[Richard Turpin]

(10-09-2018 06:44 PM)bojangles Wrote:  

(10-09-2018 01:31 PM)rotekz Wrote:  

It's a little odd seeing Lyndsey Graham and Mitch McConnell on the cover now that they have somewhat redeemed themselves.


Coincidentally Castalia House, Vox Day's publishing outfit also released a book called 'Ship Of Fools' a few days ago, this one by C. R. Hallpike. It is a complete takedown of evolutionary psychology and reputedly destroys the following books:
Yuval Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Emma Byrne's Swearing is Good For You
René Girard’s theory of learned behavior
William Arens’s The Man-Eating Myth
Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar



I'm currently reading another great book by Hallpike titled 'Do We Need God To Be Good'.

this sounds good, thanks for bringing it to my attention - I read Sapiens last year and thought it was quite good until I saw it was kinda dismantled by the bones found in Bulgaria and Greece.

I too read Sapiens and quite enjoyed it. Thought I was learning a thing or two as well. Then a few weeks later I got the doubts when reading a takedown of Hurari by Vox, followed by excerpts from 'Ship of Fools' and then felt like a fool for being taken in so easily.

Sapiens and Homo Deus are easy, thought-provoking reads that are good springboards for wanting to learn more about their subject-matter. But that's it. Hallpike in particular brutally exposes Hurari as being patently full of shit in a good many of his arguments.

All these censorship games by Amazon are becoming tiresome, but in the wider picture it just hastens their demise. I tend to buy second-hand books from charity shops anyway, it's amazing what you pick up.