Humanities & Cultures

“You get a sense of the spectrum of humanity, of what people are going through, of the highs and lows of the human experience.

I mean, it could make you laugh on one page and make you cry for the next page. And seeing that variety of humanity reminded me of another book that I read and finished recently, which is called Humankind, A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. A friend of mine had given it to me because he said it had changed his whole view on the world.

And so I wanted to talk about some of the concepts that I picked up in that book, like the origins and critiques of veneer theory, why most people are actually pretty decent, and the problems with some of the narratives of our wickedness.”