Andrea Wulf

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625 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

They kind of zigzag across the South Pacific.

And as they encounter islanders, the crew uses firearms to kind of exert power and

With time, George Foster kind of gets more and more dismayed by this.

So it's quite interesting to see this.

So the very first time they land in New Zealand, he still is very much an enlightenment thinker who believes in the,

you know, the Europeans are superior.

So they arrive there, the ship is pretty battered from the kind of icebergs and they kind of set up all these workshops and the forest kind of echoes with hammers and saws.

And he says, look at all the art and industry we bring to the savages and their life is going to be just so much better.

And then within six weeks,

he's done a complete turnaround.

So within six weeks, he starts criticizing the European influence.

And he says, by the end of the voyage, he says,

Europeans just bring death and disease.

It would have been much better for the inhabitants of the South Seas if they had never encountered the English, because he sees again and again how they are wounded and murdered.

And he's just shocked by it.

No, he really didn't.

I think there were, I mean, it did not help that George Foster's father, Reinhold, was a really quite a terrible person.

I mean, he had quite a temper.

I mean, he managed to

have fights with everybody on the resolution, even with a quite unflappable Cook.

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