![]() But this timeline, if it ever existed, ended long ago. And so let’s raise a glass to psychologist and pop scientist Steven Pinker, who in his most recent book burbles forth: “Rationality is uncool.” Pinker pledges fealty to Reason, the chaste goddess, even though he “cannot argue that reason is dope, phat, chill, fly, sick, or da bomb.” This delightful complaint evokes a vanished era in which we all were just vibing on reason, knowledge, hexagons and vaccines and supercolliders and, I don’t know, eugenics. In troubled times, we must be grateful for every touch of the ridiculous. ![]() ![]() Eve Tushnet / NovemDangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985ĭisclosure: This collection includes an essay by Kelly Roberts, editor-in-chief of We Are the Mutants. ![]()
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