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Intellectuals, above all those who call themselves progressive, hate progress
Drawn from what Steven Pinker said
What Steven Pinker actually said
- Steven Pinker Cognitive scientist and author at Harvard
Intellectuals hate progress.
Our restatementThe opening line of his chapter "Progressophobia", which the same passage narrows at once: it is intellectuals who call themselves progressive who "really hate progress", and not, he says, its fruits.
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