Humankind: A Hopeful History - Rutger Bregman
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Anthropology
History
human nature
humanism
Humans
Philosophy
Sociology
Stephen Fry
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It’s a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we’re taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest.
Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. The instinct to cooperate rather than compete, trust rather than distrust, has an evolutionary basis going right back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. By thinking the worst of others, we bring out the worst in our politics and economics, too.
In this major audiobook, international best-selling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world’s most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the cooperation seen in the aftermath of the Blitz, the hidden flaws in the Stanford Prison Experiment to the true story of the Kitty Genovese murder, Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think - and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society.
“Never dewy-eyed, wistful or naive, Rutger Bregman makes a wholly robust and convincing case for believing - despite so much apparent evidence to the contrary - that we are not the savage, irredeemably greedy, violent and rapacious species we can be led into thinking ourselves to be. Hugely, highly and happily recommended.” (Stephen Fry)
“Rutger Bregman’s extraordinary new book is a revelation…. Humankind is masterful in its grasp of history, both ancient and modern.” (Susan Cain, author of Quiet)
“Cynicism is a theory of everything, but, as Rutger Bregman brilliantly shows, an elective one. This necessary book widens the aperture of possibility for a better future, and radically.” (David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth)
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
August 8th, 2020
The Stanford Prison Experiment was arrant nonsense. The Milgram experiment is one which unfortunately overturns this book’s sunny thesis. And the 20th century sinks it like a particularly heavy stone. It illustrates how, as a species, we will do whatever the worst possible thing happens to be. Repeatedly.
The widespread looting which occurred during the Blitz (the “Blitz Spirit?”) also doesn’t help.
Of course, many people are indeed super-duper, and no mistake!
August 9th, 2020
Milgram Shock Treatment was thoroughly debunked by Gina Perry in 2013. All fake science and yes 20th Century has everything to do with it. 20th Century politicised everything, specially education and research. When a greedy and corrupt civilisation sat about slitting its own throat, the puppetmasters came out of the woodwork to blame the “human nature” in order to protect the corrupt system which kept on producing monsters from Aushwitz to Abu Gharib. This thing will go on as long as we carry on our “business as usual”.
I disagree with this writer’s politics and his insistence on UBI and higher taxes (UBI and higher taxes is the ONLY way to save capitalism now, capitalism must not be saved). You can’t fix a corrupt system from inside, it must be destroyed from inside and outside. Still the book is worth reading. He dismantles the fake science that blames human nature in order to deflect from a corrupt social system based on greed and dishonesty.
August 9th, 2020
Such studies as Milgram’s cannot be “debunked” unless one has a longitudinal pattern of consistently contradictory results, over repeated, separate, discrete experimental events. The experiment itself has been replicated many times around the globe, with fairly consistent results. Granted, the findings are disturbing for us all to contemplate (many of my fellow law/criminology students were just as emotionally animated in their opposition to the idea of the findings).
Because research ethics have changed, the 1960s studies could not be identically replicated (more of the disquiet issue). Naturally, other researchers will attempt to make a name, or attract research funding, by attacking famous, rival studies. That’s always a recurring factor. But if you have details of a one-off study, that’s interesting.
However, of course, it wasn’t “business as usual” with the unprecedentedly barbaric atrocities, genocides & democides committed by the fascist/Marxist ideologies. This was the ideological break that sets the 20th century - the bloodiest Dark Age in human history - wholly apart. Yes, these ideological insanities did have their internal contradictions, and did essentially destroy themselves (evil entropy). But not before they had created mountains of corpses & untold human suffering, such evil ought never to be repeated. There was no way to sustain their murderous social/economic/political/military system, repeatedly proven not to work.
Of course, this is what happens when the State is rendered all powerful - the human being is merely rendered.
November 28th, 2020
Thanks!
April 15th, 2021
Many thanks to the seeders and original uploader.
Audio quality is good and the file downloaded fast.
Looking forward to hearing the author’s take on history from his interesting thesis.
I also believe that humanity is fundamentally kind and noble spirited.
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