Ganz aktuell schreibt Charles Leadbeater für The Guardian in No, we are not selfish – co-operation is at the heart of our existence über die evolutionären Fußabdrücke in unserer Gesellschaft und die Chancen, die daraus entstehen. Super spannend!

Meine persönlichen Lieblingsstellen:

We breed babies that develop slowly and need a lot of care. According to Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, professor of anthropology at the University of California, mothers in hunter-gatherer tribes needed help, especially from older women, to cope with child-rearing and to supplement the food brought back by hunters. The babies most likely to survive would have been good at eliciting support, showing pro-social tendencies and emotions.

Wir brauchten FRÜHER „unser Dorf um Kinder groß zu ziehen“. Dann ist es HEUTE doch sicher nicht anders. Warum sollte sich eine Mutter mit ihren Kindern alleine im Alltag durchschlagen müssen?

Großfamilien, Mütterteams, Wahlfamilien/-gemeinschaften – here we go.

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, the world’s leading researchers into reciprocity, led teams to study co-operation among 16 of the last hunter-gatherer societies in the world and found that the closer we get to a state of nature the more co-operative we become.

Faszinierend! Um so ursprünglicher wir leben, desto kooperativer werden wir. Wie schaffen wir das in unserer zivilisierten und hochtechnisierten Welt? Artgerechte Ideen? Immer (hier) her damit!

New forms of co-operation will be needed at every level of our lives, from the global challenges of financial instability, climate change and resource depletion, to the growing recognition that most of what matters most to us – love, care, friendship, respect, trust – come from relationships.

Back to the roots… GEMEINSAM statt einsam!