The Right Side of History with historian Rutger Bergman

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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As guest, historian and writer, Rutger Bergman, reminds us, MLK didn’t inspire the world with his “I have a nightmare…” speech. It was about a dream. Rutger believes there’s an antidote to this sense of emptiness so many of us feel and it’s what he calls moral ambition, or the will to make the world a better place. That humanity, no matter what we’ve been taught, is actually cooperative and benevolent, it’s how we got so far as a species. So we can’t get so caught in the news of today, that we lose our historical imaginations for tomorrow. We must remember that the impossible often become the inevitable when enough people stand on the right side of history. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://www.rutgerbregman.com/ https://linktr.ee/rutgerbregman https://www.moralambition.eu/focus-areas All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://drinkAG1.com/politicsgirl https://3dayblinds.com/politicsgirl https://moshlife.com/politicsgirl

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0:00.0	who are the abolitionists of today, who are the people who are standing on the right side of history
0:06.0	before it is fashionable. And what are some of the things that we are currently engaging in that, maybe similar moral catastrophes just like slavery was in the 18th century and what's the next big thing?
0:20.0	You know? What's a really big utopian idea that we could work towards and
0:25.8	maybe not experience during our lifetime could we be part of something that's
0:29.8	much bigger than us a much bigger movement and fight for this great idea. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.
0:50.0	Today I'd like to introduce you to one of my favorite thinkers, the brilliant Dutch historian and writer Rutger Bregman.
0:57.0	Rutger has published five books on history, philosophy, and economics.
1:01.0	His books, Human Kind and Utopia for Realists, were both New York Times
1:05.0	bestsellers and have been translated into more than 45 languages. If you haven't read any of
1:10.4	Rutgers books, you may know him from the time he went viral at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
1:15.3	when he called out the richest people in the world for their tax avoidance, right to their faces,
1:20.0	or from his TED Talk on Poverty, which has been seen by millions of people.
1:24.0	His newest book, Moral Ambition, is built on the premise
1:28.0	that the greatest waste of our time is the waste of our talent.
1:31.0	That there are millions of people who could be helping make the world a better place,
1:35.1	but they just don't.
1:36.4	The people who once had promising futures
1:38.8	just get stuck in mind-numbing pointless jobs
1:41.4	that waste their talent.
1:43.0	Rucker believes there's an antidote to this sense of emptiness and he calls it moral ambition,
1:48.5	which is the will to make the world a better place, to devote your career to the greater
1:52.4	challenges of our time.
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