{"id":242083,"date":"2023-04-02T11:53:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T11:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=242083"},"modified":"2023-04-02T11:53:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T11:53:33","slug":"human-kind","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/human-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Human = kind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Podcast <\/a>with Rutger Bregman, historian and author of \u201cHumankind: A Hopeful History,\u201d talking about the common misperception that humans are cursed with an ‘evil’ nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe notion that our civilization is just a thin veneer, just a thin layer, and that below that lies raw human nature, which is nasty \u2014 this is a hugely popular and influential theory in our culture.\u201d Bregman says that that dark side of human nature is perpetuated in our culture \u2014 across literature, movies, and news feeds \u2014 and is not an accurate portrayal of our true nature, and there is plenty of science and research indicating that human nature is evolving to be kinder and more cooperative. See our review of Humankind here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-242083","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/242083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}