Tell Me Your Story

Dr Andrew Schmookler - The Wreckage That Unbridled Selfishness Wreaks On The World

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http://abetterhumanstory.org/ https://3quarksdaily.com/ "Who are we human beings by nature? Why has our storybeen such a troubled one? What do we need to do to achieve the kind ofworld we want? "As acivilization, we have not had adequate answers to those questions. Part ofthe reason for that is that we’ve not had a perspective on ourselves andour story that shows us some important truths. "Formillennia, humankind developed its answers without any idea of how we cameto be, or of how we were related to the living world around us. It’s onlyover a handful of generations that people have had the knowledge of theproper time-scale, that we’ve have known · that time didn’t begin mere thousands of years ago, · that we emerged out of the whole 3.5 billion year history of Life-on-Earth, · that the great majority of the history of our species preceded the rise of civilization. "Suchknowledge has come to us too recently, apparently, for our civilization totrace all the implications of the E