The Good Wolf We Keep Starving: Why Our Cynicism About Human Nature Is Killing Us
Episode S6 · Ep 40 26 min 39s

The Good Wolf We Keep Starving: Why Our Cynicism About Human Nature Is Killing Us

Send us Fan Mail 📖 Read There's an old parable about two wolves fighting inside us—one evil, one good. The grandson asks which will win. The grandfather says, "The one you feed." Cynicism is easy. It's lazy. You can sit back and say everyone sucks, nothing will change, why bother? Hope is heavy. Hope requires courage. It means trusting people who might hurt you. But the evidence—from the Blitz to the Norwegian prisons to those six Tongan boys—shows it's the only way we've ever survived....

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