Jeremy Lent is the founder and president of the Liology Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the earth. On this edition of Conversations, he joins us to talk about his book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning. He describes how culture shapes values and values shape history. How we look at the world determines how we interact with the world.