Epoch Times - Technology is stripping away the basic human rhythms we’ve lived
Aired: 2026-03-27
Duration: 01:31


=== The Scariest Time to Live (01:30) ===

[00:00:00]  Think of what it really means to be a human, right?
[00:00:03]  Like, this is a very, very scary thing, but think about what it really means to be a human.
[00:00:06]  We had rituals for most of humanity.
[00:00:09]  Anytime you've heard of, like, ancestral living, you see people talking about like the keto diet, you hear someone talking about the carnivore diet.
[00:00:15]  I know you guys had Sean Baker.
[00:00:17]  Think about what it meant really to experience, to be in ancestral living, right?
[00:00:21]  To live like that.
[00:00:22]  It was these rituals.
[00:00:24]  The rituals were basically you'd wake up because the sun came out.
[00:00:27]  So you would wake up.
[00:00:27]  Everybody would wake up every single day because the sun came out.
[00:00:30]  Everybody would go to bed because the sun went down, right?
[00:00:32]  People would gather at night because there's a community gatherings, right?
[00:00:35]  They have communal gatherings at a set time every single day.
[00:00:38]  All of these things that are rituals.
[00:00:39]  These are things that we just do because that's just how we are as humans.
[00:00:42]  We don't have those rituals anymore.
[00:00:44]  I wake up and it's a dark room, so I'm not really waking up from the sun anymore.
[00:00:48]  I wake up from an alarm.
[00:00:49]  I go to bed at night and it's not because of an alarm, it's just because, I mean, I close my shades.
[00:00:54]  I can't even see the sun.
[00:00:54]  That's not why I'm going to sleep.
[00:00:56]  So all of these things, all of these rituals don't exist.
[00:00:58]  So I'm creating artificial rituals now.
[00:01:00]  And so what does it look like to be a human and you don't even have those rituals anymore?
[00:01:05]  You're basically not living like a human anymore.
[00:01:07]  You're living completely out of what humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years.
[00:01:11]  There's never been a time in history for hundreds of thousands of years ever.
[00:01:15]  I mean, we've had a big conversation people have is like everyone, every time, every century people are like, oh, this is the scariest time to live, right?
[00:01:23]  No, this is literally the scariest time to live because this is the first time we're not being human and having rituals.
[00:01:28]  Like these rituals are just the core basis of what humans are.