Yuval Noah Harari

And we know where it leads.

It leads on the one hand to empire and on the other hand to endless wars.

The basic story is about shared experiences and interests and cooperation.

In the 20th century, you had basically three big stories.

You had the fascist story which said that history is a competition, a conflict between nations or races.

It's decided by strength.

Ultimately, the strongest nation or the strongest race will defeat all the others and conquer the world.

This was the fascist story.

Then you had the communist story, which says, yes, but it's not between races or nations, it's between classes.

There is an inevitable conflict between different classes that will be violent and end with the victory of the working class, which will establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Then liberalism came and said, no, history does not have to be about conflict at all.

Not conflict between nations and not conflict between classes.

It can be about cooperation.

Why?

Because all humans, no matter to which race or nation or class they belong, they are essentially the same.

There are some small differences in how we look and in our languages and religions and so forth.

But essentially, we are the same species.

We all have the same biological needs.

We all have roughly the same psychological needs, at least the deep ones, to be loved, to be recognized, and so forth.

We have shared interests.