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6 Sept 2023 Conversations with Tyler Jerusalem Demsas on The Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, and Of Boys and Men
“I think he’s much more pessimistic about it than I am, given how quick the gains have been in my own lifetime around moral progress.”
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…Do you agree with Swift about the difficulty of moral progress? That it’s difficult? I agree that it’s difficult. I think he’s much more pessimistic about it than I am, given how quick the gains have been in my own lifetime around moral progress. So, you’re with Steven Pinker, more or less?…
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