[D66] Civilized to Death

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    About The Book

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*The /New York Times /bestselling coauthor of /Sex at Dawn/ explores the 
ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, 
learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, 
extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” 
(/Booklist/) book.*

Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December 
days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens 
zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We 
hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: 
/Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is 
undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. 
/Well, maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. /Civilized to Death/ counters 
the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the “progress” 
defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease.

Prehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and 
disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected 
wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But 
ultimately, Christopher Ryan questions, were these pre-civilized dangers 
more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, 
cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged dying process? 
/Civilized to Death/ “will make you see our so-called progress in a 
whole new light” (/Book Riot/) and adds to the timely conversation that 
“the way we have been living is no longer sustainable, at least as long 
as we want to the earth to outlive us” (/Psychology Today/). Ryan makes 
the claim that we should start looking backwards to find our way into a 
better future.


    About The Author

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Christopher Ryan 
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Christopher Ryan 
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Christopher Ryan, PhD, and his work have been featured just about 
everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, /The New York Times/, 
/The Times of London/, /Playboy/,/The Washington Post/, /Time/, 
/Newsweek/, /The Atlantic/, /Outside/, /El Pais/, /La Vanguardia/, 
/Salon/, /Seed/, and /Big Think/. A featured speaker from TED to The 
Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein 
Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Ryan has consulted at various hospitals in 
Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, 
and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. The author of 
/Civilized to Death/ and the coauthor of the /New York Times /bestseller 
/Sex at Dawn/, Ryan puts out a weekly podcast, called /Tangentially 
Speaking/, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from 
famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors 
to plasma physicists.


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  * Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster (August 11, 2020)
  * Length: 304 pages
  * ISBN13: 9781451659115

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    Raves and Reviews

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“Engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought 
provoking.” *—/Booklist/*

“Entertaining and provocative.” *—**/Publishers Weekly/*

/"/Often zingy and colorful . . . /Civilized to Death/ is unquestionably 
well-timed . . . Ryan is right to highlight the aspects of modern life 
that have gone off the rails.”*/—Undark/*

“[A] prescient book about the nature of progress . . . /Civilized to 
Death/ will make you see our so-called progress in a whole new light.” 
*—/Book Riot/*

“This book takes on 'progress' as a guiding ethos—and does so with 
gusto.” *—**/The Stranger/*

“It is increasingly clear to many of us that the way we have been living 
is no longer sustainable, at least as long as we want the earth to 
outlive us. . . . /Civilized to Death/ is an important guide in this 
conversation.” *—/Psychology Today/*

"A fascinating read." *—/Seattle Times/*

"Every great once in a while, a book comes along that makes you rethink 
everything you thought you knew. /Civilized to Death/ is without 
question one of them." *—Jesse Bering, PhD, author of /The Belief Instinct/*

“Christopher Ryan is one of the most interesting and provocative 
thinkers of our time. Everyone should read him—you might well disagree 
but you’ll definitely think differently." *—Johann Hari, /New York 
Times/–bestselling author of /Lost Connections/*

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