Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Builds and Weakens Societies
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Uh. Uh are repressed to dictatorships. Which is is less obvious than you would think, because you might think, Well Uh a dictator can just let the people bitch and moan all they want. He's got the guns, he's got the power. And the reason that they don't is that um there are there is safety in numbers, but only if there is coordination. If everyone resists at the same time, so they can't so they overpower the regime, which they can only do with common. And now the good fight. With Yasha Monk
Магастя із Стивен Пинка. Steven. is the Johnston Family Professor at Harvard University. and uh the author of many wonderful books on uh language on the human mind. On why the world has actually gotten better.
And Most recently. Of when everyone knows that everyone knows. The book is all About what Steve calls
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