"Humans of Mass Destruction" digs into how history gets written by the winners — and how heroes and villains are so often just a matter of which way you're standing. From Olaf the Holy to Putin, we watch leaders reach for the same trick: spinning a mythical story about themselves. War and conflict have shadowed us since before we were even human — and yet history also shows that the violence really can ebb, through cooperation and the institutions we build. Still, the scramble for resources and power keeps threatening to drag us back into the old patterns. The picture doesn't hand you the answers. Only the questions. And maybe the hope?
