The Human Scale: Oliver Sacks on How to Save Humanity from Itself

“…or there will be genocide, atomic bombs, and we’ll all perish and take the planet with us.”

The poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks (July 9, 1933–August 30, 2015) was one of those rare seers capable of bending their gaze past the horizon of their culture’s givens. He wrote presciently about consciousness, our search for meaning, and ChatGPT 30 years before ChatGPT. He challenged the blind spots of Western medicine with his empirically tested faith in the healing power of nature. And as he was dyi...