Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-06-08
Books mentioned on Humankind: Are We Good Or Evil? - Rutger Bregman - #181
Rutger Bregman is a historian & an author. It's a common-held view of humanity that humans are adversarial.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a classic 20th-century allegorical novel about a group of British schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited island who descend into savagery as their attempts at self-governance fail.
Discussed“and now one of the sort of the most famous manifestations of this idea in the 20th century was this novel Lord of the Flies that you know especially people in the anglo-saxon world in the US and the UK you know so many people have read it or were forced to read it for a school write this story”
Where to get it
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Chimpanzee Politics
Discussed“France - Wow you know he's my fellow Dutch man he's a primatologist and he's been studying chimpanzees and bonobos now for decades and in the 80s I believe he wrote a book called chimpanzee politics in which he described sort of all the politics of zoo in the Netherlands and he compared it to US Congress”
Where to get it
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Humankind
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman is a popular nonfiction book that argues human beings are fundamentally cooperative and decent rather than inherently selfish.
Recommended“well humankind hopeful history will be linked in the show notes below on Amazon Rutgers Twitter which is disproportionately massive”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Humankind
“so why don't you tell us about before we even get into your new book human humankind which is great”
Own book Utopia for Realists
“and again I was really lucky because it was about to promote my new book sure to my previous book utopia for realists and I was about to go on a book tour in Australia”