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The dawn of humanity

The dawn of humanity

Leave a Comment / Humanity is Beautiful / By Peter Schulte / May 8, 2020 August 27, 2020

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Prologue (available to everyone)
Acknowledgments

Part 1: Humanity's Decline

The world is on fire
Outrage and despair
Fear and loss
Declinism
Time is a flat circle
A disease
Antinatalism
The Story of Decline
The Story of Progress
The Dark Ages
The Enlightenment
The Scientific & Industrial Revolutions
The Trenches
Donald Draper
Exxon Valdez
Collateralized Debt Obligation
Doomsday Clock
Our fuel to drive change
My story
The Sacred Valley
A new story

Part 2: Humanity's Beginnings

The dawn of humanity
The mythicist's story
The creationist's story
The anthropologist's story
Proto-humans
"Modern" humans
Symbols
Abstractions
What is genius?
The first flower
San Sebastian
The savannas
What is humanity?
Prometheus
The first fire

Part 3: Humanity's Inventions

A child’s expanding mind
An adult’s expanding mind
Piaget’s theory of child development
Kegan’s theory of adult development
Subject-Object
“People never really change”
Humanity’s evolving mind
Instinct
Inventions of the mind
Challenge #1: Isolation
Value #1: Belonging
Invention #1: Story
Challenge #2: Conformity
Value #2: Glory

Part 4: Humanity's Victories

Bittersweet
The horizon slipping away
Razor blades in Halloween cookies

Part 5: Humanity's Shame

Part 6: Humanity's Futures

Epilogue

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