Humankind’s Hopeful History with Rutger Bregman

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Comedy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Is humanity innately good or bad? Historian and author Rutger Bregman joins Adam to discuss his decidedly optimistic answer to this question. They discuss research showing that people are more likely to help each other during national disasters, the true story behind Kitty Genovese, and how the real-life Lord of The Flies had a very different ending. You can find Rutger Bregman’s book, Humankind: A Hopeful History, wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgun Podcast.
0:04.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.0	I don't know the way.
0:11.0	I don't know what to think.
0:13.0	I don't know what to say.
0:16.0	You have to get over it.
0:19.0	You have to get it.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Conover.
0:31.0	Let's start with a like question.
0:33.0	What is the nature of humanity?
0:35.0	Are we good and honest, fundamentally as a species, or left to our own devices?
0:40.0	Are we bad and deceitful?
0:42.0	And I want to be clear, this is not just an exercise, an airy philosophical toga thing.
0:47.0	I mean, it is, you know, a little bit.
0:49.0	This is a question that goes back generations to the earliest philosophers
0:52.0	who basically sat on white clouds and pontificated all day.
0:55.0	But in our reality today,
0:57.0	our beliefs about the answers to these fundamental questions
1:00.0	shape the decisions we make about how we build our society today.
1:05.0	Think about it.
1:06.0	If you imagine that the moment civilization is removed,
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