(November 25, 2014 at 2:01 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(November 25, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Alex K Wrote: Really!? Pinker?Yeah but it's not entirely surprising given that the man has demonstrated himself to be an apologist for Western imperialism in the past.
This is one of many devastating critiques of the lenses through which Pinker perceives the world as revealed in one of his more recent and poplar books:
http://isreview.org/issue/86/steven-pink...e-violence
I mean, he was bound to have the same privileged old white dude syndrome as Dawkins, to some extent, but it's a bit disappointing anyhow.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
