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As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old… - Steven Pinker
" "As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.
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Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-born American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and popular science writer known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
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A major breakthrough of the Scientific Revolution - perhaps its biggest breakthrough - was to refute the intuition that the universe is saturated with purpose. In this primitive but ubiquitous understanding, everything happens for a reason, so when bad things happen - accidents, disease, famine, poverty - some agent must have wanted them to happen.
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