The History of Being Human

De: Noel Armstrong
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  • History, anatomy and physiology, philosophy, psychology, anthropology. The podcast that attempts to resurrect sense and meaning from the dust of a billion factoids.
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  • HBH 57: Extreme Tribalism -- The North Sentinelese and the Death of John Allen Chau

    HBH 57: Extreme Tribalism -- The North Sentinelese and the Death of John Allen Chau
    Jul 22 2024
    Part 1: The most tribal of tribes, the Sentinelese of North Sentinel Island

    We don't know much about them. We don't know what they call themselves, what they think the world or universe is like, what they believe about the rest of humanity.

    We don't know how they are organized, what they worship, how they see right and wrong.

    What we do know is that the North Sentinelese are the most tribal of tribes -- hostile to outsiders, uninterested in changing or developing along 'Western' lines, and unwilling to extend any moral status to vistors.

    In 2018 a young American Christian missionary, John Allen Chau, was killed by these people. Was it murder of an innocent or defense against an invader? Sadism or self-preservation?

    To understand what happened, we will first look into the history of interactions between the people of North Sentinel Island and outsiders, contacts that went occasionally acceptably, but usually very badly, for one party ot the other.
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    38 m
  • HBH 56: The Psychopathography of Adolf Hitler

    HBH 56: The Psychopathography of Adolf Hitler
    Apr 17 2024
    Hitler was a failure who achieved the opposite of nearly all of his stated intentions.

    But was he insane as well?

    His life and legacy might argue he was, but what do the experts say?

    If he was insane, what was the diagnosis? And if he was not insane, how do you account for his actions?

    Was he a meth head, dragon chaser, narcissist, psychopath, schizophrenic, oedipal conflicted anal regressive, or what?

    In this episode we explore the body of literature devoted to explaining the motivations and actions of Adolf Hitler, and ask the question of whether he should be explained at all.
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    38 m
  • HBH 55: The Gruesome Wretched Death of Herod the Great

    HBH 55: The Gruesome Wretched Death of Herod the Great
    Feb 27 2024
    He's one of the most reviled people in Western history -- a man whose cruelty, jealousy, and violence are proverbial. And yet his legacy is much more nuanced, his person more complicated than most of us know.

    One thing that is not in question is that he died a miserable death; in pain, angry, and resentful. Was it, as Josephus said, divine justice? Was it foul play?

    Spoiler: as bad as it was, it appears to have been neither, and can be easily explained.
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    30 m
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