Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-01-15
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 17
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Join us on 2/17 for a live digital experience of Behind the Bastards (plus Q&A) featuring Robert Evans, Propaganda, & Sophie Lichterman.
Robert Evans recommended This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski and The Next Apocalypse by Chris Begley. Also mentioned: Against the Grain by James C. Scott.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski is a quasi-fictionalized account written by a death camp survivor detailing the horrors and psychological realities of Auschwitz.
Recommended“I just need to state like that's that not not only is that like that is objectively untrue to the extent that I could provide anyone interested with thousands of pages of reading from people who survived concentration camps about how they worked and why people walked into them.”
Where to get it
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Against the Grain
Why people recommend it: Challenging traditional assumptions about the rise of human civilization and the origins of state control, Against the Grain by James C.
Discussed“I don't see states um and I think you would agree with me being the path out of you know utter climate catastrophe. Um for those who have been reading like you know against the grain and you know Greyber's work we would know that states have been pretty ecoidal from their very inception.”
Where to get it
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The Next Apocalypse
The Next Apocalypse by Chris Begley is a non-fiction book that explores historical civilizational collapses and challenges common wilderness myths and misconceptions about past societies.
Recommended“I I've been reading this very good book uh just started last night and I think we're going to have the author on the show soon uh Chris Begley. He's an underwater archaeologist and he wrote a book called The Next Apocalypse that's about collapses throughout history and how they actually differ from the popular conceptions of them.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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