An enjoyable journey through the most creative and destructive moments in human history.

In the seventy thousand years that the human species has walked on this earth, we have achieved a lot. In art, in science, in culture, in trade, in the food chain, we are true winners. However, honestly, it was not just a walk in the park and sometimes we really managed, as unbelievable as it may seem, to f... it.

From Mao Zedong's Four Cleanups Campaign to the American Dust Bowl; from the Austrian Army attacking itself on a night when everyone was drunk to the global superpower electing a television titan as President... it is relatively safe to say that, as a species, we did not become smarter as we grew up.

So the next time you think that things really s...k, this book will remind you that things could have been much worse.