6/25/2023 0 Comments Enlightenment nowProgress marches ever-onward, bringing light to the darkness, and order to chaos. Even the most apocalyptic-seeming dilemma is just a problem to be solved. Quality of life? Democracy? Equality? Don't sweat it. The environment? Some challenges, sure, but we'll work them out. Pinker's latest, Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress, reads like a long-form Everything's OK Alarm. Among his ill-conceived doohickeys is the Everything's OK Alarm, a retrofitted smoke detector that makes an obnoxious shrieking sound every three seconds, "unless something isn't okay." So why shouldn't there be one for Steven Pinker, the Canadian-American psychologist and pop-science author? Consider the episode in which our hero, Homer Simpson, recasts himself as an inventor. It's been said that there's a Simpsons reference for everything.
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