Humankind: A Hopeful History

Each of us is sewn by invisible threads into the superorganism. We are cells in the beast of family, company, and country. If those social ties are severed we begin to shrivel and die. There’s more. Hard work and the pursuit of challenge have seldom been demonstrated to hurt us, but we can be damaged powerfully by the lack of control. And without s

just because Citizenship is inherent in human nature does not mean we are always wonderful to each other, and everything will automatically be fine. We have the capability, but the conditions – and in particular the stories –

The headlines of our time are all about decline, decay, catastrophe, tragedy. And they are true. But there is another truth. Dig a little, get beneath the surface, and we find people like these across the world, in every neighbourhood and every sector of society. This is why their stories, though uniquely individual, are at the same time remarkably

The real difference between us and chimpanzees is the mythical glue that binds together large numbers of individuals, families and groups. This glue has made us the masters of creation.