Per Pinker's Twitter account:
Snowden, Greenwald, & Assange are self-serving, paranoid nihilists - Must-read article in The New Republic | http://bit.ly/1bazR4M
So very disappointing. I don't think I'll be paying much attention to Pinker's opinions in the future. Anyone with even half a brain can see the TNR article's breakdown in logic, not to mention the hit piece has already been so thoroughly discredited by far more rigorous journalists.
Subsequently, this is a total evisceration of Pinker's 2011 book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature." It makes sense of his logic in allying himself to the mass surveillance state: http://t.co/kFxFnOEI5n
Snowden, Greenwald, & Assange are self-serving, paranoid nihilists - Must-read article in The New Republic | http://bit.ly/1bazR4M
So very disappointing. I don't think I'll be paying much attention to Pinker's opinions in the future. Anyone with even half a brain can see the TNR article's breakdown in logic, not to mention the hit piece has already been so thoroughly discredited by far more rigorous journalists.
Subsequently, this is a total evisceration of Pinker's 2011 book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature." It makes sense of his logic in allying himself to the mass surveillance state: http://t.co/kFxFnOEI5n
