
Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Is There Such a Thing as if We're Going to Hell?
In the face of such radically good news, is there such an insistence that the system is corrupt? It goes back at least to the old testament prophets who combined a kind of social criticism with a a foretelling an apocalyptic disaster. I wouldn't put down just f sheer human competitiveness. One of my favourite explanations of the veneration of the past golden ages comes from thomas hobbs - competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead. He question ther, i guess, in paris.
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