Shifting to less personal questions, how do you respond to the Pinkerian argument that the Enlightenment has improved the world in countless ways?

I then read his most popular book, published in 2013, and one that may have the best title of any book ever written: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. I had no ambition whatever to become a success, build my resume, go to graduate school, or anything like that. And you can’t say that you caused it to happen, but there’s sometimes the feeling that by making this change in my life or in my organization, I am declaring what world it is that we live in.

What, how powerful would you be if you were able to ride those synchronicities, if you had mastered the technology of being at just the right place at just the right time meeting, just the right person, those people who are really successful in the world is that because they are so organized and so together, or is it maybe sometimes because they were in the right place at the right time playing out a story that was written in advance. When I read Charles Eisenstein I felt as if I had just put on an extraordinarily clear, lucid, morally honest set of glasses. I’m talking about this feeling of readiness that grows as we give attention and have validated from the outside who we really are. Throughout the book, Eisenstein relates real-life stories showing how small, individual acts of courage, kindness, and self-trust can change our culture’s guiding narrative of separation, which, he shows, has generated the present planetary crisis. So there’s always, always a cardigan at the threshold of evolution that needs to be placated by with a gift, with a sacrifice, you know, by letting go of something of who I have been.

And, and I love there’s a number of things I want to go into around this one is I love how you own the challenge of adopting the narrative of interviewing, like how you admit to not being there yet.One influence I can say that Chinese has had on my later work is that it helped me work more comfortably with paradox.

He presents data in dozens of categories showing that the world is far better off in terms of declining violence, longer lifespans, better standard of living, access to health care, declining child death and death of mothers during birth, etc. Could you describe briefly, cause I want to go into it in a lot more detail, but what are these two stories of life, the story of separation and the story of intervene? You have this other quote that I’m going to read to you which is, which is resonates with what you’ve just said.So, and, and the deepest reaction pattern in civilization and the most problematic one is the pattern of got a problem, find the enemy and dominate it, whatever that is our, our, you know, the problem is our election, our democracy, that working very well must be flat, flattering your Putin, like find the problem. It is a future for humanity collectively, and it is a future for each of us individually, and for every level of society between and outside those poles: intimate relations, community relations, political relations, ecological relations. And, you know, especially as the child of a survivor of the Holocaust, like that taps into lots of fears that I have. Despite the breadth of issues you’ve written and spoken about, there is a theme that runs through your work.