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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
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strkenonJune 3, 2021
This is not to say that our negativity is justified! Only that Bregman seems to have as persistent a bias to positivity as other writers have to negativity.
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stakkuronJune 3, 2021
TL:DR; It turns out that in the real world, nothing like the Lord of the Flies happened; in fact the opposite happened.
Highly recommend Bregman's book, by the way, which shoots down many of the faulty foundations of what we take for granted as fact today about human nature. I believe this article is an excerpt from the book.
andrei_says_onJune 3, 2021
Given that this really happened, a lot.
Lord of the Flies came out of the fantasy of an English superintendent. Yet, it has permeated our culture as a cautionary tale about human behavior. It is 100% fiction.
I’d like to recommend Humankind by Rutger Bregman - a wonderful book dismantling the toxic narratives we have about ourselves.