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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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- Text Explore· ~10 min
Key passages
Humanism as religion; political religions.
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- Argument Map· ~12 min
Mapping illusions of progress and utopia
From Darwin to Gray; from millenarianism to violence.
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- Dialogue· ~12 min
Gray vs humanists and utopians
Debate.
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- Reflection· ~6 min
Gray now
AI, climate, effective altruism.
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