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Humans Are Animals—And Progress Is a Myth

John Gray strips away illusions of human exceptionalism and secular salvation. *Straw Dogs* and *Black Mass* together: we are driven by instinct and delusion; utopian politics is Christian heresy in secular dress, and it keeps producing terror.

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  2. Text Explore· ~10 min

    Key passages

    Humanism as religion; political religions.

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  3. Argument Map· ~12 min

    Mapping illusions of progress and utopia

    From Darwin to Gray; from millenarianism to violence.

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  4. Dialogue· ~12 min

    Gray vs humanists and utopians

    Debate.

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  5. Reflection· ~6 min

    Gray now

    AI, climate, effective altruism.

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