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Humankind’s Hopeful History with Rutger Bregman

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Are Humans Endorsed?

Whether humans are ultimately d or decent, however you want to frame it is also a bigger question. And now, that question stretches back thousands of years. I mean, this is something that philosophers have been dating, have been debating for millennia,. This is really old theory in western culture that sciences called veneer theory. It's the idea that our civilize ation is just a thin veneer and below that lies raw human nature.

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