“There are these characteristics of human beings that are clearly causing enormous trouble — our tendency to discount the future, our tendency to retreat into identity groups, our optimistic bias… our natural biological tendency as top predators. We’ve never had to restrain our appetites before. And now we kind of have to.” ––Thomas Homer-Dixon
As far as long-shot-beats-the-odds stories go, Derrick Forsyth’s journey is an Olympian-level triumph. “Most of my life I’ve been either addicted to drugs or alcohol, or I’ve been locked up in jail,” Forsyth said. He’s seen the inside of dozens of jails and done “every drug you can name.” The majority of his crimes were […]
