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When humans began to be agriculturalists, lives of ordinary people deteriorated; and we had to work far, far harder than hunter-gatherers. Specie" is eye-opening and thought-provoking in regards to how far we've strayed from the lifestyle that humans ... Read More
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The author proposes “solutions” to society’s ills via left wing big government programs that only ‘civilization’ can provide. The author’s bias towards socialism as human’'s natural default state makes his thesis tenuous. Although this book contains s... Read More
Christopher ryan claims hunter-gatherer societies like they are utopias. Ryan seems not to have heard of the violent lifestyles of the comanche or lakota. Ryan criticizes steven pinker’s take on western civilization, but he only cites an online articl... Read More
He ignores so much of our behavior that is hard wired and doesn't take into consideration the genes we share with the foragers. They give evidence that a search engine supplanted real research and understanding. The actual information here is nothing ... Read More
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This book will be a deconstruction of and illumination of the raw real and heavy situation we face
Makes you wonder about a lot of modern things that we have come to take for grantedand suffer throughon a daily basis
The few people that give this book two star rating definitely have not quite grasp the content of the book and the underline message
I could not put it down and found myself setting the alarm an hour earlier than normal to get up and read it before the noise o... Read More
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Some of the other reviews here go into more detail about ryans thesis which is brilliant and moving in many ways
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- This product had a total of 1,273 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 19 2024.
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The author had me enthralled the entire read
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Like the author says— we’re basically in a poorly crafted zoo
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Homo sapiens are in a death spiral
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If you track this one down get the illustrated version
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His thesis is that when humans began to be agriculturalists lives of ordinary people deteriorated and we had to work far far harder than huntergatherers
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Some books write in superficial ways about problems and than offer equally superficial solutions
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We are left to ponder our own path forwards as we should be if an author has any amount of humility and holds any amount of trust in his readers
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Ive listened to it twice now
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