posted on December 16, 2019 07:24 PM by
u/ArbysMakesFries
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u/ProfColdheart54 pointsat 1576526090.000000
“By eliminating skepticism from his rendition of the Enlightenment,
Pinker has done the equivalent of removing every second word of a book:
what’s left behind is not half the sense of the original, but just
nonsense.”
It’s useful to think of Pinker-type Enlightenment bros as the flip
side of fundamentalists – they both create a cartoon version of the
source text(s) to justify whatever their current political project
is.
Reactionaries are people wanting to go back to the period before our
current status quo. The status quo ante. Which is a fantasy, the status
quo ante is always an imagined nostalgic place divorced from reality
(see the various racists who think the world was better when it had no
in it. Ignoring that these people always existed, and for
them this period was pretty bad, or the monarchist reactionary who
ignores all the bad shit kings and queens did).
Classical liberals do the same, they have an imagined ideal of the
classical liberal, which they want to go back to (ignoring that these
classical imaginary people didnt exist).
So, what im logic and reasoning here is, Pinker is a reactionary.
No. I just find the idea of Pinker using his stupid data gathering techniques to become an anti-Semite funny. I mean it wouldn't be the most far fetched thing for him to do either.
“By eliminating skepticism from his rendition of the Enlightenment, Pinker has done the equivalent of removing every second word of a book: what’s left behind is not half the sense of the original, but just nonsense.”
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It’s useful to think of Pinker-type Enlightenment bros as the flip side of fundamentalists – they both create a cartoon version of the source text(s) to justify whatever their current political project is.
Peven, and I cannot stress this enough, Stinker.
“Free market capitalism has been good for everyone.”
-- Free market capitalists
No lie detected.
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Holy shit I haven’t witnessed a man get roasted this thoroughly since Shapiro’s book’s reviews
This gave me so much energy. More like angels of our worst scholarship, amirite?
Reactionaries are people wanting to go back to the period before our current status quo. The status quo ante. Which is a fantasy, the status quo ante is always an imagined nostalgic place divorced from reality (see the various racists who think the world was better when it had no in it. Ignoring that these people always existed, and for
them this period was pretty bad, or the monarchist reactionary who
ignores all the bad shit kings and queens did).
Classical liberals do the same, they have an imagined ideal of the classical liberal, which they want to go back to (ignoring that these classical imaginary people didnt exist).
So, what im logic and reasoning here is, Pinker is a reactionary.
(And yes, this is a bad argument, and bs).
but did he run THE BIBLE throught textblob yet????