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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
rosenaughtin's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
I reached for this book after reading an excerpt from it in The Guardian, "The Real Lord of the Flies." That story in itself was captivating and I was intrigued by Rutger Bregman's thesis: that humans are, in large part, communal, helpful, and decent. The book was super dense, informative, meticulously researched, and full of interesting and hopeful anecdotes about humankind. Bregman takes many examples from history that show our alleged intrinsic brutishness -- such as the Stanford Prison Experiment, Milgram's shock experiment, and the death of Kitty Genovese -- and explains how these scenarios were largely misinterpreted by the media and the general public.
Bregman also shows how empathy can lead us to a greater affiliation with our "in-group," unintentionally putting us at odds with outsiders, and how this can be utilized by despots and dictators to encourage war, hoarding of resources, and racism. He argues that compassion is more effective than empathy in connecting with other humans - I would argue that his definition of compassion is very similar to "radical empathy," though he never uses the term.
Best of all, he offers solutions through examples, from corporations to prisons to governments. He argues that if we accept within ourselves that humans are mostly good, then we can utilize communication, confrontation, compassion, and resistance to challenge our current institutions.
Favorite quote: "If you believe that people are essentially good, you have to question why evil exists at all. It implies that engagement and resistance are worthwhile, and it imposes an obligation to act."
Bregman also shows how empathy can lead us to a greater affiliation with our "in-group," unintentionally putting us at odds with outsiders, and how this can be utilized by despots and dictators to encourage war, hoarding of resources, and racism. He argues that compassion is more effective than empathy in connecting with other humans - I would argue that his definition of compassion is very similar to "radical empathy," though he never uses the term.
Best of all, he offers solutions through examples, from corporations to prisons to governments. He argues that if we accept within ourselves that humans are mostly good, then we can utilize communication, confrontation, compassion, and resistance to challenge our current institutions.
Favorite quote: "If you believe that people are essentially good, you have to question why evil exists at all. It implies that engagement and resistance are worthwhile, and it imposes an obligation to act."
Content Warnings
Minor: Genocide, Racism, and Forced institutionalization
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