Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jan
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And it would be interesting to think about, and here's a counterfactual for you, what does the movement for women's rights look like in the 19th century if the campaign against slavery had never existed?
And I would argue that it's actually, I think there would have been a movement towards greater equality, but it was certainly galvanized and learned a lot of lessons from the anti-slavery movement.
I do think that's part of the story.
Yeah, and I think there's the historical point, but then there's some of the consequences of the historical point.
I think it's very easy to believe and comforting to believe that the course the world is on is of improvement.
And...
I think that with growing wealth, with growing technology, we will figure out new ways to solve problems.
We'll address problems that have never even been recognized as problems because they seem to be on dark capacity.
I think those things are true.
But I also think you're still dealing with human beings and human nature.
And, you know, we as a species...
have the capacity for great kindness individually and collectively, but also extraordinary cruelty.
And we find all kinds of ways and reasons to do that.
And what makes it even more complicated is sometimes we are cruel in our kindness.
And I'm thinking especially about
what happens in the late 19th and early 20th century.
The identity that Western Europe acquires as the part of the world that abolished slavery then becomes the alibi, maybe even the apology, for colonizing the less developed world.
We're here to stamp out slavery in Africa.
We're here to bring
economic development.
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