La humanitat

The human being is selfish, unsupportive and moves only out of his own interest: he has been supported by thinkers like Machiavelli, philosophers like Hobbes, psychoanalysts like Freud, scientists like Dawkins and a multitude of historians and writers. But is it really so? This book proposes to rethink history based on the evidence that human beings tend more to cooperate than to compete, to trust than to distrust. The author studies two hundred thousand years of history and discovers that altruism and not competitiveness has been the evolutionary engine of humanity. For this he addresses examples such as the difference between what is told in the novel The Lord of the Flies and what happened in the seventies of the last century when a group of Australian children were shipwrecked and spent several months alone; or the solidary and resilient behavior of the citizens during the Blitz in the London of the Second World War; or the reality behind certain psychological and sociological experiments on human behavior. A fascinating proposal, full of anecdotes, very pleasant to read and that, far from being naive or tricky naivety, proposes an intelligent and revolutionary reading of the history of humanity. A book that may help us change the world.