Out of the Wreckage - A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

Summary

Guardian columnist George Monbiot argues that an ideology of extreme competition and individualism misreads human nature, and can’t be displaced without a positive vision to replace it. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, he casts humans as unusually altruistic and cooperative, and sketches a ‘politics of belonging’ that rebuilds community, democracy and economic life from the bottom up.

Rationale

His ‘restoration story’ was an early reference as we planned our first workshop. Where he seeks one better story, though, we’ve come to look at the dispositions many stories carry.