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Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

4.0

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This book is a non fiction book about how people are actually inherently good and kind. It was a really refreshing look at human nature. This book showed with evidence to back it up situation in which people have been good and helpful towards each other in situation you maybe wouldn't expect them too. It also showed how some famous psychology experiments and stories had been manipulated into making the results look like they supported the fact that humans are selfish and turn bad when given a chance when actually that is not the full story. It was interesting and worrying to see how the media and scientists had manipulated things to fit into their own ideas instead of what actually happened. There was a lot of interesting stories and examples. It made me think a lot and realise that people are better than we give ourselves credit for. I enjoyed reading about the early humanity the most and am interested to find out more about this. I would recommend this book even if you don't agree with the premise as it is one hell of a thought provoking read!