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History Unplugged Podcast

War Isn’t the Natural State of Human Affairs: It Shouldn’t Happen, and Most of the Time It Doesn't.

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

War is assumed to be one of the chief features of human history. Plenty of ancient and modern writers back up this perspective (Plato said that only the dead have seen the end of war; John Steinbeck said all war is a symptom of man's failure as a...

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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.

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It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here.

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Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.

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Where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

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If you ran up to somebody and asked them what one of the most fundamental aspects of human civilization is,

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for some reason they'd be thrown off by that question, but if they had to spit something out they would probably say war.

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