![]() And he holds them up against todays trend in politics of looking backwards and against the permanent state of fear and crisis that modern media fuels in us. ![]() Pinker now continues this discussion on the leading ideas and ideologies behind all this human progress, and expands his topics from violence to all sorts of important metrics of progress and happiness. ![]() That book quite convincingly (in my opinion) showed how violence, in almost all its appearances, has declined over the centuries and decades, and how we are now living in the safest age that there ever was. That’s Steven Pinker’s own stated goal for this book, which is sort of a sequel to his highly appreciated book The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011). “My attempt is to restate the ideals of the Enlightenment in the language and concepts of the 21 st century.” ![]()
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