nothing says "i'm rational" like explicitly saying "i'm rational" as an argument for why your beliefs are correct
holding up rationality as some abstract virtue makes you right about everything
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When you're so out of touch with the working class you don't even know how they speak.
Reminder that Pinker was super close to Epstein.
From the NYT review of the book:
But there was something else —something that bears more directly on his thesis that rationality has been such a benevolent force for progress. In 2007 Pinker lent his professional expertise to Epstein's legal defense team, which argued that Epstein hadn't violated a federal statute prohibiting the use of the internet to lure minors across state lines for sexual abuse. "According to Dr. Pinker, that is the sole rational reading in the English language," the affidavit stated — a sterling example of a thinking process so confidently pristine that it can give unthinking cover to the grotesque.
Or how about the testimony of one of the trafficked victims - Virginia Giuffre - Epstein pimped to clients, including Pinker:
Two weeks later, as if Jeffrey was trying to lighten my spirits, he told me I would be going to his island to meet a new client He is a Harvard Professor, named Stephen . I would be spending two days with him showing him around the island, dining with him, and treating him to a massage whenever he wanted. Without Jeffrey even verbalizing the need to have sex with him, he told me to keep him happy like I had my first client. I packed my suitcase with island apparel, and kissed T.J good-bye, who had at least offered me a warm embrace upon the news of my miscarriage but none other than that knowing it wasn't his. Stephen was a quirky little man with white hair and a mad scientist look about him. We arrived separately and I greeted him when one of the housekeepers picked him up from the airport and arrived by boat, instead of helicopter as Jeffrey and Ghislane often arrive on. We made our acquaintances and he looked as if he was tripping over himself with words, obviously delighted with his company and location for the weekend. I showed him around as Jeffrey had asked and took him on an adventurous quad bike ride around the small curvy paths, leading the way and letting loose my hair, doing something that gave me a natural high instead of the prescription one.
The fact that anyone takes this pedo grifter's phone calls, never mind taking him seriously, is all you need to know about how sick the ruling class and media culture is.
"the professional managerial class isn't real" it's a big club and you could be in it if you become a class traitor
Pinker and all his rational friends go full on phrenology the moment you mention Muslims
conveniently forgetting that a lot of the western idea of rationality we got from Aristotle and Socrates which were only available to the west after the dark ages because Muslim nations had translations they traded with the west
rationality is uncool
Reminder that :debate-me-debate-me: types go in the :pit:
That’s kinda generous considering the other thing you could call him. To quote Sam ‘s pinker impression from We’re in Hell
“This is the best time to be alive, you get to be told how smart you are about linguistics, you can buy Mad Scientist brand conditioner, you can even fly around on a plane with a fun guy and his young massage friends!”
Harvard professors all seem to be prominent defenders of the status quo. Bet it's just like that out of coincidence.
He wishes he was a nerd, nerds are supposed to be smart. Nothing that I've heard or read about Pinker suggests in any way to me that he's above average intelligence.
I mean, it’s basically a meaningless label, because everyone thinks they’re reasoning is rational. It’s just pretentious bullshit that implies there’s something deficient about anyone who disagrees.
what's annoying is that reasoning skills and logic are genuinely useful tools to help you understand things but weird nerds have decided that they are inherent traits and signs of worthiness
I am le epic rational, also for some reason you could learn all of my opinions from someone in a midwestern cowboy bar who thinks books are a conspiracy.
rationality is good, I think I am a good person therefore I am rational As a rational person it follows that all my opinions are rational and therefore any criticism of my opinions is irrational therefore the critic is irrational and therefore bad.
It's rationality as a trait rather than a process
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Same energy as the drugs conference in Fear and Loathing lmao
