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  • Finding Sense in our World of Chaos
  • Restoring the Balance

An Introduction

In introducing the blog two conclusions from future posts can be flagged. One is that humanity is the greatest asset the human race has ever had. The other is that war is the greatest mistake our race ever made. These, for many people, may be self-evident. For others they will not. Whichever, the question remains, even if these things are true, what, now, can we do about them? We, surely, are the helpless victims of our past?
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Chapter 4

4. Basics of Balance

In seeking to understand how kind and trusting attitudes could have arisen in a fundamentally hostile world, the last chapter saw them to have been actively cultivated, encouraged and reinforced within cooperatively breeding human communities. They facilitated the greater efficiency and increased resources for enabling young children’s brains to grow. This poses two questions for us. How could these communities themselves have arisen in such a hostile world?, and why has this now changed? This chapter seeks the answer to the first of these. For doing so, it takes us back yet further in time.
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