279. Ian Morris on Deep Time and Big History
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Most Effective Way to Organise a Society
The idea that you should treat everybody the same ad everybody should have freedom to pursue the sort of lives they want is a very new idea. But ther full package has never been anything like the kind of democratic ideas that now dominate large parts of the world, and particularly the western world. And there's way around the basic fact that these are initially our western ideas,. A western europ western european colonists over seas like north america. They've spread out from there. It also seems to me thatthatthe reason they get invented and those a parts of the World, is that in the eighteenth century, people were going through this energy revolution.
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