Human Kind A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. (English)
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was john Jack straw. So right are humans noble by nature? And were we all doing fine until civilization came along, I was actually starting to get that impression. Take the following account, recording 40 92 by a traveler On coming ashore in the Bahamas, he was astonished how peaceful the inhabitants were. Did not bear arms and do not know them, for I should never sword and they cut themselves out of ignorance. This gives you an idea. They would make fine servants with 15 men. We could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want. Christopher columbus traveling question lost no time putting his plan into action. The following year, he returned with 17 ships and 1500 men and started the transatlantic slave trade. Half a century later, less than 1% of the original Caribbean population remain. The rest had succumbed to the horrors of disease and enslavement. It must have been quite a shock for these so called savages to encounter such civilized colonists. To some, the very notion that one human being might kidnap or kill another may even have have seen alien, if that sounds like a stretch, consider that there are still places today where murder is inconceivable in the vast reaches of the pacific ocean. For example, that's a tiny atoll called If alec. After the Second World War. The US Navy's screen, a few Hollywood films on the folic to foster goodwill. The folic people. It turned out to be the most appalling thing though I like this had ever seen. The violence on screen so distressed and suspecting additives that some fell ill for this. When you use return anthropologists came to do fieldwork on if alec when the thieves repeatedly asked her, was it true, were there really people in America who had killed another person?