Hasnain says:

This was way more interesting than I thought it would be from the title alone - goes into not just American history, but human history and a lot of sociology and psychology.

“After more than a year in relative isolation, we may be closer than we’d like to the wary, socially clumsy strangers who first gathered at Göbekli Tepe. “We get drunk because we are a weird species, the awkward losers of the animal world,” Slingerland writes, “and need all of the help we can get.” For those of us who have emerged from our caves feeling as if we’ve regressed into weird and awkward ways, a standing drinks night with friends might not be the worst idea to come out of 2021.”

Posted on 2021-06-01T21:26:32+0000