Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Check out Jamie Wheal’s latest book “Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death in a World That’s Lost Its Mind” ►► https://www.recapturetherapture.com/ For our own mental health, we must occasionally disconnect from the world and reconnect to ourselves and to each […]
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University College London professor Brian Klaas exposes the ugly truth about world leaders. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Why do the worst people rise to power? ► https://youtu.be/rlg-MXR5amQ Political scientist Brian Klaas uses philosophical thought experiments like the “trolley problem” to explore the moral complexities […]
