Who We Were, and Who We Are, and Who We Can Become - Scott Robinson - Bog

Millions of people around the world imagine a humanist future - an era when humanity achieves full maturity, eschewing inequality, racism, misogyny, and war, in favor of cooperation and empathy and justice for all.Is such a destiny possible? Some believe that our violent and selfish impulses are built into our genes, and will always be with us - that a humanist destiny is not only unlikely but impossible.The thesis of this book is that a humanist future is not only possible but inevitable, that we can know with confidence that we have the potential to overcome our current dysfunction, because we've already achieved it - in our distant past...