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Someone at the grocery checkout mentioned I was on TV last night, in the History Channel’s After Armageddon. Apparently I’m on camera several times; I think this quote is from me:
Another expert said it best: “We like to think that moral progress has made us nice people. We’ve heard that our distant ancestors were mean and cruel and ruthless, and we can’t imagine that we would be such people – but we’re nice mainly because we’re rich and comfortable. And when we’re no longer rich and comfortable, we won’t be as nice.”
It will be reshown Saturday and Sunday, so I’ll get to see it then. (I recorded this in August, at their excess expense. If you thought such shows would tell interviewees when the show airs, well you’d be wrong.)
After Armageddon
The movie with some technical criticisms not withstanding is excellent and some technical items are not important. This movie points out many very important concepts that are currently lost in our society. Some of those concepts are survival vs entitlement and the entitlement portion of our society will be dying in the street looking for someone else to save them from themselves. Most people these days would starve in a room full of "PULL TOP " cans.
An accurate and brutally honest message that we are forced to digest if a person wants the truth.? : “We like to think that moral progress has made us nice people. We’ve heard that our distant ancestors were mean and cruel and ruthless, and we can’t imagine that we would be such people – but we’re nice mainly because we’re rich and comfortable. And when we are no longer rich and comfortable, we won’t be as nice.” - See more at: http://www.overcomingbias.c...