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Below is a chapter from my upcoming book Humanity Is Beautiful: A New Story For A World On Fire. Paying members can follow along and watch the book emerge and evolve as I write it. View the Table of Contents of this "living draft" here.
Today’s world is deeply divided and polarized. Many of us have worldviews and value systems so distant from one another that we can’t seem to agree on basic facts or fundamental, seemingly uncontroversial, ideals. We seem unable to be in the same room with one another without boiling over into political arguments and bitter name-calling.
The world is on fire. And we all have someone to blame. We are all at each others’ throats.
Yet, even amidst this profound division, we often share the same core emotions: outrage, despair, hatred. The reasons are different, but the feelings and judgments are strikingly similar.
