"The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties
If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
4.6 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
2 Better 2 Angels
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Sources:
- Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of Sleaze
- Pinker’s response to Epstein allegations
- How Jeffrey Epstein Captivated Harvard
- Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA
- It’s Official — Steven Pinker Is Full of Shit
- Pinker, Epstein, Soldier, Spy
- A century of sexual abuse victimisation: A birth cohort analysis
- The prevalence of child sexual abuse with online sexual abuse added
- Have Sexual Abuse and Physical Abuse Declined Since the 1990s?
- Explanations for the Decline in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
- The Decline in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
- Why Have Child Maltreatment and Child Victimization Declined?
- Spanking and Other Corporal Punishment of Children by Parents: Undervaluing Children, Overvaluing Pain
- Were There Really More Hate Crimes Last Year?
- Hate Crime Reported by Victims and Police
- The Sexual Victimization of College Women
- The "Discovery" of Child Abuse
- A Short History of Child Protection in America
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
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| 0:00.0 | Peter? |
| 0:01.0 | Michael. |
| 0:02.0 | What do you know about the second half of the better angels of our nature? |
| 0:07.2 | It took you so long to read this book that society has gotten even better since part one. Last time on if books could kill. |
| 0:28.7 | Yes, recap us, Peter, because we did a whole another episode in between. |
| 0:33.4 | Thousands of years ago everyone was constantly killing each other. |
| 0:37.1 | Now it's very rare. |
| 0:40.3 | This is due to society growing over the years, mostly because some very smart white boys in the 1700s |
| 0:51.1 | published some books about how it actually makes tons of sense to be to be good and nice. |
| 0:55.6 | Yes, if last episode was about all of the things we learned from some very smart white boys, |
| 1:01.1 | this is all about how some black people and women and gay people |
| 1:07.4 | have some good ideas but they're also a little misguided and haven't they gone a little too |
| 1:11.5 | far? The question at the heart of this episode is, |
| 1:15.0 | what is the ideology of this book? |
| 1:18.0 | And so I think it will be very instructive to start with a video clip that is, |
| 1:22.0 | I think, emblematic of his ideology and his place in the |
| 1:26.7 | culture now. I think we should watch this at 1.5 because all these guys talk really slow. |
| 1:32.2 | Michael Hobbs thinks someone talks too slow? |
| 1:35.0 | No way. |
| 1:36.0 | Do you not watch stuff sped up? |
| 1:38.0 | I'm like a 2X guy now. |
| 1:40.0 | It makes sense to me that you are, but no, I don don't I like to hear the normal human cadence all right and as a result you and I basically |
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