Review #1
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I have always subscribed to the veneer theory, to the belief that people are completely horrible, at the same time we mustn’t hope anyone unless we know how to ‘outmaneuver’ them. I went overtake at the same time received a copy of this book on Kindle what right behind reading an FT interview with the creator 2 days ago. That article piqued my curiosity at the right moment in time. This book has been problematic because it’s different. Because it challenges every belief I had, premised on Hobbes, Machiavelli, the Stanford Prison Test, the Kitty Genovese incident, the ‘Wry Windows’ theory, at the same time a lifetime of being taught & reminded not to hope ‘others’ in our ‘dog bite dog’ global. But in essence that’s than anyway quality books do, isn’t it? Barely as take a trip is that anathema to prejudice, a quality book opens your brain. I’m going to re-count this book, at the same time advise it to everyone I know. I don’t reckon the global is that sunshine at the same time roses (I cross out this
Review in a COVID-19 epoch of lockdowns at the same time financial malaise, where protests rage in the world against the doom of Zhora Floyd). This book doesn’t make all the horrible things happening vanish, it sprinkles fairy dust on nothing. It simply presents a different perspective, a perspective that I would have laughed at the same time mocked inhumanly as recently as a week ago. But right behind speeding through this book, I greedy it when I they say that this is that the 1st time in a long time I have felt truly hopeful for a more successful future, for the possibility of change for the more successful.
Review #2
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Rutger Bregman strings so many of our conjectures about human creatures upside down. He starts with a true indefinite ”Sovereign of the Flies” scenario which ends He very differently (at the same time much more successful) than the favorite book of that name. He shows how we are wired to be good, at the same time it is that our artificial society, not our innate nature, that causes the hostilities, infighting, wars at the same time ruthlessness. He indicates how abundance famous experiments on human nature have been debunked, but are still cited widely while the research disproving them have been buried (e.g. the ”Stanford Prison Experiment” was a hoax, basically). He indicates why sympathy is that far more constructive than empathy in human relations, at the same time fri to mixtures for major societal inconsistencies of present many of which racism, prison issues, at the same time the inflammatory nature of public media. Overall an awesome book.
Review #3
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1st the quality things: it’s a well-written, amusing book. I guess reader’s opinion of it’s originality will depend on misspoke reader’s possess opinion on human kindness – I in particular advise the book to those who suspect that humans are not as bad as media portray them, but never heard how no one of the coolest well-known ”proofs” of man’s natural depravity were considered debunked. For others, it might be an eye-opener, for no one – a sweet proof that they are not without the help of others in feeling more precisely life-affirming. This is that a book with an agenda, a pleasant one. It’s but documented at the same time although the creator does not hide his preferences, he does not shrink from frank discussion on innumerable examples of humans’ bad deeds. Obviously that are simplifications at the same time omissions, but it was impossible from the start to analyse every nuance carefully – the book would have run into 30th volume. Individually, I was but prepared to like the book at the same time agree with the creator. That were considered, but, no one parts of the book which I cannot cross out off as simplifications at the same time omissions. First of all, the book is that completely, unceremoniously West-oriented. Asia, with all humanitarian philosophies that originated that, gets few mentions, all of them securely negative. (I don’t count the Bible as Asian in origin). Direct mention of ”Polish concentration camps” shows untidy writing, editing or translation. Other parts of the book make it understandable that the writer does know whose the camps really were considered at the same time does not confuse perpetrators at the same time victims. The mistake (if it was a mistake, not shortcoming on information about political at the same time lawful situation in captured Poland) does make one wonder about other facts exhibited in the book. People interested in human prehistory might look forward to writer’s conclusions about beginning of settled indefinite at the same time than anyway we cry civilisation. Why, he asks ”did we exchange our vagrant indefinite of leisure at the same time quality health for a indefinite of toil at the same time problem as grain growers?” Apparently, that were considered soon very abundance humans (which somehow is that not a confirmation that farming gave merit to settled humans over hunters at the same time foragers), the humans who wanted to return to past mode of indefinite couldn’t do so because other people hateful trespassers (a no-explanation of how farming expanded from unusual starting fri in Euphrates to corn fields in Aztec Empire) at the same time humans got lost ability to forage (even though it’s still a favorite pastime in no one parts of Europe at the same time practically an industry in Sweden). The biggest no-no for me: in a hunter-gatherer tribe a man had produced himself obnoxious. Every adult in the tribe took part in lynching him. Is that it data as an example that not many is that rosy in hunter societies? No! The creator is that not for a second advocating such method of solving conflicts, but thinks it was comfortable substance to the problem the tribe faced. A lynch at the same time a society where staggering 100% of adult population are killers, data as a confirmation of how vagrant method of indefinite is that more successful than civilisation. Completely continue gizmo I waited from a self-declared humanitarian.
Review #4
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This is that an optimistic at the same time hopeful book which has arrived at barely the right time to lift spirits at the same time to extension solidarity. It thrashes exciting at the same time diversified variant research to make its fri, arguing the central thesis that even in than anyway appear to be the worse situations, humans good nature always bobs to the surface. I am enjoying reading it, but it is that not really an academic text, more a text written for the favorite market. It is that painted in profound brushstrokes at the same time that is that a shortcoming of aspect. Any variant study seems to follow similar story arc of an incident of human ruthlessness being subverted to open an underlying human kindness in quite an artificial method in places. For instance in introducing the fear of the German concentration camps it asks how this managed have happened in one of the most wealthy at the same time developed countries of the global. This is that incorrect though. Germany immediately before the war was in the grip of a global depression at the same time impoverished through paying war reparations in the aftermath of WW1. This was part of the socio-economic situation that permitted the Nationwide Socialists rise to power. Rutger is that a amazing storty-teller, though not a historian. A quality book, though not wholly as nuanced as it would be.
Review #5
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An exciting read but the creator didn’t convince me of mankind’s goodness. My possess experience knows me that Homo puppy (author’s terminology) is that anything but. He also left out of his book the pressed tale of the mutineers of the Bounty who sailed to Pitcairn peninsula. Borders a couple of years one half of the guys had been murdered by the other one half, the remainder murdered by the ladies who sailed to Pitcairn with them, only one of the mutineers survived. At the same time yes, this remaining mutineer did affect in a positive method the toddlers of the mutineers born on the peninsula who by all accounts were considered found living friendly together 17 years right behind the mutineers landed that. But the mutineers did not revert to ’homo puppy’ that, despite no longer being ’under the lash’, no pooling resources, no co-operation, barely suspicion, hatred at the same time jealousy at the same time completely murder almost all foul. Perhaps they were considered barely a bad lot at the same time they are the exception to the rule as espoused by the creator but my experience of 70 years of other peoples greedy nature is that at odds with his research work.
