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“I'm I'm a big fan of his I've been asthma uh friends with him for for many many years and his book The Blank Slate um lays all this out”
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“That's one of the things Pinker is right about in 'The Blank Slate'—violent deaths in tribal societies in pre-modernity were way higher than the average violent deaths of a European male in the 20th century. So, to some extent, this is a natural state.”
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“and then it is was a topic of my book the blank slate in the modern denial of human nature”