In this book, Joseph Henrich explores how Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) populations developed their unique psychological profiles. He argues that changes in family structures, marriage, and religion, particularly influenced by the Roman Catholic Church, led to the emergence of WEIRD psychology. This psychology is characterized by individualism, self-obsession, control-orientation, nonconformity, and analytical thinking, which contrast with the more group-focused and shame-driven cultures of non-Western societies. Henrich uses research from anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explain how these psychological differences contributed to the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe[1][4][5].
In this book, Steven Pinker presents a detailed argument that violence has significantly decreased over the course of human history. He uses extensive data and statistical analysis to demonstrate this decline in various domains, including military conflict, homicide, genocide, torture, and the treatment of children, homosexuals, animals, and racial and ethnic minorities. Pinker identifies four key human motivations – empathy, self-control, the moral sense, and reason – as the 'better angels' that have oriented humans away from violence and towards cooperation and altruism. He also discusses historical forces such as the rise of the state (which he terms 'Leviathan'), the spread of commerce, the growth of feminist values, and the expansion of cosmopolitanism, which have contributed to this decline in violence[1][4][5].
Historian and broadcaster Rafe Heydel-Mankoo joins The Winston Marshall Show for a sweeping conversation on the slow-motion collapse of Britain—its monarchy, its military, and its moral compass.
Rafe warns that the UK is facing a national identity crisis, accelerated by mass immigration, multicultural fragmentation, and a political class ashamed of British heritage. He lays out how constitutional monarchy, once a unifying symbol, is being hollowed out by a culture of cynicism and erasure.
They explore the decline of Britain’s armed forces, the woke takeover of national institutions, and the spiritual vacuum left by the abandonment of Christianity in public life.
All this—lost sovereignty, collapsing values, elite betrayal, and whether Britain can recover its sense of purpose before it’s too late….
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Chapters
0:00 Immigration and Demographic Change in Britain
3:54 Canadian Monarchy and Indigenous Relations
8:58 Commonwealth and British Nationality
16:36 Integration and Cultural Compatibility
22:13 British Identity and Cultural Subversion
42:11 Historical Impact of British Colonialism
51:30 Decolonization and Cultural Institutions
1:01:21 The Role of Liberalism and Nationalism
1:09:45 Impact of Protestantism on Individualism
1:13:40 Chagos Islands and Decolonization
1:16:09 Implications for British Foreign Policy
1:18:04 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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