Dr. Chris Ryan: Author of “Sex at Dawn” & “Civilized to Death” Explores Human Domestication #394

 

08:50 — Lessons From a Life on the Road

  • A life fully traveled with “Scarlett Jo-Van-son”

  • The concept of “detribalism”

  • Getting comfortable with being an outsider

  • How progress separates us from life

  • Corporations as living, breathing entities 


25:06 — Breaking Down “Sex At Dawn” 

  • How I used “Sex at Dawn” to justify my fear of intimacy  

  • The aftermath of the book’s publication and reactions 

  • Intimacy networks in hunter-gatherer tribes 

  • Looking at hunter-gatherers to understand ourselves 


41:41 — “Civilized to Death” 


01:03:58 — How Can We Gain From What We Have Lost?

  • Community and health 

  • Why treadmills are the enemy 

  • Building modern communes 

  • Can we integrate psychedelics into the Western world?

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