This is something I've been trying to get around to for several monthsbut just haven't had the time : reviewing Rutger Bregman's truly dire "Human Kind". Bregman claims that human beings are innately lovely and that only civilisation, with its whole notion of "private property" leads us astray. His ideal lifestyle choice appear to be to live in the jungle in the lifestyle of an anarcho-communist-hippie-monkey, preferably ones that happen to be caught in a war zone. Yes, really.
A totally mad twat, this one. My review ended up being overly-long because his previous book was very good. I feel the guy does have some good critical thinking skills (he certainly has some good journalistic ones, digging deep beyond the popular reports to figure out what really happened) but he's completely enthralled to his own ideology.
https://decoherency.blogspot.com/2024/05/review-human-kind.html
