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Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost In the Machine
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Stephen pinker's got this great book sense of style that where he unpacks this and it it is my entire Bible of writing.
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Well there's most certainly thinking if you you know study Stephen pinker's work this is the safest like most understanding least racist least violent least rapey time in human history If you go back and think of all the horrific crimes that have been committed since the beginning of time and you look at them on a scale even though.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024 Where and when it comes up
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Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost In the Machine is an influential work of popular science and philosophy by Stephen Pinker that explores human nature and the historical trajectory of violence. Johnny Harris recommended Pinker's work on How I Write, specifically praising Sense of Style as his absolute writing bible for its focus on active language. Meanwhile, Joe Rogan discussed Pinker's broader arguments across multiple episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, noting how the author demonstrates that contemporary society represents the safest and least violent era in human history, a theme also echoed by guests like Bryan Callen and Tiller Russell, as well as hosts on Modern Wisdom and the Lex Fridman Podcast. Commentators frequently highlighted how Pinker challenges traditional assumptions about the blank slate theory of human behavior by documenting the significant decline of interpersonal violence over the centuries. Listeners drawn to sociological history, cognitive science, and clear communication often encounter these concepts through the widespread cultural reach of these podcast discussions.
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Joe Rogan well there's most certainly thinking if you you know study Stephen pinker's work this is the safest like mo… 3
“You ever see stepen Pinker book the blank slate Yes you know the the when uh the Anthropologist I can't remember their name”
“and dude there's a crazy there's a crazy book on this stephen pinker wrote this book called the better angels of our nature and what he does is he tracks over time kind of the nature of violence in humanity”
“well there's most certainly thinking if you you know study Stephen pinker's work this is the safest like most understanding least racist least violent least rapey time in human history If you go back and think of all the horrific crimes that have been committed since the beginning of time and you look at them on a scale even though”
Johnny Harris Stephen pinker's got this great book sense of style that where he unpacks this and it it is my entire Bible… 1
“Stephen pinker's got this great book sense of style that where he unpacks this and it it is my entire Bible of writing”
Andrew Huberman and if you look at like say stephen pinker's work where he covers you know the history of uh human beings a… 1
“and if you look at like say stephen pinker's work where he covers you know the history of uh human beings and interactions we are in the best time ever”
Sheldon Solomon that would basically be like stephen pinker's blank slate 1
“that would basically be like stephen pinker's blank slate”
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“and of course Stephen pinker's been another person who's written a lot about this and about the ways in which violence was much more a regular part of our Lives until the last few centuries”
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“so there's like that's like Stephen pinker's work if you follow his work on violence and crime people always want to think that violence and crime is more now than ever before but the reality is when you look at the course of human history it's there's never been a more uh safe time to be alive than right now”