Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
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Is Rat Music a Musical Extension of the Black English?
stephen pinker once defended black english in a debate with william f. Buckley. He says rat music is not an argument for the objective merit of it compared to any other kind of music. The standard could have been black English if history had run differently, but that doesn't happen to be. It's good that we all settle on a standard to maximize communication and efficiency or certain aesaesthetic judgments. Arobic exercise, underrated or overrated? Ohha aa, underrated. I like it. Because i like to think that i'm also accomplishing wheni when i go jogging or cycling. Behaviour a economics. Economists playing at psychology.
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