General Discussion

Well, at least part of it, I doubt I’ll watch Fetterman. As we’re busy with other things this evening I’m taping it, so I can fast forward.

Ruther Bregman, a Dutch historian and author, sounds interesting. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There (2017) were both Sunday Times and New York Times Best Sellers and have been translated in 46 languages.

In an interview with the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir in September 2017, Bregman said that "to move forward, a society needs dreams, not nightmares. Yet people are caught in the logic of fear. Whether it is Trump, Brexit or the last elections in Germany, they vote against the future and instead for solutions to replace it, believing the past was better based on a thoroughly mistaken view of the world: the world was worse before."

And of course, his opening and New Rules are usually fun. Thanks for posting!