Stewart Brand
speaker
734 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Apr
Stewart Brand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the French Revolution shot down all of the kind of rational optimism that was in that book.
The Scottish Enlightenment, they were very impressed by it, and they all studied Diderot's encyclopedia.
And they came up with their own encyclopedia called the Encyclopedia Britannica.
which went from strength to strength for 100 years.
And basically, the Scottish Enlightenment was the source of our constitution, which was an Enlightenment document of our Declaration of Independence.
And that's what really needs to be maintained if we want to maintain civilization and the planet well, is the engagement with science, with engineering, with open discourse,
with replacement of political leaders without bloodshed.
Basically, dealing with problems in a way that we honor that they can be corrected and that there will be other problems.
and being comfortable with that and moving with that and being as intelligent as we can be in managing all that.
So those three books are what I recommend.
Thank you, Asma.
Thank you.
Wow, thank you.
It's an honor to be here.
This one is extra quirky.
And what I decided to do is write it sequentially and write it available online.
So in a sense, it's...
like Charles Dickens doing a serial version of his novels and so on.
And what that does is forces me into the same situation as the reader, which is that I don't know what's coming and they don't know what's coming.
And so we're in a similar situation.
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