[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

"My own view is that the new sciences of human nature really do vindicate some version of the tragic vision and undermine the utopian outlook that until recently dominated large segments of intellectual life," he writes.

Of course it does. Socialists and communists are wrong. We knew that.

[tpaine]

Dr. Pinker believes that dominance and violence are universal; that human societies are more given to an ethos of reciprocity than to communal sharing; that intelligence and character are in part inherited, meaning that "some degree of inequality will arise even in perfectly fair economic systems," and that all societies are ethnocentric and easily roused to racial hatred.
He distinguishes between a leftist utopian vision of human nature (the mind is a blank slate, man is a Noble Savage, traditional institutions are the problem) and the tragic vision preferred by the right (man is the problem; family, creed and Adam Smith's Invisible Hand are the solutions).

"My own view is that the new sciences of human nature really do vindicate some version of the tragic vision and undermine the utopian outlook that until recently dominated large segments of intellectual life," he writes.

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Rightwing Conspiratr1 wrote:

Of course it does. Socialists and communists are wrong. We knew that.

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Only rational men know that..

-- As we see by this thread, there are many who believe in the 'ghost within', and insist that we order our society around their religious & social beliefs.
Ain't gonna happen, constitutionally.