The problem may start with your college education, he writes. In a similar way, lots of factors contribute to a negative appraisal of the world, Pinker says.
There can be other causes for the warning sometimes the light itself is faulty. Sometimes it lights up when your brakes are actually OK. If that sounds counterintuitive or even Pollyannaish, picture that brake warning light in your car. Just because it seems like the world is imploding, he writes, doesn’t mean that the world actually is imploding. Is all the bad news these days getting you down? Do you feel as though society is descending into dystopia and the world into chaos? Take heart! Harvard psychologist and science popularizer Steven Pinker offers good news for you in his latest book, Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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