Michael Laitman connects major problems in humanity’s scientific and social progress in the last 100 years to a single cause – the human ego. Laitman explains why attempts to create equality and brotherhood among people have failed, the relationship between today’s world and Babylon five thousand years ago, why humanity needs to go through a crisis of unprecedented proportions, and why humanity has found it so difficult to understand and to love. Laitman concludes by offering the solution for positive future progress by addressing what humanity needs to understand and do.