23 May 2020

Hay Festival - Rutger Bregman

Tuned in today to "Hay Festival - Rutger Bregman - chaired by Lily Cole - Humankind: A Hopeful History"
Only one of the audience's questions was answered, the one on DV in CV crisis. Mine was
What is your opinion of Nonviolent Communication (as developed by Marshall Rosenberg)? Regarding your 200,000 year sweep of history, do you agree with the theory of Walter Wink (in The Powers That Be) that about 10,000 years ago a domination culture replaced a kinder, earlier human culture, and ushered in morality, reward, punishment, shame, etc?
Other tips and links that were shared:
  • The Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP by Philipp Lepenies
  • 1976 study of the Inuit by Jane Murphy about what they do to sociopaths
  • Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy
  • Civilisation. Its cause & cure, Edward Carpenter about a century ago
  • Difficult Women by Helen Lewis
  • Post Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin 
  • Mean world syndrome: a cognitive bias where people perceive the world to be more dangerous than it actually is due to long-term, moderate to heavy exposure to violence-related content on mass media.[1]
Rutger Bregman wrote of The real Lord of the Flies -
In the 6 October 1966 edition of Australian newspaper The Age, a headline jumped out at me: “Sunday showing for Tongan castaways”. The story concerned six boys who had been found three weeks earlier on a rocky islet south of Tonga, an island group in the Pacific Ocean. The boys had been rescued by an Australian sea captain after being marooned on the island of ‘Ata for more than a year. According to the article, the captain had even got a television station to film a re-enactment of the boys’ adventure..."

Comment on good and evil in humanity: 
  • “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart…even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained." Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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