{"id":22193,"date":"2026-03-05T07:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/breaking-social-review-rutger-bregman-leads-an-irresistible-rallying-cry-for-global-activism\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:37:14","slug":"breaking-social-review-rutger-bregman-leads-an-irresistible-rallying-cry-for-global-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/breaking-social-review-rutger-bregman-leads-an-irresistible-rallying-cry-for-global-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Social review \u2013 Rutger Bregman leads an irresistible rallying cry for global activism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fredrik Gertten travels the world meeting activists who have had enough of corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality \u2013 while Bregman\u2019s nuggets of wisdom are a joy<\/p>\n

Bicycling Dutch historian Rutger Bregman<\/a> does not identify as an optimist. He says that optimism makes people lazy, complacent that history is going in the right direction. Instead he describes himself as a \u201cpossibilist\u201d, a believer in the possibility that things can be different. Bregman is interviewed in this film about corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality. The director is documentary-maker Fredrik Gertten who travels the world meeting activists who have had enough.<\/p>\n

First, the cold hard facts. Journalist and corruption expert Sarah Chayes, a former adviser to the Obama administration, does an impressive job summarising her analysis of global kleptocracy. In Malta, the son of the murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia<\/a>, killed after exposing corruption at the highest levels of government, investigates the new scandal of \u201cgolden passports\u201d<\/a>. The film\u2019s main focus is activism in Chile and the US. Amazon workers in New York unionise (and have a good laugh at their boss Jeff Bezos\u2019s trip to space). In Chile, feminists march and climate activists go into battle against mining companies responsible for drought.<\/p>\n

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\nFredrik Gertten travels the world meeting activists who have had enough of corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality \u2013 while Bregman\u2019s nuggets of wisdom are a joy
\nBicycling Dutch historian Rutger Bregman does not identify as an optimist. He says that optimism makes people lazy, complacent that history is going in the right direction. Instead he describes himself as a \u201cpossibilist\u201d, a believer in the possibility that things can be different. Bregman is interviewed in this film about corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality. The director is documentary-maker Fredrik Gertten who travels the world meeting activists who have had enough.
\nFirst, the cold hard facts. Journalist and corruption expert Sarah Chayes, a former adviser to the Obama administration, does an impressive job summarising her analysis of global kleptocracy. In Malta, the son of the murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, killed after exposing corruption at the highest levels of government, investigates the new scandal of \u201cgolden passports\u201d. The film\u2019s main focus is activism in Chile and the US. Amazon workers in New York unionise (and have a good laugh at their boss Jeff Bezos\u2019s trip to space). In Chile, feminists march and climate activists go into battle against mining companies responsible for drought. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fredrik Gertten travels the world meeting activists who have had enough of corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality \u2013 while Bregman\u2019s nuggets of wisdom are a joy Bicycling Dutch historian Rutger Bregman does not identify as an optimist. He says that optimism makes people lazy, complacent that history is going in the right direction. Instead he …<\/p>\n

Breaking Social review \u2013 Rutger Bregman leads an irresistible rallying cry for global activism<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}