“No human society has ever cornered the market on absolute truth. The truth is that everything changes, people are never satisfied and identities are fictional.
What it means to be Christian or Spanish or even a man or a woman depends on the stories people believe. It’s changed many times in the past, and will keep changing in the future.
You won’t find the truth by killing people who disagree with you – you’ll just sink into ignorance.”
- from 'Sapiens: A Graphic History'
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Finding truth lies in experimenting with unproductive paths, explore dead ends, make space for doubts and boredom, and allow little seeds of insight to slowly grow and blossom.
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One of the great anxieties of our time is the growing concern that the future we are building may not include us. Though I can't see the future, history suggests that mental flexibility and emotional intelligence are great predictors for how well we adapt to change.
We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don't have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it's climate change or whether it's technological disruption.