"To put it plainly, some of the richest people and institutions in the world (including university endowments) profit by taking calories out of the mouths of the world’s poorest babies. We must quickly correct this malignant moral myopia masquerading as optimism."
"This isn’t moral rocket science—rich-folk feelings and gains aren’t what should matter most here."
The Dark Origins of Optimism and its Current Cheerful Evils
A seductive but deceptively skewed school of thought has enchanted our elite. It teaches that “optimism” is essential to solving society’s problems (it comes in many flavors including, New Optimism, Rational Optimism, and Techno Optimism). Its veritable bible is Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of
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