Humanity is Beautiful

It is not just outrage. It is not just despair. It is not just fear. It is self-loathing. We are disgusted by ourselves and our species. We are disgusted by our very nature.

Despite the notion that we are changing for the worse, part of this story is also that nothing ever really changes. We never really change. Our ways of being never really change.

More than any other time in our history, humans believe our species is in decline, perhaps even careening swiftly, hopelessly toward our very demise.

The outrage and despair many of us feel today are not simply everyday anger and sadness. They are something deeper and more profound.

Our shared outrage and despair are their core a reflection of our fear that our very existence and ways of life are endangered, if not already lost.

We should feel ashamed of what we’ve done and who we are. We are an abomination. This is the story we tell ourselves.

This book offers a new story for those infected with cynicism, despair, and shame for our species. It asks: What world might we create for ourselves if we believed that humanity is beautiful?

There is far more reason for hope, gratitude, and even excitement than we many of us ever allow ourselves.

We often even perceive the world as getting worse even when it is actually demonstrably improving.

As our view of the world becomes deeper, richer, and more complete, the world we long for actually seems that much further from our grasp.