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Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) 4 stars

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily …

He fucking cited CHARLES MURRAY. Immediately after citing Francis Fukuyama. After citing HIMSELF.

Also, all of his examples of how society was more violent in the 1960s are "based on demographics" BUT THEN HE DOESN'T TALK ABOUT WHAT WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN THE 1960S.

He also thinks One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a movie ROMANTICISING INSANITY rather than a movie based on a book that was written as part of an effort to help combat abuse within PSYCHIATRY.

I am losing my MIND.