09/23/20
Steven Pinker is optimistic about the trend towards less violence siting one reason among others that people's ability to reason is increasing. He seems to equate greater reasoning ability with the right-thinking value of individualism. [R/G/think] [R/S/welc] [R/S/noharm] “But the key qualification is that the escalator of reason predicts only that intelligence should be correlated with classical liberalism, which values the autonomy and well-being of individuals over the constraints of tribe, authority, and tradition. Intelligence is expected to correlate with classical liberalism is itself a consequence of the interchangeability of perspectives that is inherent to reason itself.” Better Angels of Our Nature Steven Pinker
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