The Good, the Bad, Themselves, You KNWT

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When you have a lot of people in one place, we sort of assume the worst about what can happen. We need to protect against what random people king by migh do to my thing that i've left out. A woman called marie lindegard has built this huge data set with videos from police and searcher s on different places around the world. She's shown that in 90% of all cases - even if they're not quite right - most people will help each other when something happens. And she says: 'The message is that no, we're not alone'

Is humanity innately good or bad? Historian and author Rutger Bregman joins Adam to discuss his decidedly optimistic answer to this question. They discuss research showing that people are more likely to help each other during national disasters, the true story behind Kitty Genovese, and how the real-life Lord of The Flies had a very different ending. You can find Rutger Bregman’s book, Humankind: A Hopeful History, wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.