Humankind — Rethinking Human Nature as a Systems Question (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman as a systems-level examination of how beliefs about human nature shape institutions, incentives, and outcomes.
By revisiting influential psychological experiments, historical events, and real-world examples of cooperation, the book challenges the idea that humans are fundamentally selfish or violent. Instead, it shows how trust, social learning, and institutional design interact to produce either cooperation or conflict.
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