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Trump will have Webster thrown in jail :-D
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Been saying since last spring, "let the voters decide."
Well, they did. Get over it.
Nah, half the voters are fools. Many of the non-voters are fools as well.
https://stevenpinker.com/publications/enlightenment-now-case-reason-science-humanism-and-progress
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In
this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium,
cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step
back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our
psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In 75 jaw-dropping graphs,
Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and
happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This
progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the
Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human
flourishing.
Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked.
But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project
swims against currents of human nature—tribalism, authoritarianism,
demonization, magical thinking—which demagogues are all too willing to
exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic
ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive
fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal
democracy and global cooperation.
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I see a bad moon rising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today.
Don't go 'round tonight,
It's bound to take your life.
There's a bad moon on the rise.
-- J. C. Fogerty, "Bad Moon Rising"