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At the heart of this newsletter is the idea that if we are to understand the world we’ve built, we must look to ourselves and our shared, essential nature.
For more than three centuries a single story about that nature – about what a human being is – has predominated in the global north.
So this week, reflections on that story, how it’s shaped the world around us, and why it’s time to write a new one.
I’ll be back on Wednesday with another New Week Same Humans: news and super-fast analysis. But in the meantime find a comfortable spot, pour yourself a drink, lean back and hit play!
If you’d rather read this instalment, then go here for the text version of New World Same Humans #34.
Links in this week’s instalment
1. The philosopher Charles Taylor argues in Sources of the Self that humans can make little sense of themselves outside the context supplied by a social collective.
2. Seeing humans as glorified algorithms has impoverished our politics and other important aspects of our collective lives.
New model army
Thanks for listening this week.
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David.
New World Same Humans #34 – Audio Edition