The Secrets of Life series is written for everyone who, frankly,
needs a spot of cheering up, and will provide conversation starters
for years after reading! O'Connor's easy-going, conversational
style brings an outsider's questioning eye to the great forces
behind life. The final in the four-part series shows what the
theories, research and science all add up to. It examines the
evidence that illustrates how wrong most people in thinking the
world is descending into darkness and chaos, and shows instead that
it's actually improving at an astonishing rate. This explains, the
author says, why in spite of the constant challenges our world
faces, the human race is actually improving by the day, rather than
becoming worse. Book Four points out that many people say that
humans are the ultimate triumph for the selfish gene, yet we've now
developed to the point where we can choose to overrule so many of
its instructions. As the facts about the world's population, its
life expectancies, birth rates, poverty, food security, violence,
natural disasters, energy, climate and all the other major
indicators are laid out in So What Does It All Mean?, it becomes
ever clearer that the
resultsofourevolutionshouldgiveusreasonsforoptimism,notdespair. The
Secrets of Life series concludes by showing us why we are often
wrong in
ourviewofeachother,whywe'rebecomingeverhappierandmoremoral,andwhy
we're so frequently mistaken in our views about the future. Yes, it
concludes, life does have a meaning, it does have an arc of
evolution, non- zero cooperation is what makes things win... and
that includes us humans. Example questions posed (and answered) in
Book 4 - So What Does It All Mean? What are the problems that arise
from our free will? Why are we capable of so much selfishness and
cynicism - and yet also such sympathy, empathy, compassion, and
sacrifice? How have we come to realise that self-interest is quite
different from selfishness? Why have we become so driven by the
need for fairness and trust in our societies - and how can less
control over a society lead to people behaving better? What's the
problem that life is solving? Are we becoming happier? Is violence
reducing or increasing?
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