ILLEGAL USE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES CAUSES HARM TO HEALTH, THEIR ILLEGAL CIRCULATION IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY ESTABLISHED BY LAW. Ancient thinkers and modern authors, psychologists and philosophers, politicians of right and left views agree that man by nature is bad. We are told that we, humans, are selfish and guided primarily by personal interests. But what if this is not so? Rutger Bregman offers to look at human history in a new way. He shows that we are programmed for kindness, oriented towards cooperation, and more inclined to trust others than to treat each other with suspicion. And this instinct has a strong evolutionary basis laid down in the early stages of Homo sapiens evolution. Bregman presents a true story disproving the idea of the "Lord of the Flies," talks about the fabrication of sensational psychological experiments, about two twin brothers who, despite differences in views, helped prevent a civil war... He argues that faith in human generosity and the desire for cooperation is not optimism, but an adequate perception of reality, and proves it by providing convincing arguments and using his talent as a storyteller.