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Freddie Deboer: The Nihilism of the Left and the Optimism that Must Replace It

From the New World

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The Unabomber and the Industrial Revolution

We evolved for 300,000 years as hunter-gatherers. We were people who we got into small bands. As that we have sort of gotten into an agricultural society, instead of wandering all over the place all the time, we're now rooted in one spot because you have to tend to the crops and they're your source of food. That makes more people come together. And now suddenly you're seeing a multiplication of the number of relationships that you have. Whereas once you've been in a small band, now you might be in a village or even like an ancient city in which you have potentially hundreds of relationshipsThat kind of unsettling nature is not just back, but it is amplified

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