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[gentle music]
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♪ All around me
are familiar faces ♪
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♪ Worn out places ♪
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♪ Worn out faces ♪
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♪ Bright and early
for their daily races ♪
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♪ Going nowhere, going nowhere ♪
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♪ Their tears are filling up
their glasses ♪
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♪ No expression, no expression ♪
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♪ Hide my head
I want to drown my sorrow ♪
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♪ No tomorrow, no tomorrow ♪
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♪ And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad ♪
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♪ The dreams in which I'm dying
are the best I've ever had ♪
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♪ I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take ♪
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♪ When people run in circles
it's a very, very... ♪
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♪ Mad world ♪
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♪ Mad world ♪
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♪ Children waiting for the day
they feel good ♪
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♪ Happy birthday ♪
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♪ Happy birthday ♪
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♪ Made to feel the way
that every child should ♪
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♪ Sit and listen ♪
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♪ Sit and listen ♪
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♪ Went to school
and I was very nervous ♪
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♪ No one knew me ♪
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♪ No one knew me ♪
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♪ Hello teacher
tell me what's my lesson ♪
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♪ Look right through me ♪
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♪ Look right through me ♪
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♪ And I find it kind of funny
and I find it kind of sad ♪
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♪ The dreams in which I'm dying
are the best I've ever had ♪
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♪ I find it hard to tell you ♪
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♪ I find it hard to take ♪
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♪ When people run in circles
it's a very, very... ♪
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♪ Mad world ♪
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♪ Mad world ♪
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♪ Mad world ♪
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♪ Mad world ♪
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[muffled explosion]
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[wind blowing]
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[music fades]
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[increasing
high-pitched ringing]
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[propeller
increasingly rumbling]
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[helicopter whirring]
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[muffled helicopter rumbling]
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[ominous music]
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[increasing dramatic music]
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[dramatic upbeat music]
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What I call the World Game
now is an exercise
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that I have been following
through for a great many years.
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Can you hear me
in the back alright?
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And it started with my being
in the United States Navy.
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The time of World War One.
At that time,
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the Navy's represented
investment of all the science,
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all the chemistry, all the
physics, all the mathematics
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known about our universe.
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And I was shocked
that it was only going
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in this negative thing
of killing.
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[dramatic orchestral music]
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[Buckminster] We have this
extraordinary technology.
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Men would not doing anything
with that kind of accuracy
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on the land in relation to try
to make man a success.
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It became very quickly
apparent that the fundamental
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raison d'etre in all
of our state craft
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was based on Thomas Malthus.
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Now Thomas Malthus
was the scientific servant
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of the masters
of the earth of the time.
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He the first economist in
the history of man to receive
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the total Vital Statistics
from around the spherical earth
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and in 1800,
he wrote his first book,
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which he said apparently man
was reproducing himself
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much more rapidly than producing
good to support himself.
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Therefore, very sad, but man
is supposed to be a failure.
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[dramatic orchestral music]
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Shall we inform the whole world,
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the whole world
of that time being
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more than 90% illiterate
and unable to then even read
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any information
if it was sent to them.
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Should we try to inform the
whole world? There is nowhere
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nearly enough to go around.
If we divide up evenly
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all die slowly together.
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And that, that, that,
that didn't seem logical to them at all.
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They said, "What we can do
is a following:
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all these people out here are
ignorant of what we know about
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and because they're ignorant,
they think they have some hope.
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And we know they don't
have hope most of them.
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Why, why eliminate their hope?
They're going to die poor characters,
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and might as well
let them die in ignorance."
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Ignorance and hope.
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This is the kindest thing to do.
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And that's exactly
what they did do.
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[dramatic music]
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[computer beeping]
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[gentle piano music]
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How's it going?
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Everything seems to be on pace.
But, you know,
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there's only so much we can be
sure of since its theoretical.
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- Think it's going to work?
- I have no idea.
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- Hey, any word about John yet?
- Glad you asked,
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actually, yes,
John just made the evening news.
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[computer beeping]
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And it appears Simon
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wants to gloat about it.
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[headline hisses]
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[gentle cybernetic music]
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They call themselves Concordia,
after the ancient Roman
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goddess of harmony.
The pro-revolution hacktivist
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group world famous after
a decade of subversion
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suffered a major blow this week.
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With the capture
of leader John Taylor.
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Once a high-ranking
military engineer,
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Taylor is being held
in an undisclosed location
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by the UN's
Global Security Agency.
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And with us to discuss
is GSA director,
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General Simon Devoe.
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- Simon, thanks for being here.
- My pleasure.
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So let's step back
if you don't mind.
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Who are these people
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and how have they operated
with such impunity
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after all these years?
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Concordia was formed
by a group of cyber warfare
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experts that defected
from their military positions
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around 2050.
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And in the process,
a great deal
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of classified information
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and advanced technologies
were stolen.
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What kind of technologies?
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Mostly communications,
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cloaking, encryption,
surveillance.
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Hence why they remain
so elusive.
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But the GSA's core concern
is the theft of some highly
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experimental warfare technology.
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Advancements in biochemistry
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and molecular science
that have dramatic potential
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- for large-scale harm.
- Aside from all the hacks,
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leaks and other things
that have made them so famous.
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[Simon] Yes,
they certainly enjoy being disruptive.
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Disruptive indeed. Just last
year they breached the accounts
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of the world's richest
CEOs extracting almost
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two trillion dollars,
moving that money
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into virtually traceless
charity donations worldwide.
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Hmm! I tell you
the warm fuzzy feeling I got
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from that one
has yet to go away.
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Delicious.
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Before that were
the notorious email leaks
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revealing major Wall Street
firms had lobbied CIA,
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MI9 and Mossad to help
gain monopoly control
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of rare earth metals in Asia.
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Yeah, too bad I didn't
do a damn thing.
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Corporate terrorism
just gets worse.
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Exposure media does
very little these days.
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It just sets a tone.
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And in 2054
they jammed both Chinese
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and American defense systems
during the Saudi Annex Crisis
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disabling thousands of warheads.
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A move Concordian
sympathizers claim
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might have stopped
World War III.
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And speaking of sympathizers,
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what do you make of the support?
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Legions of followers worldwide.
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Troubling, but I get it.
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Lots of problems out there.
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The food, water crisis.
Refugee migration.
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Automation-driven unemployment,
serious ecological decline.
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I get it
and it's natural to be angry,
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but anger doesn't solve problems
or justify unlawful acts.
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This Robin Hood savior appeal
of Concordia
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- is just an immature fad.
- A passing trend?
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I think so. As cinematic
as the idea is of Concordia,
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the radical
yet benevolent protagonist,
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fighting for their
utopian revolution
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against the evil establishment,
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last I checked this is
reality not a movie.
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[eerie music]
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Seems that way.
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So I encourage people to regain
trust in our time-tested
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institutions
and democratic process.
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Not tear it all down
as Concordia
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would like to see.
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Now, in regards to John Taylor.
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I understand
you once worked together.
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Starting in Special Forces, yes.
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I even considered him
a good friend at one time.
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Have you had contact with him
since his capture?
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Not yet.
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But I must say I am very much
looking forward
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to speaking
with my old associate.
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So are we, Simon.
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Well, I wish I could be
a fly on the wall for that.
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Thanks for being here, Simon,
always a pleasure.
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[dramatic news music]
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[director] So, can I get you
anything before we get started?
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[Malikan]
I think I'm good.
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[director] Alright,
feel free to take a seat.
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How we doing on tech?
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- [tech] Almost there?
- [director] All right.
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Well, let's, let's go ahead
and roll for basic info
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and we'll, uh, we'll just,
we'll tweak it as we go.
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- Sound.
- [man] Speed.
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[tech]
And rolling.
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[director] All right,
so, please go ahead
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and introduce yourself
and state your work.
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My name is Malikan Soyenka
and I'm a professor of history
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at Columbia University.
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My specialty of interest
surrounds what most historians
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call today the Great Transition.
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That period of time
between the 21st
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and early 22nd century
where global society
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underwent a rather spectacular
social revolution.
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[chuckles] That's a good question.
I guess time will tell.
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[director] All right.
Let's, let's inch into this.
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Please state your name,
vocation and how you found
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interest in economics.
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I'm Cynthia Floris
and I received
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an interdisciplinary degree
in systems ecology and economics
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from the University of Cape
Town, where I also now teach.
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I guess I would start by saying
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that I can't think of anything
more relevant to the character
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of society
than its economic foundation.
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Hello, I'm Aleniya Demir
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and I teach epidemiology
at the University of Istanbul.
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Epidemiology is the study
of public well-being
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or what one could call
population level phenomena,
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specifically the distribution
of physical
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and mental health
across society.
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With respect your documentary
I would say
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the period before
the Great Transition
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likely marked the most unhealthy
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and unstable period
in human history.
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- So am I looking at you or the camera?
- [director] At me.
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- Got it.
- [director] Whenever you're ready.
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I'm Vivian Marcella and I'm
a socio-cultural biologists.
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Which simply means I try
to better understand
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the synergies
that mold human behavior,
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and by extension culture.
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I joined the Center
for Behavioral Studies
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in Oslo in 2115,
and I continue to try
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to make sense of this lovable
mess we call humanity.
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[somber music]
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There's an exercise that I often
do with my first-year students.
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I have them research mainstream
economic publications
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from the 16th
to the 21st century,
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trying to find any mention of
basic sustainability principles.
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And each year the students
come back stunned
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by how this period
gave no priority
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to even the most obvious
regenerative science.
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Let alone anything
related to public health.
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Such things were
considered external
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to this contrived,
competitive game
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they called business.
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Here you had
an entire global civilization
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powering itself through
the mechanism of consuming.
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That's literally what drove
their economy as absurd
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as that sounds.
And the more people bought
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and consumed,
the more demand for jobs.
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Hence more circulating
purchasing power
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to again be spent on consuming.
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Endlessly and viciously
repeating.
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That was the economic
system back then.
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And to think any part
of that would be workable
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in the long run, on a finite
planet, is pure lunacy.
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To make matters worse,
the system was rooted
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in strategic human exploitation,
which structurally ensured
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large wealth and power
differences between groups,
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and the long term cultural result
was very poor social integrity.
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Racism, xenophobia, sexism
and other forms of bigotry
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were an inevitable side effect
of this kind of social system
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ultimately rooted
in class stratification,
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otherwise known
as socio-economic inequality.
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And when you put
it all together,
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you realize a deep
social pathology.
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A pathology that not only
severely limited human potential,
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actually bringing out the worst of
our biological and social nature,
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but one that was blindly pushing
civilization toward oblivion,
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due to accelerating
ecological decline
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and systemic human conflict.
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[Aleniya] By the time we
reached the 21st century
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the consequences
of all this weren't subtle.
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We're talking massive global
inequity and poverty,
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relentless worldwide conflict,
endless power abuses
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and systematic oppression,
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not to mention
the near irreversible
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decline of all life
support systems.
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And while it seems
obvious to us today,
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you have to understand
the kind of indoctrination
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that occurred back then.
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The culture was so conditioned
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by the dominant worldview,
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they just couldn't recognize
the flaws inherent
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to the structure
of their society.
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So by force of this,
they engaged in very superficial activism
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centered around political
institutions that really were
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just a parody of themselves.
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[Malikan]
Attempts at social change
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were deeply fragmented in focus
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because people's understanding
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of cause and effect
was so shallow.
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So the whole thing
just became a spectacle.
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And endless blame game
between groups.
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Their so-called
democratic process
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centered not on actual policy,
but around these political
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institutions that seemed to
vaguely represent such policy.
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A true democracy as we now know
allows for public consensus
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on actual issues
not the appointment
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of representatives to make
those decisions for them.
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That's not
really democracy at all.
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That's simply a watered-down
version of authoritarianism,
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voting for kings and queens.
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[Cynthia]
And to add insult to injury,
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because society was rooted
in this business system
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of property and trade
everything was for sale.
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People loved to argue
about moral lines and ethics,
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but the fact was politicians,
and hence policy,
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was just another commodity
to be bought and sold.
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So inevitably those who did
end up with true social power
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were the ones
with the most wealth.
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That wasn't a corruption,
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that was simply
the nature of the system.
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And needless to say this
business power subculture
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was certainly the least likely
to want to change the very system
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that had so disproportionately
rewarded them.
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And as science and technology
increased efficiency
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creating higher material
standards of living in general
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the lack of human rights
progress and the anti-democratic
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nature of society
became increasingly masked.
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People's dignity
and integrity were bought off
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by gadgets and toys
and addictions.
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Feeding a materialist fetish
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that so distracted
the minds of many.
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[Vivian] And you know,
I often ponder all this,
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trying to put myself
in the shoes
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of the average person back then,
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especially in the more affluent
and highly unequal regions,
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such as
the United States of America,
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and it really makes me shudder.
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People stuck in traffic,
piling into these office prisons
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to push paper around,
engaging meaningless occupations
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that wasted far more energy
and wealth than they created
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so they can continue buying
these things they don't need,
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elevating their artificial
status and so on.
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It's like a bad horror movie.
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[somber music]
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[high speed steps humming]
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[muffled phone ringing]
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[muffled phone ringing]
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[phone ringing]
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[white noise]
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[clock ticking]
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[phone continues ringing]
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[high speed steps
continue humming]
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[music stops]
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[rain puttering]
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[ominous musical sting]
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[muffled footsteps]
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[chains rattling]
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[gun clicks and fires]
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[body thuds]
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[ominous music]
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[gun clicks and fires]
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[body thuds]
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- [gun fires]
- [body thuds]
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[ominous music stops]
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[muffled robotic voice]
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[people chattering]
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[Malikan] If there's any historical
through-line that reveals
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how important a system-based
worldview is,
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both in understanding society
and knowing how to change it,
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it's a long history of slavery
and human exploitation.
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You can't have a society that's
based upon hierarchical power
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and specialized labor,
where people are seen
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as economic tools to be used
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strategically
for another's differential gain,
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and ever expect
high moral integrity.
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[Cynthia] Consider the
function of cost efficiency.
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Cost efficiency is about trying
to save money on production
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in order to maximize profit
upon final sale.
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It's at the core
of the basic gaming strategy
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that's required
in market economics.
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And that simple incentive, the
principle of seeking to reduce
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input costs to maximize
output gains is at the root
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of thousands of years of human
slavery in one form or another.
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Whether indentured servitude,
bonded labor,
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chattel slavery in earlier
times to human trafficking
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and debt driven wage slavery
in more modern times.
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And the point to make here
is that this kind of framework
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was so normalized
by the turn of the 21st century,
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a period, by the way, that had
more slaves in absolute numbers
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than any time in human history.
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The average person still
didn't see the connection.
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They had been conditioned by
these mythical free market ideas
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arguing that because
people could now choose
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which area of the economy
to submit their labor to,
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choose which company to be
subordinated, or perhaps get the capital
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and start their own company
and then choose who to exploit
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for their own personal
advantage.
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Somehow coercion
just no longer existed.
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That was the illusion.
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And any advanced technological
society that evolves
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not to organize an effort
to provide basic life support
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to its citizens allowing them
to pursue their own interest
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on their own terms,
instead structurally forcing
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everyone to fight with
each other for basic survival,
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for not defendable
reason mind you,
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is not a free society at all.
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It's a system
of violence and oppression
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regardless of how materially
wealthy that society may appear.
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[fading] Now, all that said,
it's important to consider...
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[gentle piano music]
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[audience applauding]
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[knocking on door]
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[doorbell buzzing]
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[chains rattling]
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[handcuffs clicking]
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[glass thuds]
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You have meddled
with the primal forces
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of nature, Mr. Beale.
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And you will atone.
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It's been a long time, Simon.
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So, the reason
you're here with me
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and not in some vassal
state being tortured
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is because the GSA
needs your help.
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We're being overrun by a group
of hackers and they appear to be
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advancing their abilities
faster than we can counter.
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[John]
Orion.
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That's right. Orion.
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We have been tracking them
for years.
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Luddite anarchists.
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They want to return civilization
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to the Stone Age.
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We figure if they continue
their rate of progress,
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we only have a few weeks
before they breach.
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00:30:12,491 --> 00:30:15,127
- Taking control of our systems.
- That'd be bad.
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Hence our priorities.
As aggravating as your little
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Concordia project has been,
you were never this distasteful.
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You do realize
that even if Orion is stopped,
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another insurgency,
likely more malicious,
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is just around the corner,
right?
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00:30:31,443 --> 00:30:33,179
- Your point?
- My point
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is one way to measure
the integrity of a society
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is by how many outliers
it creates.
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Violent criminals, inner-city
gangs, serial killers,
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mass murderers, terrorists,
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to now this lovely hacker
dystopia you've inspired.
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You have a systemic problem,
Simon,
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and it's only going to grow.
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00:30:50,630 --> 00:30:52,665
You're looking
through the wrong lens, John.
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And unlike the past,
the outliers now
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have exponentially
advancing technology.
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00:30:57,002 --> 00:31:00,339
Some disgruntled kid fashioning
a Molotov cocktail years ago,
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can now create weapons of mass
destruction, or in this case weapons
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of mass disturbance
with little more effort.
451
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,417
Again, you're looking
through the wrong lens.
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No one ever said
the natural course of humanity
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was going to be pretty.
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So it's natural
for humanity to flirt
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with its own destruction?
And increasingly so?
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Because that's
where all this leads.
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Since the dawn of civilization,
those with the most advanced
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tools are the ones
who set the stage.
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From the rock, to the sword,
to the gun, to the bomb,
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to AI,
a sociological law of nature
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rooted in our evolutionary
psychology.
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And if this race happens
to lead to destruction,
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well,
such is the natural course.
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Only human conceit
assumes otherwise.
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I see you haven't lost
that charming nihilism.
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- Drink?
- No.
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00:32:00,334 --> 00:32:04,105
And it's not nihilism, John,
it's realism.
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Conflict is what makes
the world go round.
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And whomever wins
defines the course.
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- So what's the deal?
- The deal is
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you help us tame the barbarians
at the gate
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along with anything else we ask.
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In return,
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you'll be granted
a decent life here.
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This ship might be
a place of work,
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00:32:36,802 --> 00:32:39,606
but it's also
a self-contained city.
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00:32:40,673 --> 00:32:45,077
We go back a long way, John,
and despite our differences,
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I would hate to see
that genius go to waste.
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And if I don't?
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You know the answer to that.
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Aside from this possible
Orion catastrophe,
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which I doubt
your humanist ego would allow,
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you'll be turned over
to interrogation
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and it won't be cinematic.
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Either way,
you're not leaving this ship.
486
00:33:12,571 --> 00:33:15,474
Okay, Simon,
but I have one condition.
487
00:33:16,541 --> 00:33:19,078
I want you to put an end
to program UX83.
488
00:33:20,547 --> 00:33:22,650
Otherwise known
as the Malthusian Mandate.
489
00:33:28,355 --> 00:33:30,490
If you knew about the Mandate,
490
00:33:30,522 --> 00:33:32,525
why hasn't Concordia leaked it?
491
00:33:32,558 --> 00:33:34,528
Never had a complete picture.
492
00:33:34,559 --> 00:33:37,597
- And what do you think you're missing?
- Good question.
493
00:33:37,630 --> 00:33:39,632
We find a cryptically
mentioned in documents
494
00:33:39,664 --> 00:33:41,769
related to the GSA's
control programs.
495
00:33:42,667 --> 00:33:44,570
It appears the Mandate
was employed in the death
496
00:33:44,605 --> 00:33:47,374
of at least 20 million
last year alone.
497
00:33:47,405 --> 00:33:49,675
How this is occurring
and why is not clear.
498
00:33:50,809 --> 00:33:52,346
So why don't you enlighten me?
499
00:33:54,579 --> 00:33:57,183
[soft music]
500
00:34:50,570 --> 00:34:53,240
[eerie music]
501
00:35:07,552 --> 00:35:10,489
[eerie music increasing]
502
00:35:12,757 --> 00:35:14,594
[robotic hissing]
503
00:35:18,496 --> 00:35:20,733
[robotic echoed crunching]
504
00:35:29,541 --> 00:35:31,411
[ominous music]
505
00:35:52,297 --> 00:35:54,201
[light hissing]
506
00:35:59,539 --> 00:36:00,840
[light loudly hissing]
507
00:36:00,873 --> 00:36:03,242
[dramatic cybernetic music]
508
00:36:05,744 --> 00:36:07,380
[music abruptly stops]
509
00:36:08,813 --> 00:36:11,318
[birds chirping]
510
00:36:19,525 --> 00:36:22,795
[director] So you wrote a book
called The Neolithic Maladaptation
511
00:36:22,827 --> 00:36:25,264
which focuses
on the nature of culture
512
00:36:25,297 --> 00:36:27,967
before the Great Transition.
513
00:36:28,001 --> 00:36:31,670
Can you clarify
what you meant by this title?
514
00:36:31,704 --> 00:36:35,775
Sure. So I think the defining
question of civilization
515
00:36:35,809 --> 00:36:39,478
is what characteristics
enable us to survive and prosper
516
00:36:39,512 --> 00:36:42,382
sustainably and peacefully
over generational time.
517
00:36:43,449 --> 00:36:46,418
Thousands of years ago,
upon the advent of agriculture,
518
00:36:46,452 --> 00:36:49,389
the Neolithic Revolution,
we found ourselves
519
00:36:49,422 --> 00:36:52,324
in a new social arrangement,
a new structure,
520
00:36:52,358 --> 00:36:55,528
one that would later prove
to be highly incompatible.
521
00:36:55,561 --> 00:36:57,731
Not only incompatible
with the habitat,
522
00:36:57,762 --> 00:36:59,766
inherently unsustainable
since the economy
523
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,302
literally required
consumption and growth,
524
00:37:02,335 --> 00:37:05,570
but also incompatible
with our very social nature.
525
00:37:05,603 --> 00:37:09,775
And, long story short, humans
are simply not meant to exist
526
00:37:09,809 --> 00:37:12,346
in an economically
stratified society
527
00:37:12,378 --> 00:37:15,581
if the expectation is high
levels of public health
528
00:37:15,614 --> 00:37:17,416
and peaceful coexistence.
529
00:37:17,449 --> 00:37:19,585
It's always interesting
to review the work
530
00:37:19,617 --> 00:37:22,655
of mainstream scientists
at the turn of the 21st century
531
00:37:22,688 --> 00:37:24,992
as they desperately try
to convince themselves
532
00:37:25,023 --> 00:37:26,925
that a competitive,
exploitative,
533
00:37:26,958 --> 00:37:30,463
vainly status seeking mindset
was an inalterable expression
534
00:37:30,496 --> 00:37:33,500
of human nature,
when the fact is our genes,
535
00:37:33,532 --> 00:37:36,001
our biology and how
the environment interacts
536
00:37:36,034 --> 00:37:40,539
with our evolved selves allows
for a vast range of orientations
537
00:37:40,572 --> 00:37:44,643
with narrow self-interest,
greed, merely part of that range.
538
00:37:44,677 --> 00:37:47,947
If we've proven to be anything,
it's adaptable.
539
00:37:47,981 --> 00:37:49,916
There's certainly
no blank slate.
540
00:37:49,949 --> 00:37:52,617
We're not infinitely malleable,
541
00:37:52,650 --> 00:37:55,054
but it has been grossly
underestimated historically
542
00:37:55,088 --> 00:37:57,590
just how wide
our range of adaptive
543
00:37:57,623 --> 00:38:00,693
potential really is.
And what most determines
544
00:38:00,726 --> 00:38:04,130
which behavioral traits
will define a society's culture
545
00:38:04,164 --> 00:38:06,099
is its social structure.
546
00:38:06,132 --> 00:38:10,135
Or more specifically,
that structure's economic basis.
547
00:38:10,168 --> 00:38:13,072
The method
by which we must survive.
548
00:38:13,106 --> 00:38:15,974
[Cynthia] If that structure
rewards competition, dominance,
549
00:38:16,007 --> 00:38:18,443
and narrow self-interest,
then the culture
550
00:38:18,476 --> 00:38:21,012
will predominantly
express those values.
551
00:38:21,045 --> 00:38:25,385
If it rewards collaboration,
empathy and pro-social concern,
552
00:38:25,418 --> 00:38:29,690
the resulting culture will
predominantly express those values.
553
00:38:29,722 --> 00:38:31,623
For the majority
of human history,
554
00:38:31,657 --> 00:38:33,827
before the advent
of agriculture,
555
00:38:33,858 --> 00:38:35,661
We lived in non-hierarchical,
556
00:38:35,693 --> 00:38:37,797
non-competitive
social arrangements.
557
00:38:37,829 --> 00:38:40,699
Why? Because the economic
basis of survival
558
00:38:40,733 --> 00:38:42,635
actually incentivized
559
00:38:42,668 --> 00:38:45,373
sharing and collaboration,
and not the opposite.
560
00:38:46,472 --> 00:38:49,574
So what I mean by maladaptation
is while humanity
561
00:38:49,608 --> 00:38:52,045
did successfully adapt
to the survival requisites
562
00:38:52,077 --> 00:38:53,880
born from
the Neolithic Revolution,
563
00:38:53,914 --> 00:38:55,648
the resulting social structure,
564
00:38:55,681 --> 00:38:58,818
the system that became codified,
proved maladapted.
565
00:38:58,851 --> 00:39:01,655
[Cynthia] The economic system
was simply incompatible
566
00:39:01,686 --> 00:39:05,757
with what was required for humanity
to be sustainable in the long-term.
567
00:39:05,791 --> 00:39:08,795
Failing our need to integrate
properly with the ecosystem
568
00:39:08,827 --> 00:39:12,998
while limiting our ability to
coexist peacefully with each other.
569
00:39:13,032 --> 00:39:15,668
[Vivian] And by the time of
the Industrial Revolution
570
00:39:15,702 --> 00:39:18,036
in the 19th century,
these flaws were rapidly
571
00:39:18,070 --> 00:39:19,873
coming to the surface.
572
00:39:19,905 --> 00:39:22,476
Conditions had changed and
if it wasn't for our dramatic
573
00:39:22,507 --> 00:39:24,744
transformation to break out
of that system,
574
00:39:24,777 --> 00:39:27,713
there is little question,
society would have seen total
575
00:39:27,746 --> 00:39:31,018
ecologically collapse combined
with catastrophic global war.
576
00:39:33,152 --> 00:39:35,655
[director] So it must be
difficult to look back
577
00:39:35,688 --> 00:39:37,789
at that time given
what we know now.
578
00:39:37,822 --> 00:39:40,492
It seems like things should have
changed much sooner, right?
579
00:39:40,525 --> 00:39:43,563
Sure, but it reveals
that as much as we'd like
580
00:39:43,597 --> 00:39:46,097
to believe we're rational,
objective beings,
581
00:39:46,130 --> 00:39:49,969
we're actually bound
by deep social vulnerability.
582
00:39:50,001 --> 00:39:53,539
We are social beings first
and intellectual beings second.
583
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,210
What you see back then
is a kind of mass hypnosis
584
00:39:57,242 --> 00:39:59,077
that paralyzed society,
585
00:39:59,110 --> 00:40:01,581
keeping people short-sighted
and fearful,
586
00:40:01,614 --> 00:40:04,050
prone to conform to the values
and practices of those
587
00:40:04,083 --> 00:40:07,552
who happen to be winning
in the contrived economic game.
588
00:40:07,585 --> 00:40:10,722
One glance at the media from
back then gives it all away.
589
00:40:10,755 --> 00:40:13,260
Status posturing,
people obsessed with appearing
590
00:40:13,291 --> 00:40:17,164
affluent, accomplished, loved,
famous, beautiful.
591
00:40:17,195 --> 00:40:20,766
All a kind of pathological
emulation of those of high
592
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:25,137
socioeconomic status,
billionaires, celebrities.
593
00:40:25,170 --> 00:40:27,675
As one notable philosopher
stated long ago,
594
00:40:34,246 --> 00:40:36,983
So once again
it all begs the question,
595
00:40:37,016 --> 00:40:40,052
what actually defines success
in the human condition?
596
00:40:40,085 --> 00:40:43,222
What kind of culture is most
optimized to sustain itself
597
00:40:43,255 --> 00:40:46,592
over time while, of course,
being happy and stable?
598
00:40:46,626 --> 00:40:48,193
And while there's
plenty to learn,
599
00:40:48,226 --> 00:40:50,630
we do know
what doesn't define it:
600
00:40:50,664 --> 00:40:54,001
the excessive materialistic
wealth and status driven neurosis
601
00:40:54,032 --> 00:40:57,235
so characteristic back then
has literally zero
602
00:40:57,268 --> 00:40:59,704
positive relationship
to long-term species
603
00:40:59,737 --> 00:41:02,943
sustainability and optimized
public health.
604
00:41:02,974 --> 00:41:05,844
In short,
the values were dead wrong.
605
00:41:05,878 --> 00:41:08,981
And not to sound mean, but
if I were to resort to derisive
606
00:41:09,014 --> 00:41:11,751
status labeling,
common to that period of time,
607
00:41:11,784 --> 00:41:14,721
there's no question
that the greatest failures
608
00:41:14,753 --> 00:41:18,025
were the ones who own mansions,
drove over priced cars,
609
00:41:18,056 --> 00:41:21,793
wore luxury jewelry,
maintained extremely lucrative
610
00:41:21,827 --> 00:41:24,063
yet completely
meaningless occupations
611
00:41:24,097 --> 00:41:26,231
while hoarding great wealth.
612
00:41:26,264 --> 00:41:28,001
What kind of sad,
insecure creature
613
00:41:28,032 --> 00:41:29,902
needs to flaunt such excess
614
00:41:29,934 --> 00:41:33,639
clearly signaling opposition
to other people's well-being?
615
00:41:33,672 --> 00:41:37,309
True success is reinforcing
harmony, balance.
616
00:41:37,342 --> 00:41:40,045
The goal is not necessarily
to become something,
617
00:41:40,079 --> 00:41:43,150
but to find out who
and what you truly are.
618
00:41:43,181 --> 00:41:45,184
And how you fit
inside the ecosystem
619
00:41:45,217 --> 00:41:47,286
of nature
that gave birth to you.
620
00:41:47,318 --> 00:41:50,356
The most successful people,
the true winners,
621
00:41:50,389 --> 00:41:54,994
are never the ones striving for
celebrity and material excess,
622
00:41:55,027 --> 00:41:58,864
they are the humble minimalists
valuing how they can contribute
623
00:41:58,896 --> 00:42:01,934
to the well-being
and health of everything,
624
00:42:01,967 --> 00:42:04,905
realizing the world
is one system,
625
00:42:04,936 --> 00:42:07,373
and the more they optimize
that contribution,
626
00:42:07,405 --> 00:42:11,110
the more truly successful
they actually become.
627
00:42:13,679 --> 00:42:15,981
[Cynthia]
When I look back on all this,
628
00:42:16,014 --> 00:42:18,081
I think what I find most tragic
629
00:42:18,083 --> 00:42:20,952
is the spiritual loss
of the individual.
630
00:42:20,985 --> 00:42:25,123
How people were fundamentally
alienated from themselves
631
00:42:25,157 --> 00:42:29,161
their identities hijacked
by competitive insecurity,
632
00:42:29,193 --> 00:42:32,197
trying to conform
to some acceptable profile
633
00:42:32,231 --> 00:42:34,733
that would serve
their advantage best,
634
00:42:34,766 --> 00:42:36,302
not who they actually are,
635
00:42:36,335 --> 00:42:38,938
but what the system
requires them to become.
636
00:43:07,132 --> 00:43:09,769
[traffic humming]
637
00:43:19,777 --> 00:43:22,280
[muffled people chattering]
638
00:43:25,083 --> 00:43:27,887
[fast speed hissing]
639
00:43:34,260 --> 00:43:36,228
[muffled beeping]
640
00:43:36,260 --> 00:43:38,965
[robotic humming]
641
00:44:07,358 --> 00:44:10,496
[with robotic voice] The
soul selects her own society.
642
00:44:10,530 --> 00:44:13,934
Then shuts the door
to her divine majority.
643
00:44:13,965 --> 00:44:17,268
Present no more. Unmoved.
644
00:44:17,302 --> 00:44:21,039
She notes the chariots
pausing at her low gate.
645
00:44:21,072 --> 00:44:24,342
Unmoved. An emperor
be kneeling upon her mat.
646
00:44:24,376 --> 00:44:29,315
I've known her from
an ample nation. Choose one.
647
00:44:29,347 --> 00:44:33,351
Then close the valves
of her attention. Like stone.
648
00:44:33,385 --> 00:44:35,420
[high-pitched whirring]
649
00:44:41,092 --> 00:44:43,795
[traffic humming]
650
00:45:25,036 --> 00:45:26,871
[humming stops]
651
00:45:26,905 --> 00:45:29,242
[humming resumes]
652
00:45:29,273 --> 00:45:31,242
[humming stops]
653
00:45:31,275 --> 00:45:33,179
[dramatic musical sting]
654
00:46:16,554 --> 00:46:18,925
- [robotic clicking]
- [humming resumes]
655
00:46:18,956 --> 00:46:21,193
[sirens wailing]
656
00:46:53,190 --> 00:46:54,559
[Simon]
Let me ask you, John.
657
00:46:55,494 --> 00:46:57,197
What do you think
the greatest form
658
00:46:57,228 --> 00:47:01,333
of social control is? Law? Debt?
659
00:47:01,367 --> 00:47:03,534
[scoffs] Religion.
660
00:47:03,568 --> 00:47:06,538
And this has what to do
with the Malthusian Mandate?
661
00:47:06,570 --> 00:47:09,943
- Humor me.
- I don't know.
662
00:47:09,974 --> 00:47:13,177
How about socialization?
People policing each other.
663
00:47:13,210 --> 00:47:16,949
A properly tuned culture
does regulate itself, yes.
664
00:47:16,981 --> 00:47:18,550
We've had the same training,
Simon.
665
00:47:18,583 --> 00:47:20,653
I'm just as aware of what
shapes psychology as you are.
666
00:47:20,686 --> 00:47:23,489
Yeah, see, I'm not so sure.
667
00:47:23,521 --> 00:47:25,391
I don't think we'd be
in this situation
668
00:47:25,425 --> 00:47:27,327
- if that was really the case.
- You mean because I actually
669
00:47:27,358 --> 00:47:28,460
believe the world can change?
670
00:47:33,097 --> 00:47:35,702
A child's born
biologically programmed
671
00:47:35,733 --> 00:47:38,070
to adapt to its environment.
672
00:47:38,103 --> 00:47:40,371
It grows,
inching through formative years,
673
00:47:40,405 --> 00:47:43,309
shaped by the traditions
and beliefs of culture.
674
00:47:43,342 --> 00:47:46,077
Institutional education
introduces structure
675
00:47:46,110 --> 00:47:50,148
creating comfort with authority,
regimentation, status.
676
00:47:50,181 --> 00:47:53,552
- Nurturing social schema.
- And a fundamental insecurity
677
00:47:53,585 --> 00:47:56,322
forged
by a deeply unequal world,
678
00:47:56,356 --> 00:47:58,190
a world of sanctioned
indifference,
679
00:47:58,222 --> 00:47:59,492
where compassion is weakness
680
00:47:59,523 --> 00:48:01,559
and domination is virtuous.
681
00:48:01,592 --> 00:48:04,030
What survival requires.
682
00:48:04,762 --> 00:48:07,199
In the current arrangement,
sure.
683
00:48:07,231 --> 00:48:09,969
And this early sense of
insecurity has a unique effect.
684
00:48:10,001 --> 00:48:13,304
Once childish tendencies we humans
are supposed to grow out of:
685
00:48:13,338 --> 00:48:16,976
attention-seeking, spoiled
self-interest, manipulativeness,
686
00:48:17,010 --> 00:48:20,045
bullying,
competition become ingrained.
687
00:48:20,077 --> 00:48:21,746
Maturity stunted.
688
00:48:21,780 --> 00:48:23,717
Setting the stage
for yet another disciple
689
00:48:23,748 --> 00:48:26,150
in the cult of narcissistic
individualism.
690
00:48:26,184 --> 00:48:28,655
[chuckles] Poetic.
691
00:48:29,789 --> 00:48:31,657
[John] By the time higher
education is reached,
692
00:48:31,690 --> 00:48:35,027
formalized academia,
the stronghold of the status quo,
693
00:48:35,059 --> 00:48:36,996
what natural curiosity
may remain
694
00:48:37,030 --> 00:48:39,597
is now further constrained
by socialization.
695
00:48:39,630 --> 00:48:43,469
Myopic focus, detached
from the pursuit of knowledge,
696
00:48:43,501 --> 00:48:46,606
existing only for the sake
of commercial utility.
697
00:48:46,637 --> 00:48:50,675
- To define their product.
- And ultimately their identity.
698
00:48:50,708 --> 00:48:53,146
Becoming little more than
yet another agent of trade.
699
00:48:53,177 --> 00:48:56,382
A civilization reduced to
the goal of endless striving.
700
00:48:56,414 --> 00:48:58,416
To sell something
to someone else.
701
00:49:00,751 --> 00:49:03,621
The world is a business,
Mr. Beale.
702
00:49:05,257 --> 00:49:06,358
[John]
So the cog turns.
703
00:49:07,726 --> 00:49:10,597
While in those fleeting moments
economic stress does subside,
704
00:49:10,628 --> 00:49:12,498
when the shackles do come off,
705
00:49:12,530 --> 00:49:14,666
existential turbulence blooms,
706
00:49:14,699 --> 00:49:17,168
as they desperately search
for some kind of deeper meaning
707
00:49:17,202 --> 00:49:20,072
in the daily grind.
And this emotional void,
708
00:49:20,106 --> 00:49:23,275
this state of loss, leads
the pathological escapism.
709
00:49:23,309 --> 00:49:25,610
Distraction and self-medication
become the hobby.
710
00:49:26,646 --> 00:49:28,780
[Simon]
So they turn to their screens
711
00:49:28,813 --> 00:49:32,251
windows of projected normality
equating freedom
712
00:49:32,284 --> 00:49:34,452
with the unattainable delusions
713
00:49:34,485 --> 00:49:36,487
of wealth, fame, honor.
714
00:49:36,521 --> 00:49:38,289
[John] While constantly
being reminded that they are
715
00:49:38,322 --> 00:49:40,193
the authors of their own misery
716
00:49:40,224 --> 00:49:43,362
and success can only be a matter
of winning versus losing.
717
00:49:43,396 --> 00:49:47,166
Since the vast majority will no doubt
lose, they live vicariously.
718
00:49:47,199 --> 00:49:50,235
If their sports team wins
the game, so do they.
719
00:49:50,268 --> 00:49:51,804
If their country goes to war,
720
00:49:51,838 --> 00:49:54,338
they wave their flags
as if they were at war.
721
00:49:54,371 --> 00:49:56,507
While following
their celebrity heroes,
722
00:49:56,541 --> 00:50:00,079
feeling as though somehow
that success mirrors their own.
723
00:50:00,112 --> 00:50:02,681
[Simon] And when that doesn't
work, they move inward,
724
00:50:02,713 --> 00:50:07,286
seeking self-help retreats,
therapy, medication, illicit drugs.
725
00:50:07,318 --> 00:50:09,353
[John] Anything to avoid
the identity crisis.
726
00:50:09,387 --> 00:50:11,590
[gentle music]
727
00:50:11,623 --> 00:50:14,592
That the society they mirror
just might be deeply flawed.
728
00:50:15,793 --> 00:50:17,728
So the masses remain complacent,
729
00:50:17,762 --> 00:50:20,266
short-sighted, bigoted,
730
00:50:20,297 --> 00:50:22,300
primitive, delusional.
731
00:50:23,202 --> 00:50:24,103
Manageable.
732
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:30,476
No conspiracy required.
733
00:50:31,510 --> 00:50:34,445
Viable systems
regulate themselves.
734
00:50:34,478 --> 00:50:37,684
Viable? [scoffs]
You see all this as sustainable.
735
00:50:38,617 --> 00:50:41,286
[Simon]
No conspiracy required.
736
00:50:41,318 --> 00:50:44,422
- Viable systems regulate them...
- We just picked up the signal.
737
00:50:48,693 --> 00:50:52,797
Now there's one thing you missed
in your monologue there.
738
00:50:54,833 --> 00:50:58,570
Aside from primal provocation,
keeping people half-conscious,
739
00:50:58,603 --> 00:51:01,773
trapped in lower brain
fight or flight mode.
740
00:51:01,806 --> 00:51:04,710
Aside from the cultural hegemony
where people's values
741
00:51:04,742 --> 00:51:08,547
and envies mirror
those of wealth and power,
742
00:51:08,579 --> 00:51:10,550
reinforcing social order.
743
00:51:11,684 --> 00:51:14,552
And aside
from the climate of opinion
744
00:51:14,585 --> 00:51:17,722
fostered by the acclaimed
intelligentsia
745
00:51:17,755 --> 00:51:21,360
deciding the limits
by which truth must conform
746
00:51:21,393 --> 00:51:23,795
the most critical mechanism here
747
00:51:23,827 --> 00:51:26,532
is that of social inclusion.
748
00:51:26,565 --> 00:51:29,367
Nature wired us
with a strong tendency
749
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,637
to override rational thought
in favor of group acceptance.
750
00:51:32,670 --> 00:51:35,306
Part of our evolutionary
fitness.
751
00:51:35,340 --> 00:51:37,911
And when people
violate consensus
752
00:51:37,943 --> 00:51:40,612
the nervous system seeks
to correct the behavior
753
00:51:40,646 --> 00:51:43,248
with pain and fear,
as there's little more
754
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:47,253
psychologically damaging
than social exclusion.
755
00:51:49,222 --> 00:51:51,889
To be ostracized.
Ridicule, stigma,
756
00:51:51,922 --> 00:51:55,726
loss of reputation which could
also mean loss of employment,
757
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,297
income, lost and survival.
758
00:51:58,329 --> 00:52:01,199
Yet there's a long history of people
who have moved against that tendency.
759
00:52:01,233 --> 00:52:03,568
A long history
of very few people
760
00:52:03,601 --> 00:52:06,572
who inevitably turn
into mere righteous symbols
761
00:52:06,606 --> 00:52:09,507
put on T-shirts rather
than forces of revolution.
762
00:52:09,541 --> 00:52:12,510
So this Orion problem of yours
isn't indicative of anything?
763
00:52:12,543 --> 00:52:15,746
Orion appears to be
a fringe group of extremists
764
00:52:15,780 --> 00:52:18,318
with no public support.
765
00:52:18,349 --> 00:52:23,255
This is about normative culture,
and my point, John,
766
00:52:24,255 --> 00:52:26,891
is that given our social nature,
767
00:52:26,925 --> 00:52:30,597
the stronger force here
is not on the side of reason,
768
00:52:30,628 --> 00:52:34,565
it's on the side of inclusion
and conformity,
769
00:52:34,599 --> 00:52:39,739
and that, my friend, is the
greatest form of social control
770
00:52:39,771 --> 00:52:42,574
and why the masses
will never break out
771
00:52:42,606 --> 00:52:45,411
of its self-perpetuated
oppression.
772
00:52:47,012 --> 00:52:48,414
[elevator rings]
773
00:53:14,438 --> 00:53:16,708
[gentle jazz music]
774
00:53:59,717 --> 00:54:01,353
[slow motion buzz]
775
00:54:01,385 --> 00:54:03,956
[clock ticking]
776
00:54:12,130 --> 00:54:14,634
[robotic squeaking]
777
00:54:21,672 --> 00:54:24,777
[circus music]
778
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:32,918
[upbeat music]
779
00:55:20,498 --> 00:55:22,835
[dramatic musical sting]
780
00:55:23,867 --> 00:55:25,905
♪ Twenty-three I see
come with me my dear ♪
781
00:55:25,936 --> 00:55:28,474
♪ It's time we re-examine
this reality ♪
782
00:55:58,869 --> 00:56:00,572
[music stops]
783
00:56:36,175 --> 00:56:37,809
♪ Be ready ♪
784
00:56:37,842 --> 00:56:41,947
♪ Welcome
to the Freakshow, baby ♪
785
00:56:41,981 --> 00:56:45,117
♪ This is what it is ♪
786
00:57:12,210 --> 00:57:14,612
♪ So you see, 23 ♪
787
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:44,777
♪ And the cast
is currently stocked ♪
788
00:57:44,809 --> 00:57:46,746
♪ But we'll let you know
if we need another floor ♪
789
00:57:46,777 --> 00:57:48,146
♪ To be mopped ♪
790
00:57:55,753 --> 00:57:58,190
[director] So earlier something
was said to the effect
791
00:57:58,222 --> 00:58:00,257
that humans
are not designed to exist
792
00:58:00,291 --> 00:58:03,896
in an economically
stratified society.
793
00:58:03,927 --> 00:58:05,764
So to speak, yes.
794
00:58:05,797 --> 00:58:09,001
A stratified society is far
more unhealthy and unstable
795
00:58:09,032 --> 00:58:11,135
when compared
to an egalitarian one.
796
00:58:11,168 --> 00:58:13,672
[director] That seems like
a pretty bold conclusion.
797
00:58:13,704 --> 00:58:16,340
- Can you elaborate?
- Sure.
798
00:58:16,373 --> 00:58:20,311
Consider our biology,
specifically the human brain.
799
00:58:20,344 --> 00:58:23,114
We're profoundly wired
for social response.
800
00:58:23,146 --> 00:58:25,885
For instance, the same
brain centers that react
801
00:58:25,916 --> 00:58:28,887
to physical pain also
react to emotional pain,
802
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:32,692
such as feeling rejected,
excluded or shamed.
803
00:58:32,724 --> 00:58:35,327
In early life,
socially isolated infants,
804
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,597
not receiving proper
affection will fail
805
00:58:37,628 --> 00:58:39,831
to produce critical
growth hormones,
806
00:58:39,864 --> 00:58:41,333
harming development.
807
00:58:41,367 --> 00:58:44,702
While in adulthood
similar effects occur.
808
00:58:44,735 --> 00:58:48,005
For example, there were
these dehumanizing institutions
809
00:58:48,039 --> 00:58:50,074
called prisons
and they practiced
810
00:58:50,108 --> 00:58:53,612
solitary confinement,
severe social isolation,
811
00:58:53,646 --> 00:58:56,280
and that practice literally
caused brain damage.
812
00:58:57,248 --> 00:58:59,918
Now, what do these
examples have in common?
813
00:58:59,952 --> 00:59:03,922
They are negative responses
to social related stress.
814
00:59:03,954 --> 00:59:06,056
And when you review
the past 200 years,
815
00:59:06,090 --> 00:59:08,693
of epidemiological study
on the issue,
816
00:59:08,726 --> 00:59:11,762
you realize that an economically
stratified society
817
00:59:11,795 --> 00:59:14,398
is one of the most toxically
stressful conditions
818
00:59:14,431 --> 00:59:17,135
you could ever impose
upon the human species.
819
00:59:18,036 --> 00:59:20,739
We've all learned about
the horrors of abject poverty.
820
00:59:20,771 --> 00:59:22,373
A condition that
affected a billion people
821
00:59:22,407 --> 00:59:24,376
at the turn of the 21st century,
822
00:59:24,409 --> 00:59:27,177
causing literally millions
of deaths each year.
823
00:59:27,210 --> 00:59:30,248
But the negative effects
of economic stratification
824
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,251
aren't limited
to the distinctly poor.
825
00:59:32,282 --> 00:59:34,719
Inequality harms
just about everyone.
826
00:59:34,751 --> 00:59:38,123
A kind of social pollution and
the lower one finds themselves
827
00:59:38,155 --> 00:59:42,059
on the stratified ladder,
the worse their health becomes on average.
828
00:59:42,092 --> 00:59:43,963
[Cynthia]
Consider a lower class mother
829
00:59:43,994 --> 00:59:47,431
working two jobs, in debt,
can't afford a car,
830
00:59:47,465 --> 00:59:49,733
living paycheck to paycheck
831
00:59:49,766 --> 00:59:52,003
while trying to take care
of her young child.
832
00:59:52,036 --> 00:59:54,838
They may not be homeless,
starving or even poor
833
00:59:54,871 --> 00:59:56,273
by legal standards,
834
00:59:56,306 --> 00:59:57,842
but every day is still
835
00:59:57,876 --> 00:59:59,777
a battle to make ends meet.
836
00:59:59,811 --> 01:00:03,248
This is known as relative
poverty or more formally
837
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,050
low socioeconomic status.
838
01:00:06,083 --> 01:00:09,054
And a defining characteristic
of this condition
839
01:00:09,088 --> 01:00:12,356
on average
is high psychosocial stress,
840
01:00:12,389 --> 01:00:15,025
meaning stress related
to social factors.
841
01:00:15,059 --> 01:00:18,764
This stress includes not only
feelings of general insecurity,
842
01:00:18,795 --> 01:00:20,800
such as worrying
about paying your bills,
843
01:00:20,831 --> 01:00:24,869
affording your child's next
doctor visit or losing your job,
844
01:00:24,902 --> 01:00:27,905
but also the stress
of social status itself.
845
01:00:27,938 --> 01:00:31,742
How one feels about themselves
compared to others.
846
01:00:31,775 --> 01:00:34,411
And while that particular
aspect may seem trivial,
847
01:00:34,445 --> 01:00:37,414
the fact is our brains
have evolved to react
848
01:00:37,447 --> 01:00:39,885
in profoundly specific
ways when it comes
849
01:00:39,916 --> 01:00:42,353
to how we think others see us.
850
01:00:42,385 --> 01:00:46,858
We have an acute sensitivity
to our perceived social status.
851
01:00:46,891 --> 01:00:48,893
In other words,
it's not just about the stress
852
01:00:48,925 --> 01:00:51,061
of endless worry
and the technical difficulty
853
01:00:51,094 --> 01:00:53,231
of being poor that's toxic.
854
01:00:53,264 --> 01:00:56,969
It's equally if not more about
the stress of feeling poor.
855
01:00:57,001 --> 01:01:00,271
For example, studies have shown
if you take people with the same
856
01:01:00,304 --> 01:01:01,873
equal access
to free health care,
857
01:01:01,905 --> 01:01:03,876
controlling
for lifestyle factors,
858
01:01:03,907 --> 01:01:05,876
you will still see,
as you inch down
859
01:01:05,909 --> 01:01:08,347
the ladder of income and wealth,
people's health getting
860
01:01:08,378 --> 01:01:10,815
progressively worse on average.
861
01:01:10,847 --> 01:01:13,050
The lower they are
in the class hierarchy
862
01:01:13,083 --> 01:01:15,219
the sicker they become.
863
01:01:15,253 --> 01:01:16,856
One mechanism for this
864
01:01:16,887 --> 01:01:18,889
is that high
psychological stress
865
01:01:18,922 --> 01:01:21,259
leads to a state
of chronic inflammation
866
01:01:21,291 --> 01:01:24,496
and what's called
an allostatic overload.
867
01:01:24,530 --> 01:01:27,931
Allostasis means your body's
trying to recover from something
868
01:01:27,965 --> 01:01:30,501
working to return
to a more balanced state.
869
01:01:30,534 --> 01:01:32,469
But it can't. And this causes
870
01:01:32,503 --> 01:01:35,472
the body and the mind
to wear down rapidly.
871
01:01:35,505 --> 01:01:39,277
Living in relative poverty
in all its day-to-day insecurity
872
01:01:39,309 --> 01:01:41,445
and feelings of low self-worth,
873
01:01:41,478 --> 01:01:45,150
keeps people psychologically
locked in a stressful state.
874
01:01:45,184 --> 01:01:48,119
Ravaging mental
and physical health.
875
01:01:48,152 --> 01:01:51,289
[Vivian] Consider heart disease.
low socioeconomic status
876
01:01:51,322 --> 01:01:54,460
creates a 50% greater chance
of its development.
877
01:01:54,492 --> 01:01:57,463
and not just because people
may have poor lifestyle habits,
878
01:01:57,494 --> 01:02:00,398
but due to psychosocial
stress itself,
879
01:02:00,431 --> 01:02:03,501
which increases the hormone
cortisol, damaging arteries
880
01:02:03,534 --> 01:02:06,172
fostering strokes
and heart attacks.
881
01:02:06,204 --> 01:02:09,407
Low socioeconomic status
is a heart disease risk factor
882
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:12,976
on its own,
similar for diabetes and cancer
883
01:02:13,010 --> 01:02:16,079
with far higher rates
for those relatively poor.
884
01:02:16,112 --> 01:02:20,585
As one study put it,
"Poverty itself is a carcinogen."
885
01:02:20,617 --> 01:02:23,222
And given that heart disease
diabetes and cancer
886
01:02:23,253 --> 01:02:26,090
were some of the leading causes
of death in that highly unequal
887
01:02:26,123 --> 01:02:28,559
global society
of the early 21st century,
888
01:02:28,592 --> 01:02:31,563
these facts help explain
why life span gaps
889
01:02:31,597 --> 01:02:34,398
between the rich and the poor
were shockingly wide.
890
01:02:34,431 --> 01:02:38,202
Ranging from 15 to 40 years
depending on region.
891
01:02:38,235 --> 01:02:39,972
And then you have mental health.
892
01:02:40,003 --> 01:02:43,340
Low socioeconomic status
fuels much higher instances
893
01:02:43,373 --> 01:02:45,876
of depression,
anxiety disorders,
894
01:02:45,909 --> 01:02:48,146
schizophrenia, suicide,
895
01:02:48,179 --> 01:02:51,416
not to mention violence,
including child abuse.
896
01:02:51,449 --> 01:02:53,952
The condition of poverty
was found to be the leading
897
01:02:53,985 --> 01:02:57,255
predictor of child abuse,
which is particularly troubling
898
01:02:57,289 --> 01:03:00,291
since such abuse often
leads to adult disorders
899
01:03:00,324 --> 01:03:03,228
such as addictions,
antisocial behavior,
900
01:03:03,260 --> 01:03:07,065
immune system problems,
cognitive impairment.
901
01:03:07,097 --> 01:03:09,400
In fact, it was found
that children simply living
902
01:03:09,434 --> 01:03:12,503
in the condition of poverty
correlated to large decreases
903
01:03:12,536 --> 01:03:15,240
in IQ,
decreased brain development,
904
01:03:15,273 --> 01:03:17,876
and worst overall, health
throughout the life cycle.
905
01:03:17,909 --> 01:03:19,577
Personally, I would argue that
906
01:03:19,610 --> 01:03:22,313
if child abuse is
about negligence and harm,
907
01:03:22,347 --> 01:03:25,650
any society that tolerates
the existence of poverty
908
01:03:25,684 --> 01:03:27,885
when it has the means to end it,
909
01:03:27,918 --> 01:03:30,889
is a society that is
fundamentally abusive to children.
910
01:03:32,456 --> 01:03:37,327
Now, as far as behavioral violence
in general, it's no surprise.
911
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,297
The pre-transition period
was saturated in it.
912
01:03:40,331 --> 01:03:44,103
The emotional pathogen behind
most acts of violence is shame
913
01:03:44,135 --> 01:03:48,106
and inequality produces shame
like a finely tuned machine.
914
01:03:48,139 --> 01:03:51,342
Shootings, gang violence,
terrorism,
915
01:03:51,376 --> 01:03:55,213
domestic violence, all highly
correlated to inequality,
916
01:03:55,246 --> 01:03:58,583
like a toxic cloud hovering
over civilization.
917
01:03:58,617 --> 01:04:01,152
The more economically
unequal a society,
918
01:04:01,184 --> 01:04:03,554
the more violent it tended
to be on average.
919
01:04:03,588 --> 01:04:07,925
And that goes for most everything in
terms of negative public health outcomes.
920
01:04:07,958 --> 01:04:11,463
With higher incidences
of disease, crime, obesity,
921
01:04:11,494 --> 01:04:15,233
infant mortality, homicides,
teen birth, mental illness,
922
01:04:15,266 --> 01:04:18,068
poor education, conflict,
domestic abuse,
923
01:04:18,101 --> 01:04:20,972
illiteracy, suicide,
premature mortality,
924
01:04:21,005 --> 01:04:24,309
overall mistrust and much more.
925
01:04:25,309 --> 01:04:29,614
There is no viable defense
of its existence on any level
926
01:04:29,646 --> 01:04:31,382
and it's certainly
not representative
927
01:04:31,414 --> 01:04:33,518
of a fixed human nature.
928
01:04:33,550 --> 01:04:37,621
Humans are basically allergic to
socio-economic stratification.
929
01:04:38,556 --> 01:04:40,659
[ominous music]
930
01:05:01,344 --> 01:05:02,313
[lights buzzing]
931
01:05:12,289 --> 01:05:13,692
[lights buzzing]
932
01:05:33,344 --> 01:05:35,512
[muffled steps]
933
01:06:05,675 --> 01:06:08,112
[muffled chattering]
934
01:06:14,851 --> 01:06:16,621
[door creaking and thudding]
935
01:06:41,579 --> 01:06:44,282
[ominous music increasing]
936
01:06:50,155 --> 01:06:52,090
[dramatic musical sting]
937
01:06:52,123 --> 01:06:54,157
What are you doing? Come on!
938
01:06:54,190 --> 01:06:56,226
[siren wailing]
939
01:06:56,260 --> 01:06:58,163
[gunshots in distance]
940
01:07:11,376 --> 01:07:12,376
[lock rattling]
941
01:07:12,409 --> 01:07:13,577
[door creaking]
942
01:07:19,849 --> 01:07:22,320
[ominous music]
943
01:08:01,492 --> 01:08:03,896
[muffled white noise]
944
01:09:35,985 --> 01:09:37,555
[ominous hissing]
945
01:09:37,587 --> 01:09:39,289
[gun clicks]
946
01:09:42,493 --> 01:09:43,895
[beeping]
947
01:09:53,738 --> 01:09:56,440
So how's this supposed
to happen exactly?
948
01:09:56,472 --> 01:09:57,943
I'm not sure.
949
01:09:57,975 --> 01:10:00,979
The satellite details
we need are very specific.
950
01:10:01,011 --> 01:10:04,382
How John pulls this off
is going to be interesting.
951
01:10:07,819 --> 01:10:10,021
Hey, where did
you get the popcorn?
952
01:10:10,055 --> 01:10:11,890
Oh, I don't know.
It was just here.
953
01:10:14,390 --> 01:10:15,560
Right.
954
01:10:17,328 --> 01:10:19,331
Are they still in debate mode?
955
01:10:19,363 --> 01:10:20,498
Listen for yourself.
956
01:10:24,002 --> 01:10:25,970
Hope you went to college.
957
01:10:26,002 --> 01:10:28,707
...and why the masses
will never break out
958
01:10:28,738 --> 01:10:31,876
of its self-perpetuated
oppression.
959
01:10:33,676 --> 01:10:37,480
Historically observable.
Biologically sound.
960
01:10:37,515 --> 01:10:39,618
And grossly exaggerated.
961
01:10:39,649 --> 01:10:43,020
While most may indeed be stuck in
lower brain, limbic system reflexes,
962
01:10:43,052 --> 01:10:45,823
you underestimate
the prefrontal cortex.
963
01:10:45,855 --> 01:10:48,493
Our ability to transcend
primitive reactions.
964
01:10:48,524 --> 01:10:50,461
Whether you believe it
or not, Simon,
965
01:10:50,493 --> 01:10:52,997
the activists of the world
are slowly becoming more aware,
966
01:10:53,029 --> 01:10:56,435
- more focused.
- Focused on what?
967
01:10:56,466 --> 01:10:57,868
The system?
968
01:10:57,900 --> 01:10:59,936
The origin of the social
psychology that keeps
969
01:10:59,970 --> 01:11:01,640
those feedback loops
of oppression going.
970
01:11:03,475 --> 01:11:06,543
Ah, so threat to the money God?
971
01:11:07,578 --> 01:11:09,381
If you want to be
spooky about it, sure.
972
01:11:10,146 --> 01:11:13,385
The money God is eventually
going to be overthrown.
973
01:11:13,417 --> 01:11:15,386
This age-old march
toward increased the quality
974
01:11:15,418 --> 01:11:17,988
and human rights is now
accelerating into new territory.
975
01:11:19,055 --> 01:11:21,524
And one way or another it's
eventually going to arrive
976
01:11:21,559 --> 01:11:23,729
at the doorstep of the economy.
977
01:11:23,761 --> 01:11:25,497
And then what?
978
01:11:25,529 --> 01:11:28,832
You seem to be suffering
from a kind of amnesia, John.
979
01:11:28,867 --> 01:11:30,900
That moment's long past.
980
01:11:30,935 --> 01:11:34,439
Immortalized by the failed
Soviet experiment,
981
01:11:34,470 --> 01:11:36,940
a memory that's fostered
an enduring boogeyman.
982
01:11:38,943 --> 01:11:43,381
Anyone today daring
to suggest economic equality,
983
01:11:43,413 --> 01:11:45,684
which is what I assume
you are getting at,
984
01:11:45,716 --> 01:11:48,819
as some final stage
of human rights progress,
985
01:11:48,851 --> 01:11:52,489
will quickly be condemned
as a freedom-hating socialist.
986
01:11:52,524 --> 01:11:56,528
Propaganda may be strong,
but so are the mounting problems,
987
01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:58,963
problems that have
no in system solution,
988
01:11:58,997 --> 01:12:02,400
- forcing people to think differently.
- Such as?
989
01:12:02,434 --> 01:12:04,569
How about the collective insult
that one percent of the world's
990
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:07,137
population now owns
80% of the wealth?
991
01:12:07,171 --> 01:12:10,007
Or more importantly,
that every life support system
992
01:12:10,039 --> 01:12:14,078
continues to be in decline
with now millions dislocated.
993
01:12:14,110 --> 01:12:16,913
Famines, wars, growing poverty.
994
01:12:16,948 --> 01:12:20,717
People will eventually realize the
economic mechanisms behind this.
995
01:12:20,752 --> 01:12:24,823
Further opening the gate.
Same for technological unemployment.
996
01:12:24,854 --> 01:12:27,591
Half of all jobs have
already been automated.
997
01:12:27,623 --> 01:12:30,694
And while nations have compensated
by giving basic income,
998
01:12:30,726 --> 01:12:32,729
the system contradiction
is still clear.
999
01:12:32,762 --> 01:12:35,533
What happens when people realize
this welfare program is really
1000
01:12:35,565 --> 01:12:38,802
just an excuse to keep
the labor system in place?
1001
01:12:38,837 --> 01:12:41,405
Hence keeping
the ruling class in place.
1002
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:44,676
You assume too much, John.
1003
01:12:44,707 --> 01:12:46,944
Three-quarters of the people
on that planet,
1004
01:12:46,976 --> 01:12:50,213
believe in supernatural
beings that live in the sky
1005
01:12:50,247 --> 01:12:52,216
affecting their lives.
1006
01:12:52,248 --> 01:12:54,586
You're projecting
your rare intelligence
1007
01:12:54,618 --> 01:12:57,154
upon a sea of glorified savages.
1008
01:12:57,186 --> 01:13:00,190
And if you think the activist
community has anything
1009
01:13:00,225 --> 01:13:04,595
in their toolkit to even
approach system level change,
1010
01:13:04,627 --> 01:13:06,863
you're not paying attention
to their ignorance.
1011
01:13:06,896 --> 01:13:08,867
You mean the spectacle?
1012
01:13:08,899 --> 01:13:10,969
People piling
into free speech zones,
1013
01:13:11,002 --> 01:13:13,204
holding up signs,
yelling at buildings,
1014
01:13:13,238 --> 01:13:16,707
ranting on social media,
creating political art,
1015
01:13:16,739 --> 01:13:18,810
poetry, writing books...
1016
01:13:20,211 --> 01:13:22,078
making movies.
1017
01:13:22,113 --> 01:13:23,814
I agree it's mostly catharsis.
1018
01:13:23,846 --> 01:13:25,748
It's a pressure release valve,
1019
01:13:25,783 --> 01:13:27,717
easing periodic tension,
1020
01:13:27,752 --> 01:13:30,588
making people feel like they're
actually doing something.
1021
01:13:31,622 --> 01:13:34,559
Aside, of course,
from helping the economy,
1022
01:13:34,591 --> 01:13:35,993
the anti-establishment market
1023
01:13:36,025 --> 01:13:37,828
has been increasingly
profitable.
1024
01:13:37,860 --> 01:13:40,497
[chuckles] Yes.
1025
01:13:40,530 --> 01:13:42,934
The anger dollar.
If only such outrage
1026
01:13:42,966 --> 01:13:45,036
could be packaged and traded
on Wall Street, right?
1027
01:13:45,069 --> 01:13:49,606
[chuckles] And then social
change might have a chance.
1028
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:51,243
[both laugh hysterically]
1029
01:13:59,149 --> 01:14:03,988
But catharsis aside, John,
the real issue is hope.
1030
01:14:04,020 --> 01:14:07,225
Activism today
is a hope industry.
1031
01:14:08,257 --> 01:14:10,927
Take Concordia.
It's been irritating
1032
01:14:10,962 --> 01:14:13,698
and I'm certainly bothered
by the technology you have,
1033
01:14:13,729 --> 01:14:16,833
but your actions have posed
no true threat.
1034
01:14:16,868 --> 01:14:21,006
What you do is give
your millions of fans hope.
1035
01:14:21,037 --> 01:14:24,574
And hope is a drug that subdues.
1036
01:14:24,609 --> 01:14:27,578
So the long history of rights
progress is meaningless?
1037
01:14:27,610 --> 01:14:30,914
The abolition of slavery,
women's liberation,
1038
01:14:30,948 --> 01:14:35,052
child labor laws, unions,
indigenous restitution,
1039
01:14:35,086 --> 01:14:39,925
global decrees, LGBTQ equality,
disability acts?
1040
01:14:39,957 --> 01:14:42,726
All adaptations
and accommodations.
1041
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:45,128
No threat to the system itself.
1042
01:14:45,162 --> 01:14:47,097
Take abject slavery:
1043
01:14:47,131 --> 01:14:48,800
the origins are clear.
1044
01:14:48,832 --> 01:14:50,868
It was never about racism.
1045
01:14:50,900 --> 01:14:52,569
It was about economic
exploitation.
1046
01:14:52,604 --> 01:14:54,805
Hence business as usual.
1047
01:14:54,837 --> 01:14:57,274
And yet racism took the heat.
1048
01:14:57,306 --> 01:15:00,078
The system connection
goes unrecognized.
1049
01:15:00,109 --> 01:15:02,279
Limits of debate.
People have been conditioned
1050
01:15:02,311 --> 01:15:04,881
to seek moral causes
rather than structural ones.
1051
01:15:04,914 --> 01:15:08,819
Which is exactly my point,
they don't have the vocabulary.
1052
01:15:08,851 --> 01:15:10,954
Nothing
in their experience offers it.
1053
01:15:10,988 --> 01:15:14,125
The average person engages
six hours of media a day
1054
01:15:14,158 --> 01:15:17,226
much of that news constantly
reinforcing the status quo.
1055
01:15:17,261 --> 01:15:21,097
I'm glad you brought that up.
News is a business.
1056
01:15:21,131 --> 01:15:24,269
And do you think that any
for-profit institution is ever
1057
01:15:24,301 --> 01:15:28,105
going to tolerate ideas that
move against how it survives?
1058
01:15:29,805 --> 01:15:31,876
The odds are stacked, John.
1059
01:15:31,908 --> 01:15:34,779
The system protects
itself on every level
1060
01:15:34,810 --> 01:15:37,582
almost as if it were
a living organism.
1061
01:15:39,248 --> 01:15:42,118
But for argument's sake,
1062
01:15:42,153 --> 01:15:45,689
let's assume a formidable
movement existed.
1063
01:15:45,721 --> 01:15:48,859
A united front to change
the social structure.
1064
01:15:48,891 --> 01:15:50,159
Then what?
1065
01:15:50,194 --> 01:15:51,930
Does it play out on the stage
1066
01:15:51,962 --> 01:15:53,396
of political theater?
1067
01:15:53,430 --> 01:15:56,868
A stage owned and operated
by business power?
1068
01:15:56,899 --> 01:16:00,037
Part of the awakening. People are
realizing their elected officials
1069
01:16:00,069 --> 01:16:02,238
are structurally
corrupted by default,
1070
01:16:02,271 --> 01:16:03,940
regardless of intent.
1071
01:16:03,975 --> 01:16:06,310
- Approaches will shift.
- To what?
1072
01:16:06,342 --> 01:16:09,279
Insurrection, violence,
overthrow?
1073
01:16:09,311 --> 01:16:11,047
A French Revolution?
1074
01:16:11,082 --> 01:16:13,016
Possible,
but certainly not inevitable.
1075
01:16:13,051 --> 01:16:14,918
A critical mass large
enough to stop
1076
01:16:14,952 --> 01:16:16,854
the machine in its tracks is
really all that it's needed.
1077
01:16:16,886 --> 01:16:18,390
You remember George Orwell?
1078
01:16:18,421 --> 01:16:20,791
- Of course.
- He observed something
1079
01:16:20,823 --> 01:16:22,859
interesting
in this endless battle
1080
01:16:22,894 --> 01:16:26,131
between the haves
and the have nots.
1081
01:16:26,162 --> 01:16:27,965
If it's true as you say,
1082
01:16:27,997 --> 01:16:30,801
the masses are beginning
to understand the system.
1083
01:16:30,833 --> 01:16:32,203
Building force against it.
1084
01:16:32,234 --> 01:16:34,439
You should also recognize
1085
01:16:34,470 --> 01:16:36,873
that there's a natural
counter-movement.
1086
01:16:36,908 --> 01:16:39,778
The system defending
itself once again.
1087
01:16:40,476 --> 01:16:42,912
And every threat
to its integrity,
1088
01:16:42,945 --> 01:16:45,114
what you see as progress,
1089
01:16:45,149 --> 01:16:47,985
will be twisted around
and presented to the public
1090
01:16:48,019 --> 01:16:50,387
as an attack
on their way of life.
1091
01:16:51,721 --> 01:16:54,158
Those outliers
that you spoke of,
1092
01:16:54,190 --> 01:16:57,427
the terrorists, gangs,
criminals, mass murderers,
1093
01:16:57,462 --> 01:17:00,931
insurgencies, hackers,
the Orions.
1094
01:17:00,963 --> 01:17:02,934
The Concordias.
1095
01:17:02,966 --> 01:17:05,970
All empower
the system in the end
1096
01:17:06,002 --> 01:17:09,373
providing excuses
to further tighten things down.
1097
01:17:09,405 --> 01:17:11,943
More police, more prisons,
1098
01:17:11,975 --> 01:17:15,079
more laws, more bombs,
more surveillance.
1099
01:17:16,180 --> 01:17:17,882
More control.
1100
01:17:19,248 --> 01:17:23,953
Again, no conspiracy required.
1101
01:17:24,854 --> 01:17:28,126
It's the masses themselves
that push for this,
1102
01:17:28,158 --> 01:17:31,262
willfully exchanging
their freedom for security.
1103
01:17:32,194 --> 01:17:37,033
So they can comfortably
return to their workstations
1104
01:17:37,068 --> 01:17:41,171
and continue pulling
levers on the machine
1105
01:17:41,203 --> 01:17:44,742
just as a money God ordained.
1106
01:17:49,546 --> 01:17:51,981
[train honking]
1107
01:18:10,132 --> 01:18:12,970
[dramatic music]
1108
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:19,144
[steam hissing]
1109
01:18:33,925 --> 01:18:36,461
[upbeat music]
1110
01:18:45,301 --> 01:18:47,470
[levers rattling]
1111
01:19:09,260 --> 01:19:10,860
[light blaring]
1112
01:19:10,895 --> 01:19:12,029
[coin clinking]
1113
01:19:20,636 --> 01:19:22,073
[machine rattling and dinging]
1114
01:19:45,930 --> 01:19:48,132
[wheels rattling]
1115
01:19:49,934 --> 01:19:51,467
[lights blaring]
1116
01:19:51,502 --> 01:19:53,604
[coins clinking]
1117
01:19:59,944 --> 01:20:02,213
[machine dinging]
1118
01:20:45,654 --> 01:20:47,957
[wheels rattling]
1119
01:20:59,970 --> 01:21:02,306
[spray hissing]
1120
01:21:13,484 --> 01:21:16,087
[slow motion buzzing]
1121
01:21:16,118 --> 01:21:17,654
[music resumes]
1122
01:21:22,725 --> 01:21:25,194
[toy rattling]
1123
01:21:27,497 --> 01:21:30,135
[seagulls cawing]
1124
01:21:36,038 --> 01:21:38,341
[Malikan] In the end,
it wasn't the so-called communist,
1125
01:21:38,376 --> 01:21:41,412
socialists, anarchists or
whatever counterculture group
1126
01:21:41,444 --> 01:21:45,048
that posed the most serious
argument for the Great Transition.
1127
01:21:45,082 --> 01:21:47,083
It was the environmental
scientist.
1128
01:21:47,118 --> 01:21:49,453
One could debate
the ins and outs of morality,
1129
01:21:49,485 --> 01:21:51,387
public health and human rights,
1130
01:21:51,421 --> 01:21:54,725
but if the habitat goes
all that becomes moot.
1131
01:21:54,757 --> 01:21:56,627
And at the turn
of the 21st century
1132
01:21:56,658 --> 01:22:00,463
our ecological negligence
was pretty embarrassing.
1133
01:22:00,497 --> 01:22:02,265
With great inefficiency
we were using
1134
01:22:02,297 --> 01:22:04,435
far more resources each year
1135
01:22:04,466 --> 01:22:06,269
than the planet produced.
1136
01:22:06,301 --> 01:22:08,738
Had destroyed vast realms
of biodiversity,
1137
01:22:08,771 --> 01:22:11,743
polluted the air, the soil,
the water,
1138
01:22:11,774 --> 01:22:14,744
not only destabilizing
the entire global ecosystem
1139
01:22:14,779 --> 01:22:18,015
but by extension society itself.
1140
01:22:18,047 --> 01:22:22,351
The most common question I get
when teaching this history is,
1141
01:22:22,386 --> 01:22:25,655
"How is it even possible
things could get so bad?
1142
01:22:25,689 --> 01:22:28,225
How could everyone just keep
blindly pulling levers
1143
01:22:28,257 --> 01:22:30,328
on that destructive
economic machine
1144
01:22:30,359 --> 01:22:32,296
and not see what was happening?"
1145
01:22:32,328 --> 01:22:36,100
And it comes down to a kind
of faith-based conditioning,
1146
01:22:36,131 --> 01:22:38,100
a religious pathology
taking the form
1147
01:22:38,135 --> 01:22:40,104
of mass economic behavior.
1148
01:22:40,136 --> 01:22:43,673
The doctrine was
that of universal scarcity.
1149
01:22:43,707 --> 01:22:46,275
People had been taught
to believe that at no time,
1150
01:22:46,310 --> 01:22:49,613
under no circumstance,
can economic balance exist.
1151
01:22:49,645 --> 01:22:52,815
[Aleniya] The very idea an
economy could be organized
1152
01:22:52,850 --> 01:22:56,287
to efficiently provide
for everyone while also being
1153
01:22:56,319 --> 01:23:00,057
in balance with the habitat
was a sacrilegious taboo.
1154
01:23:00,091 --> 01:23:03,127
The cult of scarcity and
consumption wasn't having it.
1155
01:23:03,158 --> 01:23:05,229
They considered it
utopian thinking.
1156
01:23:05,261 --> 01:23:08,166
Supporting the myth
that people had infinite wants
1157
01:23:08,198 --> 01:23:11,101
and were accusatively
insatiable.
1158
01:23:11,135 --> 01:23:14,439
Hence, the poor had to exist
and if anything was the problem,
1159
01:23:14,470 --> 01:23:17,306
it must be population
not the system.
1160
01:23:18,274 --> 01:23:22,579
That was the prevailing dogma.
There must be too many people.
1161
01:23:22,613 --> 01:23:25,181
You can't have ecological
balance in a system
1162
01:23:25,216 --> 01:23:28,284
that requires constant
consumer activity to work.
1163
01:23:28,319 --> 01:23:30,520
It's one thing to consume
based on need.
1164
01:23:30,552 --> 01:23:33,789
It's another to consume
because the system demands it.
1165
01:23:33,823 --> 01:23:35,859
And the market system
of economics needed
1166
01:23:35,891 --> 01:23:39,128
constant turnover of goods
to keep and create jobs,
1167
01:23:39,162 --> 01:23:42,100
providing workers, which
of course were also consumers,
1168
01:23:42,131 --> 01:23:44,667
with income to spend back
into the system,
1169
01:23:44,702 --> 01:23:48,105
endlessly repeating the cycle
of cyclical consumption.
1170
01:23:48,137 --> 01:23:50,239
If it didn't repeat
fast enough or slowed,
1171
01:23:50,274 --> 01:23:51,775
the economy contracted.
1172
01:23:51,809 --> 01:23:53,845
Purchasing power
wasn't circulating
1173
01:23:53,877 --> 01:23:56,680
and the society
proceeded to shut down.
1174
01:23:56,712 --> 01:24:00,618
[Cynthia] A very unique historical
moment occurred in the early 20th century
1175
01:24:00,649 --> 01:24:05,287
when it was realized that technology
was now creating a good surplus
1176
01:24:05,320 --> 01:24:07,658
and great confusion ensued.
1177
01:24:07,689 --> 01:24:10,793
The problem was this newfound
productive efficiency
1178
01:24:10,828 --> 01:24:13,698
was not being met by people
buying more stuff.
1179
01:24:13,729 --> 01:24:16,132
So two competing
perspectives emerged:
1180
01:24:16,167 --> 01:24:19,770
on one side you had idealists,
envisioning a new era.
1181
01:24:19,801 --> 01:24:22,573
If we can produce
an overall good surplus,
1182
01:24:22,604 --> 01:24:25,574
why not lower the cost
of goods respectively
1183
01:24:25,609 --> 01:24:28,412
reducing work hours and
increased pay in proportion?
1184
01:24:28,444 --> 01:24:31,882
So you can now have say a person
working only two days a week
1185
01:24:31,914 --> 01:24:33,751
without losing
their standard of living
1186
01:24:33,783 --> 01:24:36,453
since the market value
of labor and goods adjusted
1187
01:24:36,485 --> 01:24:38,654
to compensate
for the increased efficiency.
1188
01:24:38,689 --> 01:24:40,856
This logic makes perfect
sense when it comes
1189
01:24:40,890 --> 01:24:43,627
to the basic principle
of supply and demand.
1190
01:24:43,659 --> 01:24:46,863
Suddenly people have more
free time, not buried in debt.
1191
01:24:46,895 --> 01:24:49,632
They can enrich their social
life, family life,
1192
01:24:49,667 --> 01:24:51,703
and pursue the things
that have true meaning.
1193
01:24:52,703 --> 01:24:55,739
Well, that's not
the way it played out
1194
01:24:55,771 --> 01:24:57,542
nor would it ever.
1195
01:24:57,573 --> 01:25:00,543
Which brings us to
the system level perspective
1196
01:25:00,578 --> 01:25:03,613
since the system itself simply
isn't designed inherently
1197
01:25:03,645 --> 01:25:05,783
for steady state equilibrium.
1198
01:25:05,814 --> 01:25:09,519
Market economics is predicated
on a more is better ethic.
1199
01:25:09,551 --> 01:25:11,587
To be competitive in the quest
for market share.
1200
01:25:11,622 --> 01:25:13,658
That's what's incentivized.
1201
01:25:13,689 --> 01:25:16,394
More growth, more sales,
more employees,
1202
01:25:16,426 --> 01:25:21,298
more capital accumulation,
more profit, constant expansion.
1203
01:25:21,332 --> 01:25:23,434
So what happened
was to be expected,
1204
01:25:23,466 --> 01:25:24,969
fortifying a new industry,
1205
01:25:25,002 --> 01:25:26,802
commercial advertising.
1206
01:25:26,837 --> 01:25:28,573
What was once
a simple media service,
1207
01:25:28,604 --> 01:25:31,309
notifying people
of new goods they may need,
1208
01:25:31,341 --> 01:25:34,679
turned into a powerful form
of manipulative propaganda.
1209
01:25:34,712 --> 01:25:38,280
In the later stages, companies
spent more money on advertising
1210
01:25:38,314 --> 01:25:40,751
than they did on research
and development.
1211
01:25:40,783 --> 01:25:44,354
What advertising does is
abuse our social nature
1212
01:25:44,386 --> 01:25:46,789
by making people feel
like they're missing out.
1213
01:25:46,823 --> 01:25:48,725
They're not good
enough without this,
1214
01:25:48,757 --> 01:25:50,962
they're lower in status
without that.
1215
01:25:50,993 --> 01:25:54,730
They feel excluded from others
if they don't own something.
1216
01:25:54,765 --> 01:25:57,234
And as pathetic as
all that sounds it had
1217
01:25:57,266 --> 01:26:00,703
a profound effect on society
with everyone keeping up
1218
01:26:00,738 --> 01:26:04,609
with the Joneses
in a hideous feedback loop.
1219
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:07,310
And the result
as industrial productivity
1220
01:26:07,342 --> 01:26:10,747
still continued to rise,
people worked more than ever,
1221
01:26:10,779 --> 01:26:13,984
had less free time, were
in staggering amounts of debt,
1222
01:26:14,016 --> 01:26:16,752
and arguably had a lower
standard of living
1223
01:26:16,787 --> 01:26:18,922
when you actually account
for human happiness
1224
01:26:18,954 --> 01:26:21,359
and the level
of stress people endured.
1225
01:26:21,390 --> 01:26:23,659
All to keep
the economic machine moving.
1226
01:26:24,595 --> 01:26:26,997
[Vivian] One thing that's
really interesting in all this,
1227
01:26:27,029 --> 01:26:28,765
is that the economic
system back then
1228
01:26:28,797 --> 01:26:31,967
embraced a fantastic paradox.
1229
01:26:32,002 --> 01:26:33,604
So here you had a model
1230
01:26:33,636 --> 01:26:35,405
that defended itself
by the assumption
1231
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:38,574
of universal scarcity.
Forcing competition,
1232
01:26:38,609 --> 01:26:40,845
oppression, exploitation,
1233
01:26:40,877 --> 01:26:43,780
poverty and so on,
while at the same time
1234
01:26:43,814 --> 01:26:47,850
the entire machine needed
infinite consumption to work.
1235
01:26:47,885 --> 01:26:49,819
Think about that for a moment.
1236
01:26:49,851 --> 01:26:53,422
How do you justify these harsh
outcomes of assumed scarcity
1237
01:26:53,457 --> 01:26:56,525
when the system itself
disregards the idea entirely
1238
01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:59,296
when it comes to the very
mechanics that make it work?
1239
01:26:59,328 --> 01:27:02,364
And the bottom line is
this wasn't an economy at all
1240
01:27:02,399 --> 01:27:05,569
by definition,
it was an anti-economy,
1241
01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:08,637
with human beings functioning
like cancer cells
1242
01:27:08,671 --> 01:27:10,606
eating the Earth alive.
1243
01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:14,412
In systems theory this is known
as a positive feedback loop.
1244
01:27:14,444 --> 01:27:16,479
Don't let that word, positive,
confuse you
1245
01:27:16,511 --> 01:27:18,681
as there's nothing
positive about it.
1246
01:27:18,716 --> 01:27:21,918
It means there's nothing working
to balance system behavior
1247
01:27:21,952 --> 01:27:23,988
to its regulatory environment.
1248
01:27:24,020 --> 01:27:26,422
That environment
in the case of Economics
1249
01:27:26,457 --> 01:27:29,827
is a finite planet
with a delicate ecosystem.
1250
01:27:29,859 --> 01:27:32,896
If respect for scarcity
was taken seriously,
1251
01:27:32,930 --> 01:27:35,498
the goal would be
to focus on efficiency,
1252
01:27:35,530 --> 01:27:37,900
working to reduce resource use,
reduce waste
1253
01:27:37,935 --> 01:27:40,070
in the process
of meeting human needs.
1254
01:27:40,104 --> 01:27:43,038
Manifesting of course a culture
that's mature enough
1255
01:27:43,073 --> 01:27:45,810
to understand the boundaries
of its own existence.
1256
01:27:46,743 --> 01:27:48,712
[Malikan]
Truly positive economic metrics
1257
01:27:48,744 --> 01:27:51,082
are the opposite of what
was sought back then.
1258
01:27:51,113 --> 01:27:53,649
Degrowth, so to speak,
would be the goal.
1259
01:27:53,684 --> 01:27:56,418
Doing more with less
and needing less.
1260
01:27:56,453 --> 01:27:59,122
People would go on TV
to give an economic report
1261
01:27:59,154 --> 01:28:02,524
and say something like,
"Great metrics for the economy this month.
1262
01:28:02,559 --> 01:28:05,994
We reduced our use of energy and raw
materials by another three percent.
1263
01:28:06,029 --> 01:28:09,699
Lowering sales once again with
less need for human employment,
1264
01:28:09,731 --> 01:28:12,601
Increasing overall efficiency
by a factor of two.
1265
01:28:12,636 --> 01:28:15,439
We continue to be in homeostatic
balance with the planet
1266
01:28:15,470 --> 01:28:19,007
for yet another year and humanity
has more free time than ever."
1267
01:28:19,042 --> 01:28:20,543
Here's Tom with the weather.
1268
01:28:20,577 --> 01:28:21,712
"Well, it's clear skies
1269
01:28:21,743 --> 01:28:23,078
across the hemispheres.
1270
01:28:23,113 --> 01:28:24,948
The Amazon rainforest
isn't on fire.
1271
01:28:24,980 --> 01:28:27,551
We aren't clogging
the atmosphere with CO2,
1272
01:28:27,582 --> 01:28:29,787
and we haven't seen swarms
of refugees cascading
1273
01:28:29,819 --> 01:28:32,856
across continents in search
of food for some time.
1274
01:28:32,890 --> 01:28:34,792
And the fog of billionaire
douchebaggery
1275
01:28:34,823 --> 01:28:37,761
seems to have cleared a bit.
We do expect some precipitation
1276
01:28:37,793 --> 01:28:40,698
adding to our already
abundant fresh water supply
1277
01:28:40,729 --> 01:28:43,899
further improving topsoil
while global abundance measures
1278
01:28:43,934 --> 01:28:46,936
has everyone sitting pretty
for the foreseeable future."
1279
01:28:48,904 --> 01:28:53,810
Yeah, you would never hear anything
like that, instead the opposite.
1280
01:28:53,842 --> 01:28:57,046
Some dickhead PhD ivy league
market economist
1281
01:28:57,078 --> 01:28:59,149
religious fanatic who literally
1282
01:28:59,181 --> 01:29:02,185
has no clue what the word
economy even means,
1283
01:29:02,217 --> 01:29:04,753
would come on and say,
"Quarterly earnings
1284
01:29:04,787 --> 01:29:07,925
were down last month
in most sectors as GDP slows.
1285
01:29:07,957 --> 01:29:09,926
We're seeing an increasing
in unemployment
1286
01:29:09,958 --> 01:29:11,927
due to the contraction,
but hopefully
1287
01:29:11,962 --> 01:29:14,765
the coming Christmas season
will spark new consumer demand
1288
01:29:14,796 --> 01:29:16,966
while it's anticipated
that the central bank
1289
01:29:16,998 --> 01:29:19,770
will lower interest
rates and buy more bonds
1290
01:29:19,801 --> 01:29:22,738
to increase liquidity
to ease the credit crunch.
1291
01:29:22,771 --> 01:29:25,743
Hopefully this will
improve consumer confidence
1292
01:29:25,774 --> 01:29:28,744
inspiring investors
to reallocate capital
1293
01:29:28,779 --> 01:29:31,079
into da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da."
1294
01:29:31,113 --> 01:29:35,618
Translated this means,
"We need you people to take on more loans,
1295
01:29:35,650 --> 01:29:39,555
go into more debt to buy more
things to create more jobs
1296
01:29:39,588 --> 01:29:42,560
so we can sell more things
and use more of the Earth's
1297
01:29:42,591 --> 01:29:45,662
resources. If we're lucky
industry will improve
1298
01:29:45,694 --> 01:29:48,698
on shortening good life spans
through planned obsolescence.
1299
01:29:48,730 --> 01:29:50,667
Make things impossible
to repair.
1300
01:29:50,699 --> 01:29:53,235
Hopefully more single-use
goods will become the norm
1301
01:29:53,270 --> 01:29:56,673
so people can buy and throw away
at an ever increasing rate
1302
01:29:56,707 --> 01:29:58,141
keeping this shit show going."
1303
01:29:58,175 --> 01:29:59,208
[clicking]
1304
01:29:59,243 --> 01:30:01,945
[gentle music]
1305
01:30:13,021 --> 01:30:15,059
[director] So I want to
shift gears here a bit
1306
01:30:15,091 --> 01:30:18,261
and ask you about your
work in group identity.
1307
01:30:18,293 --> 01:30:21,163
Specifically how it relates
to economic conditions.
1308
01:30:22,597 --> 01:30:25,801
Well, like everything
is complex.
1309
01:30:25,836 --> 01:30:28,203
As we talked about earlier
our social nature
1310
01:30:28,238 --> 01:30:30,975
can get the best of us
and we have some
1311
01:30:31,006 --> 01:30:34,610
interesting evolutionary
wiring when it comes to groups.
1312
01:30:34,645 --> 01:30:37,046
Us and them,
in groups and out groups,
1313
01:30:37,078 --> 01:30:39,882
and perhaps what's
most unique is
1314
01:30:39,917 --> 01:30:42,985
what defines an us
and what defines a them
1315
01:30:43,020 --> 01:30:46,021
is subjective
and culturally dependent.
1316
01:30:46,055 --> 01:30:48,057
If you grow up only being
exposed to people who look
1317
01:30:48,091 --> 01:30:51,095
like you and then you're exposed
to those that don't,
1318
01:30:51,127 --> 01:30:54,097
your brain tends
to fire with apprehension.
1319
01:30:54,131 --> 01:30:57,635
But the same thing also occurs
with something even more trivial
1320
01:30:57,667 --> 01:31:00,270
like baseball caps.
You show people who like
1321
01:31:00,302 --> 01:31:03,805
a certain team photos of that
team and then throw in a photo
1322
01:31:03,838 --> 01:31:07,109
of an opposing team member,
the same thing occurs.
1323
01:31:07,144 --> 01:31:09,113
So for whatever
evolutionary reason,
1324
01:31:09,145 --> 01:31:13,649
we have a propensity to divide
society up and make judgments.
1325
01:31:13,684 --> 01:31:15,886
And there is no value
in it whatsoever.
1326
01:31:15,917 --> 01:31:19,055
It's just dangerous baggage.
1327
01:31:19,087 --> 01:31:20,823
And before the Great Transition,
1328
01:31:20,855 --> 01:31:23,292
because the economy
was fundamentally divisive
1329
01:31:23,327 --> 01:31:25,229
due to its competitive nature,
1330
01:31:25,261 --> 01:31:28,698
bigotry and group oppression
was a huge problem.
1331
01:31:28,730 --> 01:31:31,068
So you have the human species
developing in pockets
1332
01:31:31,100 --> 01:31:34,305
around the world with different
environmental exposures.
1333
01:31:34,337 --> 01:31:36,972
Not only shaping appearance
such as color of skin,
1334
01:31:37,006 --> 01:31:39,976
but also setting in motion
cultural differences
1335
01:31:40,010 --> 01:31:43,212
and as these groups began
to mix it got very messy,
1336
01:31:43,244 --> 01:31:46,082
which is why you see,
especially by the 20th century,
1337
01:31:46,114 --> 01:31:48,917
strong social movements
by people trying to stop
1338
01:31:48,952 --> 01:31:51,921
group oppression,
at least on the legal and political level.
1339
01:31:51,953 --> 01:31:55,059
The demand for gender, ethnic,
sexual orientation,
1340
01:31:55,091 --> 01:31:57,194
and creed equality was constant
1341
01:31:57,225 --> 01:32:00,329
with modest success given
the fact society was still stuck
1342
01:32:00,363 --> 01:32:03,833
in an economic mode
based upon mutual exploitation
1343
01:32:03,867 --> 01:32:06,770
amplifying the tendency
for group antagonism.
1344
01:32:06,801 --> 01:32:09,037
But there was a side
effect to all of this:
1345
01:32:09,070 --> 01:32:11,207
rather than seeking
equality to neutralize
1346
01:32:11,239 --> 01:32:14,778
the group identity problem,
many chose to embrace it.
1347
01:32:14,810 --> 01:32:18,247
They took what was an artificial
construct imposed upon them
1348
01:32:18,279 --> 01:32:19,984
and defined themselves by it.
1349
01:32:20,882 --> 01:32:23,051
For example, someone descended
1350
01:32:23,086 --> 01:32:25,320
from the African slave
trade in America
1351
01:32:25,354 --> 01:32:29,359
is only a black person via the
construct of being called so.
1352
01:32:29,391 --> 01:32:31,895
There is no such thing
as a black person
1353
01:32:31,926 --> 01:32:34,096
just as there's no
such thing as a grey person,
1354
01:32:34,131 --> 01:32:37,199
just as there is no
such thing as a white person.
1355
01:32:37,234 --> 01:32:39,168
These are all social constructs
1356
01:32:39,202 --> 01:32:42,204
that have invented to
artificially categorize people.
1357
01:32:43,204 --> 01:32:44,806
And the same applies to culture,
1358
01:32:44,841 --> 01:32:47,110
just as there is no such
thing as a white person,
1359
01:32:47,144 --> 01:32:49,645
there is no such thing
as an Italian person
1360
01:32:49,680 --> 01:32:53,050
or a Buddhist person or an Irish
person or a Jewish person.
1361
01:32:53,082 --> 01:32:56,787
[Cynthia] It is one thing to have
a valued practice, meditation,
1362
01:32:56,819 --> 01:33:00,789
or sense of philosophy that
inspires you and educates you.
1363
01:33:00,823 --> 01:33:05,293
History is rich with beautiful
traditions across many belief systems.
1364
01:33:05,328 --> 01:33:08,899
Dogma aside religion itself
helps to serve as a kind
1365
01:33:08,930 --> 01:33:12,836
of gateway into our spiritual
and intellectual evolution.
1366
01:33:12,868 --> 01:33:15,005
[Malikan]
Finding meaning in meditation,
1367
01:33:15,037 --> 01:33:17,841
or putting up a Christmas tree
or lighting the menorah
1368
01:33:17,872 --> 01:33:22,078
creates ritualistic connection that
can have great personal meeting.
1369
01:33:22,110 --> 01:33:25,213
But engaging Buddhist practice
doesn't make you Buddhist.
1370
01:33:25,247 --> 01:33:28,152
Being born from a bloodline in
Italy doesn't mean you're an Italian
1371
01:33:28,185 --> 01:33:31,087
and going to church
doesn't mean you're Christian.
1372
01:33:31,119 --> 01:33:33,256
The moment you go
from a person that enjoys
1373
01:33:33,288 --> 01:33:35,693
the practice
of something to saying,
1374
01:33:35,725 --> 01:33:37,694
"I am this or that,"
1375
01:33:37,726 --> 01:33:41,229
is the moment you draw dangerous
lines through the species.
1376
01:33:41,262 --> 01:33:43,131
Taking such pride
in your ethnic,
1377
01:33:43,164 --> 01:33:45,002
religious,
or regional background
1378
01:33:45,033 --> 01:33:47,904
creates an identity
with the group by label
1379
01:33:47,936 --> 01:33:51,207
and it is fundamentally
elitist and bigoted by nature.
1380
01:33:52,175 --> 01:33:54,912
There is only one race,
the human race.
1381
01:33:54,944 --> 01:33:56,979
And within the confines
of that fact
1382
01:33:57,011 --> 01:33:59,082
to separate yourself any further
1383
01:33:59,114 --> 01:34:01,452
leads to absolutely
nothing positive.
1384
01:34:01,484 --> 01:34:04,721
[gentle music fading]
1385
01:34:06,454 --> 01:34:09,359
[slow motion buzzing]
1386
01:34:18,435 --> 01:34:19,735
[notification beeps]
1387
01:34:29,811 --> 01:34:31,280
[ominous music]
1388
01:35:12,087 --> 01:35:14,524
[ominous music increasing]
1389
01:35:29,470 --> 01:35:30,372
[with robotic voice]
Kike.
1390
01:35:31,841 --> 01:35:33,877
No, looks more like a wop.
1391
01:35:33,908 --> 01:35:36,244
Yeah greaseball dago to be sure.
1392
01:35:36,279 --> 01:35:38,114
Just another Eurotrash wetback.
1393
01:35:38,146 --> 01:35:40,050
Cracker guinea freeloader.
1394
01:35:40,082 --> 01:35:42,118
[chuckles]
And look at those clothes.
1395
01:35:42,150 --> 01:35:44,488
A Nancy Drew Becky
wanna be Stacy.
1396
01:35:44,520 --> 01:35:46,956
Looking for her chad
that never comes.
1397
01:35:46,988 --> 01:35:49,926
No doubt, a tree hugging,
dirt worshipping feminazi.
1398
01:35:49,958 --> 01:35:52,261
Soy boy beta cuck magnet.
1399
01:35:52,293 --> 01:35:56,600
A card-carrying purple haired,
muff diving, spook loving.
1400
01:35:56,631 --> 01:35:58,868
Self-righteous socialist pinko.
1401
01:35:58,900 --> 01:36:01,470
Coloring in her little
book with her junglebunny.
1402
01:36:01,502 --> 01:36:03,841
Towelhead libtard comrades.
1403
01:36:03,872 --> 01:36:07,976
Just a sea of bleeding-heart social
justice warrior welfare queens.
1404
01:36:08,011 --> 01:36:13,114
Bootlicking, anti-freedom
globalist, vegan red zombie.
1405
01:36:13,149 --> 01:36:15,319
A communist snowflake
cumdumpster.
1406
01:36:15,350 --> 01:36:18,921
So just move back to Cuba
with all the other crybaby.
1407
01:36:18,953 --> 01:36:20,390
Regressive, leftist.
1408
01:36:20,421 --> 01:36:22,158
Marxist, Antifa.
1409
01:36:22,190 --> 01:36:23,458
Utopianists.
1410
01:36:23,493 --> 01:36:26,329
[audience booing]
1411
01:36:34,369 --> 01:36:37,207
[muffled booing]
1412
01:36:53,189 --> 01:36:54,390
[muffled thudding]
1413
01:37:10,238 --> 01:37:12,876
[ominous music]
1414
01:37:50,613 --> 01:37:52,283
[music stops]
1415
01:38:20,408 --> 01:38:25,480
- [man] Break time.
- Yeah, I need to zone out for a bit.
1416
01:38:26,547 --> 01:38:29,519
This final programming
is melting my brain.
1417
01:38:32,055 --> 01:38:35,492
- What's this?
- Good question.
1418
01:38:35,524 --> 01:38:38,427
Some old film
by this guy, Joseph.
1419
01:38:38,461 --> 01:38:41,230
It's like an abstract
social commentary.
1420
01:38:41,262 --> 01:38:42,698
I haven't quite figured it out.
1421
01:38:45,033 --> 01:38:46,234
Looks pretentious.
1422
01:38:48,569 --> 01:38:50,038
How's the great debate?
1423
01:38:50,073 --> 01:38:51,708
That's what I'm going
to find out.
1424
01:38:54,377 --> 01:38:56,145
I'm sorry.
1425
01:38:56,177 --> 01:38:58,780
I thought we were
trying to save the world.
1426
01:38:58,814 --> 01:39:00,617
Everything's ahead of schedule.
1427
01:39:00,649 --> 01:39:03,386
And I can't do much more without
the satellite coordinates.
1428
01:39:03,418 --> 01:39:05,654
- Plus this is getting good.
- Hm-mm.
1429
01:39:05,686 --> 01:39:07,789
According to the script, looks
like John's about to school
1430
01:39:07,823 --> 01:39:09,592
Simon on the nature
of hierarchy.
1431
01:39:11,761 --> 01:39:14,765
[woman 1] Wait, how is it we're
seeing both in the shot at once.
1432
01:39:14,796 --> 01:39:16,731
The camera links to his eye.
1433
01:39:16,765 --> 01:39:20,337
[women 2] Shh. Audiences don't
usually notice things like that.
1434
01:39:20,368 --> 01:39:24,672
And besides where do you see
equality in the animal kingdom?
1435
01:39:24,707 --> 01:39:26,376
No one's equal, John.
1436
01:39:26,408 --> 01:39:29,046
And it would be painfully
boring if they were.
1437
01:39:29,078 --> 01:39:30,646
Humans are diverse.
1438
01:39:30,680 --> 01:39:32,547
Everyone has
different capabilities,
1439
01:39:32,582 --> 01:39:35,484
strengths, weaknesses, talents.
1440
01:39:35,516 --> 01:39:37,485
The push for social equality
and human rights
1441
01:39:37,520 --> 01:39:39,622
is about how that diversity
is understood.
1442
01:39:40,555 --> 01:39:42,291
And you've seemed to think
people should only be valued
1443
01:39:42,323 --> 01:39:44,327
by how well they compete
in the business game
1444
01:39:44,359 --> 01:39:46,695
as if the violence spread
between the rich and the poor
1445
01:39:46,729 --> 01:39:48,631
reflects objective human worth.
1446
01:39:48,663 --> 01:39:52,202
John,
I amuse myself with the notion
1447
01:39:52,234 --> 01:39:55,305
of the money God because
it isn't far from the truth.
1448
01:39:55,337 --> 01:39:59,341
Some system has to exist
to divide up a scarce world
1449
01:39:59,373 --> 01:40:03,345
and nature has spoken as
to what that system must be.
1450
01:40:03,377 --> 01:40:06,515
Those who reach the top
of the pyramid deserve it,
1451
01:40:06,547 --> 01:40:09,185
not because you
or I think it's right,
1452
01:40:09,217 --> 01:40:12,488
but because that's
what nature is selecting for.
1453
01:40:12,520 --> 01:40:14,658
So nature prefers sociopaths
and psychopaths
1454
01:40:14,689 --> 01:40:17,126
to guide the species?
Because those are the dominating
1455
01:40:17,158 --> 01:40:18,761
traits
of the ruling class today.
1456
01:40:18,793 --> 01:40:21,832
The system is
as the system does.
1457
01:40:21,863 --> 01:40:24,233
Is that what the Malthusian
Mandate is about?
1458
01:40:24,265 --> 01:40:26,336
To then select out
the poor and weak.
1459
01:40:27,403 --> 01:40:29,271
We'll get to the mandate
in a moment.
1460
01:40:30,738 --> 01:40:33,408
I'm still bothered
by your denial of the fact
1461
01:40:33,443 --> 01:40:37,314
our social system reflects
our true biological nature.
1462
01:40:37,345 --> 01:40:41,149
And if this revolution you
speak of did magically occur,
1463
01:40:41,184 --> 01:40:43,520
it would just be a matter
of time before the innate
1464
01:40:43,551 --> 01:40:48,189
compulsion towards social
dominance prevailed yet again.
1465
01:40:48,222 --> 01:40:52,261
Deep down, John, the slaves
don't want to be free.
1466
01:40:52,293 --> 01:40:54,564
They want to be slave owners.
1467
01:40:55,899 --> 01:40:56,766
Nice one.
1468
01:40:58,332 --> 01:41:00,203
Too bad history paints
a different picture.
1469
01:41:01,302 --> 01:41:02,837
Our hierarchies have remained
1470
01:41:02,872 --> 01:41:05,609
constant throughout
recorded civilization.
1471
01:41:05,640 --> 01:41:08,543
For perhaps the last
12,000 years, sure.
1472
01:41:08,578 --> 01:41:10,346
But you know as well as I do,
before the discovery
1473
01:41:10,378 --> 01:41:12,780
of agriculture,
there was no such thing.
1474
01:41:12,814 --> 01:41:15,351
Ninety-nine percent of human
history has been egalitarian.
1475
01:41:15,385 --> 01:41:18,186
I said civilization, John.
1476
01:41:18,220 --> 01:41:20,655
Meandering
hunter-gatherer tribes
1477
01:41:20,689 --> 01:41:24,895
chucking spears and eating
grubs isn't civilization.
1478
01:41:24,926 --> 01:41:26,595
How contemporacist of you.
1479
01:41:27,595 --> 01:41:31,233
Yet 20th century study of
numerous hunter-gatherer tribes,
1480
01:41:31,265 --> 01:41:34,235
those still surviving in
remote areas just as they did
1481
01:41:34,270 --> 01:41:36,805
thousands of years prior,
actually show socially
1482
01:41:36,837 --> 01:41:40,943
rich cultures. Adult life
spans not far from ours.
1483
01:41:40,975 --> 01:41:43,613
Relatively peaceful
in balance with nature.
1484
01:41:43,645 --> 01:41:48,250
No leaders, no group hierarchy,
no inequality.
1485
01:41:48,283 --> 01:41:52,421
To argue today's society is somehow
more civilized is dubious at best.
1486
01:41:52,453 --> 01:41:54,658
Well, then perhaps
you can encourage
1487
01:41:54,689 --> 01:41:56,559
all your enlightened followers
1488
01:41:56,591 --> 01:41:58,860
to come together
and live out their utopian
1489
01:41:58,895 --> 01:42:00,796
fantasy in the Amazon jungle.
1490
01:42:00,828 --> 01:42:03,533
You mean what's left of it?
What hasn't been destroyed
1491
01:42:03,564 --> 01:42:05,769
by the supposedly advanced
culture that's ravaged
1492
01:42:05,801 --> 01:42:07,938
the natural world
into total decline
1493
01:42:07,970 --> 01:42:11,908
in the name of infinite
consumption and economic growth?
1494
01:42:11,939 --> 01:42:14,743
And the point here, Simon,
is hunter-gatherer cultures
1495
01:42:14,775 --> 01:42:16,878
are evidence of human
variability.
1496
01:42:16,912 --> 01:42:19,981
variability which contradicts
your vague biological determinism.
1497
01:42:20,015 --> 01:42:22,519
John, just because history shows
1498
01:42:22,551 --> 01:42:25,921
a range of behaviors across
time doesn't prove anything.
1499
01:42:25,953 --> 01:42:29,225
The introduction
of agriculture indeed changed
1500
01:42:29,257 --> 01:42:33,462
the human condition because
it triggered a dormant trait
1501
01:42:33,494 --> 01:42:35,899
in our evolutionary psychology.
1502
01:42:35,930 --> 01:42:38,667
A trait that wasn't
expressed before.
1503
01:42:38,699 --> 01:42:39,734
How?
1504
01:42:39,769 --> 01:42:41,369
By the advent
1505
01:42:41,404 --> 01:42:43,338
of economic surplus.
1506
01:42:43,372 --> 01:42:44,940
[scoffs] Economic surplus.
1507
01:42:44,972 --> 01:42:48,476
Resources and goods
that could be stored,
1508
01:42:48,511 --> 01:42:50,945
hoarded, stockpiled, owned,
1509
01:42:50,979 --> 01:42:54,618
traded, controlled,
leveraged for personal gain.
1510
01:42:54,649 --> 01:42:58,988
A phenomenon that was impossible
in a hunter-gatherer reality.
1511
01:42:59,020 --> 01:43:02,591
And it was that realization
that sparked our now
1512
01:43:02,623 --> 01:43:05,994
omnipresent drive toward
dominance and hierarchy.
1513
01:43:09,399 --> 01:43:10,367
I didn't know that.
1514
01:43:11,368 --> 01:43:14,970
Genetic dormancy
of an evolutionary expression.
1515
01:43:15,002 --> 01:43:17,405
Needed an environmental trigger,
1516
01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:20,476
psychological drive,
but then morphs into complex
1517
01:43:20,510 --> 01:43:22,877
oppressive institutions
and structures.
1518
01:43:23,811 --> 01:43:27,484
Compelling. Intuitive.
Plausible.
1519
01:43:28,917 --> 01:43:30,587
Too bad it's total bullshit.
1520
01:43:30,618 --> 01:43:32,820
All simpleton, pedestrian,
bio-deterministic
1521
01:43:32,854 --> 01:43:35,557
conclusions that are nothing
more than elitist projections.
1522
01:43:35,591 --> 01:43:39,529
You think it's wise to insult me
given this circumstance, John.
1523
01:43:40,595 --> 01:43:41,497
And listen.
1524
01:43:41,529 --> 01:43:44,533
[phone ringing]
1525
01:44:00,047 --> 01:44:01,051
[phone ringing stops]
1526
01:44:12,493 --> 01:44:14,698
Agriculture did change
everything.
1527
01:44:14,729 --> 01:44:16,899
But not because of someone's
dormant psychological
1528
01:44:16,931 --> 01:44:19,836
drive magically triggered
by economic surplus.
1529
01:44:19,868 --> 01:44:22,771
It was about what such a society
technically required,
1530
01:44:22,805 --> 01:44:26,975
dramatically shifting incentives and
very nature of human relationships.
1531
01:44:27,007 --> 01:44:30,345
Think about it.
First you need the proper land,
1532
01:44:30,378 --> 01:44:32,547
water,
the right conditions to farm,
1533
01:44:32,582 --> 01:44:34,650
then creating settlements
around those fruitful areas
1534
01:44:34,684 --> 01:44:36,618
as opposed to foraging.
1535
01:44:36,650 --> 01:44:39,587
And since land quality varies
some settlements will prosper
1536
01:44:39,622 --> 01:44:42,458
due to their geography
and some will falter.
1537
01:44:42,492 --> 01:44:44,961
So what happens when a group
finds itself with failed crops
1538
01:44:44,993 --> 01:44:46,996
and no way
to survive the winter?
1539
01:44:47,029 --> 01:44:48,597
They may trade
with other groups,
1540
01:44:48,631 --> 01:44:50,600
building out
what we call a market today,
1541
01:44:50,631 --> 01:44:53,668
giving way to the idea
of property and so on.
1542
01:44:53,703 --> 01:44:55,838
Or if they have
nothing to trade, desperate,
1543
01:44:55,872 --> 01:44:59,743
they may invade, they may steal,
compete,
1544
01:44:59,774 --> 01:45:03,145
establishing the need
for protection, laws, armies,
1545
01:45:03,177 --> 01:45:04,913
the state institution itself.
1546
01:45:05,881 --> 01:45:08,518
At the same time people
begin to notice the imbalance
1547
01:45:08,551 --> 01:45:10,886
and power
of this new propertied reality,
1548
01:45:10,918 --> 01:45:14,524
rationalizing the hoarding of wealth
for the sake of future security.
1549
01:45:15,425 --> 01:45:19,895
Hence the birth of inequity,
poverty, socio-economic class.
1550
01:45:20,828 --> 01:45:24,899
Simon, every major structural
aspect of society today,
1551
01:45:24,934 --> 01:45:27,970
from ownership to trade,
to nation states
1552
01:45:28,002 --> 01:45:31,038
to institutional warfare
at the competitive ethic
1553
01:45:31,073 --> 01:45:36,177
to vast economic inequality and
power hierarchy was predictable.
1554
01:45:36,212 --> 01:45:37,646
Snowballing ever since.
1555
01:45:38,814 --> 01:45:43,787
So your theory is if you change
the structure of society
1556
01:45:43,819 --> 01:45:45,788
you change the human condition?
1557
01:45:47,189 --> 01:45:50,693
- There's no going back, John.
- No one's going back.
1558
01:45:50,725 --> 01:45:52,162
We're going forward.
1559
01:45:52,194 --> 01:45:54,497
Humanity has been trapped
in this immature stage
1560
01:45:54,529 --> 01:45:56,899
for too long, not to mention
the sickness manifest
1561
01:45:56,931 --> 01:46:00,601
by this endless striving towards
social status is palpable.
1562
01:46:00,636 --> 01:46:02,471
Children,
when who asked what they want
1563
01:46:02,503 --> 01:46:06,073
to be when they grow up say,
"Rich and famous."
1564
01:46:06,106 --> 01:46:08,976
How the most wealthy nations,
those beacons of supposed
1565
01:46:09,011 --> 01:46:12,649
success are by far
the most mentally ill.
1566
01:46:12,680 --> 01:46:16,217
People don't know who they are,
where they're going
1567
01:46:16,252 --> 01:46:17,720
and what they're doing.
1568
01:46:17,752 --> 01:46:19,989
Lost in a perversion
of social image.
1569
01:46:20,890 --> 01:46:24,127
A spectacle that no longer
has any relationship
1570
01:46:24,158 --> 01:46:25,595
to anything real.
1571
01:46:28,229 --> 01:46:30,166
[door creaking]
1572
01:46:37,707 --> 01:46:38,908
[door thuds]
1573
01:46:43,279 --> 01:46:44,980
[white noise]
1574
01:46:46,747 --> 01:46:49,150
[gentle rock music]
1575
01:47:22,952 --> 01:47:24,154
[dinging]
1576
01:47:25,185 --> 01:47:27,055
[high-pitched whirring]
1577
01:47:55,051 --> 01:47:56,886
[dinging]
1578
01:47:56,917 --> 01:47:58,988
[high-pitched whirring]
1579
01:48:21,609 --> 01:48:23,511
[rock music continues]
1580
01:48:27,381 --> 01:48:28,350
[dinging]
1581
01:48:28,382 --> 01:48:29,984
[high-pitched whirring]
1582
01:48:44,265 --> 01:48:45,635
[dinging]
1583
01:48:45,667 --> 01:48:47,304
[high-pitched whirring]
1584
01:49:17,431 --> 01:49:18,801
[dinging]
1585
01:49:18,832 --> 01:49:21,337
[rock music intensifies]
1586
01:49:48,997 --> 01:49:51,100
[rock music continues
increasing]
1587
01:50:05,913 --> 01:50:07,417
[rock music abruptly stops]
1588
01:50:11,787 --> 01:50:13,989
[white noise]
1589
01:50:25,868 --> 01:50:28,137
[gentle music]
1590
01:50:39,913 --> 01:50:42,283
[director] So I'd like to go back
to the subject of inequality.
1591
01:50:42,318 --> 01:50:44,453
But this time
to understand the mechanics
1592
01:50:44,485 --> 01:50:47,722
of the oppression how the
hierarchy was kept in place?
1593
01:50:47,756 --> 01:50:49,725
Okay, let's start with money.
1594
01:50:49,757 --> 01:50:51,961
[gentle music]
1595
01:50:51,993 --> 01:50:54,831
Money was the infrastructure
of the market economy
1596
01:50:54,863 --> 01:50:56,899
and how it was created
and moved around
1597
01:50:56,930 --> 01:50:59,836
was instrumental
to lower class oppression.
1598
01:50:59,868 --> 01:51:03,206
[Malikan] So you had these
things called banks and they had
1599
01:51:03,238 --> 01:51:07,042
the ungodly power to make
abstract value out of nothing.
1600
01:51:07,074 --> 01:51:11,046
If a person needed money
for a home or car or business,
1601
01:51:11,078 --> 01:51:14,216
they went to their local bank
and applied for a loan,
1602
01:51:14,248 --> 01:51:16,819
and if approved
the person signed a contract
1603
01:51:16,850 --> 01:51:20,822
binding them to return that
loaned money at a future date.
1604
01:51:20,854 --> 01:51:23,024
Though, it's not really a lone
1605
01:51:23,056 --> 01:51:26,293
in the sense of somebody lending
out what they already owned.
1606
01:51:26,328 --> 01:51:28,963
Contrary to what most assumed
banks didn't loan out money
1607
01:51:28,997 --> 01:51:32,268
they actually had,
they instead created new money
1608
01:51:32,301 --> 01:51:35,470
in the form of credit
backed by debt.
1609
01:51:35,502 --> 01:51:37,972
So on one side money represented
1610
01:51:38,006 --> 01:51:40,275
a store of value
people could spend,
1611
01:51:40,309 --> 01:51:43,944
while on the other it was
a liability made out of debt.
1612
01:51:43,979 --> 01:51:46,347
In other words,
for every dollar that existed,
1613
01:51:46,381 --> 01:51:48,484
there was also
a debt of a dollar
1614
01:51:48,515 --> 01:51:50,918
owed to some bank somewhere.
1615
01:51:50,953 --> 01:51:53,288
That was how money was
brought into existence
1616
01:51:53,320 --> 01:51:57,827
and when someone repaid the loan
debt the money then disappeared.
1617
01:51:57,859 --> 01:52:01,029
That understood any
kind of service in that economy
1618
01:52:01,061 --> 01:52:03,800
sought a profit,
and in the case of a loan,
1619
01:52:03,832 --> 01:52:06,868
that came in the form
of a fee called interest.
1620
01:52:06,900 --> 01:52:10,204
So the borrower not only had
to eventually repay the loan
1621
01:52:10,238 --> 01:52:13,009
but also the interest
charged as well.
1622
01:52:14,042 --> 01:52:16,311
[Aleniya] Imagine an
island of a hundred people,
1623
01:52:16,345 --> 01:52:19,881
they decide to organize
themselves through market economy.
1624
01:52:19,913 --> 01:52:22,385
They plop a bank down
and each of them take a loan
1625
01:52:22,417 --> 01:52:25,921
for 100 credits of money
at ten percent interest.
1626
01:52:25,953 --> 01:52:28,556
So they all now have
10,000 credits total
1627
01:52:28,591 --> 01:52:31,226
in their money supply
and they begin to work
1628
01:52:31,260 --> 01:52:34,195
in exchange creating
economic activity.
1629
01:52:34,229 --> 01:52:36,431
When the time comes
to pay back the loan,
1630
01:52:36,463 --> 01:52:40,100
they realized they owe
not only the 100 credits,
1631
01:52:40,135 --> 01:52:43,971
but the ten percent interest,
so 110 credits.
1632
01:52:44,006 --> 01:52:46,042
Same for the whole society,
1633
01:52:46,073 --> 01:52:49,077
in total everyone on
the island now owes the bank
1634
01:52:49,109 --> 01:52:51,078
11,000 credits.
1635
01:52:51,113 --> 01:52:55,318
But yet, only 10,000 actually
exist in the money supply.
1636
01:52:55,350 --> 01:53:00,155
There is now more depth
owed than money in existence
1637
01:53:00,189 --> 01:53:02,024
due to the interest charged.
1638
01:53:02,055 --> 01:53:04,961
So three things can happen:
one, those short
1639
01:53:04,993 --> 01:53:07,229
can take on more loans
to temporarily cover
1640
01:53:07,261 --> 01:53:09,396
the old ones postponing
the problem.
1641
01:53:09,430 --> 01:53:12,268
Two, people could ramp up
competitive trade
1642
01:53:12,301 --> 01:53:14,337
increasing economic activity
1643
01:53:14,368 --> 01:53:17,037
to try to get enough
from others to cover the debt,
1644
01:53:17,070 --> 01:53:20,877
displacing the debt responsibility
like a game of musical chairs.
1645
01:53:20,908 --> 01:53:24,279
Or three, the bank comes in
and takes real property
1646
01:53:24,311 --> 01:53:26,413
to compensate
for the outstanding debt,
1647
01:53:26,448 --> 01:53:30,217
which is inevitably what happens
somewhere down the line anyway.
1648
01:53:30,252 --> 01:53:31,953
[director] Wait, that,
that can't be right.
1649
01:53:31,985 --> 01:53:34,355
That would just be a system
of organized theft.
1650
01:53:34,390 --> 01:53:38,895
Yes, banks were vehicles
of creation on one side,
1651
01:53:38,926 --> 01:53:40,229
and a system of organized theft
1652
01:53:40,261 --> 01:53:42,131
and class oppression
on the other.
1653
01:53:42,162 --> 01:53:45,199
But in a large complex
global society, one based
1654
01:53:45,234 --> 01:53:48,168
on economic growth,
money moves so rapidly
1655
01:53:48,203 --> 01:53:51,006
it was very hard for the mechanics
of this to be recognized.
1656
01:53:51,038 --> 01:53:53,641
Obscured by things
like the boom-and-bust cycle,
1657
01:53:53,676 --> 01:53:56,145
monetary expansion
and contraction.
1658
01:53:57,046 --> 01:54:00,047
- [director] Mm, please continue.
- So back to our island again.
1659
01:54:01,350 --> 01:54:03,685
But this time
for the sake of simplicity,
1660
01:54:03,717 --> 01:54:06,520
let's remove the interest
fee from the equation,
1661
01:54:06,555 --> 01:54:10,559
and focus only on the outcomes
of competitive trade itself.
1662
01:54:10,591 --> 01:54:13,662
[Aleniya] So the 10,000 credits
of money has been moving around
1663
01:54:13,694 --> 01:54:15,997
through trade, labor investment,
1664
01:54:16,029 --> 01:54:18,434
starting businesses,
hiring employees,
1665
01:54:18,466 --> 01:54:21,002
and as is inevitable
to the game,
1666
01:54:21,034 --> 01:54:24,506
some businesses will outperform
winning disproportion income,
1667
01:54:24,538 --> 01:54:27,510
while others will fall
behind losing income.
1668
01:54:27,542 --> 01:54:29,979
And naturally
those with more money
1669
01:54:30,011 --> 01:54:32,981
can then increase
their gaming advantage becoming
1670
01:54:33,015 --> 01:54:37,418
ever more competitive and of
course more prone to keep winning.
1671
01:54:37,453 --> 01:54:40,055
As the old adage went,
the rich get richer
1672
01:54:40,087 --> 01:54:41,722
and the poor get poorer.
1673
01:54:41,756 --> 01:54:44,393
A small business with limited
means simply can't compete
1674
01:54:44,426 --> 01:54:47,729
with a larger one that can
outperform them in the same service
1675
01:54:47,761 --> 01:54:50,698
due to having more
resources to work with.
1676
01:54:50,731 --> 01:54:53,467
[Cynthia] So on our Island,
we see an inevitable
1677
01:54:53,502 --> 01:54:56,570
point in time where say ten
percent of that population
1678
01:54:56,604 --> 01:54:59,542
managed to acquire
90% of the island's wealth
1679
01:54:59,573 --> 01:55:01,443
while the other
90% of the population
1680
01:55:01,475 --> 01:55:03,578
now has only ten percent.
1681
01:55:03,610 --> 01:55:06,716
By the way, this isn't
some arbitrary assumption,
1682
01:55:06,747 --> 01:55:08,984
this can be modeled
mathematically.
1683
01:55:09,016 --> 01:55:12,087
The dynamics of mass
competitive trade in any society
1684
01:55:12,119 --> 01:55:15,024
always moves toward
disequilibrium.
1685
01:55:15,055 --> 01:55:17,725
So back to my point,
when you put this together
1686
01:55:17,760 --> 01:55:21,564
a displaced debt burden
and the application of interest,
1687
01:55:21,595 --> 01:55:24,431
you can begin to see
the insidiousness.
1688
01:55:24,466 --> 01:55:27,569
An economic process based upon
competitive advantage and trade
1689
01:55:27,601 --> 01:55:31,238
that inevitably consolidates
wealth increasing that advantage.
1690
01:55:31,271 --> 01:55:33,542
Coupled with a financial
system that is charging
1691
01:55:33,573 --> 01:55:36,778
interest on loans that can
never be fully repaid.
1692
01:55:36,810 --> 01:55:39,747
So it's no surprise
that in the early 21st century
1693
01:55:39,780 --> 01:55:43,118
the global economy had
about 200 trillion in debt
1694
01:55:43,150 --> 01:55:45,654
and only 80 trillion
in outstanding currency.
1695
01:55:45,685 --> 01:55:47,588
While in the United States,
then considered
1696
01:55:47,622 --> 01:55:49,557
the richest nation
on the planet,
1697
01:55:49,591 --> 01:55:53,395
half of the population had less
than 1,000 dollars in savings
1698
01:55:53,427 --> 01:55:56,730
while also spending more each
year than they actually earned.
1699
01:55:56,765 --> 01:55:58,434
Just trying to keep up.
1700
01:55:59,600 --> 01:56:02,070
While on the global level
in nearly 50 percent
1701
01:56:02,104 --> 01:56:04,405
of the population lived
in poverty on less
1702
01:56:04,439 --> 01:56:08,543
than $5.50 a day
as roughly 30 individuals.
1703
01:56:08,577 --> 01:56:14,248
Yes, 30, owned more wealth than
the bottom half, 3.6 billion.
1704
01:56:15,283 --> 01:56:17,787
Now, there are plenty
of other intermitted things
1705
01:56:17,819 --> 01:56:19,555
that contribute
to this disparity.
1706
01:56:20,454 --> 01:56:22,623
Offshore tax havens
for the rich.
1707
01:56:22,658 --> 01:56:26,095
The mythology of trickle-down
economics were government favors
1708
01:56:26,127 --> 01:56:29,532
business over the public's
well-being, gaming strategies
1709
01:56:29,564 --> 01:56:32,835
to restrict the power
of unions and keep wages low,
1710
01:56:32,868 --> 01:56:35,104
various shenanigans
related to this thing
1711
01:56:35,136 --> 01:56:37,338
called the stock market,
1712
01:56:37,372 --> 01:56:41,077
but the financial system
and its use of depth is really
1713
01:56:41,109 --> 01:56:42,578
the foundation of it all.
1714
01:56:42,609 --> 01:56:44,311
[director]
Wow, you, you,
1715
01:56:44,345 --> 01:56:46,314
you would expect riots
in the streets if people
1716
01:56:46,346 --> 01:56:49,185
- really understood that.
- Well, there eventually were.
1717
01:56:49,216 --> 01:56:51,586
But again, at the time,
people just couldn't see it.
1718
01:56:51,618 --> 01:56:55,256
But, no, it wasn't until
the complete abolition of debt
1719
01:56:55,288 --> 01:56:58,694
on all levels that human slavery
finally ended on this planet.
1720
01:56:59,860 --> 01:57:02,564
[director] Speaking of
awareness I'd like to talk
1721
01:57:02,596 --> 01:57:05,234
a little about
how the awakening started.
1722
01:57:05,265 --> 01:57:07,202
I know Concordia
was instrumental
1723
01:57:07,234 --> 01:57:10,238
to technical change later on,
but what about before that
1724
01:57:10,270 --> 01:57:12,841
perhaps starting
in 20th century?
1725
01:57:12,873 --> 01:57:14,877
Well, it's sporadic.
1726
01:57:14,908 --> 01:57:16,677
The largest move
against this system was
1727
01:57:16,712 --> 01:57:19,614
the Bolshevik Revolution
in Russia inspired by a man
1728
01:57:19,646 --> 01:57:22,618
named Karl Marx, that brought
about the Soviet Union
1729
01:57:22,649 --> 01:57:24,787
which existed
for a couple decades.
1730
01:57:24,819 --> 01:57:27,288
And it employed a top-down
regulation system
1731
01:57:27,320 --> 01:57:29,457
they called communism
but it proved to be
1732
01:57:29,489 --> 01:57:31,391
inefficient and oppressive.
1733
01:57:31,426 --> 01:57:34,395
It was also wildly opposed
by Western capitalist powers,
1734
01:57:34,427 --> 01:57:38,300
which sought to destroy it
by any means necessary.
1735
01:57:38,332 --> 01:57:41,837
Criticism was generally infused
with civil rights movements.
1736
01:57:41,868 --> 01:57:44,872
For example, Mahatma Gandhi,
who helped liberate India
1737
01:57:44,905 --> 01:57:48,243
from Colonial rule,
was notably against the system
1738
01:57:48,275 --> 01:57:50,677
recognizing
its creation of poverty.
1739
01:57:50,712 --> 01:57:54,917
Once saying that "poverty was
the worst form of violence."
1740
01:57:54,948 --> 01:57:56,618
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
1741
01:57:56,650 --> 01:57:59,186
was also steadfast
against capitalism,
1742
01:57:59,220 --> 01:58:01,823
seeing it as a part
of a system of oppression
1743
01:58:01,855 --> 01:58:05,461
fueling racism.
Same for the Black Panther Party
1744
01:58:05,493 --> 01:58:08,564
that had chapters all over
the world in the 1960s.
1745
01:58:08,595 --> 01:58:11,431
You also had more academic
minded organizations
1746
01:58:11,466 --> 01:58:13,333
like the technocracy movement
1747
01:58:13,368 --> 01:58:16,503
largely inspired by famous
economist, Thorstein Veblen,
1748
01:58:16,537 --> 01:58:18,274
who recognize that a society
1749
01:58:18,305 --> 01:58:21,176
run by business people
was a very bad idea.
1750
01:58:21,944 --> 01:58:26,314
[Aleniya] And by the 21st century
when economic inequality was reaching
1751
01:58:26,346 --> 01:58:30,519
unprecedented extremes coupled
with a growing ecological crisis
1752
01:58:30,551 --> 01:58:33,322
many more were realizing
something had to be done.
1753
01:58:34,788 --> 01:58:38,493
But there is one that sticks
out to me in the context
1754
01:58:38,525 --> 01:58:41,430
of the value system disorder
present at the time.
1755
01:58:41,462 --> 01:58:44,231
An iconic speech given
by a man named Omar Padillo.
1756
01:58:44,998 --> 01:58:48,235
Omar was born in poverty
in Los Angeles, California.
1757
01:58:48,270 --> 01:58:50,238
And as a young man,
he just happened to win
1758
01:58:50,270 --> 01:58:54,376
the largest state lottery
ever in 2037 and he decided
1759
01:58:54,408 --> 01:58:58,479
to use that money to solve the vast
homeless crisis in his hometown.
1760
01:58:58,511 --> 01:59:02,251
He funded non-profits,
established housing treatment centers.
1761
01:59:02,283 --> 01:59:03,886
Not only getting people
off the streets,
1762
01:59:03,917 --> 01:59:06,488
but really helping them
recover and acclimate.
1763
01:59:06,520 --> 01:59:08,655
Something that hadn't
been done before.
1764
01:59:08,689 --> 01:59:11,426
And they gave him
a Nobel Peace Prize for it.
1765
01:59:11,458 --> 01:59:13,895
But what he had
to say during his speech
1766
01:59:13,927 --> 01:59:15,863
wasn't exactly
what they expected.
1767
01:59:23,738 --> 01:59:26,507
[audience applauding]
1768
01:59:26,539 --> 01:59:28,778
[solemn music]
1769
01:59:39,020 --> 01:59:40,454
Thank you.
1770
01:59:40,488 --> 01:59:41,756
And while I'm happy for those
1771
01:59:41,788 --> 01:59:43,757
we have helped
over the past few years,
1772
01:59:43,792 --> 01:59:47,761
taking about 75,000 homeless
off the Los Angeles streets,
1773
01:59:47,796 --> 01:59:50,431
I must say that the problem
1774
01:59:50,463 --> 01:59:52,899
at hand runs much deeper
than the poverty
1775
01:59:52,934 --> 01:59:56,436
we see around us.
When I created this program,
1776
01:59:56,470 --> 01:59:59,875
focusing on just
this one regional crises,
1777
01:59:59,908 --> 02:00:02,677
my long-term hope was that
it would set a new precedent.
1778
02:00:02,711 --> 02:00:04,712
That those
who disproportionately benefit
1779
02:00:04,744 --> 02:00:08,350
in this world would be inspired,
step up
1780
02:00:08,381 --> 02:00:11,319
and help take responsibility
for the plight
1781
02:00:11,351 --> 02:00:12,886
of the less fortunate.
1782
02:00:12,921 --> 02:00:15,289
After all, what I have done here
1783
02:00:15,323 --> 02:00:17,792
is merely a patch
that can only help a few.
1784
02:00:17,824 --> 02:00:20,427
For the true source of poverty,
1785
02:00:20,462 --> 02:00:23,664
our social system,
continues to go unaddressed.
1786
02:00:24,664 --> 02:00:27,435
We live in a world
of stories and myths.
1787
02:00:27,467 --> 02:00:30,337
And we've been told that
the vast inequities that we see
1788
02:00:30,372 --> 02:00:33,908
is the price we must pay
for innovation and progress.
1789
02:00:33,940 --> 02:00:35,810
Well, innovation to what end
1790
02:00:35,842 --> 02:00:38,945
and how do we define
this notion of progress?
1791
02:00:38,979 --> 02:00:43,319
For if progress is about how much
one can own, the availability of jobs
1792
02:00:43,350 --> 02:00:46,921
the state of a nation's GDP,
the rise of the stock market,
1793
02:00:46,953 --> 02:00:50,425
or the development of some gadget
to entertain and distract you,
1794
02:00:50,457 --> 02:00:53,694
then we face a serious
existential crisis.
1795
02:00:53,729 --> 02:00:57,597
I submit that true progress can
only be measured in the health,
1796
02:00:57,631 --> 02:01:02,337
stability, integrity and responsible
freedom of a civilization.
1797
02:01:02,369 --> 02:01:05,939
Responsible to ourselves,
responsible to each other
1798
02:01:05,972 --> 02:01:09,543
and responsible to their earthly
habitat we all share.
1799
02:01:09,578 --> 02:01:11,846
And by those measures,
my friends,
1800
02:01:11,878 --> 02:01:14,414
there is now little
progress to be found.
1801
02:01:14,448 --> 02:01:16,851
As we all sit idly by,
presupposing
1802
02:01:16,885 --> 02:01:19,788
that the way society works
is the only way it ever could.
1803
02:01:20,720 --> 02:01:23,890
That said, if it's true
that we must persist
1804
02:01:23,925 --> 02:01:26,528
in this inhumane economic order,
1805
02:01:26,560 --> 02:01:29,530
an order that has proven
it can only create affluence
1806
02:01:29,564 --> 02:01:33,435
for a minority at the cost
of destitution for the majority,
1807
02:01:34,734 --> 02:01:37,939
then our only choice
is to seek a new level
1808
02:01:37,971 --> 02:01:40,542
of humanitarian effort.
1809
02:01:40,573 --> 02:01:42,778
Today, three people
have more wealth
1810
02:01:42,810 --> 02:01:46,481
than the bottom 75%
of the world's population,
1811
02:01:46,515 --> 02:01:48,417
six billion people,
1812
02:01:48,448 --> 02:01:51,752
the total wealth of the 4,000
billionaires out there
1813
02:01:51,787 --> 02:01:55,690
have the means to end global
poverty a hundred times over,
1814
02:01:55,722 --> 02:01:59,395
and yet if you study
their philanthropy,
1815
02:01:59,426 --> 02:02:02,131
it is clear that they are
far more concerned
1816
02:02:02,162 --> 02:02:04,867
with their own interests,
their own comforts,
1817
02:02:04,899 --> 02:02:07,869
than working to counter this
ongoing structural violence.
1818
02:02:09,936 --> 02:02:13,140
You see there's a deeper
kind of poverty here.
1819
02:02:14,574 --> 02:02:18,578
A spiritual poverty,
a poverty that grows a culture
1820
02:02:18,613 --> 02:02:22,449
of sociopaths and the more
they have, the more they want,
1821
02:02:22,484 --> 02:02:24,153
and the less they seem
to care otherwise.
1822
02:02:24,185 --> 02:02:28,489
Moral bankruptcy hiding
behind this age-old story
1823
02:02:28,521 --> 02:02:31,792
that one can have a billion dollars
in the bank while others starve
1824
02:02:31,827 --> 02:02:34,863
is somehow natural
to the human condition.
1825
02:02:38,198 --> 02:02:40,667
In a number of months
my program will end
1826
02:02:41,569 --> 02:02:44,105
as the funds will be gone.
1827
02:02:44,137 --> 02:02:48,944
And to date not one wealthy,
so-called philanthropist
1828
02:02:48,975 --> 02:02:51,145
has offered to help keep
the program running.
1829
02:02:54,047 --> 02:02:57,185
Now I know this event
is about peace,
1830
02:02:57,217 --> 02:03:00,654
but it must be understood
that the wealthy of this world,
1831
02:03:00,689 --> 02:03:05,694
those at the root of true
political power are sick.
1832
02:03:05,725 --> 02:03:09,463
Their priorities have nothing
to do with true progress.
1833
02:03:09,497 --> 02:03:12,100
And the time
for tolerance is over.
1834
02:03:13,734 --> 02:03:17,639
The billionaire's of this world
are not symbols of success.
1835
02:03:17,671 --> 02:03:20,676
They are symbols of violence.
1836
02:03:25,113 --> 02:03:27,015
And until that violence ends,
1837
02:03:29,716 --> 02:03:32,252
there will be no peace
on this planet.
1838
02:03:32,287 --> 02:03:34,957
[somber music]
1839
02:03:56,743 --> 02:03:57,712
[sighs]
1840
02:04:06,753 --> 02:04:08,989
I am sorry, Peter. Can we cut?
1841
02:04:09,957 --> 02:04:11,025
[Peter]
Cut!
1842
02:04:13,194 --> 02:04:15,262
Well, it's, you know,
it's this opening section.
1843
02:04:15,296 --> 02:04:19,635
I'm... I'm still not getting it.
I know we've been through it but, uh,
1844
02:04:19,667 --> 02:04:21,869
- it's just not landing for me.
- [Peter] I'm just going to keep rolling here.
1845
02:04:21,903 --> 02:04:23,805
Can you grab that
color swatch for me?
1846
02:04:23,837 --> 02:04:25,939
You have to think about
the interpretation in reference
1847
02:04:25,972 --> 02:04:27,975
- to the...
- [Simon] All right. Thank you.
1848
02:04:30,145 --> 02:04:32,579
This tripod head is toilet.
1849
02:04:35,582 --> 02:04:37,685
You know,
my latte was cold this morning.
1850
02:04:37,717 --> 02:04:39,619
And that's my problem because?
1851
02:04:39,654 --> 02:04:42,722
Okay, okay, I, I think I got it.
1852
02:04:42,756 --> 02:04:44,626
- Thanks.
- [Peter] No problem. All right
1853
02:04:44,658 --> 02:04:46,161
- everybody, let's move.
- [sighs]
1854
02:04:46,194 --> 02:04:49,329
Jesus, take a screenwriting
class for Christ's sake.
1855
02:04:49,363 --> 02:04:52,301
No one's going to understand
any of this shit.
1856
02:04:52,332 --> 02:04:53,801
- [Peter] Camera?
- [man] Rolling.
1857
02:04:53,833 --> 02:04:55,770
- [Peter] Audio?
- [woman] Speeding.
1858
02:04:55,802 --> 02:04:57,070
[man 2]
Slate.
1859
02:04:57,104 --> 02:04:59,341
[man 3]
Scene 37, take 23.
1860
02:04:59,372 --> 02:05:00,641
[clicks]
1861
02:05:01,774 --> 02:05:03,310
[playful music]
1862
02:05:03,345 --> 02:05:06,047
[audience applauding]
1863
02:05:08,114 --> 02:05:10,886
What if I told you, John,
what many see
1864
02:05:10,917 --> 02:05:15,288
as problems in the world are
actually solutions in transition.
1865
02:05:15,323 --> 02:05:16,824
Is that some kind
of Taoist riddle?
1866
02:05:16,856 --> 02:05:18,694
[audience laughing]
1867
02:05:20,159 --> 02:05:23,332
Poverty, crime, war, disease,
even the ongoing
1868
02:05:23,363 --> 02:05:25,332
destruction of the habitat.
1869
02:05:25,367 --> 02:05:28,101
What if they were
actually productive forces
1870
02:05:28,136 --> 02:05:29,939
assisting a larger end?
1871
02:05:31,037 --> 02:05:33,006
I'd suggest you lighten up
on the Nietzsche.
1872
02:05:33,039 --> 02:05:34,877
[audience laughing]
1873
02:05:37,345 --> 02:05:40,649
What separate us from
the rest of the animal kingdom
1874
02:05:40,680 --> 02:05:44,118
is that we have
no natural predators.
1875
02:05:44,150 --> 02:05:47,988
Nothing out there to snatch us
up for an afternoon snack.
1876
02:05:48,021 --> 02:05:52,726
We're also uniquely aware of
our own mortality and fight it
1877
02:05:52,761 --> 02:05:56,765
with hospitals, medicine,
inoculations.
1878
02:05:56,796 --> 02:05:59,800
Little stopping us
from reproducing
1879
02:05:59,832 --> 02:06:02,336
to the very limit of our host,
1880
02:06:02,368 --> 02:06:04,305
at least not externally.
1881
02:06:04,337 --> 02:06:08,243
Evolution had to do something
a bit different with us.
1882
02:06:09,310 --> 02:06:14,015
So, instead,
we are our own predators.
1883
02:06:15,114 --> 02:06:17,351
Predator and prey in one.
1884
02:06:19,354 --> 02:06:20,387
How convenient.
1885
02:06:20,421 --> 02:06:23,158
[audience laughing]
1886
02:06:23,189 --> 02:06:26,359
Which explains not only
why humans murder each other
1887
02:06:26,394 --> 02:06:30,131
at a rate unparalleled
by any other species,
1888
02:06:30,163 --> 02:06:34,234
but also why we've generated
a social structure
1889
02:06:34,269 --> 02:06:39,908
that by systemic force further
ensures a consistent rate
1890
02:06:39,939 --> 02:06:41,842
of premature mortality.
1891
02:06:43,176 --> 02:06:47,082
- You mean structural violence.
- Embedded into the very design
1892
02:06:47,113 --> 02:06:48,983
of civilization itself.
1893
02:06:50,318 --> 02:06:52,988
So that is what
the Malthusian Mandate does,
1894
02:06:53,020 --> 02:06:54,889
regulate
how to kill off the week.
1895
02:06:55,890 --> 02:06:59,461
No, the Mandate
isn't a policy of action.
1896
02:06:59,493 --> 02:07:02,764
It's a policy of inaction,
a commitment
1897
02:07:02,796 --> 02:07:05,900
not to interfere with the
natural course of the system.
1898
02:07:07,202 --> 02:07:09,869
So the invisible hand
of the market has a machete.
1899
02:07:09,904 --> 02:07:11,939
[audience laughing]
1900
02:07:16,377 --> 02:07:18,244
I don't expect
to win you over, John.
1901
02:07:18,279 --> 02:07:20,213
I'm just telling you
the way it is.
1902
02:07:20,247 --> 02:07:21,817
I agree it's ugly.
1903
02:07:21,850 --> 02:07:23,717
But without the premature death
1904
02:07:23,752 --> 02:07:26,787
that capitalism brings
in the form of inequality
1905
02:07:26,819 --> 02:07:30,091
that planet would have flown
off its access long ago.
1906
02:07:32,894 --> 02:07:33,962
As you know,
1907
02:07:34,962 --> 02:07:37,297
the Industrial Revolution
set in motion
1908
02:07:37,332 --> 02:07:40,735
population growth
that was hyperbolic.
1909
02:07:40,769 --> 02:07:43,805
And out of the 70 million
who now die each year
1910
02:07:43,837 --> 02:07:46,774
30 million do so
because of unequal conditions.
1911
02:07:47,542 --> 02:07:49,211
So 40 percent
of all global deaths
1912
02:07:49,243 --> 02:07:50,779
are structurally inflicted,
1913
02:07:50,810 --> 02:07:52,445
you know,
there's a word for that, Simon.
1914
02:07:52,479 --> 02:07:54,149
Oh, don't be dramatic.
1915
02:07:54,180 --> 02:07:57,251
Again, this is system-level
behavior, John.
1916
02:07:57,283 --> 02:08:00,186
Not some nefarious conspiracy.
1917
02:08:00,220 --> 02:08:02,356
You want to know
what the population would be
1918
02:08:02,390 --> 02:08:03,925
if this wasn't the case?
1919
02:08:03,957 --> 02:08:06,895
If we removed inequality
driven mortality
1920
02:08:06,926 --> 02:08:10,230
for the last 100 years
accounting for fertility,
1921
02:08:10,265 --> 02:08:12,434
about 16 billion
would be sucking up
1922
02:08:12,466 --> 02:08:14,836
resources on that planet today
1923
02:08:14,868 --> 02:08:18,905
with a carrying capacity
still at only ten billion.
1924
02:08:18,939 --> 02:08:21,009
And you think
things are messing now.
1925
02:08:22,341 --> 02:08:24,310
First of all, Simon.
1926
02:08:24,345 --> 02:08:26,980
When the great Reverend
Thomas Malthus decided
1927
02:08:27,015 --> 02:08:29,850
population would forever
outpace resources,
1928
02:08:29,882 --> 02:08:31,520
only one billion existed.
1929
02:08:31,551 --> 02:08:34,890
We're almost ten times that
now despite his projections.
1930
02:08:34,921 --> 02:08:36,222
Second, in the modern era,
1931
02:08:36,256 --> 02:08:37,559
the greatest predictor
of regional
1932
02:08:37,591 --> 02:08:40,028
overpopulation
is poverty itself.
1933
02:08:40,060 --> 02:08:42,898
If the world ever did abolish
it, increasing education,
1934
02:08:42,930 --> 02:08:45,199
population growth
would dramatically slow
1935
02:08:45,231 --> 02:08:47,935
likely approaching equilibrium.
1936
02:08:47,967 --> 02:08:50,404
Your 16 billion number
doesn't account for that.
1937
02:08:50,436 --> 02:08:52,439
And third,
you're completely disregarding
1938
02:08:52,471 --> 02:08:54,475
what the Fullerian study
proved long ago,
1939
02:08:54,507 --> 02:08:56,578
a study sanctioned
by your own department.
1940
02:08:56,609 --> 02:08:59,979
The Fullerian study
was purely theoretical, John.
1941
02:09:00,012 --> 02:09:03,185
A model only possible
if humans magically conform
1942
02:09:03,216 --> 02:09:06,854
to strict sustainability
and efficiency principles.
1943
02:09:06,886 --> 02:09:09,556
It required
a completely egalitarian
1944
02:09:09,591 --> 02:09:12,260
structure
without money and markets.
1945
02:09:12,292 --> 02:09:16,564
A fantasy given once again
the reality of human nature.
1946
02:09:16,596 --> 02:09:19,132
Fantasy or not,
the study was clear.
1947
02:09:19,167 --> 02:09:21,837
Not only can the Earth
hold upwards of 30 billion,
1948
02:09:21,868 --> 02:09:24,270
it can do so with each having
a standard of living equivalent
1949
02:09:24,305 --> 02:09:26,073
to today's upper-middle-class.
1950
02:09:26,105 --> 02:09:29,042
Yeah, again,
assuming equal distribution,
1951
02:09:29,077 --> 02:09:30,543
which is absurd.
1952
02:09:30,578 --> 02:09:32,546
Humans have infinite wants.
1953
02:09:32,578 --> 02:09:35,181
No... they don't.
1954
02:09:35,216 --> 02:09:37,985
Infinite wants
is a value disorder,
1955
02:09:38,019 --> 02:09:41,055
inspired by an economy that needs
infinite consumption to work.
1956
02:09:41,087 --> 02:09:44,158
People are just as prone to be
minimalist as they are materialist.
1957
02:09:44,190 --> 02:09:46,292
Comes down
to the social condition.
1958
02:09:46,327 --> 02:09:49,029
Today, if people didn't have
highly acquisitive values,
1959
02:09:50,029 --> 02:09:51,631
the entire economy
would collapse.
1960
02:09:51,664 --> 02:09:53,967
Fine, believe what you want,
John.
1961
02:09:54,002 --> 02:09:56,037
It's all moot anyway.
1962
02:09:56,069 --> 02:09:58,073
You asked me
what the Malthusian Mandate
1963
02:09:58,104 --> 02:10:00,006
was and I'm telling you.
1964
02:10:00,039 --> 02:10:01,274
Whether you like it or not,
1965
02:10:01,309 --> 02:10:04,244
this is the reality
of things today.
1966
02:10:05,279 --> 02:10:06,413
[buzzing]
1967
02:10:09,382 --> 02:10:10,984
We got Mandate metadata,
1968
02:10:11,019 --> 02:10:12,287
please tell me
this is recording.
1969
02:10:12,319 --> 02:10:13,287
It certainly is.
1970
02:10:14,555 --> 02:10:16,457
Looks like John
got his subterfuge.
1971
02:10:17,556 --> 02:10:19,426
So how's this organized then?
1972
02:10:19,458 --> 02:10:22,962
- Tracking demographics and mechanisms?
- [Simon] We are.
1973
02:10:22,997 --> 02:10:25,199
As you'll notice conditions
related to absolute
1974
02:10:25,231 --> 02:10:27,467
poverty in the third world
countries account
1975
02:10:27,502 --> 02:10:30,305
for about 40 percent
of all premature deaths.
1976
02:10:30,337 --> 02:10:32,338
And I see you're also tracking
poverty related illness
1977
02:10:32,372 --> 02:10:34,475
and violence
in the industrialized nations.
1978
02:10:34,507 --> 02:10:37,578
With heart diseases,
cancer and diabetes
1979
02:10:37,610 --> 02:10:39,180
remaining at the top,
1980
02:10:39,212 --> 02:10:41,347
while suicide,
inner-city gang warfare
1981
02:10:41,381 --> 02:10:44,286
and drug overdoses
coming a close second.
1982
02:10:44,319 --> 02:10:46,421
What about deep
stomach relationships?
1983
02:10:46,453 --> 02:10:48,023
Lack of education,
childhood stress?
1984
02:10:48,055 --> 02:10:50,091
Correlated as well.
1985
02:10:50,122 --> 02:10:52,327
Actually, very consistent.
1986
02:10:52,359 --> 02:10:56,329
Regional cycles of deprivation
are like clockwork.
1987
02:10:56,363 --> 02:11:00,100
Poor families continue
to produce more poor families,
1988
02:11:00,132 --> 02:11:03,238
- even in the richest states.
- And the mechanisms?
1989
02:11:03,270 --> 02:11:06,340
Standard class war stuff.
Only difference now
1990
02:11:06,372 --> 02:11:09,010
is ecological
and climate crisis,
1991
02:11:09,042 --> 02:11:11,179
which has rapidly
increased mortality
1992
02:11:11,212 --> 02:11:14,448
in poverty-stricken desert
and coastal regions.
1993
02:11:14,480 --> 02:11:16,484
But the same story otherwise.
1994
02:11:16,515 --> 02:11:19,052
The rich get richer
with disproportional
1995
02:11:19,087 --> 02:11:20,689
opportunity in capital.
1996
02:11:20,720 --> 02:11:22,256
The political establishment
1997
02:11:22,288 --> 02:11:24,524
favors business
and wealthy interests
1998
02:11:24,559 --> 02:11:26,993
over social support programs,
1999
02:11:27,028 --> 02:11:31,064
and the banking system keeps
a solid stranglehold on social
2000
02:11:31,097 --> 02:11:36,203
mobility by saturating the lower
class in insurmountable debt.
2001
02:11:36,235 --> 02:11:38,137
Same on the global level
2002
02:11:38,171 --> 02:11:40,507
through international
finance institutions,
2003
02:11:40,539 --> 02:11:44,511
structural adjustments,
austerity sanctions.
2004
02:11:44,543 --> 02:11:47,381
In fact,
the financial system is really
2005
02:11:47,413 --> 02:11:50,283
the glue that holds
all this together
2006
02:11:50,318 --> 02:11:52,685
keeping constant
downward pressure
2007
02:11:52,720 --> 02:11:55,288
on the impecunious masses.
2008
02:11:58,693 --> 02:12:01,296
[loud rumbling]
2009
02:12:06,065 --> 02:12:07,636
[robotic buzzing]
2010
02:12:09,537 --> 02:12:11,972
[traffic noises]
2011
02:12:40,766 --> 02:12:44,070
[ominous music]
2012
02:13:11,297 --> 02:13:14,403
[eerie music]
2013
02:13:56,577 --> 02:13:58,279
[ominous music increasing]
2014
02:14:02,882 --> 02:14:07,854
[announcement] Final warning.
Please evacuate proximal region.
2015
02:14:09,155 --> 02:14:12,859
Program will commence in ten,
2016
02:14:12,894 --> 02:14:19,501
nine, eight, seven, six,
2017
02:14:19,533 --> 02:14:22,636
five, four...
2018
02:14:30,377 --> 02:14:32,780
[building rumbles]
2019
02:14:36,551 --> 02:14:39,119
[muffled rumbling]
2020
02:14:44,792 --> 02:14:46,860
[glass shattering]
2021
02:14:57,238 --> 02:14:59,507
[gentle music]
2022
02:15:01,242 --> 02:15:04,511
[Malikan] Centuries ago humans
discovered hydrocarbon energy,
2023
02:15:04,543 --> 02:15:06,881
fossil fuels,
and for a good chunk of time,
2024
02:15:06,912 --> 02:15:10,350
it was a critical mechanism
advancing civilization,
2025
02:15:10,382 --> 02:15:12,386
but after a while
it became obvious that
2026
02:15:12,418 --> 02:15:15,922
its continued use posed
insurmountable repercussions,
2027
02:15:15,957 --> 02:15:17,891
damaging the environment.
2028
02:15:17,925 --> 02:15:20,328
So we eventually had
to stop using it completely,
2029
02:15:20,359 --> 02:15:23,430
figuring out other means.
And this is a good analogy
2030
02:15:23,462 --> 02:15:27,667
as to why we also needed
to transcend that social system.
2031
02:15:27,702 --> 02:15:29,537
I look at capitalism
2032
02:15:29,569 --> 02:15:32,873
as an adolescent stage
in the growth of civilization.
2033
02:15:32,905 --> 02:15:36,542
Let's let loose and have people
be selfish building and creating
2034
02:15:36,577 --> 02:15:40,613
in a belligerent manner
with no regard for consequences.
2035
02:15:40,646 --> 02:15:43,618
And we learned a lot.
I think without this phase,
2036
02:15:43,649 --> 02:15:46,686
we wouldn't have been able
to recognize and amplify
2037
02:15:46,720 --> 02:15:49,623
what really makes us
unique as a species.
2038
02:15:49,655 --> 02:15:52,493
We started as DNA
moving from simplicity
2039
02:15:52,524 --> 02:15:55,796
to complexity evolving
a brain with consciousness,
2040
02:15:55,828 --> 02:15:58,364
while blessed
with a profound social nature,
2041
02:15:58,399 --> 02:16:00,967
merging us into a truly
global consciousness
2042
02:16:01,002 --> 02:16:03,570
continuing this expansion.
2043
02:16:03,604 --> 02:16:06,373
Not through our biology
but through the sharing
2044
02:16:06,405 --> 02:16:09,275
of knowledge,
cultural evolution.
2045
02:16:10,444 --> 02:16:13,614
There was a great library
in a city called Alexandria
2046
02:16:13,646 --> 02:16:16,484
long, long ago, and
it contained some of the most
2047
02:16:16,515 --> 02:16:19,552
foundational texts
of human civilization.
2048
02:16:19,587 --> 02:16:22,323
And sadly
it was destroyed in war.
2049
02:16:22,354 --> 02:16:24,591
Many centuries later,
a famous astronomer named
2050
02:16:24,623 --> 02:16:26,926
Carl Sagan,
commented on the subject,
2051
02:16:38,471 --> 02:16:41,041
So the great question
of scientific and hence,
2052
02:16:41,074 --> 02:16:44,545
economic progress,
inevitably becomes,
2053
02:16:50,518 --> 02:16:53,353
How do we harness
our different talents and skills
2054
02:16:53,386 --> 02:16:55,889
to bring out our best potential,
2055
02:16:55,922 --> 02:16:59,059
not only as individuals,
but as a civilization?
2056
02:16:59,092 --> 02:17:01,328
We know the hardware,
so to speak.
2057
02:17:01,361 --> 02:17:04,298
A finite yet profoundly
regenerative planet
2058
02:17:04,331 --> 02:17:05,998
bound by laws of nature
2059
02:17:06,032 --> 02:17:08,835
with our species part
of a delicate ecosystem
2060
02:17:08,868 --> 02:17:11,038
sharing common ground.
2061
02:17:11,072 --> 02:17:13,674
[Aleniya] The true measure
of economic progress
2062
02:17:13,707 --> 02:17:15,942
is simply doing more with less.
2063
02:17:15,975 --> 02:17:19,780
Efficiency, the ability to build
something for a given purpose
2064
02:17:19,813 --> 02:17:23,416
that is not only better than
what came before it in utility,
2065
02:17:23,450 --> 02:17:26,753
but also better in terms
of reducing the amount of labor,
2066
02:17:26,786 --> 02:17:30,057
energy and resources
required to make it work.
2067
02:17:30,090 --> 02:17:33,826
Which means it all
comes down to design.
2068
02:17:34,795 --> 02:17:36,698
And back to my point
about markets,
2069
02:17:36,730 --> 02:17:39,066
the infrastructure
it created set the groundwork
2070
02:17:39,099 --> 02:17:42,869
for powerful new means
to merge human talent and skill.
2071
02:17:42,902 --> 02:17:46,005
We just needed to remove
the counter-productive aspects.
2072
02:17:46,039 --> 02:17:48,842
And, needless to say,
wasteful human competition,
2073
02:17:48,875 --> 02:17:52,945
proprietary knowledge, and people
motivated to sell things over and over
2074
02:17:52,979 --> 02:17:57,018
to feed a system of infinite
growth wasn't going to work.
2075
02:17:57,050 --> 02:18:00,822
There had to be a way to bridge
minds and solve problems directly,
2076
02:18:00,854 --> 02:18:04,558
not by proxy of market
competition and profit.
2077
02:18:04,591 --> 02:18:06,993
I think the smartest thing
we ever did as a society
2078
02:18:07,027 --> 02:18:11,131
was the adoption of an open
source, shared resource commons.
2079
02:18:11,164 --> 02:18:14,701
It exponentially catapulted
our problem solving creativity.
2080
02:18:14,734 --> 02:18:17,570
We ended corporations,
localized communities,
2081
02:18:17,604 --> 02:18:19,573
and shared all knowledge.
2082
02:18:19,606 --> 02:18:21,408
In fact,
if it wasn't for that move,
2083
02:18:21,441 --> 02:18:23,744
I really don't think we would've
solved the climate crisis
2084
02:18:23,777 --> 02:18:26,445
and all the other ecological
and social problems
2085
02:18:26,479 --> 02:18:28,115
we faced
before the Great Transition.
2086
02:18:29,082 --> 02:18:32,719
I still stand in awe today
at the stunningly productive
2087
02:18:32,752 --> 02:18:35,488
collective design
processes we created,
2088
02:18:35,522 --> 02:18:39,726
where status is driven not by
differential competition for gain,
2089
02:18:39,759 --> 02:18:42,129
but by the degree
of your contribution:
2090
02:18:42,162 --> 02:18:45,031
how dedicated you are
to problem solving and creation,
2091
02:18:45,064 --> 02:18:48,969
working to improve
the fabric of society itself.
2092
02:18:49,002 --> 02:18:52,706
We also realized the true
purpose of a means of production
2093
02:18:52,739 --> 02:18:55,175
based upon automated technology.
2094
02:18:55,208 --> 02:18:57,577
Not as some brute
industrial mechanism
2095
02:18:57,610 --> 02:19:00,480
to produce an endless
stream of arbitrary goods,
2096
02:19:00,513 --> 02:19:04,018
but as a way to free ourselves
from uncreative labor,
2097
02:19:04,050 --> 02:19:07,587
not to mention improving
efficiency and safety.
2098
02:19:07,620 --> 02:19:09,856
And one final
evolution worth noting
2099
02:19:09,889 --> 02:19:12,692
was the removal
of the price system.
2100
02:19:12,725 --> 02:19:15,128
People stuck these numbers
on everything
2101
02:19:15,161 --> 02:19:18,898
that suggested
some kind of earthly value.
2102
02:19:18,932 --> 02:19:22,936
The numbers were a result
of a particularly crude equation
2103
02:19:22,969 --> 02:19:25,472
dealing with the supply
and demand.
2104
02:19:25,505 --> 02:19:27,774
And while the high priests
of the market religion
2105
02:19:27,807 --> 02:19:30,844
saw those price decrees
as the word of God,
2106
02:19:30,877 --> 02:19:34,815
the truth was any price value
determined by market dynamics alone
2107
02:19:34,849 --> 02:19:36,917
was woefully incomplete.
2108
02:19:36,950 --> 02:19:38,852
And the only term to know
in regard to that
2109
02:19:38,885 --> 02:19:41,720
is negative market externality.
2110
02:19:41,754 --> 02:19:45,826
These are cost values unaccounted
for by the market price equation
2111
02:19:45,859 --> 02:19:48,028
related to damage
done by industry.
2112
02:19:48,061 --> 02:19:50,465
For example,
in the early 21st century,
2113
02:19:50,497 --> 02:19:54,835
the running price of hydrocarbon
energy was in a particular range.
2114
02:19:54,868 --> 02:19:57,003
But yet,
there was actually an additional
2115
02:19:57,036 --> 02:20:00,674
5.3 trillion dollars
in cost every year
2116
02:20:00,707 --> 02:20:02,843
as people worked
to clean up the damage
2117
02:20:02,876 --> 02:20:06,012
the use of hydrocarbons
was doing to the planet.
2118
02:20:06,045 --> 02:20:09,950
[Aleniya] Same for the plastics
industry, a serious problem back then.
2119
02:20:09,983 --> 02:20:15,555
It had an externalized cost
of 2.5 trillion dollars a year
2120
02:20:15,588 --> 02:20:17,791
just to clean up the oceans.
2121
02:20:17,824 --> 02:20:19,759
[Malikan]
In fact, if you went back
2122
02:20:19,792 --> 02:20:22,762
and did the accounting
for global industry as a whole
2123
02:20:22,795 --> 02:20:25,498
factoring in these negative
market externalities,
2124
02:20:25,532 --> 02:20:28,568
again, these costs not reflected
in the set prices,
2125
02:20:28,601 --> 02:20:31,570
you would find that
no company on the planet
2126
02:20:31,604 --> 02:20:33,173
was actually even profitable.
2127
02:20:34,073 --> 02:20:37,777
So, of course today we have a very
different system of accounting.
2128
02:20:37,810 --> 02:20:42,182
We know almost exactly what's happening
or could happen in downstream effects
2129
02:20:42,215 --> 02:20:46,685
and we improve our total system efficiency
every single year because of it.
2130
02:20:46,719 --> 02:20:49,189
It's a true economy,
in other words.
2131
02:20:50,256 --> 02:20:53,727
[Vivian] And all of this creates a
very different social atmosphere.
2132
02:20:53,760 --> 02:20:56,296
Today our incentives
are aligned.
2133
02:20:56,329 --> 02:20:58,865
No one cuts corners,
there's no reason to.
2134
02:20:58,898 --> 02:21:01,067
No one is trying
to improve some bottom line
2135
02:21:01,100 --> 02:21:03,637
by disregarding
our ecological stewardship
2136
02:21:03,670 --> 02:21:05,772
or the well-being of others.
2137
02:21:05,805 --> 02:21:07,907
We finally got it right.
2138
02:21:07,941 --> 02:21:09,743
[Aleniya] And I compare
the footage of the way
2139
02:21:09,777 --> 02:21:13,079
people behaved back then
to the way they do now.
2140
02:21:13,112 --> 02:21:17,885
It's an astounding amount of pride
and community, meaning and purpose.
2141
02:21:17,917 --> 02:21:20,654
They don't feel alone.
2142
02:21:20,688 --> 02:21:24,058
They know they have support,
not just from their friends and family,
2143
02:21:24,090 --> 02:21:27,293
but from the very design
of the social system itself,
2144
02:21:28,261 --> 02:21:30,730
a system designed
to actually care.
2145
02:21:33,233 --> 02:21:34,135
Imagine that.
2146
02:21:37,136 --> 02:21:39,172
[loud traffic]
2147
02:21:47,013 --> 02:21:48,048
[horn faintly honks]
2148
02:21:54,220 --> 02:21:56,222
[horn honking loudly]
2149
02:21:56,255 --> 02:21:58,292
[train softly rattling]
2150
02:22:37,997 --> 02:22:40,033
[train rattles loudly]
2151
02:22:45,171 --> 02:22:46,707
[rattling stops]
2152
02:22:50,076 --> 02:22:52,813
[soft gentle music]
2153
02:23:05,091 --> 02:23:07,127
[men speaking indistinctively]
2154
02:23:45,364 --> 02:23:47,869
[man speaking
with distorted voice]
2155
02:23:56,876 --> 02:23:59,379
[man speaking
with distorted voice]
2156
02:24:19,899 --> 02:24:21,334
[softly scoffs]
2157
02:24:21,367 --> 02:24:23,302
The low polygon people are here.
2158
02:24:27,807 --> 02:24:28,875
[sighs]
2159
02:24:30,243 --> 02:24:33,113
- I wish they'd go back to their own resolution.
- [softly chuckles]
2160
02:24:45,792 --> 02:24:47,828
[distorted chat continues]
2161
02:25:09,182 --> 02:25:11,218
[gentle music]
2162
02:25:58,531 --> 02:25:59,432
[loud whoosh]
2163
02:25:59,465 --> 02:26:01,501
[ominous music]
2164
02:26:10,576 --> 02:26:13,413
How are you still standing?
What is that your tenth drink?
2165
02:26:19,318 --> 02:26:20,220
[joyful sigh]
2166
02:26:21,654 --> 02:26:22,855
Apple juice.
2167
02:26:22,889 --> 02:26:25,058
[loud beeps]
2168
02:26:25,091 --> 02:26:26,126
What's that?
2169
02:26:27,627 --> 02:26:30,496
That is a breach alarm.
2170
02:26:30,529 --> 02:26:33,399
[clicks tongue] Looks like Orion
is continuing through our security.
2171
02:26:34,367 --> 02:26:37,436
And on that note, John,
I need to know your intent.
2172
02:26:37,470 --> 02:26:41,307
I've explained the Mandate and how
it's far bigger than both of us.
2173
02:26:41,340 --> 02:26:44,042
Policy of inaction is still
a policy of action, Simon.
2174
02:26:44,076 --> 02:26:46,346
Well, if you'd like,
we could continue
2175
02:26:46,379 --> 02:26:48,414
this colorful debate
another time.
2176
02:26:48,447 --> 02:26:50,851
Assuming you're willing
to assist us here now.
2177
02:26:53,420 --> 02:26:56,190
Signal source,
what are the regional markers?
2178
02:26:58,925 --> 02:27:01,127
- Well...
- [high beeps]
2179
02:27:01,161 --> 02:27:02,595
...that's part of the problem.
2180
02:27:02,628 --> 02:27:04,463
The best we have
is a desert region
2181
02:27:04,497 --> 02:27:05,932
on the west side
of North America
2182
02:27:05,965 --> 02:27:08,067
about 10,000 square miles.
2183
02:27:08,100 --> 02:27:10,403
It's not too horrible.
I assume your satellites
2184
02:27:10,436 --> 02:27:12,206
have been scanning
more remote terrain.
2185
02:27:12,238 --> 02:27:15,242
Of course, nothing out
of the ordinary has been seen.
2186
02:27:15,274 --> 02:27:18,279
What about surveillance gaps?
Are the satellite passes seamless?
2187
02:27:18,311 --> 02:27:21,448
For the most part,
there are some periodic latitudinal gaps,
2188
02:27:21,480 --> 02:27:23,516
but they only last a few hours.
2189
02:27:23,549 --> 02:27:26,586
Is it possible Orion is aware
of them? Exploiting them?
2190
02:27:28,621 --> 02:27:31,224
- That's what I'd do.
- I suppose,
2191
02:27:31,257 --> 02:27:32,692
but highly unlikely.
2192
02:27:32,725 --> 02:27:34,627
They would have
to already be in our system
2193
02:27:34,661 --> 02:27:36,297
to know the trajectories.
2194
02:27:37,263 --> 02:27:38,331
Show me the gaps.
2195
02:27:41,600 --> 02:27:42,636
You want my help or not?
2196
02:27:45,438 --> 02:27:46,539
[high pitched whirring]
2197
02:27:46,572 --> 02:27:47,474
[sharp beep]
2198
02:27:50,743 --> 02:27:52,211
Zoom into the area in question.
2199
02:27:52,244 --> 02:27:53,179
[high pitched whirring]
2200
02:27:54,347 --> 02:27:55,582
Perfect.
2201
02:27:55,614 --> 02:27:57,183
Hold it right there, John.
2202
02:27:58,684 --> 02:28:01,220
We've already conducted
sub sonar scans.
2203
02:28:01,253 --> 02:28:04,489
If they're underground, they're
using some kind of reflective shield.
2204
02:28:04,523 --> 02:28:06,292
But what I think
would be best for you
2205
02:28:06,325 --> 02:28:08,427
is to analyze
the signal code itself,
2206
02:28:08,461 --> 02:28:10,363
see if you can find a signature.
2207
02:28:14,433 --> 02:28:15,435
[Simon]
John?
2208
02:28:16,569 --> 02:28:19,172
Yeah, sorry,
I was just thinking.
2209
02:28:20,406 --> 02:28:24,177
Hey, remember that Aqua Terraformation
project we worked on years ago?
2210
02:28:24,210 --> 02:28:25,645
[soft tense music]
2211
02:28:25,679 --> 02:28:27,715
Sounds like you need
to get some sleep.
2212
02:28:27,747 --> 02:28:30,083
Your attention span is going.
2213
02:28:30,115 --> 02:28:32,118
- And of course...
- [high beeps]
2214
02:28:32,152 --> 02:28:36,457
...how can I forget?
Ionized nanotech pop-up islands
2215
02:28:36,489 --> 02:28:37,523
from seawater.
2216
02:28:37,556 --> 02:28:39,759
Too bad it never worked.
2217
02:28:39,792 --> 02:28:41,594
We could've extended populations
2218
02:28:41,627 --> 02:28:44,063
into the ocean,
free up some space.
2219
02:28:44,096 --> 02:28:44,998
Yeah.
2220
02:28:45,965 --> 02:28:48,334
What other ambitious
stuff did we work on?
2221
02:28:48,367 --> 02:28:49,702
Those were some exciting times.
2222
02:28:51,037 --> 02:28:52,305
Remember TRD Hollow Cloak?
2223
02:28:52,338 --> 02:28:54,074
Huh!
2224
02:28:54,106 --> 02:28:55,509
A sci-fi classic.
2225
02:28:55,541 --> 02:28:58,078
Tactile remote drone hologram.
2226
02:28:59,111 --> 02:29:01,481
We played with that
for a while here,
2227
02:29:01,514 --> 02:29:03,016
but proved impossible,
2228
02:29:03,049 --> 02:29:05,351
light just can't
merge like that.
2229
02:29:05,384 --> 02:29:07,319
Yeah. Too bad.
2230
02:29:08,454 --> 02:29:12,025
Lots of uses for a fully controlled
remote tactile human hologram.
2231
02:29:13,225 --> 02:29:15,261
[upbeat tense music]
2232
02:29:20,166 --> 02:29:22,202
[high pitched whirring]
2233
02:29:23,235 --> 02:29:25,505
[sharp thuds]
2234
02:29:35,347 --> 02:29:37,385
[high pitched whirring]
2235
02:29:39,218 --> 02:29:40,120
Cool, huh?
2236
02:29:46,525 --> 02:29:48,361
And it's at this juncture,
Simon,
2237
02:29:48,394 --> 02:29:49,728
I'm afraid I have
to deliver some kind
2238
02:29:49,762 --> 02:29:51,596
of protagonistical declaration
2239
02:29:51,630 --> 02:29:53,500
of moral superiority
2240
02:29:53,532 --> 02:29:56,336
to indicate the philosophical
error of your ways.
2241
02:29:57,470 --> 02:29:58,305
So here it goes.
2242
02:30:00,139 --> 02:30:02,742
Those that seek
to create in this world,
2243
02:30:02,775 --> 02:30:06,112
those who embrace change
as a natural force,
2244
02:30:06,145 --> 02:30:09,449
helping to unify
humankind as one entity
2245
02:30:09,483 --> 02:30:11,417
in one shared direction,
2246
02:30:11,450 --> 02:30:13,753
realizing
that injustice anywhere
2247
02:30:13,786 --> 02:30:15,388
is injustice everywhere,
2248
02:30:16,456 --> 02:30:20,159
will always be one step ahead
of the traditionalists,
2249
02:30:20,192 --> 02:30:22,662
the preservers, the elitists,
2250
02:30:22,695 --> 02:30:26,733
who, in defense of their separatist
identities and egoist fears,
2251
02:30:26,765 --> 02:30:32,138
seek to divide, conquer,
oppress and destroy.
2252
02:30:33,206 --> 02:30:36,175
The pursuit of livingry
will always be one step ahead
2253
02:30:36,208 --> 02:30:37,409
of the pursuit of weaponry.
2254
02:30:40,613 --> 02:30:43,617
Orion doesn't exist, does it?
2255
02:30:43,649 --> 02:30:45,385
Nope.
2256
02:30:45,417 --> 02:30:47,220
We just put a virus
in your firewall.
2257
02:30:48,420 --> 02:30:50,755
Why?
What's the point of all of this?
2258
02:30:50,789 --> 02:30:52,525
To expose the Mandate,
of course,
2259
02:30:52,558 --> 02:30:53,593
which will be leaked shortly
2260
02:30:53,626 --> 02:30:54,659
to every major news network.
2261
02:30:54,693 --> 02:30:55,828
[chuckles]
2262
02:30:55,861 --> 02:30:58,898
Oh, seriously, that's it?
2263
02:30:58,931 --> 02:31:01,900
You think we can't absorb that?
2264
02:31:01,934 --> 02:31:04,537
That we haven't perfected
endless ways
2265
02:31:04,570 --> 02:31:07,708
to deflate and confuse
public perception when needed?
2266
02:31:07,740 --> 02:31:10,511
Well, then I guess
you have nothing to worry about.
2267
02:31:11,477 --> 02:31:12,545
See you around, Simon.
2268
02:31:13,479 --> 02:31:14,413
[loud whoosh]
2269
02:31:14,447 --> 02:31:16,484
[high pitched beeps]
2270
02:31:28,427 --> 02:31:32,199
- Hey, token white guy is back!
- [chuckles] Shut up.
2271
02:31:32,231 --> 02:31:33,933
All right, folks.
We don't have much time.
2272
02:31:33,966 --> 02:31:35,902
I don't think he's going
to buy that story for long.
2273
02:31:35,935 --> 02:31:37,671
How're we doing?
2274
02:31:37,703 --> 02:31:40,306
Satellite coordinates locked,
everything's ready.
2275
02:31:40,340 --> 02:31:42,876
But keep in mind,
even with bypassing your surveillance,
2276
02:31:42,908 --> 02:31:45,511
once this thing hits, the heat
signature is going to be out of control.
2277
02:31:45,545 --> 02:31:47,681
That's what
the subterfuge is for.
2278
02:31:47,713 --> 02:31:50,217
- Mandate leak on the blockchain yet?
- [woman 2] Packaging now.
2279
02:31:50,250 --> 02:31:52,585
Should be in the hands of every major
media outlet in about 20 minutes.
2280
02:31:52,618 --> 02:31:54,487
Good.
2281
02:31:54,520 --> 02:31:56,889
Don't forget to show
Simon's stupid face.
2282
02:31:56,922 --> 02:32:00,426
So this is it folks. We have a clear
path avoiding GSA surveillance.
2283
02:32:00,459 --> 02:32:02,427
Once the Mandate exposure
hits the press,
2284
02:32:02,461 --> 02:32:04,698
Simon and company
will be in damage control,
2285
02:32:04,730 --> 02:32:06,634
hopefully long enough
so we can pull this off.
2286
02:32:07,833 --> 02:32:08,868
Anybody need anything?
2287
02:32:08,902 --> 02:32:10,336
- Music.
- Music.
2288
02:32:10,369 --> 02:32:11,738
- Music.
- Music.
2289
02:32:13,239 --> 02:32:13,940
You got it.
2290
02:32:13,974 --> 02:32:16,209
[drum beats]
2291
02:32:20,512 --> 02:32:22,548
[mechanical whirring starts]
2292
02:32:22,581 --> 02:32:24,617
[helicopter blades buzz]
2293
02:32:25,718 --> 02:32:28,254
[cheerful instrumental music]
2294
02:32:31,390 --> 02:32:33,426
[helicopter blades buzz loudly]
2295
02:32:55,014 --> 02:32:57,251
[singing opera]
2296
02:33:41,493 --> 02:33:44,030
- [loud whirring]
- [loud laughs]
2297
02:33:44,063 --> 02:33:46,332
[claps][director]
All right, everybody, come on.
2298
02:33:46,365 --> 02:33:48,801
We got... we got to finish
this goddamn movie already.
2299
02:33:48,834 --> 02:33:51,737
Left. Right. Left.
2300
02:33:51,770 --> 02:33:52,971
[loud whirring]
2301
02:33:53,005 --> 02:33:55,041
[singing opera]
2302
02:34:06,352 --> 02:34:07,887
[muffled explosion]
2303
02:34:07,920 --> 02:34:09,822
[sharp whoosh]
2304
02:34:24,536 --> 02:34:26,539
Responding
to this new leak by Concordia,
2305
02:34:26,572 --> 02:34:28,708
purporting to reveal
a policy of neglect,
2306
02:34:28,740 --> 02:34:30,408
where the death
of millions in poverty
2307
02:34:30,442 --> 02:34:31,944
was deliberately accentuated
2308
02:34:31,977 --> 02:34:34,347
by International Trade policy.
2309
02:34:34,380 --> 02:34:36,415
Leaked documents even include
what appears to be
2310
02:34:36,448 --> 02:34:38,985
a video of GSA's current head,
Simon Devoe.
2311
02:34:47,393 --> 02:34:48,727
Don't look at me like that.
2312
02:34:48,761 --> 02:34:51,363
Standard operating procedure,
folks.
2313
02:34:51,397 --> 02:34:54,500
Get your media agents out there
and start changing the narrative.
2314
02:34:54,533 --> 02:34:56,569
[instrumental music continues]
2315
02:34:56,602 --> 02:34:57,936
[water splashes]
2316
02:35:04,476 --> 02:35:05,978
Sir.
2317
02:35:06,011 --> 02:35:07,880
[radar beeps]
2318
02:35:07,913 --> 02:35:09,648
- What is it?
- I don't know.
2319
02:35:09,681 --> 02:35:12,485
We don't have visual coverage
in that region yet.
2320
02:35:12,518 --> 02:35:13,452
Send the drones.
2321
02:35:14,420 --> 02:35:16,655
[high pitched whoosh]
2322
02:35:16,688 --> 02:35:18,725
[water splashes]
2323
02:35:29,067 --> 02:35:30,770
Holy shit, it worked.
2324
02:35:30,804 --> 02:35:32,406
Shall we alert the base?
2325
02:35:32,438 --> 02:35:33,138
Indeed.
2326
02:35:34,072 --> 02:35:35,574
The migration begins.
2327
02:35:35,608 --> 02:35:37,644
[hologram buzzes]
2328
02:35:38,777 --> 02:35:40,879
[man 1]
It's an artificial island, Sir,
2329
02:35:40,913 --> 02:35:44,750
in the Pacific, about 700 miles
off the coast of North America.
2330
02:35:44,783 --> 02:35:45,685
[Simon sighs]
2331
02:35:46,786 --> 02:35:49,456
Holy shit, it worked.
2332
02:35:50,722 --> 02:35:52,592
[man 2]
Scramble fighters to destroy it?
2333
02:35:52,625 --> 02:35:55,796
No. See this?
2334
02:35:55,828 --> 02:35:59,466
It's a plasma congealed
electromagnetic field,
2335
02:35:59,498 --> 02:36:01,735
- impenetrable.
- [man 1] How do you know that?
2336
02:36:02,734 --> 02:36:04,504
Because I know the creator.
2337
02:36:07,539 --> 02:36:09,007
And sing.
2338
02:36:09,041 --> 02:36:10,644
[music ends]
2339
02:36:19,184 --> 02:36:21,421
[water splashing]
2340
02:36:36,768 --> 02:36:39,237
[reporter] So, we've just arrived
at the colony of Concordia,
2341
02:36:39,271 --> 02:36:41,040
where almost
a million people have migrated
2342
02:36:41,073 --> 02:36:43,876
to basically get away
from the rest of the world.
2343
02:36:43,909 --> 02:36:46,546
We are the first press
allowed in,
2344
02:36:46,578 --> 02:36:48,514
waiting to meet our guide.
2345
02:36:50,682 --> 02:36:53,185
- Hi, I'm Elnoria.
- Nice to meet you.
2346
02:36:53,218 --> 02:36:54,753
Thank you for having us.
2347
02:36:54,786 --> 02:36:56,188
I suggest we move
to the city center,
2348
02:36:56,221 --> 02:36:57,958
start our tour from there.
2349
02:36:57,990 --> 02:37:00,127
- [softly] You can cut.
- [soft electronical buzz]
2350
02:37:06,099 --> 02:37:08,235
So, there's been a lot
of speculation on the mainland
2351
02:37:08,268 --> 02:37:10,102
about what goes on here.
2352
02:37:10,135 --> 02:37:12,905
You're depicted
as some kind of a cult.
2353
02:37:12,938 --> 02:37:14,739
Claims of human right abuses,
2354
02:37:14,773 --> 02:37:17,843
and your media is being
censored pretty aggressively.
2355
02:37:17,876 --> 02:37:20,045
Well, that's why you're here.
2356
02:37:20,078 --> 02:37:22,615
This island wasn't created
to escape the world,
2357
02:37:22,648 --> 02:37:26,085
it was created to set
an example to change the world,
2358
02:37:26,118 --> 02:37:29,822
show what's actually possible if
humankind decided to work together.
2359
02:37:29,855 --> 02:37:32,057
So,
where would you like to start?
2360
02:37:32,090 --> 02:37:33,959
I guess technicals.
2361
02:37:33,992 --> 02:37:35,528
How are you powering this place?
2362
02:37:36,595 --> 02:37:38,864
[Elnoria]
Mixed renewable integration.
2363
02:37:38,897 --> 02:37:42,801
The island's core baseload
systems are solar, wind and ocean,
2364
02:37:42,834 --> 02:37:44,936
while localized
kinetic energy capture,
2365
02:37:44,970 --> 02:37:46,706
mixed use, reuse mechanisms,
2366
02:37:46,738 --> 02:37:48,774
are designed
into most everything.
2367
02:37:48,807 --> 02:37:50,109
[reporter]
Like footsteps?
2368
02:37:50,143 --> 02:37:52,045
[Elnoria]
Footsteps, vehicle motion,
2369
02:37:52,077 --> 02:37:55,981
pipe flows, anything that moves,
we recapture.
2370
02:37:56,014 --> 02:37:58,217
We're at about 5,000
percent efficiency,
2371
02:37:58,250 --> 02:38:00,718
more energy than we know
what to do with.
2372
02:38:00,752 --> 02:38:02,220
That's insane.
2373
02:38:02,254 --> 02:38:03,789
Not really.
2374
02:38:03,822 --> 02:38:04,989
The earth is, in effect,
2375
02:38:05,023 --> 02:38:06,893
a perpetual motion machine.
2376
02:38:06,925 --> 02:38:09,796
You people on the mainland
could easily do the same thing,
2377
02:38:09,828 --> 02:38:13,833
but your economic system simply isn't
conducive to integrative design.
2378
02:38:13,865 --> 02:38:17,069
Speaking of which, let's head to the
development center around the corner.
2379
02:38:17,102 --> 02:38:18,037
Okay.
2380
02:38:24,042 --> 02:38:26,112
This is one
of our design facilities.
2381
02:38:27,245 --> 02:38:29,949
Okay. Like an office.
2382
02:38:31,216 --> 02:38:32,752
So these people are employed.
2383
02:38:34,386 --> 02:38:37,890
[Elnoria] Employed. Um, I suppose in the
most technical sense of the word, sure.
2384
02:38:37,923 --> 02:38:39,992
But we have
no systemic slavery here.
2385
02:38:40,025 --> 02:38:43,095
No one is coerced to submit
for their basic survival,
2386
02:38:43,128 --> 02:38:45,631
something I suspect might be
very foreign to you.
2387
02:38:46,865 --> 02:38:49,269
But everyone needs
to do something, right?
2388
02:38:49,301 --> 02:38:53,105
So how do you network skills,
organized trade, markets?
2389
02:38:53,138 --> 02:38:54,807
[Elnoria]
There is no trade.
2390
02:38:54,840 --> 02:38:57,809
There are no markets.
There is no currency.
2391
02:38:57,843 --> 02:39:00,713
Those who wish to contribute do
so through collaborative design
2392
02:39:00,746 --> 02:39:02,915
in an open source environment.
2393
02:39:02,948 --> 02:39:05,618
What you think of as industries
of production on the mainland
2394
02:39:05,652 --> 02:39:06,920
is unified here.
2395
02:39:06,952 --> 02:39:08,120
Wait, I don't understand.
2396
02:39:09,322 --> 02:39:11,123
These people are
not paid to be here?
2397
02:39:12,924 --> 02:39:14,326
How are they motivated?
2398
02:39:14,359 --> 02:39:16,629
Well, how is anyone motivated?
2399
02:39:16,662 --> 02:39:19,298
Do you need to get paid to get
out of bed in the morning?
2400
02:39:19,331 --> 02:39:21,666
Do you need to be paid
to ensure your own health,
2401
02:39:21,700 --> 02:39:24,003
the health of your family
and friends?
2402
02:39:24,036 --> 02:39:27,906
Paid to show stewardship for the
habitat and society that supports you?
2403
02:39:27,939 --> 02:39:31,243
- How about innovation?
- Innovation to what end?
2404
02:39:31,277 --> 02:39:35,048
To create something to improve
life and experience?
2405
02:39:35,081 --> 02:39:36,750
Or to create something to sell?
2406
02:39:38,317 --> 02:39:42,087
If you think about it, it has been the
blind economic drive toward innovation,
2407
02:39:42,120 --> 02:39:44,423
as you know it, that continues
to lead your society
2408
02:39:44,456 --> 02:39:46,924
- to destruction
- Okay, then. [sighs]
2409
02:39:46,958 --> 02:39:49,161
Once these people have
designed something, then what?
2410
02:39:50,128 --> 02:39:51,897
[Elnoria] If a design
meets proper criteria
2411
02:39:51,930 --> 02:39:54,766
in terms of efficiency
and sustainability protocols,
2412
02:39:54,800 --> 02:39:58,837
it is then accessible by our mostly
additive manufacturing system.
2413
02:39:58,870 --> 02:40:01,173
[reporter]
Additive? 3D printers?
2414
02:40:01,206 --> 02:40:03,976
[Elnoria] Which have been perfected
to a degree where modular arrays
2415
02:40:04,009 --> 02:40:07,680
can produce most anything conceived
of with traditional material.
2416
02:40:07,713 --> 02:40:09,750
[gentle whimsical music]
2417
02:40:11,115 --> 02:40:13,284
And by the way,
there's no waste here.
2418
02:40:13,318 --> 02:40:16,021
Our AI designed filters won't
allow production of any item
2419
02:40:16,054 --> 02:40:18,156
that isn't 100% regenerative.
2420
02:40:20,158 --> 02:40:21,960
Sorry, I'm speechless.
2421
02:40:21,993 --> 02:40:23,229
If what you say is true,
2422
02:40:24,162 --> 02:40:25,730
you've actually done it.
2423
02:40:25,764 --> 02:40:26,799
Done what?
2424
02:40:26,832 --> 02:40:28,233
You've created Utopia.
2425
02:40:28,266 --> 02:40:29,835
[Elnoria chuckles]
2426
02:40:29,868 --> 02:40:31,904
If you want to sound
like an idiot, sure.
2427
02:40:32,904 --> 02:40:37,009
This isn't Utopia, friend.
It's simply pragmatic design.
2428
02:40:37,042 --> 02:40:39,813
Come, let me now show you
our democratic system,
2429
02:40:39,845 --> 02:40:42,014
how we use direct democracy
to eliminate politicians
2430
02:40:42,047 --> 02:40:43,381
and control problems.
2431
02:40:43,415 --> 02:40:45,417
[reporter]
What? No elections?
2432
02:40:45,450 --> 02:40:48,052
- No goons?
- [Elnoria] God, no.
2433
02:40:48,086 --> 02:40:51,256
[reporter] Whoa. So...
so where do I sign up?
2434
02:40:51,289 --> 02:40:53,325
I want to join your cult
as soon as possible.
2435
02:40:53,358 --> 02:40:55,927
- [Elnoria chuckles] I'll see what I can do.
- Please.
2436
02:40:55,961 --> 02:40:57,796
I don't know
if I can take much more.
2437
02:40:57,829 --> 02:40:58,998
[soft chuckles]
2438
02:41:00,432 --> 02:41:02,334
[director] So, I'm afraid we're going
to have to wrap this up for now,
2439
02:41:02,367 --> 02:41:04,269
but a... as we discussed,
I will be back
2440
02:41:04,302 --> 02:41:06,306
for the second part
of this interview fairly soon,
2441
02:41:06,338 --> 02:41:09,242
uh, specifically to discuss
the colony of Concordia
2442
02:41:09,274 --> 02:41:11,411
and their historical influence.
2443
02:41:11,443 --> 02:41:14,513
Sure. So what's the name
of the documentary?
2444
02:41:14,546 --> 02:41:16,347
[director]
InterReflections.
2445
02:41:16,381 --> 02:41:18,350
- Interesting.
- But before we end,
2446
02:41:18,384 --> 02:41:20,052
I have a rather strange request.
2447
02:41:21,820 --> 02:41:26,126
If you could address those
vulnerable, confused souls,
2448
02:41:26,158 --> 02:41:27,761
you know,
before the Great Transition,
2449
02:41:27,793 --> 02:41:28,895
given, as you put it earlier,
2450
02:41:28,927 --> 02:41:30,463
we barely made it at all,
2451
02:41:32,030 --> 02:41:33,199
what would you say to them?
2452
02:41:34,332 --> 02:41:36,836
Wow, that is a strange request.
2453
02:41:37,836 --> 02:41:38,805
Hm.
2454
02:41:39,671 --> 02:41:41,840
I think I would
paraphrase the words
2455
02:41:41,873 --> 02:41:43,542
of a notable
civil rights activist
2456
02:41:43,575 --> 02:41:46,979
from the mid-20th century
named Bayard Rustin.
2457
02:41:50,916 --> 02:41:51,885
And he said,
2458
02:41:54,286 --> 02:41:55,387
"You are all one.
2459
02:41:56,654 --> 02:42:00,926
And if you don't know it, you're
going to find out the hard way."
2460
02:42:00,959 --> 02:42:03,329
[upbeat music]
2461
02:42:06,364 --> 02:42:08,934
♪ It's a bacchanalia ♪
2462
02:42:08,967 --> 02:42:11,302
♪ It's a cornucopia ♪
2463
02:42:11,336 --> 02:42:13,272
♪ Champagne and a caviar ♪
2464
02:42:13,305 --> 02:42:16,208
♪ What else is there? ♪
2465
02:42:16,240 --> 02:42:18,543
♪ Swimming pool
and fancy yacht ♪
2466
02:42:18,577 --> 02:42:21,246
♪ Vacation
in the south of France ♪
2467
02:42:21,279 --> 02:42:23,182
♪ You got anything you want ♪
2468
02:42:23,215 --> 02:42:25,584
♪ What else is there? ♪
2469
02:42:25,617 --> 02:42:28,153
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2470
02:42:28,186 --> 02:42:30,557
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2471
02:42:30,590 --> 02:42:33,292
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2472
02:42:33,325 --> 02:42:35,460
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2473
02:42:35,493 --> 02:42:38,063
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2474
02:42:38,096 --> 02:42:40,432
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2475
02:42:40,465 --> 02:42:43,268
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2476
02:42:43,301 --> 02:42:45,404
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2477
02:42:51,009 --> 02:42:53,177
♪ Your company
has rising stock ♪
2478
02:42:53,211 --> 02:42:55,582
♪ Cheaper labor
in the eastern block ♪
2479
02:42:55,614 --> 02:42:57,916
♪ No complaining
in the sweat shop ♪
2480
02:42:57,949 --> 02:43:00,551
♪ What else is there? ♪
2481
02:43:00,585 --> 02:43:03,088
♪ Making deals
in the back room ♪
2482
02:43:03,121 --> 02:43:05,457
♪ If you don't like it
you can change the rules ♪
2483
02:43:05,490 --> 02:43:07,559
♪ Thank your friends
in the Legislature ♪
2484
02:43:07,592 --> 02:43:10,194
♪ What else is there? ♪
2485
02:43:10,228 --> 02:43:12,631
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2486
02:43:12,664 --> 02:43:15,100
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2487
02:43:15,134 --> 02:43:17,970
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2488
02:43:18,003 --> 02:43:20,105
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2489
02:43:20,138 --> 02:43:22,474
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2490
02:43:22,507 --> 02:43:25,043
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2491
02:43:25,076 --> 02:43:27,880
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2492
02:43:27,913 --> 02:43:29,981
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2493
02:43:49,334 --> 02:43:51,370
[crowd claps and cheers]
2494
02:43:57,475 --> 02:44:00,012
♪ Never felt
like we had enough ♪
2495
02:44:00,045 --> 02:44:02,346
♪ Welfare check
don't buy much ♪
2496
02:44:02,380 --> 02:44:04,583
♪ I started working
from eight on up ♪
2497
02:44:04,615 --> 02:44:07,451
♪ What else is there? ♪
2498
02:44:07,485 --> 02:44:09,922
♪ I know when I look at you ♪
2499
02:44:09,956 --> 02:44:12,325
♪ You got feelings like I do ♪
2500
02:44:12,358 --> 02:44:14,459
♪ Can we go
by the golden rule? ♪
2501
02:44:14,492 --> 02:44:17,061
♪ What else is there? ♪
2502
02:44:17,095 --> 02:44:19,431
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2503
02:44:19,465 --> 02:44:22,034
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2504
02:44:22,067 --> 02:44:24,670
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2505
02:44:24,703 --> 02:44:27,005
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2506
02:44:27,038 --> 02:44:29,373
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2507
02:44:29,407 --> 02:44:31,944
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2508
02:44:31,977 --> 02:44:34,579
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2509
02:44:34,612 --> 02:44:36,682
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2510
02:44:36,715 --> 02:44:39,251
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2511
02:44:39,284 --> 02:44:41,620
- ♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
- ♪ Help somebody ♪
2512
02:44:41,653 --> 02:44:44,488
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2513
02:44:44,522 --> 02:44:46,558
- ♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
- ♪ Help somebody ♪
2514
02:44:46,591 --> 02:44:49,193
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2515
02:44:49,227 --> 02:44:51,563
- ♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
- ♪ Help somebody ♪
2516
02:44:51,596 --> 02:44:54,433
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2517
02:44:54,466 --> 02:44:57,702
- ♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
- ♪ Help somebody ♪
2518
02:44:57,736 --> 02:44:58,938
[music faints]
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