On 07/07/18 13:24, Florian Cramer wrote: >> >> And yet ... by nearly every agreed-upon measure, the "cultural, >> political and economic systems in place" have contributed to what can be >> called--with equal understatement--a significant reduction in global >> poverty rates. A 74% reduction since 1990 by some estimates. >> > > Let me guess - your source is Hans Rosling?
Peven Stinker spouts similarly. Here is John Gray reviewing: John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war: "The Harvard psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: a history of violence and humanity (2011) has not only been an international bestseller – more than a thousand pages long and containing a formidable array of graphs and statistics, the book has established something akin to a contemporary orthodoxy. It is now not uncommon to find it stated, as though it were a matter of fact, that human beings are becoming less violent and more altruistic." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/13/john-gray-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining & "Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker’s embarrassing new book is a feeble sermon for rattled liberals - To think of this book as any kind of scholarly exercise is a category mistake. The purpose of Pinker’s laborious work is to reassure liberals that they are on “the right side of history”." - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlightened-thinking-steven-pinker-s-embarrassing-new-book-feeble-sermon # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: