Pinker is a cognitive psychologist, linguist, Harvard professor, and the author of a host of books on language, culture, and humanity. This book serves to disabuse us of mistaken nostalgia and point us all in a forward-looking direction.
While it’s true that we are besieged every day by voices trumpeting the many ways things are bad and getting worse, Pinker makes a compelling case for why we need to adopt a more constructive outlook.įirst, to believe that things are worse than ever is objectively wrong second, by over-focusing on the negative, we waste energy that should be invested in solving fixable problems third, in buying into the downward-spiral narrative, we reinforce it.Ĭase in point: the election of a president whose toxic brand of populism harks back to a golden age that never was. Steven Pinker wants us to stop being so pessimistic.
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