📚 4 Books mentioned in "Joe Rogan Experience #1021 - Russell Brand" of The Joe Rogan Experience

you know in David Foster Wallace your great American author in his book Infinite Jest postulated a world where all stadiums were named after brands where countries and regions were named after brands and it's sort of I mean it's happening

Russell Brand mentions David Foster Wallace and his book Infinite Jest, referencing its prediction about branding in society.

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and at this great quote in Herman Melville's moby-dick that says you know Noah's Flood is still happening we are the majority of the earth is still flooded in water these we are connected to these events

Russell Brand quotes Herman Melville's book Moby-Dick to illustrate a point about humanity's connection to natural events and chaos.

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and that's I think shows you that we're not as in a Darwinistic model or some of the ideas derived from Darwinism rather like The Selfish Gene and the Richard Dawkins idea that people just want to survive and we just want to kill them [ __ ] and you know and this is what propels us forward

Russell Brand discusses ideas derived from Darwinism, specifically mentioning Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene in the context of human nature (survival, selfishness).

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are you familiar with uh Sebastian Junger no Sebastian Junger is an amazing war journalist and he wrote a great book called tribe and his how his book is essentially all about how human beings really only feel at their best and they're happiest when they're coming together to only on something

Joe Rogan mentions Sebastian Junger and his book 'Tribe', discussing its theme about human connection during crisis.

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