What happens when a group of children is stranded on an uninhabited island for years on end? Will they work together to overcome the many dangers of the wilds? Or will they revert to some state of nature, a Hobbesian competition of all against all, whereby their true nature is revealed and they submit each other to the most cruel treatment imaginable? If you think that the latter is the most probable scenario, like a sort of real-life ‘Lord of the Flies’, then there is a fair chance that the book ‘Humankind: A Hopeful Story’ by Rutger Bregman will open your eyes. Instead of what most people would assume as the default, the former scenario is most likely what would actually happen, at least according to Bregman. What does he base this claim on? Well, unlike the ‘Lord of the Flies’ this actually happened once (Read more about this amazing story