What Anchient Civilisations Did Better Than Us

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  • Опубликовано: 2 дек 2013
  • INTERVIEW @THE SCHOOL OF LIFE: Jared Diamond came to the School of Life to tell us what the affluent modern world might learn from traditional societies.
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Комментарии • 18

  • @gerdgrauer7816
    @gerdgrauer7816 3 года назад +3

    Uha, 2013? The pig/women trading joke would not be resisting cancel culture 2021! Jared Diamond is a diamond!! Thanx, School Of Life.

  • @martinpganev
    @martinpganev 8 лет назад +18

    It is somewhat disturbing to hear Robert Smith refer to all nontraditional societies as "the west". Highly euro-centric.

    • @YisYtruth
      @YisYtruth 8 лет назад +4

      Exactly. Plus, it's a short explanation of a lifetime of research. It's probably best to be generous. Jared Diamond is pretty amazing when you give him a chance.

    • @suki3275
      @suki3275 6 лет назад +1

      I think he was just trying to use the west as the prime example of nontraditional- not as a catch all term. Eastern powers were more agricultural (than the west) up until recently. As they industrialize and urbanize you will see them pick up western trends. This is not to say that the west is somehow "superior" in an ethnic sense. Its more to say that industrialization, technology, and urbanization are all methods of increasing communication, and increased communication is an extremely useful tool for a country to have. The west was among the first to increase communication at rapid rates, and so other countries are following to have the same advantage- this "westernizing".

    • @gnuPirate
      @gnuPirate 2 года назад +4

      People are so fucking nitpicky over minutiae shit that hardly matters. Read between the lines a bit. Not everything that everybody says will meet 100% standards of narky political correctness in general discourse.

    • @figgettit
      @figgettit Год назад

      Wtf is a nontraditional society, or indeed aa traditional society for that matter. Lol

    • @kincaidwolf5184
      @kincaidwolf5184 5 месяцев назад

      You're speaking English. Do you mean English centric :)

  • @XXISecolo
    @XXISecolo 3 месяца назад

    Anchient?

  • @Suite_annamite
    @Suite_annamite 2 года назад +2

    The correct way to conjugate the name *Rousseau* into an *adjective* would be *Rousselian* rather than "Rousseau-ist":
    this is because of the variations in French between the suffixes "-eau" and "-el /-elle".

  • @figgettit
    @figgettit 6 лет назад

    what on earth is his accent? good grief.

    • @timothydessonville610
      @timothydessonville610 5 лет назад +3

      I believe it's called Academia

    • @ilikepizza5741
      @ilikepizza5741 Год назад +1

      Old school Boston. It's like JFK's accent

    • @figgettit
      @figgettit Год назад

      @@ilikepizza5741 interesting, thanks!

    • @figgettit
      @figgettit Год назад

      @Ibraheem Alghamdi only on Sundays.

  • @samanthaesdon4366
    @samanthaesdon4366 7 лет назад +3

    im a really big fan of the School of Life but this video made me uncomfortable enough to actually stop watching

    • @theschooloflifetv
      @theschooloflifetv  7 лет назад +5

      This was a very early recording with no production values. We undertand and forgive you wholly!

    • @AdventureTime18
      @AdventureTime18 5 лет назад +5

      What made you uncomfortable?

    • @volhosis3784
      @volhosis3784 3 года назад +4

      New and challenging ideas can be discomforting, but that's kind of the point isn't it?