Everything You've Been Told About Human Nature Is Wrong
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We're told that human nature is hardwired to need authority and hierarchy, and that we're driven by selfishness and greed. But is that really true? In a new book by David Wengrow and the late great David Graeber - THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING - the standard narrative about human history is challenged. Wengrow explains why it's not true that as human society gets more complicated there's a need for more top down control - and what our history tells us about our future.
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| 0:18.0 | I'm delighted to be joined by David Wengrow, who has co-authored |
| 0:31.6 | an absolutely riveting book, which is a sensational bestseller now, |
| 0:36.0 | which was co-written, of course, by the late great David Graber. |
| 0:42.4 | Before we start, I should apologise because I do have a non-COVID |
| 0:47.2 | I've done the rona, that was fun. |
| 0:50.5 | Now it's just one of the many other respiratory illnesses that have |
| 0:54.3 | receded into the hinterland and now are back with |
| 0:57.1 | the vengeance, aren't they David? Have you got similar? |
| 0:59.3 | How's your respiratory functions? |
| 1:01.4 | I'm just talked out from doing too much talking and teaching |
| 1:06.4 | and interviews, or if I've still got some lingering, |
| 1:10.4 | anyway, I sympathise and I think if we can cough roughly at the same time |
| 1:15.6 | you may have my hand. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, cancel it. |
| 1:18.4 | Spooning and I's coughing. |
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