Humanity's Divide is a sweeping, unflinching look at why our species?wired for both cooperation and conflict?stands on the brink of collapse in the age of surveillance capitalism, climate upheaval, and fractured belief systems.

Blending memoir, philosophy, and investigative research, the book traces humanity's long struggle between unity and division: from ancient myths and the birth of religion, to the printing press and the rise of the modern state, to today's digital panopticons and looming technological revolutions. Along the way, it reveals how systems of control?time, addiction, propaganda, and belief?have been weaponized to keep us fractured, distracted, and obedient.

Drawing from thinkers like Edward O. Wilson, Gabor Maté, and Itzhak Bentov, Humanity's Divide argues that the roots of our crises are evolutionary, buried in instincts of tribalism and survival. But it also insists on the possibility of transformation: that awe, cooperation, and shared vulnerability can dissolve walls of identity and ideology.

Urgent, poetic, and deeply personal, this is not just a critique of power?it's a call to remember who we are beneath the cages built around us. Humanity's Divide challenges us to ask the hardest question of all: can we reunite as one human family before the next cataclysm arrives?

Matt Stone is a former Army Ranger, wilderness field instructor, political organizer, axe-throwing coach, and author. He holds a BA in political science and a master's degree in international relations from American University. He writes about survival, absurdity, resilience, and the beautiful failure of trying to outrun yourself.

You can find him wandering the woods, throwing sharp things, or practicing muay thai. And occasionally writing.