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Im Grunde gut: Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit by Rutger Bregman
5 reviews
aeons_v_atlas's review against another edition
3.75
Minor: Death
toffishay's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Xenophobia, Death, Genocide, Classism, Antisemitism, War, Hate crime, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Racism, Grief, Blood, Gun violence, and Colonisation
Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, Alcoholism, Slavery, Islamophobia, Addiction, Fatphobia, Suicide attempt, and Religious bigotry
piaura's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: War, Violence, Genocide, Death, Antisemitism, and Gun violence
Minor: Colonisation, Racism, Islamophobia, and Hate crime
littlecat's review against another edition
2.0
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.
and more in general
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
4.5
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.
Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Genocide, Xenophobia, and Torture