Photography Is Her Susan Taha, Ha Ha.

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Photography is mainly a social right, a defence against anxiety and a tool of power es right now, overrated. The challenge of photography is to both convey a sense of something out there, but also for that two dimensional patch to itself be an aesthetically pleasing object. And as a photographer, it's i'm always cognizant of, what will that two dimensional aa patchwork of color look like, and what is it photograph of?

Steven Pinker has spent an entire academic career thinking deeply about language, cognition, and human nature. Driving it all, he says, is an Enlightenment belief that the world is intelligible, science can progress, and through rational inquiry we can better understand ourselves.

He recently joined Tyler for a conversation not only on the power of reason, but also the economics of irrational verbs, whether violence will continue to decline, behavioral economics, existential threats, the merits of aerobic exercise, photography, group selection, Fermi’s paradox, Noam Chomsky, universal grammar, free will, the Ed Sullivan show, and why people underrate the passive (or so it is thought).

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