How are human beings doing and how is the overall quality of life for us? Check out the book Enlightenment Now to learn on the prosperity of humans 🌎

It seems you are never far from finding salmon on the streets in Alaska. This picture was taken while visiting Seward, Alaska. Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker (cognitive scientist and linguist) details the status of how humans live in the safest and prosperous time as of now through intellectual depth of data referenced and artistic verve. That being said the book concludes with the rational statement of, “we will never have a perfect world, and it would be dangerous to seek one. But there is no limit to the betterments we can attain if we continue to apply knowledge to enhance human flourishing." -Steven Pinker

Favorite Steven Pinker Quotes

“As we care about more of humanity, we’re apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world has sunk rather than how high our standards have risen.”

“There can be no question of which was the greatest era for culture; the answer has to be today, until it is superseded by tomorrow.”

“My new favorite book of all time” - Bill Gates