November 21, 2009
Steven Pinker talks to Robert Wright.
On Bloggingheads. They're talking about language and evolution.
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Devoting 65 minutes of my life to Robert Wright's thoughts on, well, anything?
Not a chance.
Tempus fugit.
I FFed to see if Pinker held the phone like that for the whole hour and some and he did.
So Ann--a fan of Survivor and American Idol--you would have us believe that you sat enthralled while two eggheads discussed for over an hour whether the development of language more closely followed a classic Darwinian evolutionary theory, or that of Gould or Chomsky.
Yeah right!
Awesome. I'm going to check this out.
"that you sat enthralled while two eggheads"
I can't just sit there and watch them, but I'll get through it while brushing my teeth, taking a bath, etc.
Otherwise, I much prefer reading.
I do watch some trashy TV, maybe 5 hours a week. I really don't have much patience for any kind of video.
I find it slow.
Because there's no way a fan of "Survivor" and "American Idol" could be interested in linguistics?
I find linguistics fascinating.
But I don't watch either TV show.
Can it be a fundamental axiom?
<flips on Josie and the Pussycats>
Devoting 65 minutes of my life to Robert Wright's thoughts on, well, anything?
Not a chance.
Wow, you're missing out. I have no idea how many hours I've spent on Wright's thoughts, spoken and written. Many. Whether you agree with his views or not, it's worth it.
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