Episode · This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · 2025-01-11
Books mentioned on Joe Rogan | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #554
Joe Rogan discussed The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker and Oppenheimer by Charles Thorpe.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker is a comprehensive historical study arguing that violence has steadily declined throughout human history.
Discussed“that's like Stephen pinker's work if you follow his work on violence and crime people always want to think that violence and crime is more now than ever before”
Where to get it
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Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer by Charles Thorpe is a biographical and historical examination of J.
Discussed“boom boom scene in the Oppenheimer when they're deciding where to do it if that's how it went down”
Where to get it
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“so there's like that's like Stephen pinker's work if you follow his work on violence and crime people always want to think that violence and crime is more now than ever before but the reality is when you look at the course of human history it's there's never been a more uh safe time to be alive than right now”