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Monsters, with David Livingstone Smith
Manage episode 345186813 series 2947230
David Livingstone Smith has studied dehumanization for decades. He's spent a lot of time researching horrific genocides, lynching, massacres, and other brutalities. Real humans pull the trigger. Real humans administer the poisonous gasses and drop the bombs. People not entirely unlike me and you, although it's a lot more comforting to imagine they're monsters. And in fighting monsters, we risk becoming the very thing we’re fighting against.
Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/smith.
Buy the book and other merch at firesidepod.org/store.
30 episodes
Manage episode 345186813 series 2947230
David Livingstone Smith has studied dehumanization for decades. He's spent a lot of time researching horrific genocides, lynching, massacres, and other brutalities. Real humans pull the trigger. Real humans administer the poisonous gasses and drop the bombs. People not entirely unlike me and you, although it's a lot more comforting to imagine they're monsters. And in fighting monsters, we risk becoming the very thing we’re fighting against.
Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/smith.
Buy the book and other merch at firesidepod.org/store.
30 episodes
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