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*Steven Pinker - [https://foresight.org/summary/steven-pinker-on-progress-challenges-and-future-visions/]. Overall progress. | *Steven Pinker - [https://foresight.org/summary/steven-pinker-on-progress-challenges-and-future-visions/]. Overall progress. | ||
*We hide progress because good things happening do not make the news - and news emphasizes negative. Bad news is journalism. Good news is advertising. | *We hide progress because good things happening do not make the news - and news emphasizes negative. Bad news is journalism. Good news is advertising. | ||
*We have gruesome addition to bad news. If you follow news too much and don't look at graphs enough, you get distortion.' | |||
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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/11/27/20984462/thanksgiving-poverty-health-crime-literacy-good-news | https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/11/27/20984462/thanksgiving-poverty-health-crime-literacy-good-news | ||
Revision as of 19:49, 20 May 2025
2025
- Steven Pinker - [1]. Overall progress.
- We hide progress because good things happening do not make the news - and news emphasizes negative. Bad news is journalism. Good news is advertising.
- We have gruesome addition to bad news. If you follow news too much and don't look at graphs enough, you get distortion.'