內容簡介
內容簡介 下次你把事情搞砸了，就來看看這本書，你就會發現，原來有很多人更慘！作者湯姆‧飛利浦是知名網站Buzzfeed的編輯主任，特殊能力是可以在報導嚴肅譯題和搞笑新聞兩邊來去自如。飛利浦畢業於劍橋大學考古學和人類學系以及歷史與科學哲學系！豐富的學術背景讓他說起人類搞砸的歷史更是具說服力。從毛澤東在大躍進時期發起的「除四害運動」、美國的黑色風暴事件、到奧地利軍隊喝醉了之後向自己軍營進攻的事件……這些莫名其妙的事件在書中都有介紹。喔！別忘了第一個從樹上摔下來的人類祖先！在這本書中都有介紹，看完之後，你八成也會覺得，原來人類身為一個物種，並沒有隨著時間過去而變得更聰明！所以下次要是自己搞砸了某件事，或者看到莫名其妙的新聞，就請拿起這本書看看，人類的荒唐可是有跡可循的！An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day.This is HUMANS.In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f*ck things up.From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the world's leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President... it's pretty safe to say that, as a species, we haven't exactly grown wiser with age.So, next time you think you've really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...
