It’s nice when humanity isn’t the tragically disgusting thing we’re often forcefully told it is.
(Usually as some way to justify State-enforced law and order via violence.)
seriously, the more you actually read up about human history and biology the more you see that we’re just… kinda fucking great, when we’re not constantly torturing ourselves and trying to justify it like stockholm syndrome’d abuse victims.
Funny enough, not in the cynical, depressing way William Goulding postulated and many of us were forced to read in English class. :D
https://www.newsweek.com/real-lord-flies-true-story-boys-island-william-golding-humankind-human-nature-rutger-bregman-1503204
It’s nice when humanity isn’t the tragically disgusting thing we’re often forcefully told it is. (Usually as some way to justify State-enforced law and order via violence.)
seriously, the more you actually read up about human history and biology the more you see that we’re just… kinda fucking great, when we’re not constantly torturing ourselves and trying to justify it like stockholm syndrome’d abuse victims.