📚 1 Books mentioned in "Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist" of The Ben & Marc Show
Podcast: The Ben & Marc Show
Episode: Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
Published on October 21, 2023
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Leviathan
Buy Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes on Amazon
Like nature really has it out for you, um, and if you're unprotected in a state of nature like it, you know, the old, the old thing is you know life and state of nature is, is is is what is it nasty, brutish and short, poor, solitary, nasty, brutish and short, Hobbes, yeah, exactly. And so so look technology, you know, it's of the flip side of the question is technology is now buffering us against, you know, sources of mass death, um, that used to be, you know, far far far more common.
Marc references Hobbes and the quote 'nasty, brutish and short' to illustrate life in a state of nature. This leads to the inference that his mention pertains to Hobbes' book 'Leviathan', which explores these themes.