Nervous Rex | Dr. Christopher Ryan: Civilized to Death

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Nervous Rex | Dr. Christopher Ryan: Civilized to Death | Episode #32

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4 жыл бұрын

If you are someone who watches major network television or reads books or listens to podcasts then chances are you have been touched by the wisdom of Dr. Christopher Ryan. He is an accomplished writer having great success with the publication of Sex at Dawn: How we Mate, Why we Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships hitting the New York Times best-sellers list. He is here today promoting his book Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress. This is a good read so I suggest picking one up if you want to learn something.
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@bethdavisjimenez 4 жыл бұрын

I completely agree with Christopher about the kids thing. I purposely didn't have kids because I can't give them at least as much as my parents did me and the carefree lifestyle I live would be selfish to a child. I'm 43 years old and people especially in my family, say that I'm selfish for not having kids. When I see more than half of my friends and family struggling financially and emotionally with kids and are miserable. I can't get as much as I need for disability because I don't have children. So basically the Government rewards people for bringing children into this world who have to live on public assistance and welfare. I'm not asking for that much. Just more than $839 a month. I've worked my entire life and have 3 college degrees. Wound up having to go on disability due to Fibromyalgia. However, I am so much happier than most people I know who make more and have more than I do.

@chillkraut 4 жыл бұрын

Selfish for not having a child? Ha! The reasons that so many people on this planet have children are actually quite "selfish" and/or self-serving. Your ability to reflect on the subject and not just go with the status quo is commendable.

@thomasfriberg5494 4 жыл бұрын

There are plenty of the population that would have rather not been Born in the first place and they get tag with labels like Deliquent and conduct disorder and resistant and drop out and are also the Marginalized and Ostracized, The outcast ( homeless ) untouchables Etc.. and probably most are American / Western Civilization ,, Capatilism- MAMMON The root of All Evil. , Commercializatiin. , Everyone And everything's for sale,, a non sexual Prostitute , opportunists and Exploiters ,, Where and When does it End it never will because of Ego and Greed and Hatred

@paulmclean3128 4 жыл бұрын

Great podcast! Wish more people would watch and listen!

@IrishSuzyAM 4 жыл бұрын

@51:53 totally agree about people having kids for selfish reasons (not everyone of course) Parents have them so they can carry on their 'legacy' (ego) and the ultimate goal in life for a lot of people is to have grandchildren, so they can tell the story of how wonderful their grandparents were.

@stormcorrosion176 4 жыл бұрын

Suzy AM do you have children Suzy?

@AntonioGarmsci-cy5vt 4 жыл бұрын

What you are describing is Anarchy!!! An Anarchy that most Anarchists want! I am currently half way through the book now.

@ShroomFactory 4 жыл бұрын

just had it ordered to the Chicago Public Library!

@katieandnick4113 5 ай бұрын

Once you get past the idea that death is the worst thing that can happen to you, or even bad at all, it’s a lot easier to see life in an objective manner. When I’m dead, I won’t know it. My loved ones will be sad, but the hope is that I haven’t created such a dependency in them on me that they will be traumatized by my death forever.

@stormcorrosion176 4 жыл бұрын

Good to see Chris on the show bro. Always a good person to hear talk, I always learn some historical info from Dr. Ryan's conversations.

@PsychiCorey 4 жыл бұрын

Great episode🙏 LONG TIME COMING! Lol been hearing bout this book for years😂 all in due timing

@marley_chapman 4 жыл бұрын

This perspective is vital for humanity at large to grasp, we all have the potential to. Our civilizational project must be reevaluated and redirected in accordance with what we have come to learn about our place in nature. Christopher must be familiar with Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

@kavolis 4 жыл бұрын

the model Chris is preaching about would be unsustainable these days, the nature would be annihilated completely. Mammoths were annihilated by people 10000 years ago with tens of other species when there were only 2-3 millions of people around the world. Regardless of fact that agriculture and industry is responsible for majority of extinctions in last 100-200 years it helped to preserve at least some species what wouldn't be possible if humanity still lived according to rules of hunter-gatherers. It's about numbers of individuals out there. The hunter-gatherer community with all it's benefits and good stuff works until the tribe is up to 150 individuals and Chris knows that as an anthropologist. So what does he suggests? A genocide? Not to mention Chris's concept about "egalitarianism" is almost copy-paste from "Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State" by Friedrich Engels. There was no egalitarianism, there was a mutual agreement on duties to participate in a well-being of the tribe and when an individual was no more useful, he had to go to not to become a burdain to the tribe: in some tribes of Siberia even in 20th century elders (though, only men) had to go to die out there alone. So the romantisation of hunter-gatherer society is just an ignorant preaching. Nonetheless I agree that civilization crippled humanity and to live in small groups out there in nature is a more natural way to a human being, but on other hand today there's no other way to humanity today. The only one scenario where the things Chris is talking about would be possible you can see in some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario, for example in "Walking dead".

@BillyCarson-yh9gh 7 ай бұрын

I agree with a lot of what he is prewching

@brianallen8588 2 жыл бұрын

Great discussion. Cheers 🌞

@dannyho6786 4 жыл бұрын

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@stormcorrosion176 4 жыл бұрын

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@jean-david-ouellette 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome podcast! About time he started making the rounds haha

@philipbrown2225 4 жыл бұрын

great book ! really enjoyed it !

@c.s.k2347 2 жыл бұрын

David Attenborough is the naturalist, not Richard. Richard was a director.

@marcmeinzer8859 4 ай бұрын

I discovered while teaching schooll that I didn’t really like kids very much although of course I don’t hate them. But that got me away from any desire to have kids. Then also, I agree with the premise of Sex at Dawn that humans are not monogamous, nor did primitive people really give a shit whose kids were theirs and so forth. I think we’ve got a lot of puritanical propaganda in American society which it’s wiser to try to ignore.

@dannyho6786 4 жыл бұрын

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@katieandnick4113 5 ай бұрын

I can’t believe humans are female exogamous, naturally. After we began farming, that became true, but I think we are naturally either male exogamous or endogamous. I think a big reason Jews have been so relatively successful is because they tend to be endogamous. Not because inbreeding is good, but because it is so important for women to remain close to their families of origin throughout their lives. That is what offers women the greatest sense of safety and security. If we were naturally female exogamous, then we are naturally patriarchal, and I just can’t believe that.