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Humankind
Season 5 · Episode 302

Humankind

by Rutger Bregman

What You Will Learn · What You Will Learn

December 11, 202054m 24sExplicit

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Show Notes

We've been doing a lot of dark books recently. Ordinary Men, The Prince and Collapse all paint a dim view of human nature. The idea goes that we have a thin veneer of niceness on the surface, but deep down we're all capable of pure evil.

Thankfully, this book gives the opposite perspective. The simple idea of this book is that we're actually all pretty decent. Disasters and tough times don't cause us to descend a few rungs on the ladder of civilisation, but rather they bring out the best in us.


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