Really well put. I have been watching the show recently and my draw to post-apocalyptic narratives, which has been considerable throughout my life, has always been to see how people survive and what survives of us from before (culture, art, etc.). Henderson makes a beautiful, poignant statement here - that when we face a world of dangers…
Really well put. I have been watching the show recently and my draw to post-apocalyptic narratives, which has been considerable throughout my life, has always been to see how people survive and what survives of us from before (culture, art, etc.). Henderson makes a beautiful, poignant statement here - that when we face a world of dangers and uncertainty, we must come to rely more on each other and get drawn back into the habits of our ancestors and this is something we have lost in modernity. I am an avid reader of fiction in this genre and at one point, tried to go to grad school to write a thesis on it, but I hadn't dug into Henderson's point as much as I dug into the thinking that such circumstances as catastrophe, pushes humans beyond limits through creativity and adaptability. But Henderson hones in on something that Yuval Noah Harari speaks to in "Homo Deus," it's human cooperation and, therefore, trust that sets us apart as a species and allows us to weather unbelievable circumstances. Our edge isn't the most violent things we are capable of doing to survive - it's the relationships and cycles of reciprocity we weave with those around us.
In the hunter/gatherer days hunting required cooperation. Survival required hunting. It also required gathering when the hunting was not so good. Which meant increased cooperation. People began to live in groups to facilitate both. That is the root of civilization.
Yuval wrote in the same book “humans are becoming redundant.״ As we move on through the 21st century that is clearly what’s happening there is going to be a major problem with resources. Food and shelter are going to become scarce. Think we will probably land up killing each, before getting to a place where we will be falling over each other with kindness. Watch the Hunger Games it’s 3 parts it’s very interesting.
Of course people will raid and murder when things go to hell. But again, groups will form. We are tribal and that’s hard to shake. We survive better with cooperation among a group rather than alone.
Really well put. I have been watching the show recently and my draw to post-apocalyptic narratives, which has been considerable throughout my life, has always been to see how people survive and what survives of us from before (culture, art, etc.). Henderson makes a beautiful, poignant statement here - that when we face a world of dangers and uncertainty, we must come to rely more on each other and get drawn back into the habits of our ancestors and this is something we have lost in modernity. I am an avid reader of fiction in this genre and at one point, tried to go to grad school to write a thesis on it, but I hadn't dug into Henderson's point as much as I dug into the thinking that such circumstances as catastrophe, pushes humans beyond limits through creativity and adaptability. But Henderson hones in on something that Yuval Noah Harari speaks to in "Homo Deus," it's human cooperation and, therefore, trust that sets us apart as a species and allows us to weather unbelievable circumstances. Our edge isn't the most violent things we are capable of doing to survive - it's the relationships and cycles of reciprocity we weave with those around us.
In the hunter/gatherer days hunting required cooperation. Survival required hunting. It also required gathering when the hunting was not so good. Which meant increased cooperation. People began to live in groups to facilitate both. That is the root of civilization.
Yuval wrote in the same book “humans are becoming redundant.״ As we move on through the 21st century that is clearly what’s happening there is going to be a major problem with resources. Food and shelter are going to become scarce. Think we will probably land up killing each, before getting to a place where we will be falling over each other with kindness. Watch the Hunger Games it’s 3 parts it’s very interesting.
Of course people will raid and murder when things go to hell. But again, groups will form. We are tribal and that’s hard to shake. We survive better with cooperation among a group rather than alone.