What the Lascaux Cave Paintings Tell Us About the Nature of Human Desire
The ups and downs of always wanting what we can’t have
7 min readDec 5, 2017
Abstract: Humanity has a problem living in the now. If we aren’t lost in our memories of the past, we’re fantasizing about what the future might bring. But if we re-examine what we know of our earliest ancestors, we can see two things:
- We’ve had this problem for a long time. And,
- It doesn’t have to be such a bad thing.
