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Im Grunde gut: Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit by Rutger Bregman
2 reviews
littlecat's review against another edition
informative
2.0
I wish I liked it more, I heard a lot of good things about it so maybe my expecations where just to high, I admit I skipped some parts mostly in the middle cause the structure felt a bit disjointed and repetive.
I actually agree with the core ideas of this book, that its more helpful to see people as "Good" that humans are social but that we are social in a way that means we care for our people first and the trick is to make us realize every human is a human like us and with that "our people",
but maybe this general agreement made the parts that irked me stand out much more then they maybe should.
-its like one sentence but the one is like:
-"ADHS is just an excuse to pump kids full of drugs" I think the social model of disablities has a lot of use, I think a lot of time when a person becomes "a problem" we should look how society is a problem for them, and see if we can fix it that way, but medication is not a scam in its enternity, I dont take Ritalin or something a like but I heard from so many first hand how freeing it is to find the playing field a bit more equal and to be able to modulate their stimuli and with that their tasks better
-simelar short but very personal to me relativly in the beginning something wondering about the curious case that is humans white eyeball showing: "without eye contact like this, seeing where peoples eyes look, how could we trus eachother=be human?" and "Neanderthaler didnt have as strong of a subtle eyebrow game as homo sapiens sapiens thats why they died out" here is a thing, I dont do eye contact, its like actual hurting me when I try, and I have heard about all this micro expression and shit but I have bad eyesight anyway, and also what about blind people arent they human? and the author backpedals right at the end with "compassion is much more helpful then emphaty" and I strongly agree with that, but there is this too in the book, like just one way of showing stuff is legit
-1) "savety regulations are bad actually" just nope. old car wrecks and fires are nice for kids to play that doesnt mean you shouldnt check if stuff is actually dangerous.
and more in general when talking about structural problems in child educatio, I just had to think of a bit from Socialism seriously? that i really liked when the author described a bad day under their utopia idea, vs this focus on kids who still excelled in a measureable way in this schools, what about people who are just medicore? or not even that? it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth
I actually agree with the core ideas of this book, that its more helpful to see people as "Good" that humans are social but that we are social in a way that means we care for our people first and the trick is to make us realize every human is a human like us and with that "our people",
but maybe this general agreement made the parts that irked me stand out much more then they maybe should.
-"ADHS is just an excuse to pump kids full of drugs" I think the social model of disablities has a lot of use, I think a lot of time when a person becomes "a problem" we should look how society is a problem for them, and see if we can fix it that way, but medication is not a scam in its enternity, I dont take Ritalin or something a like but I heard from so many first hand how freeing it is to find the playing field a bit more equal and to be able to modulate their stimuli and with that their tasks better
-simelar short but very personal to me relativly in the beginning something wondering about the curious case that is humans white eyeball showing: "without eye contact like this, seeing where peoples eyes look, how could we trus eachother=be human?" and "Neanderthaler didnt have as strong of a subtle eyebrow game as homo sapiens sapiens thats why they died out" here is a thing, I dont do eye contact, its like actual hurting me when I try, and I have heard about all this micro expression and shit but I have bad eyesight anyway, and also what about blind people arent they human? and the author backpedals right at the end with "compassion is much more helpful then emphaty" and I strongly agree with that, but there is this too in the book, like just one way of showing stuff is legit
-1) "savety regulations are bad actually" just nope. old car wrecks and fires are nice for kids to play that doesnt mean you shouldnt check if stuff is actually dangerous.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Confinement, Murder, and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Genocide, Violence, Bullying, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, and Child abuse
Minor: Rape and Suicide
mar's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
This was somehow a comforting, vindicating and frustrating book to read all at once. Comforting and vindicating, because I agree with the author's belief that humans are not inherently selfish or violent or just "bad", and it was nice being presented overwhelming proof of this perspective. (The author discusses one by one case studies that are so often brought up as proof of humanity's "badness" and disproves them, step by step, methodically, as well as presenting evidence to the contrary, and it was, in honesty, very satisfying to read.) And frustrating, because it also made me painfully aware of not only how many people, but also how much of our society, culture, economy and politics function on the basis of that negative outlook on ourselves anyway.
It was also very interesting, seeing my own instinctively skeptical and hesitant reaction to the author's arguments, even as he backed them with compelling evidence - it's like, even though I didn't believe in the "humans are inherently bad" thing in the first place, this book made me more aware of how much distrust and cynicism I have internalized anyway.
I can't fully agree with all of the author's sentiments (like his stance on punching Nazis), but, overall, this was quite a thought-provoking and reassuring book.
It was also very interesting, seeing my own instinctively skeptical and hesitant reaction to the author's arguments, even as he backed them with compelling evidence - it's like, even though I didn't believe in the "humans are inherently bad" thing in the first place, this book made me more aware of how much distrust and cynicism I have internalized anyway.
I can't fully agree with all of the author's sentiments (like his stance on punching Nazis), but, overall, this was quite a thought-provoking and reassuring book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Genocide, Xenophobia, and Torture
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