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Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty by roenxi on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:58AM (#19142530)
> promoters of apocalyse narratives ... [b]oth hard left and hard right both require people to believe the "world getting worse and worse"

There are still veterans of WWII alive today, and that was pretty much an apocalypse for the people involved. Just because the last 50 years have been peaceful doesn't mean good times are guaranteed, we should remain cautious of threats. Change is extremely rapid. Many of the issues raised by both sides are concerns worth taking seriously, even if the people raising them are wholly unqualified by temperament to do anything about it.

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Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty by arethuza on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:22AM (#19142623)
And there are even more people (myself included) who lived through part of the Cold War and realise that we just got through that period by sheer luck and the good judgement of a handful of people on both sides.
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Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty by ddebernardy on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:46AM (#19142722)
> There are still veterans of WWII alive today

There are still veterans of WWII alive today that were born at a point in time where the idea of fighting a new world war was unthinkable.

FTFY

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