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Sheryl Rhodes's avatar

I appreciate you summarizing this latest book from the incomparable Dr. Sowell. Nice smooth delivery, and good sound quality to your voice and to the equipment--so many podcasters have an uneven delivery that’s fine for conversation but HARD to follow ON a podcast WHERE their voice fades in and out, occasionally muttering or slurring their words.

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Tommy's avatar

Thanks so much! I've been practicing and slowly making sound and video adjustments. I think I'm pretty good now. At least enough to not sound and look horrible :)

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Sheryl Rhodes's avatar

Also the points being made about how human societies develop, and how so much of that is shaped by their environment, reminds me a bit of an amazing book I think you might also enjoy.

Napoleon Chignon’s book, Noble Savages, is about this famous anthropologist’s life and especially his decades long interactions with the remote Amazon tribe, the Yanomamo. He’s a larger than life kind of guy and knows how to tell a tale. The book gets into critical social justice taking over anthropology and how his real life experiences and research were all thrown over because his observations didn’t match their insistence that all human behavior is explained by Marxian theory.

To get back to Sowell’s point, the Yanomamo were a perfect example of how earliest humans probably lived, if they weren’t positioned to meet others, to advance, to trade. They live so far back in the Amazonian jungle, along endless tributaries, that nothing changed in their lives and culture.

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Tommy's avatar

I've heard of this book much like Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. I'll add it to my list.

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Sheryl Rhodes's avatar

Chagnon

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