STEVEN PINKER/ WHEN EVERYONE KNOWS
Steven Pinker.(2026) When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows, Scribner, 364 pages.
We both look at each other and we are waiting for the king. He finally rides on a beautififul stallion. We paln to watch to watch the look on the face of our insercure leader. We believe that he is relally dummb. As he rides along amomy his citizens, a kid from out of twon shouts that the king does’t have any clothes. He doesn’t know like we do. W e fight to keep a straight face that the kid doesn’t know what we know. The ;arents of the child, quickly make the child disappear.There is a bust of laughter and then the crowd quixly sees that no one saw them laugh. The king knows something is wrong.He hustles his horse through the crowd as he finally knows that his tailor knew that he would never please the king.Life ges on and so does society. We suceede on WHITE LIES Pinker is going to march the reader
through a position from total comon sebse ti absikyte to ;real honesty. It is so radical that everyone is trying to smear the next person. What do you know? The author uses a
horizontal strategy filled math and phisologic to outlijne various paradignms, puzzles, and related,.We end with RADICAL HONESTY. Much is non- cognitive and non-verbal.
It is the middle of book that is too much and to soon for every readers.The word “KNOWING” and all the iterations that some portions is very hard to undrstand. Pinker is the “Rock Star of this discussion and he so very popular.
Let’s go easy and end this. PLAUSIBL DENIABILY really keeps the reader and the “other” in a safety zone. One really does not want to know what is said to them.
