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are. In Steven Pinker’s eye-opening book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, he tackles these assumptions head-on. Of our fears that the world is getting less safe, less predictable, less hospitable, he claims:
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The figure bears upon a long-standing controversy concerning the evolutionary role of ideas. The fount of social change, say many intellectual historians and cultural anthropologists, generally lies in the realm of ideas. By this logic, historical explanation ordinarily must begin with an account of what people were thinking. Other scholars,
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Stoicism, by enlarging human association, emancipates the individual.
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However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for
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Your thoughts seem predictable.