Celebrating and defending humanity

The purpose of this newsletter

We are shelled continuously with the message that we have really messed up, the future is hopeless, and evil people are out to get us. Popular books, like Sapiens, devote hundreds of pages to detailing all of the bad things that humans have done. Imagine, for a minute, if you listened to the history of someone’s entire life. But the history only included the worst things that they had done, and the worst things that had happened to them. You would think their life must have been pretty awful, right? Well, that is pretty much what is going on with the world and the 24 hour news cycle right now. We only hear the worst. Unless we make a conscious effort otherwise, that is all we hear.

And we do need to know about the bad stuff. But there is an absolutely massive amount of good stuff going on, and it is critically important for us to know about that as well. So that is the first mission of this newsletter - to feed you a continuous supply of news about really awesome stuff that people are doing. The second mission is to defend humanity from the constant stream of attacks that try to tell us that we are nothing but poorly behaved meaningless meat sacks; that there is no Divine power, and that death is permanent. There are really good answers to all of these attacks, and my job is to bring them forward.