October

"(...) untold degrees of suffering, destruction, and death (...) clash with simple as well as complex but nondeliberative homeostatic regulation. Time and again, humans have imprudently concluded they had reached an age of stability and reason, one from which injustice and violence would be forever banned, only to discover that the horrors of gross inequity or war had returned with an even stronger force."

"Education, in the broadest sense of the term, is the obvious way forward. A long-term educational project aimed at creating healthy and socially productive environments needs to give prominence to ethical and civic behaviors and encourage classical moral virtues - honesty, kindness, empathy and compassion, gratitude, modesty. It should also address human values that transcend the management of life's immediate needs." 

Antonio Damasio (2018). The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures.

Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) October 2026.