What story do we tell ourselves about humanity? A pessimistic story of shame at our shortcomings, or a story of pride at our achievements? We are faced with a paradox: while the world is objectively getting better all the time, we seem to have lost faith in ourselves and in humanity's progress. In unpacking this paradox, we examine the strange power of negative news, humanity as a clumsy but well-meaning adolescent, the surprising idealism of those who argue that humanity is failing, and the power of an aspirational narrative.
01/17/23 • 35 min
Cornucopia - 07 Shame or pride
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Shame or Pride
Welcome to Cornucopia, the podcast in which we examine what it means to live abundantly. Today I'm walking in Frigiliana, in Southern Spain, the sun is hanging low over the sea in front of me.
I wanted to discuss how we are doing. I think that quite a lot of our thinking these days, a lot of the newspaper articles, is that we are not really doing very well as humanity. There are wars going on, there is widespread poverty, there is all forms of cruel
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