A review by sylvrwlf
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

1.0

Some good points on the state of the world being OK. However, the author manages to alienate any sympathy I have for his points by hating on pretty much every group of people ever, even as he points out the psychological traps that people can’t help but fall into to think that the world is doing badly because predominately bad things are reported to us/observed by our brains. Like, thank you for pointing out that this is a problem with how our brains work. Now can you please focus on what we can do to make things even better, rather than complaining about how we’re all ungrateful for what we have even though we kind of don’t know any better?