Marie Ottavi Jacques de Bascher : Dandy de l'ombre pdf

Jacques de Bascher : Dandy de l'ombre

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Titre du livre : Jacques de Bascher : Dandy de l'ombre

Auteur : Marie Ottavi

ISBN-10 : 978-2840496472

Date de sortie : NOUVELLES ED.

Catégorie : Marie Ottavi

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Most of this book is a feelgood delight, worth a million antidepressants, and totally compelling. Pinker convincingly makes the case that in the last two hundred years human life has been getting better and better – and that rate of improvement is speeding up, despite there being greater numbers of people on Earth than ever before.Scores of graphs show this to be true. On the verge of repetition, Pinker rams home the message that life is getting much better in almost every way.My only gripe? Some of the chapter entitled ‘The Future of Progress’. In it, he slams what he calls ‘populism’, and he particularly has it in for Trump. I’m not American and can’t fully comment on his opinions, but I am British so I did get riled when he lumped Brexit in with Trump’s election as proof of an undesirable populist surge. Firstly, it is lazy thinking to lump them together just because they happened in the same year. Secondly, the vote to leave the UK was a progressive, humanistic vote, because it saw people wanting to return to a system of directly elected representatives, to lessen the gap between the rulers and the ruled, to live under laws that were suited to their own circumstances, as opposed to other circumstances in 27 other countries. In other words, it was a vote FOR democracy!In this chapter Pinker betrays himself as a liberal globalist who has no real understanding of the European Union; he sees it as an instigator of much of the processes that have led to the improvements he details elsewhere in the book. But there is absolutely no reason why a newly independent United Kingdom cannot continue to be at the forefront of pushing forward pro-market, pro-enlightenment, pro-human legislation. Pinker does actually say at one point in the book that the UK is among the three most influential countries in the world (the others being the US and Germany).So, apart from this small grumble, I’d praise this as an accessible, rationally positive, incredibly valuable book that everyone should read.