Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-07-23
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Robert Evans discussed Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and others. Also mentioned: Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher, From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman, Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin and others, and Mothers and Others by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Assad or We Burn the Country
Discussed“He has a book titled Assad or We Burn the Country, which I admittedly have not read. It's like 500 pages, but I did pull a lot of info from the book and interviews that he's done about it, mostly in regards to the economic stuff that we'll get into later, but it was a very helpful resource.”
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L.
Discussed“However, US journalist Thomas Freriedman claims in his book uh from Beirut to Jerusalem that fat later said the total number of victims was 38,000 people. 38,000 people.”
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Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin is a foundational anarchist text arguing that cooperation and mutual support, rather than strict competition, are the primary drivers of evolution and human society.
Discussed“But as far back as Prudon and really even further because yeah, let's be real, it's a very European concept. Yeah, it's not something that can be projected towards all human societies and all human philosophies. Um but Prudon was one of the first white guys I guess um in his time period and in his field to really challenge”
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Mothers and Others
Discussed“Dr. Hardy really comes down on the cooperation side of things in her book mothers and others where she brings together all this evidence that we are basically descendants of a place to scene species of cooperative breeders.”
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Sex at Dawn
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá is an exploration of human sexuality that challenges conventional ideas about monogamy by examining evolutionary biology and primate behavior.
Discussed“Yeah, there's a couple I mean there's there's a book called Sex at Dawn that I read many many years ago that's about kind of like the evolution of human sexuality and how some of it's been like how different cultures have looked at things like like what makes someone a parent.”
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