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Christopher Ryan and his work have been featured on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, HBO, Netflix, the New York Times, the Times of London, Playboy, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, the Atlantic, Salon, TED, and Big Think. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Sex at Dawn (translated into show more twenty-two languages) and hosts a weekly podcast, Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with people ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to astrophysicists. show less

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Our civilization is a lie. The good life it supposedly gives us is a lie. Our civilization tells us nature is our enemy and we need to be part of civilization to gain its protection. Civilization made this massive reproduction rate possible. We can now eat ourselves to death . It makes no one happy. Everybody lives in anxiety . The media tries to sell us that we have such a good life. We are happy. What you are not happy? Read this . Watch this. Buy this. What? It is still not working ? Just pop a pill… (more)
 
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nitrolpost | 1 other review | Mar 19, 2024 |
Maybe I am too german but I do not appreciate the flippant tone of the book.
 
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iffland | 44 other reviews | Mar 19, 2022 |
Extremely interesting and entertaining popular science work. Unfortunately the emphasis is on the "popular" as it was written by an English PhD and an MD, and the real experts don't seem so impressed, so I'll knock it down to 3 stars.
 
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