Assignment task: Watch and Read pages 3-15 from Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?
YouTube Video: Munk Debate on Progress ft. Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton
Article: Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? The Munk Debates By Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Alain de Botton, Malcolm Gladwell
Questions
After watching the debate and reading the first 12 page of the debate, what are your thoughts on this topic?
De Botton says, "And with those four things--ignorance, poverty, war and disease--under control, we will rise onto a sunlit highland that our optimist friends want to tell us is on the way" (11). Explain what he means.