Team Human

being human is a team sport

The first step toward reversing our predicament is to recognize that being human is a team sport. We cannot be fully human alone.

The people with whom we disagree are not the real problem here. The greatest threats to Team Human are the beliefs, forces, and institutions that separate us from one another and the natural world of which we are a part.

Without socially positive opportunities to exercise our autonomy, we tend toward self-promotion over self-sacrifice and fixate on personal gain over collective prosperity.

When the individual’s needs are balanced with those of the collective, things stay in balance. But when people are understood as self-interested individuals in competition against one another for survival and dominance, we get into trouble.

Humans are defined not by our superior hunting ability so much as by our capacity to communicate, trust, and share.

We’re discovering a collective sensibility that’s more dimensional and participatory than the unconsciously formed communities of the past.