The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking "New Optimism", with Rodrigo Aguilera: Part II

This week, we have a guest on the show - Rodrigo Aguilera.
Specifically, we're talking to him about his book "The Glass
Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the 21st Century".
We shouldn't be happy with a narrow and limited definition of
"progress" when we have the capacity to achieve so much more. But
if we want to see things like the elimination of poverty, the
application of human ingenuity and compassion and rationality and
empathy towards solving the problems that exist in the world -
this must begin with an accurate assessment of where we actually
are, right now; what has led to progress in the past; and how we
can get further in the future.



 


You're about to hear the second part of the interview, where we
will dig into the flaws associated with "New Optimism" in more
detail, and at the end we have a discussion about how we might
hope to make the glass a little bit fuller in the future.