historian thucydides, right, he talked about the plague in athens, for example, or the civil war in corcyrad this observation that, you know, deep down, people are just selfish and animals and monsters. and indeed, if you read the early christian church fathers, saint augustine — same idea, you know? the idea that we are born as sinners. and you read the enlightenment philosophers — thomas hobbes, david hume, even adam smith — also often emphasise in the end, people are selfish — or at least that politically, we have to assume that, when we build a society. and, you know, ithink that idea is just wrong. it is really fundamentally wrong. in the past couple of decades, we have seen scientists from very diverse disciplines — psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, archaeologists — all moving from a quite cynical view of human nature to a much more hopeful view of human nature. and what i am trying doing in this book is just to connect —— and what i am trying to do in this book is just to connect the dots and to show that something bigger is going on there. are you saying far from that —