I understand why some people feel like Humanity is the problem. For some reason I have never really felt that in my bones. Even in my darkest moments, and there have been many of those.
I found this book. Human Kind, to be a useful exploration of this.
Donald and many others would disagree, of course.
I also see a lot of memes and content that seems to be designed to exacerbate that feeling, that humanity, all the other people we don't know, are the problems. It is rare that someone will hold that view and include themselves within it. I have never heard someone say I am the problem too. It's almost always someone, if not everyone else.
For a long time. have felt that this feeling is being weaponised to breed despair and nihilism as part of larger efforts to divide us from each as persons..... Cognitive Warfare is the technical term, and I coined the term 'Political Grooming' to apply to this adversarial dynamic in our political and cultural exchanges.
I think the culture, the Dominator Culture, is the problem. To form a culture is part of our 'DNA' only in that we are creative beings, we make things, we learn to do things... wisely or otherwise.
Dominator Culture is not genetic, it is cultural. I host a daily live stream show, where I sing what I call ‘Lovesongs for Egalitarians’, currently hosted by farcebark. Readers can go to the page, and catch the shows, and see and listen to past shows archived therein.
I know that an egalitarian culture is indeed possible.
Human Kind
Product information
Author: Rutger Bregman
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781408898956
Date: 13th May, 2021
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
https://www.dubraybooks.ie/product/humankind-pb-9781408898956
"THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Guardian , Daily Telegraph , New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry 'You should read Humankind .
You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford 'Made me see humanity from a fresh perspective' Yuval Noah Harari It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought.
Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. By thinking the worst of others, we bring out the worst in our politics and economics too. In this major book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world's most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history.
From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz, a Siberian fox farm to an infamous New York murder, Stanley Milgram's Yale shock machine to the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think - and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society. It is time for a new view of human nature."
egalitarians at home, relaxed.
Corneilius
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