A Rational Approach to Politics Is to Treat Societies as Ongoing Experiments Steven Pinker

A real society comprises hundreds of millions of social beings, each with a trillion-synapse brain, who pursue their well-being while affecting the well-being of others in complex networks with massive positive and negative externalities, many of them historically unprecedented.

It is bound to defy any simple narrative of what will happen under a given set of rules.

A more rational approach to politics is to treat societies as ongoing experiments and open-mindedly learn the best practices, whatever part of the spectrum they come from.

Credit: Steven Pinker