Steven Pinker always reminds me of that Upton Sinclair quote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!".
His entire career as a public intellectual seems to be as a defender of the status quo, reassuring tech-inclined liberals that everything is fine, that they can go on consuming, because "the system" is working well.
And he writes gigantic tomes that require gigantic tomes to reply to, so it's a bit of a war of attrition.
His entire career as a public intellectual seems to be as a defender of the status quo, reassuring tech-inclined liberals that everything is fine, that they can go on consuming, because "the system" is working well.
And he writes gigantic tomes that require gigantic tomes to reply to, so it's a bit of a war of attrition.