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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Heather E. Heying, Bret Weinstein
3.25 AVERAGE
124 reviews for:
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Heather E. Heying, Bret Weinstein
3.25 AVERAGE
Scammers disguising pseudoscience as a natural approach to life. Hard pass.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Not for me. Was already checking out, but the term “sexual autism” used by the author was too much.
لقد انخرطت كل ثقافة في تاريخ البشرية في كل من التعاون والمنافسة ، وتصرفت بطرق يجب أن تجعلنا فخورين بكوننا بشرًا وبطرق تجعلنا نشعر بالعار . كانت الأعمال المجيدة والمروعة منتشرة على نطاق واسع.
عند النظر إلى التاريخ ، تقع على عاتقنا مسؤولية الاعتراف بهذه الحقيقة ، وكذلك الاعتراف عندما تكون انتصارات أسلافنا - شرعية أو في كثير من الأحيان غير شرعية - قد وفرت لنا ميزة لم نكتسبها بأنفسنا. ومع ذلك ، فليس من مسؤوليتنا إخضاع أنفسنا لتلك التواريخ.
لقد سرق الأوروبيون أرضًا من الأمريكيين الأصليين ، بطرق شنيعة وحقيرة في كثير من الأحيان. الأمريكيون الأصليون الذين تم إخضاعهم هكذا كان لديهم تاريخ من الحروب والغزو أيضاً ؛ أخذوا الأرض من بعضهم البعض. وبالطبع ، لم يكن أي من هذا جديدًا - لقد جلبوه معهم إلى العالم الجديد عندما عبروا من بيرنجيا قبل عدة آلاف من السنين.
دعونا لا نلوم أي شخص أو فترة. بدلاً من ذلك ، دعونا نفهم الإنسانية بشكل كلي ، ونعمل على توفير الفرص على قدم المساواة للجميع.
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Heather Heying
A Hunter Gatherer's Guide
Translated By #Maher_Razouk
عند النظر إلى التاريخ ، تقع على عاتقنا مسؤولية الاعتراف بهذه الحقيقة ، وكذلك الاعتراف عندما تكون انتصارات أسلافنا - شرعية أو في كثير من الأحيان غير شرعية - قد وفرت لنا ميزة لم نكتسبها بأنفسنا. ومع ذلك ، فليس من مسؤوليتنا إخضاع أنفسنا لتلك التواريخ.
لقد سرق الأوروبيون أرضًا من الأمريكيين الأصليين ، بطرق شنيعة وحقيرة في كثير من الأحيان. الأمريكيون الأصليون الذين تم إخضاعهم هكذا كان لديهم تاريخ من الحروب والغزو أيضاً ؛ أخذوا الأرض من بعضهم البعض. وبالطبع ، لم يكن أي من هذا جديدًا - لقد جلبوه معهم إلى العالم الجديد عندما عبروا من بيرنجيا قبل عدة آلاف من السنين.
دعونا لا نلوم أي شخص أو فترة. بدلاً من ذلك ، دعونا نفهم الإنسانية بشكل كلي ، ونعمل على توفير الفرص على قدم المساواة للجميع.
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Heather Heying
A Hunter Gatherer's Guide
Translated By #Maher_Razouk
medium-paced
slow-paced
I guess you could accidentally benefit from reading parts of this idk? Lot of garbage arguments here made from appeals to authority, badly parsed statistics, assumptions of what natural forces are.
Perfect if you want to know how fucked up technology is and how cool capitalism is.
Perfect if you want to know how fucked up technology is and how cool capitalism is.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Transphobia, Classism
Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Xenophobia
informative
slow-paced
Society needs this book: perhaps most importantly because it presents an evolutionarily-based model for understanding our species in all domains, as well as a toolkit for determining how we should best move forward together. To get the most out of this book—if you do not already have a science background—it is imperative that you approach it with an open, yet healthily critical, mind, as the authors do an excellent job explaining complicated evolutionary phenomena for the lay ear.
The most controversial idea, that culture ultimately exists to serve the genes, is not fundamentally controversial: though, it sounds an awful lot like social Darwinism to those who are not paying attention. To combat this misunderstanding, Bret and Heather kindly provide the Omega principal, which states that in order for an observable trait to be adaptive, it must satisfy three criteria: (1) it is complex, (2) it has energetic or material costs, which vary between individuals, and (3) it has persistence over evolutionary time. Therefore, many phenomena within culture, such as religion, can be interpreted as adaptive as they are complex, expensive, and increase survival rates among individuals who practice them. Moreover, many religious beliefs are literally false but metaphorically true—meaning those who behave as if such stories within religion are true prosper and their genes move forward in time at rates higher than those who do not. If it were maladaptive, those who practiced religion would have experience differential success against this who didn’t that dwindled to zero.
In addition to this important idea, the authors provide other useful models for interpreting information in our age of hyper-novelty. Chestertons fence and the precautionary principle in particular provide one with a safeguard against making myopic decisions based on short-term vision. As a species, we are running out of time. We are destroying our planet and wasting resources at an extraordinary rate with seemingly no plan to fix it. At base, the authors argue, this is a problem of cornocopianism: essentially a faulty viewpoint characterized by a misguided belief that because resources seem abundant now, they will always be so.
Interestingly, I found many parallels between this book and Jordan Petersons beyond order, in that they both share a central philosophy that dichotomizes order and chaos. In this book, Heather and Bret unpack culture vs consciousness, which is essentially similar in structure to order vs chaos. Culture, or tradition, is a culmination of ideas and behaviors that persist over time. Consciousness is a mechanism used to amend anachronistic traits that no longer benefit those practicing them. This idea can be extrapolated to the political realm, for example with regard to conservative vs liberal ideology. In general, this mechanism exists to maintain homeostasis. It is extremely important, perhaps more than ever, that humanity recognizes this.
Overall, this book is an absolute gem and I couldn’t find many things I disagreed with. Congratulations Bret and Heather!
-Michael Whetsel Setford
The most controversial idea, that culture ultimately exists to serve the genes, is not fundamentally controversial: though, it sounds an awful lot like social Darwinism to those who are not paying attention. To combat this misunderstanding, Bret and Heather kindly provide the Omega principal, which states that in order for an observable trait to be adaptive, it must satisfy three criteria: (1) it is complex, (2) it has energetic or material costs, which vary between individuals, and (3) it has persistence over evolutionary time. Therefore, many phenomena within culture, such as religion, can be interpreted as adaptive as they are complex, expensive, and increase survival rates among individuals who practice them. Moreover, many religious beliefs are literally false but metaphorically true—meaning those who behave as if such stories within religion are true prosper and their genes move forward in time at rates higher than those who do not. If it were maladaptive, those who practiced religion would have experience differential success against this who didn’t that dwindled to zero.
In addition to this important idea, the authors provide other useful models for interpreting information in our age of hyper-novelty. Chestertons fence and the precautionary principle in particular provide one with a safeguard against making myopic decisions based on short-term vision. As a species, we are running out of time. We are destroying our planet and wasting resources at an extraordinary rate with seemingly no plan to fix it. At base, the authors argue, this is a problem of cornocopianism: essentially a faulty viewpoint characterized by a misguided belief that because resources seem abundant now, they will always be so.
Interestingly, I found many parallels between this book and Jordan Petersons beyond order, in that they both share a central philosophy that dichotomizes order and chaos. In this book, Heather and Bret unpack culture vs consciousness, which is essentially similar in structure to order vs chaos. Culture, or tradition, is a culmination of ideas and behaviors that persist over time. Consciousness is a mechanism used to amend anachronistic traits that no longer benefit those practicing them. This idea can be extrapolated to the political realm, for example with regard to conservative vs liberal ideology. In general, this mechanism exists to maintain homeostasis. It is extremely important, perhaps more than ever, that humanity recognizes this.
Overall, this book is an absolute gem and I couldn’t find many things I disagreed with. Congratulations Bret and Heather!
-Michael Whetsel Setford
Heather and Bret bring an interesting perspective to their writing, as a married couple and research partners. It was fun hearing them switch reading from chapter to chapter. I'm not sure if we're supposed to infer that the reader of each chapter was more of the SME for that chapter, or if they were more directly involved in shaping those chapters, or if they just read every other chapter to keep it even.
The best parts of the book are them sharing stories about their research, teaching, and child rearing. From the sounds of it, they could write a thrilling travel log/ memoir.
As many other reviewers have noted, the conclusions they draw about how contemporary society should work are not well reasoned, or particularly supported by the analysis of cultural and evolutionary forces they base it on.
The best parts of the book are them sharing stories about their research, teaching, and child rearing. From the sounds of it, they could write a thrilling travel log/ memoir.
As many other reviewers have noted, the conclusions they draw about how contemporary society should work are not well reasoned, or particularly supported by the analysis of cultural and evolutionary forces they base it on.