![]() ![]() Paul Bloom isn’t, despite what the title of Against Empathy might imply, against empathy. The market pressure for constant novelty, which operates similarly in academia and in publishing, creates a dangerous incentive toward trying to say things that are eye-catching rather than things that are true. Thus we get books like Against Democracy, Against Love, and even Against Everything. ![]() It would be tough to get a contract to write something that simply expresses some basic and obvious truth, like Hooray for Love or Democracy: Isn’t It Nifty? Instead, you need the “counterintuitive” perspective, the contrarian #SlatePitch that demonstrates why that thing you thought was good was actually bad, or vice versa. The difficulty with publishing a nonfiction book is that you need a novel angle. ![]()
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