
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


We have been conditioned to believe an upside-down narrative about the human condition.
We are told a false story about a species with an intrinsic selfishness that has to be checked with laws and top-down control.
But human beings are inherently kind. If no outer force meddles with the social dynamics, people treat each other with respect and kindness.
For millennia we have been living in a gloomy dream. As if the movie ”The Matrix” were a documentary. It’s, frankly, outrageous.
The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman brilliantly unveils the lie in his book ”Humankind”. It should be compulsory literature in every corporation and every authority.
The untrue image is reinforced by the media. The news media narrative is practically based on the false assumptions about human lowness. News requires drama, conflict and speed, which filters out the big story: a slowly but incessantly evolving humankind.
The good news I bring here is that I believe we are in fact leaving this false narrative, this toxic mindset, behind.
About the media’s negativity bias: Listen also to Ulrik Haagerup, episode 6.
By Anders Bolling4.6
1212 ratings
We have been conditioned to believe an upside-down narrative about the human condition.
We are told a false story about a species with an intrinsic selfishness that has to be checked with laws and top-down control.
But human beings are inherently kind. If no outer force meddles with the social dynamics, people treat each other with respect and kindness.
For millennia we have been living in a gloomy dream. As if the movie ”The Matrix” were a documentary. It’s, frankly, outrageous.
The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman brilliantly unveils the lie in his book ”Humankind”. It should be compulsory literature in every corporation and every authority.
The untrue image is reinforced by the media. The news media narrative is practically based on the false assumptions about human lowness. News requires drama, conflict and speed, which filters out the big story: a slowly but incessantly evolving humankind.
The good news I bring here is that I believe we are in fact leaving this false narrative, this toxic mindset, behind.
About the media’s negativity bias: Listen also to Ulrik Haagerup, episode 6.

0 Listeners

5 Listeners

33 Listeners

52 Listeners

6 Listeners

265 Listeners

1 Listeners

10 Listeners

17 Listeners

870 Listeners

13 Listeners

3 Listeners

1 Listeners

2 Listeners

30 Listeners