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| .Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the couch and clutch, feeling lucky. .It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. . -- Rebecca Solnit ---- .'''p001 Introduction''' .p001 [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/opinion/emile-bruneau-dead.html | Emile Bruneau ]] died 2020 age 47 .p001 Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab at U. Penn. Annenberg School for Communication (cannot find) .p003 Emile's mother schizophrenic, but "She never let any of the darkness touch me" .p004 Cynicism ... is a seductive worldview, dark and simple. Too simple, really to explain much of anything. .p004 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Social_Survey | General Social Survey ]] began in 1972 .p005 In 1972, 50% agreed that "most people can be trusted", only 33% agreed in 2018. .p005 52% trusted president in 1970s, 23% in 2022. Newspapers 39% to 18%. Public schools 58% to 28% .p007 Media's product is cynicism. .p008 Nietzche called hope "the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment" .p009 Cynicism is a lack of faith in people, skepticism is a lack of faith in our assumptions. ----- .'''Section I: UNLEARNING CYNICISM''' ---- .'''p015 Chapter 1. Signs and Symptoms''' .p015 Mycroft Holmes more talented, but "no ambition and no energy" and a disdain for humanity .p016 Mycroft Holmes co-founded [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Club | Diogenes Club ]] .p018 "big-C Cynicism" opposite of misanthropy and "small-c cynicism" .p017 the real [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes | Diogenes ]] helped people and would despise the Diogenes Cl[[ | ]][[ | ]]ub. .p017 Three statement test: .(1) No one cares much what happens to you. .(2) Most people dislike helping others. .(3) Most people are honest chiefly through fear of getting caught. .p018 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%E2%80%93Medley_hostility_scale | Cook and Medley: ]] Worse teachers agreed with these statements. They are a "cynicism detector". .p020 adolescent cynics more likely depressed, drink and divorce in and after college . cynics earn less, more heart disease, die sooner .p020 Finland 58% trust, France 18% trust .p021 High trust nations grow GDP faster .p021 [[ | ]] .p025 [[ | ]] .p025 [[ | ]] .p026 [[ | ]] .p026 [[ | ]] .p027 [[ | ]] .p028 [[ | ]] ---- .'''p029 Chapter 2. The Surprising Wisdom of Hope''' .p029 [[ | ]] .p030 [[ | ]] .p030 [[ | ]] .p031 [[ | ]] .p031 [[ | ]] .p035 [[ | ]] .p039 [[ | ]] .p042 [[ | ]] .p043 [[ | ]] .p043 [[ | ]] .p044 [[ | ]] .p045 [[ | ]] ---- .'''p046 Chapter 3. Preexisting Conditions'''[[ | ]] .p047 [[ | ]] .p049 [[ | ]] .p050 [[ | ]] .p051 [[ | ]] .p052 [[ | ]] .p053 [[ | ]] .p053 [[ | ]] .p054 [[ | ]] .p060 [[ | ]] .p061 [[ | ]] ---- .'''p065 Chapter 4. Hell Isn't Other People''' .p069 [[ | ]] .p069 [[ | ]] .p070 [[ | ]] .p072 [[ | ]] .p072 [[ | ]] .p073 [[ | ]] .p073 [[ | ]] .p074 [[ | ]] .p075 [[ | ]] .p076 [[ | ]] .p076 [[ | ]] .p076 [[ | ]] .p076 [[ | ]] .p077 [[ | ]] .p077 [[ | ]] ---- .'''p079 Chapter 5. Escaping the Cynicism Trap''' .p079 [[ | ]] .p080 [[ | ]] .p084 [[ | ]] .p089 [[ | ]] .p091 [[ | ]] .p092 [[ | ]] ----- .'''Section II: REDISCOVERING ONE ANOTHER''' ---- .'''p097 Chapter 6. The (Social) Water is Just Fine''' .p097 [[ | ]] .p100 [[ | ]] .p100 [[ | ]] .p101 [[ | ]] .p102 [[ | ]] .p103 [[ | ]] .p103 [[ | ]] .p104 [[ | ]] .p105 [[ | ]] .p105 [[ | ]] .p106 [[ | ]] .p107 [[ | ]] .p107 [[ | ]] .p108 [[ | ]] .p110 [[ | ]] .p111 [[ | ]] .p113 [[ | ]] ---- .'''p114 Chapter 7. Building Cultures of Trust''' .p115 [[ | ]] .p116 [[ | ]] .p116 [[ | ]] .p118 [[ | ]] .p119 [[ | ]] .p123 [[ | ]] .p123 [[ | ]] .p125 [[ | ]] .p125 [[ | ]] .p126 [[ | ]] .p129 [[ | ]] ---- .'''p130 Chapter 8. The Fault in Our Fault Lines''' .p130 [[ | ]] .p131 [[ | ]] .p136 [[ | ]] .p138 [[ | ]] .p138 [[ | ]] .p139 [[ | ]] .p142 [[ | ]] .p143 [[ | ]] .p143 [[ | ]] .p144 [[ | ]] .p145 [[ | ]] .p145 [[ | ]] ----- .'''Section III: THE FUTURE OF HOPE''' ---- .'''p151 Chapter 9. Building the World We Want''' .p153 [[ | ]] .p154 [[ | ]] .p154 [[ | ]] .p155 [[ | ]] .p157 [[ | ]] .p160 [[ | ]] .p161 [[ | ]] .p165 [[ | ]] ---- .'''p168 Chapter 10. The Optimism of Activism''' .p171 [[ | ]] .p173 [[ | ]] .p183 [[ | ]] ---- .'''p185 Chapter 11. Our Common Fate''' .p185 [[ | ]] .p191 [[ | ]] ----- ---- .'''p200 Epilogue''' ---- .'''p205 Acknowledgements''' ---- .'''p209 Appendix A: A Practical Guide to Hopeful Skepticism''' ---- .'''p213 Appendix B: Evaluating the Evidence''' ---- .'''p217 Chapter Claim Ratings''' ---- .'''p225 Notes''' ---- .'''p263 Index''' .p263 Emile Bruneau |
Hope For Cynics
The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
- Jamil Zaki . 2024 . 149 ZAK . Beaverton Library
- Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the couch and clutch, feeling lucky.
- It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.
- -- Rebecca Solnit
p001 Introduction
p001 Emile Bruneau died 2020 age 47
- p001 Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab at U. Penn. Annenberg School for Communication (cannot find)
- p003 Emile's mother schizophrenic, but "She never let any of the darkness touch me"
- p004 Cynicism ... is a seductive worldview, dark and simple. Too simple, really to explain much of anything.
p004 General Social Survey began in 1972
- p005 In 1972, 50% agreed that "most people can be trusted", only 33% agreed in 2018.
- p005 52% trusted president in 1970s, 23% in 2022. Newspapers 39% to 18%. Public schools 58% to 28%
- p007 Media's product is cynicism.
- p008 Nietzche called hope "the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment"
- p009 Cynicism is a lack of faith in people, skepticism is a lack of faith in our assumptions.
Section I: UNLEARNING CYNICISM
p015 Chapter 1. Signs and Symptoms
- p015 Mycroft Holmes more talented, but "no ambition and no energy" and a disdain for humanity
p016 Mycroft Holmes co-founded Diogenes Club
- p018 "big-C Cynicism" opposite of misanthropy and "small-c cynicism"
p017 the real Diogenes helped people and would despise the Diogenes Cl]][[ub.
- p017 Three statement test:
- (1) No one cares much what happens to you.
- (2) Most people dislike helping others.
- (3) Most people are honest chiefly through fear of getting caught.
p018 Cook and Medley: Worse teachers agreed with these statements. They are a "cynicism detector".
- p020 adolescent cynics more likely depressed, drink and divorce in and after college
- cynics earn less, more heart disease, die sooner
- p020 Finland 58% trust, France 18% trust
- p021 High trust nations grow GDP faster
p029 Chapter 2. The Surprising Wisdom of Hope
p065 Chapter 4. Hell Isn't Other People
Section II: REDISCOVERING ONE ANOTHER
p097 Chapter 6. The (Social) Water is Just Fine
p130 Chapter 8. The Fault in Our Fault Lines
Section III: THE FUTURE OF HOPE
p200 Epilogue
p205 Acknowledgements
p209 Appendix A: A Practical Guide to Hopeful Skepticism
p213 Appendix B: Evaluating the Evidence
p217 Chapter Claim Ratings
p225 Notes
p263 Index
- p263 Emile Bruneau