Menschen sind im Grunde gut. Das klingt aktuell wenig glaubwürdig, aber der niederländische Soziologe @rcbregman erklärt in seinem Buch sehr schlüssig, warum dem so ist - und wir alle uns allen viel mehr zutrauen sollten. Lese-Empfehlung! 1/4 pic.twitter.com/mn7zNPonMb
— Daniel Drepper (@danieldrepper) June 23, 2020
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People are basically good. That doesn't sound very credible at the moment, but the Dutch sociologist @rcbregman explains very convincingly in his book why this is - and we should all be able to do much more. Read recommendation! 1/4
In his well-told book, Bregman researches numerous famous experiments and phenomena and comes to the conclusion that the assumption that we are sinners by nature and that we would mutually flaw each other without rules is fundamentally wrong. 2/4
He deals with the well-known Stanford Prison experiment, the Milgram experiment (keyword electric shocks) and with Eichmann and the Holocaust. I am not a sociologist, but I find many of his arguments very conclusive - and have been more positive since reading it. 3/4
I also found Bregman's first book, Utopia for Realists, to be very clever (and very pleasant because it was positive). Both books are also available in German. And if you want a sample, there is an introductory story at the Guardian*
*a link – see a note on notes and links