell them their farts dont stink.

Always.

And that is truer than any abstracted Darwinist conclusion Pinker can try to draw about the Oligarchy.

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@hannu_ikonen
A perfect definition of arrogance - their think their farts don’t stink.

@hannu_ikonen A thought provoking thread. Quite suitable analysis of Pinker, a writer and thinker I have admired.