In his book, ‘End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration’, Russian-American complexity scientist Peter Turchin examines the interplay of factors that, he asserts, repeatedly throw societies into decay, crisis, and often violent collapse. Turchin argues that the current instability in the United States shares the same causes as numerous other political crises in history that have ended in cataclysm. https://bit.ly/3ZlYKwH
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Highlighting the growing body of research about who we are, how we evolved, and where we’re going.
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We face a world that is far different from our ancestors' world. But we have the potential to understand and solve the problems of today, many of which are man-made, if we first understand who we are, and how the past has made us. We must know what is unchanging about human nature, and recognize what we can and must consciously change to ensure the future for ourselves and our planet. The Human Journey is the journey of the human mind, how it developed, the world it made and the problems it solved, why and how it solved them; and how those solutions affected its evolution and subsequent decisions. The Human Journey project, an educational web initiative, allows users to learn about our amazing journey out of Africa to the modern world and discover who we are, how we evolved, where we’re going. The Human Journey project is a division of The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK). ISHK is a 501(c)3 corporation registered in California, Fed. Tax ID #94-1705600.
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The runaway train of technological progress, and the complications it creates, has outpaced our ability to biologically adapt and evolve. At a fundamental level, our minds remain attuned to Stone Age conditions and challenges. A new section for The Human Journey Project entitled ‘Our Mind in the Modern World,’ looks at aspects of this disconnect. It also explores our potential to transcend our limitations and rise to the new challenges that face us. https://humanjourney.us/our-mind-in-the-modern-world/
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In his book ‘The WEIRDest People in the World’ Joseph Henrich argues that the Catholic Church’s medieval edicts on marriage undermined the foundations of kin-based societies and created the more analytical and individualistic culture in the Western world—for better and for worse. https://bit.ly/3yBY0VZ
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The hijacking of childhood by screen-based technologies has disrupted the neurological development of kids. Among the consequences for them are social anxiety, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, addiction and depression. American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s book ‘The Anxious Generation’ explores this growing phenomenon and makes suggestions on how to mitigate this devastating trend. https://lnkd.in/gxh5N9p8
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In 'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,' author Timothy Snyder warns that the wave of discontent and division washing over the Western world is leading to a rise in demagogues and a loss of liberty that needs to be checked. https://bit.ly/3uYiAAW
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Though to some degree unthinkable, can the notion of debt forgiveness – what our ancient ancestors called a 'Jubilee' – be a tenable and useful practice in the modern day? https://bit.ly/4fj1aSi
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“The new, franchised self-improvement courses are neither the instant self-transcendence-fantastic-enlightenment panaceas that their followers resolutely contend, nor are they, as most academics contend, entirely lacking any phenomena of interest. Most self-awareness programs provide some of the rudiments of a once-complete technology of consciousness. In the absence of anything more highly developed, such programs impress their followers, and yield great benefits to their leaders-after all, a simple tape recorder might be enough to convince a primitive tribe that the bearer was a representative of the deity.” ‘The Mind Field’ is Robert Ornstein’s classic work in which he lays out the limitations of both excessive rational skepticism and fetishistic ‘new age’ credulity around the topic of personal self-development – towards providing a practical spiritual psychology relevant to modern life. https://bit.ly/46bkBIq
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We evolved to pay less attention to the slow-moving dangers that threaten our world. Luckily there are ways to overcome this handicap and be more in tune with the bigger picture. The latest from The Human Journey blog. https://bit.ly/4cUgqmt
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Archaeologists have found and dated the world’s oldest known picture-story: a 51,000 year-old cave painting on an Indonesian island. It’s almost 6,000 years older than the previous record holder, found about 10km away.
51,000-year-old cave painting may be earliest scene depicted through art
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