Your body has like human requirements for movement, and if you don't Use those requirements. If you don't meet those requirements, you're just going to feel like shit.

Like, why is that a part of us from our tribal roots? Like, what is it? Why are we still accepting that this is a thing to do?

And the way that that book describes it is that animals have souls, but not souls with moral implications of the growth. You know, the purpose of our separation and the purpose of our experience is to have free will, to have the choice to do good or bad or, you know, whatever, but to evolve as a soul where you evolve towards being loving.

I think human beings are basically animals.

Human beings, when they get into any position of power, like to keep it and expand it. It's like that's what they do.

And we're all capable of doing something terrible if we're in the wrong environment with the wrong people around us and the wrong lifestyle, wrong decisions.

And most of us have lost the intellect on how to rule our lives. We've lost the sense of our personal self-defense.

Anything that pushes you, you're going to improve as a human being.

Well, change is like one of the greatest gifts we have. Like it really, if you think about perks of being a human being versus being a hyena or any other creature, it's you get to change.

When I was here before a few years ago, I made this point that's only been cemented in the interim, which is that if you look at world history as a big pie chart, all of it is tyranny. And it's just a tiny little sliver of the lives we've been blessed to live up until 2020. Meaning a tiny sliver of freedom, Western Europe, the United States, and all the rest is tyranny, which means tyranny is the natural order for human beings.

It sucks, but the problem is what's really structuring the succitude is the fact that you're losing in competition. That human beings are programmed by evolution to monitor the well-being of others. And so you can be wealthy and feel poor if those that you compare yourself to are vastly wealthier. Right. And there's a reason for that, which I think, you know, this is a reasonably well-reproduced result. We know that human beings pay attention to their relative well-being and that it structures how they feel about their absolute circumstances.

That's the theory that a lot of people have in terms of why human beings exist in the first place. That human beings exist because we're designed to work really hard until we develop artificial life and then artificial life takes it from here.

And that just because someone has a hateful, evil ideology they've attached themselves to, doesn't mean they're a hateful, evil person inherently. It's learned behavior, learned thinking.

And this is the problem with human beings, is we're incredibly malleable. You know, human beings are, we follow the leader and we adopt ideologies and we're also very tribal.

If you don't believe that, you can have no power in our society.

But you do go crazy. You go crazy. Human beings need human contact.

All this greed that we're talking about earlier. What does all this come from? This comes from famine thinking. This comes from tribal thinking, us versus them. This comes from trying to acquire resources because you want to stay alive.

I should say, not to be dark, but human beings, among other unique qualities, are also the only species that commit suicide.

I think human beings... Are just a very complicated form of bacteria. I think if you looked at the earth as a living organism, and who's to say that it's not some sort of a super organism, it's certainly a host for life, and we're considered a living organism, but really we're a host for life. There's more E. coli living inside our gut than there have ever been people, ever. There's bacteria that's constantly around you, and your body's fighting off that bacteria until your body grows old and dies, and then it doesn't fight anymore, and that bacteria just eats. That's what it does. I mean, that's what it's there for. Okay, well, if you looked at the Earth as this living organism, and like you were flying into L.A., and you're passing over these beautiful mountains, and you see the ocean ahead, it all looks natural and beautiful, but then you see L.A. What the fuck is that? That's a growth. That's cancer. It's big, and it's brown, and it stinks, and smoke's coming out of it, and it gets bigger every year. And it doesn't matter what you do. It's going to keep going. You can knock it down with a fucking hurricane. It rebuilds. Light it on fire. It rebuilds. And I think if you were an intelligent life form from another planet and you were looking at the Earth... You wouldn't see individual people. You wouldn't see housekeepers and limo drivers and stand-up comedians. You wouldn't see that. You would see mold on a sandwich. I think if you look at us objectively and the way we're headed and the way we've always been, it doesn't matter how much access to information we have, it doesn't matter how much technological innovation we have, we're always going to destroy the earth. Because I think, somehow or another, that's what we're supposed to do. I think that's our purpose here on Earth. I think we are here to fuck shit up.

And also, we have an epigenetic memory. When we see all the technology or see science fiction, it seems like we're home. It's like, well, I know this.

Human beings discriminate by nature, by the way. We all know that. See, fortunately for me, I'm a cultural anthropologist prior to becoming a doctorate in epidemiology and nutrition. I've lived in the third world, and something I discovered in every village I ever went to in the third world and lived there was every human being has built-in prejudices. Even in their own village, they have judgment of other people in their village.

You can't understand statistics. Human beings can't do it.