Harvard Professor Steven Pinker points out in his new book `Enlightenment now´ that life expectancy, health, wealth, safety, peace, knowledge, and even happiness are on the rise.
Meanwhile, making these drawings of hands, I was reminded of some of the gestures I’d seen in the news from political demonstrators.
The sharks are reaching a feeding frenzy in the `do-not-think-tanks´, and helped by their allies, the parasitic algorithms, they’re churning out these divisive, attention grabbing one-liners whose only objective is to get the strongest reaction possible. So many seem unable to resist the bait.
Pinker points out that science and reason have allowed us to make incredible progress, yet science and reason are unable to save us from this ever escalating self-destructive hysteria raging in our town square and our streets.
I reclaim my sovereign right to govern my own mind and attention. I remember that no matter where we are from, it was our ancestors that got us here. They are the ones that lived without modern dentistry, anesthesia, hot water, central heating and clean drinking water, while they created those technologies for our benefit.
In the name of our ancestors, I choose gratitude.
