Does anyone else wonder what we would have been tweeting/posting during WWII?
Every time I listen to a history podcast, I'm further affirmed in the feeling that people haven't changed much. And then I wonder what, if anything, could actually be done to coax greater kindness and courage from the world writ large. Is it possible for human beings to collaborate internationally with longterm success - or is our best bet rebuilding the global through improved local action? (Or are we just effed? 🙃)
@MLClark I find some comfort in evolutionary biology - that evolved reciprocal altruism and evolutionary stable states (where 'hawks and doves' will balance in any society, eventually) will see us through, both locally and internationally, if we don't let nativist forces strip us of our shared humanity.
@peter_by_the_sea That's a huge "if", Peter, but an important one to lean into all the same. 👌🏻