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Humankind

A Hopeful History

Rutger Bergman . 2019 . BeavLib 128 BRE

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• pxiii London shop wrecked during the Blitz: MORE OPEN THAN USUAL
• pxvii civilian bombings strengthened German economy, production of tanks up 9x, fighter jets 14x
• p004 2025 post Katrina New Orleans; journalists, police, governor claim anarchy
• p005 "gunfire" a relief valve on a gas tank, superdome 4 natural cause deaths, one suicide, one overdose, no officially reported rape or murder, "looting" was police-organized survival scavenging
• p005 "Robin Hood Looters" rescue squad

• p006 National Guard Danziger Bridge shootings

• p006 Rebecca Solnit 2009 A Paradise Built in Hell Tigard 303.485 SOL

• p007 Dictators and despots, governors and generals assume average Joe is just like them

• p012 negative TV catastrophizes personal worries

• p013 Gerbner "mean world syndrome" PSU Samantha Kemp

• p014 Jacobs: Back To Reality news opposite of reality

• p014 one hour per day getting news fix

• p016 Frans de Waal/ The Bonobo and the Atheist / Cedar Mill 599.815 WAAL

• p016 In Search of Homo Economicus

• p017 "We become what we teach" Robert H. Frank 2011 "The Darwin Economy" PSU Basement HB95.F723 2011
• p017 St. Augustine "Mo one is free from sin, not even an infant whose span of earthly life is but a single day."
• p018 Gandhi, Mandela

• p019 Prof. Marie R. Lindegaard papers

• p019 "For every misanthropic argument you deflate, two more will pop up in its place. Veneer theory is a zombie that just keeps on coming back"

• p023 William Golding 1954 Lord of the Flies

• p024 Golding alcoholic, prone to depression, encouraged his students to attack each other
• p025 Frans de Waal: There is no shred of evidence that this is what children left to their own devices will do"

• p026 1966 October 6 Australian The Age, "Sunday Showing for Tongan Castaways": Six boys marooned on Tongan atoll 'Ata for more than a year.

• p027 Peter Warner Mano Totau

• p029 Boys at Saint Andrews Anglican boarding school in Nukuʻalofa

• p036 This is real life, unlike so-called reality shows

• p075 Raymond Dart 1924 skull of Australopithecus africanus numerous injuries, killer ape theory

• p081 Samuel Marshall 1946 Men Against Fire disagreement

• p082 1% of USAF fighter pilots brought down 40% Bvtn 355.0019 GRO 2009

• p083 After Gettysburg, 90% of 27574 muskets recovered from battlefield still loaded, 12,000 double loaded, 6,000 triple-loaded, one had 23 balls in the barrel .. time-consuming gun-loading an excuse for not firing it, most soldiers not trying to kill the enemy

• p084 Randall Collins Violence PSU Basement HM1121.C64 2008

  • I would like to believe this, but sadly I'm not convinced by Bregman, and others find flaws with Collins

• p086 Australopithecus africanus skull damage actually predatory birds

• p087 Napoleon Chagnon The Fierce People Yanomami

• p087 Chagnon gave them axes and machetes in exchange for their help, hence encouraged violence says

  • Robert M. Sapolsky ] [[ https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3392037

  • killers have 3x more children? killers 35yo, "peaceniks" 25yo, Chagnon did not correct for ages
  • Chagnon only counted killers who survived revenge. in 1995 Chagnon was barred from returning

• p088 Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature claimed 14% homicide rates in 8 primitive societies

• p089 Anthropologist Douglas P. Fry: NOT "War mortality", actually shot by Paraguayan slave traders and frontiersmen

• p091 R. Brian Ferguson Pinker's List. Exaggerating Prehistoric War Mentality

• p095 Christopher Boehm 1999 Hierarchy in the Forest. The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior PSU Basement GN281.4.B64

  • Nomadic foragers are universally -- and all but obsessively -- concerned with being free of the authority of others

• p102 settlements -> oppression, kings

• p115 Jacob Roggeveen Easter Island 1722 moai 10 meter statues

• p117 Erich von Däniken 1935 Swiss hotel manager

• p117 Easter Islanders / Rapa Nui Polynesians arrived from the Gambier Islands, 2600 km to the east notheast.

• p117 Anthroplogist Katherine Routledge 1914

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