Wittiest Sentence I've Read This Year

Steve Pinker attempts to explain the difference between Red and Blue states, and also why gays, guns, and taxes are correlated policy positions. In the process he notes that conservatives tend to have a pessimistic vision of human nature, liberals, a more optimistic notion:

The metaphors may be corollaries of the tragic and utopian visions, since different parenting practices are called for depending on whether you think of children as noble savages or as nasty, brutish and short.

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