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Quotations is about words, written and spoken throughout history. Words speak to us through our eyes and our ears. They enrich our lives, allow us to communicate thoughts to others, and sometimes, last for generations. This podcast explores not only the words, but the speaker, author, figure, or character who originated them. To whom were they said or written? What was their intended effect and on whom? What was the originator thinking? Find out each episode and we discover new quotations, some familiar, some not!
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Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Steven Pinker is an author, philosopher, and a damn good one at that. His book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress argues that life is, on the whole, better for nearly every person everywhere in the world, today, than it was in years past.
His words, which I discuss in this episode, are a summary of the most important points of this book and serve as a caution against catastrophism, tribalism, and fatalism that pervade our thoughts so easily.
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