{"id":22709,"date":"2017-02-16T16:43:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/I-fall-somewhere-between-Pinker-who-this-article-critiques-and-its-author-with-a-bias-to-the-Pinker-or-optimistic"},"modified":"2017-02-16T16:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:43:40","slug":"i-fall-somewhere-between-pinker-who-this-article-critiques-and-its-author-with-a-bias-to-the-pinker-or-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/02\/16\/i-fall-somewhere-between-pinker-who-this-article-critiques-and-its-author-with-a-bias-to-the-pinker-or-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"I fall somewhere between Pinker, who this article critiques, and its author, with a bias to the Pinker or optimistic&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>I fall somewhere between Pinker, who this article critiques, and its author, with a bias to the Pinker or optimistic side. I think we are becoming more peaceful and altruistic, but not as universally or quickly as Pinker represents, and &#8211; as Grey warns &#8211; it&#8217;s not an inevitable progression, but could be rolled back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s over to those of us who think and care about such things to throw our weight behind peace and altruism and oppose darker solutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Laura Gibbs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a good read. I don&#8217;t know enough to have an opinion myself, but I was certainly surprised to see John Dee make an appearance here towards the end!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/mar\/13\/john-gray-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/mar\/13\/john-gray-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/mar\/13\/john-gray-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/mar\/13\/john-gray-steven-pinker-wrong-violence-war-declining<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I fall somewhere between Pinker, who this article critiques, and its author, with a bias to the Pinker or optimistic&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/02\/16\/i-fall-somewhere-between-pinker-who-this-article-critiques-and-its-author-with-a-bias-to-the-pinker-or-optimistic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}