"If I can add some nuance and complexity and some context and compassion. If I can get people to think about walking a mile in the other guy's moccasins, or pretend like you want to, I can feel like I'm adding something that is unusual. And it's a little bit shocking and upsetting to me that it is unusual. When people say it's so refreshing, you wonder why it's refreshing to try to see the other person's viewpoint? Shouldn't that just be how we are?" — Dan Carlin
“It’s an uplifting story with millions of dead people” — Dan Carlin
My favorite podcaster and one of my favorite humans joins me for an epic chat ranging across topics including:
Nuanced Thinking
Ideological Prisons
Understanding vs. justifying
Judging the past
Hitler & Genghis Khan, Nazis & Communists
Spaniards, Aztecs, human sacrifice
Taoism
Twisted SOBs
Why do we focus so much on war?
The three elements of Hardcore History
Conflict-driven story
Sex
Gladiators for World Peace as the antidote to a nuclear holocaust
Hunting and gathering peoples
Graham Hancock and history before history
Gobekli Tepe
Old school toughness and the arc of civilizations
Dan Carlin for President!
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