Evaluation of Rutger Bregman on BBC Hardtalk

 Resources used: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszbxb

Brief Summary: Rutger suggested that in terms of crisis we see people from different backgrounds coming together to work well , he proposed that it doesn't matter if p
eople are left wing right wing, gay or straight people will come together. He also says when questioned about people 'knocking lumps out of each other' on Facebook etc that social media isn't real life, and that as humans we have evolved over thousands of years to talk to each other face to face. His book nods to all off human history and the evolution of civilisation over millennia, it goes back to the age old philosophical idea that human beings are intrinsically good.   

What I was hoping to find out : I wanted to see Rutger's argument for the idea that society is a good place and the people within it are good. I wanted to understand why if this was the case that we as humans don't see it this way for the majority, why if we are good people do we assume the worst of one another.

Brief summary of what I have learnt: We have been designed by evolution to be friendly to each other, Biologists talk about this process of survival of the friendliest. Thousands of Years ago it was the friendliest of us that has the most kids and therefore passed more of their genes on to the next generation. What we assume from other people is inevitably what we get out of them, if we assume most people around us are selfish and just want to get as much for themselves as possible, you will design your society in such a way , you will create institutions which will bring out the worst in people which is what we've been doing for years. Our view of human nature can be a self fulfilling prophecy.

Reliability of source: The recording was between Stephen Sackur and Rutger Bregman , it was done on BBC which is a reliable source . It was conducted shortly after the release of Bregman's book Humankind: A hopeful History. Everything he is saying is based on his opinion and research he has conducted and isn't done for the reason of advertising or persuasion but rather to inform .