Peter?

Michael.

What do you know about the second half of the better angels of our nature?

It took you so long to read this book that society has gotten even better since part one. Last time on if books could kill.

Yes, recap us, Peter, because we did a whole another episode in between.

Thousands of years ago everyone was constantly killing each other.

Now it's very rare.

This is due to society growing over the years, mostly because some very smart white boys in the 1700s

published some books about how it actually makes tons of sense to be to be good and nice.

Yes, if last episode was about all of the things we learned from some very smart white boys,

this is all about how some black people and women and gay people

have some good ideas but they're also a little misguided and haven't they gone a little too

far? The question at the heart of this episode is,

what is the ideology of this book?

And so I think it will be very instructive to start with a video clip that is,

I think, emblematic of his ideology and his place in the

culture now. I think we should watch this at 1.5 because all these guys talk really slow.

Michael Hobbs thinks someone talks too slow?

No way.

Do you not watch stuff sped up?

I'm like a 2X guy now.

It makes sense to me that you are, but no, I don don't I like to hear the normal human cadence all right and as a result you and I basically

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