What did you learn from a book the Steven Pinker ?

in esteem •  5 years ago  (edited)


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As we care about more of humanity, we’re apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world has sunk rather than how high our standards have risen."
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I finally finished reading the Steven Pinker new book. I was impressed by the number of charts and data that he used to explain his idea of how the world now is getting better, we are healthier than before, happier, wealthier, freer and we live longer (Agree, as a diabetic, I think I would be dead younger than now if I was born 100 years earlier 😀). The progress of science and technology made our life much better, but why we don't talk about that? Why the world seems to be a hell place? It's because the media in general prefer to talk about negative things, scandals, genocides, wars, oppression... People are not interested in knowing that in one city, there was no crime happening right now 😀. .
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The humankind is constantly evolving, Steven Pinker see that populism is an obstacle in the progress way, he criticizes Donald Trump politics from declining climate change to racism and fascism behavior. And he think that humanism is the way to keep the progress goes on..
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I liked this book, it feels good to see things from a new angle, to put yourself in the line of the historical events and realize that maybe we are born in the best time to be alive in. But to be honest I can't be as optimistic as Steven Pinker, I know he's a psychology profess in Harvard and he made an outstanding job collecting informations, but can we really win the battle against entropy ? That is the question I can't help myself but to ask for an answer for it 😀

우리가 더 많은 인간성에 관심을 가지면서, 우리는 우리의 기준이 얼마나 높아 졌는가보다 세계가 얼마나 가라 앉았는지에 대한 징표로 우리 주변의 해악을 착각하는 경향이 있습니다. "
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마침내 스티븐 핑커 (Steven Pinker)의 새로운 책을 읽었습니다. 전 세계가 지금 어떻게 나아지고 있는지, 우리는 예전보다 건강 해지고, 행복하고, 부유하고, 자유롭고, 더 오래 살 수 있다는 그의 생각을 설명하는 차트와 데이터의 숫자에 감명 받았습니다 (동의, 당뇨병 환자로서 생각합니다.) 나는 100 년 먼저 태어났다면 지금보다 더 젊다. 😀). 과학과 기술의 진보는 우리의 삶을 훨씬 좋게 만들었지 만, 왜 우리는 그것에 대해 이야기하지 않는 것입니까? 왜 세계가 지옥처럼 보이는거야? 언론은 일반적으로 부정적인 일, 스캔들, 대량 학살, 전쟁, 억압에 대해 이야기하기를 좋아하기 때문에 ... 사람들은 한 도시에서 범죄가 일어나지 않았다는 사실에 관심이 없습니다. .
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인류는 끊임없이 진화하고 있으며, 스티븐 핀커 (Steven Pinker)는 포퓰리즘이 진보의 걸림돌이며, 도널드 트럼프 (Donald Trump) 정치가 기후 변화를 인종 차별주의와 파시즘 행동으로 떨어 뜨리는 것을 비판합니다. 그리고 그는 인본주의가 진전을 계속 유지하는 방법이라고 생각합니다.
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나는이 책이 마음에 들었고, 사물을 새로운 각도에서 바라보고, 역사적인 사건에 귀를 기울이고, 우리가 살아야 할 최적의시기에 태어났다는 것을 깨닫게되었다. 그러나 솔직히 말해서 나는 할 수 없다. 스티븐 핑커만큼 낙관적 인 자세를 보였습니다. 하버드에서 심리학자로서의 자격이 있다는 것을 알고 그는 정보 수집에 탁월한 능력을 보였습니다. 그러나 엔트로피와의 전쟁에서 정말 승리 할 수 있습니까? 그것은 내가 스스로 도울 수는 없지만 그것에 대한 답을 구하는 질문이다.

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