138. PEOPLE ARE GOOD: a truly radical idea
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Hello! What would society look like if we started from the assumption that people are fundamentally decent? We speak to historian Rutger Bregman about ‘Humankind’ - his new book arguing for a positive view of human nature. Then we talk to COVID mutual aid volunteer Sam Maher about how our instinct in crises is often to help others. And to constructive journalism campaigner Jodie Jackson about why the news should go beyond showing the worst of humanity.
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| 0:06.0 | while ago that I do worry that the news has become too much like a Netflix drama. Like stories |
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| 1:35.4 | This says reasons to be cheerful with Ed Miliband and Jeff Lloyd. Hello! Hello! I switched on my |
| 1:42.8 | TV the other day and there you are in the House of Commons. How was that? Weird. Is that your first time |
| 1:48.5 | virtual? I mean there's only half a dozen of us there. There was a speaker and then there was |
| 1:56.3 | one of the clerks had a sort of walkie talkie a bit like an X-factor or TV studio with a sort of |
| 2:03.1 | microphone. Obviously queuing out the virtual people. So it was definitely. And then what surprised |
| 2:09.6 | me the most was the Secretary of State, Alex Sharma, who I asked questions of he then departed |
| 2:15.3 | obviously good. I mean it's right for social distancing and then somebody else arrived. |
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