We are in Mats new apartment among empty walls and squeaking doors, but the discussion is on! This book gives us a lot of food for thought. Why is it that heroes all through history have been fighting the overtake of large empires? The Roman Empire collapsed but the Latin languages are still spoken all over the world. We enjoy the infrastructure and economic benefit of empires but we give up our independence, this is the conundrum that is the heart of this episode.

 

Why did the Europeans explore and conquer the world? What drove early explorers to excavate long forgotten cities and decipher old scriptures? Where did this curiosity come from?

 

We then move on to discussing the largest religion in the world, humanism.