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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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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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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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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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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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And it appears Simon
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wants to gloat about it.
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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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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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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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So, can I get you
anything before we get started?
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I think I'm good.
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Alright,
feel free to take a seat.
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How we doing on tech?
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- Almost there?
- 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.
- Speed.
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And rolling.
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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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That's a good question.
I guess time will tell.
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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?
- At me.
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- Got it.
- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Now, all that said,
it's important to consider...
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You have meddled
with the primal forces
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of nature, Mr. Beale.
365
00:29:34,221 --> 00:29:38,126
And you will atone.
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00:29:41,595 --> 00:29:43,064
It's been a long time, Simon.
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00:29:43,097 --> 00:29:44,598
So, the reason
you're here with me
368
00:29:44,632 --> 00:29:47,435
and not in some vassal
state being tortured
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00:29:47,467 --> 00:29:50,337
is because the GSA
needs your help.
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00:29:50,370 --> 00:29:53,340
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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Orion.
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That's right. Orion.
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00:30:01,048 --> 00:30:02,884
We have been tracking them
for years.
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00:30:02,916 --> 00:30:04,184
Luddite anarchists.
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They want to return civilization
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00:30:05,485 --> 00:30:07,354
to the Stone Age.
378
00:30:07,387 --> 00:30:09,624
We figure if they continue
their rate of progress,
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00:30:09,656 --> 00:30:12,460
we only have a few weeks
before they breach.
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- Taking control of our systems.
- That'd be bad.
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00:30:15,162 --> 00:30:18,266
Hence our priorities.
As aggravating as your little
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00:30:18,299 --> 00:30:22,237
Concordia project has been,
you were never this distasteful.
383
00:30:23,303 --> 00:30:26,206
You do realize
that even if Orion is stopped,
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00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,209
another insurgency,
likely more malicious,
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00:30:28,242 --> 00:30:29,911
is just around the corner,
right?
386
00:30:31,444 --> 00:30:33,179
- Your point?
- My point
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00:30:33,213 --> 00:30:35,383
is one way to measure
the integrity of a society
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00:30:35,415 --> 00:30:37,451
is by how many outliers
it creates.
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00:30:37,483 --> 00:30:40,521
Violent criminals, inner-city
gangs, serial killers,
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mass murderers, terrorists,
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00:30:42,388 --> 00:30:45,959
to now this lovely hacker
dystopia you've inspired.
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00:30:45,992 --> 00:30:47,928
You have a systemic problem,
Simon,
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00:30:47,962 --> 00:30:49,430
and it's only going to grow.
394
00:30:50,630 --> 00:30:52,666
You're looking
through the wrong lens, John.
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00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:54,936
And unlike the past,
the outliers now
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00:30:54,969 --> 00:30:56,971
have exponentially
advancing technology.
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00:30:57,003 --> 00:31:00,340
Some disgruntled kid fashioning
a Molotov cocktail years ago,
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00:31:00,374 --> 00:31:03,511
can now create weapons of mass
destruction, or in this case weapons
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00:31:03,543 --> 00:31:05,612
of mass disturbance
with little more effort.
400
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,418
Again, you're looking
through the wrong lens.
401
00:31:10,451 --> 00:31:13,087
No one ever said
the natural course of humanity
402
00:31:13,119 --> 00:31:14,454
was going to be pretty.
403
00:31:14,488 --> 00:31:16,090
So it's natural
for humanity to flirt
404
00:31:16,123 --> 00:31:19,093
with its own destruction?
And increasingly so?
405
00:31:19,126 --> 00:31:20,929
Because that's
where all this leads.
406
00:31:21,761 --> 00:31:25,465
Since the dawn of civilization,
those with the most advanced
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00:31:25,499 --> 00:31:28,269
tools are the ones
who set the stage.
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00:31:28,301 --> 00:31:31,638
From the rock, to the sword,
to the gun, to the bomb,
409
00:31:31,672 --> 00:31:35,343
to AI,
a sociological law of nature
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00:31:35,376 --> 00:31:38,445
rooted in our evolutionary
psychology.
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00:31:38,479 --> 00:31:41,682
And if this race happens
to lead to destruction,
412
00:31:41,714 --> 00:31:45,419
well,
such is the natural course.
413
00:31:46,453 --> 00:31:49,557
Only human conceit
assumes otherwise.
414
00:31:54,060 --> 00:31:56,230
I see you haven't lost
that charming nihilism.
415
00:31:57,196 --> 00:31:58,632
- Drink?
- No.
416
00:32:00,334 --> 00:32:04,105
And it's not nihilism, John,
it's realism.
417
00:32:05,239 --> 00:32:08,242
Conflict is what makes
the world go round.
418
00:32:09,475 --> 00:32:12,981
And whomever wins
defines the course.
419
00:32:23,257 --> 00:32:24,692
- So what's the deal?
- The deal is
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00:32:24,724 --> 00:32:27,293
you help us tame the barbarians
at the gate
421
00:32:27,327 --> 00:32:30,297
along with anything else we ask.
422
00:32:30,329 --> 00:32:32,133
In return,
423
00:32:32,165 --> 00:32:35,101
you'll be granted
a decent life here.
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00:32:35,135 --> 00:32:36,771
This ship might be
a place of work,
425
00:32:36,803 --> 00:32:39,607
but it's also
a self-contained city.
426
00:32:40,674 --> 00:32:45,078
We go back a long way, John,
and despite our differences,
427
00:32:45,111 --> 00:32:47,747
I would hate to see
that genius go to waste.
428
00:32:47,780 --> 00:32:48,782
And if I don't?
429
00:32:50,283 --> 00:32:52,619
You know the answer to that.
430
00:32:52,653 --> 00:32:55,756
Aside from this possible
Orion catastrophe,
431
00:32:55,789 --> 00:32:58,526
which I doubt
your humanist ego would allow,
432
00:32:59,693 --> 00:33:02,530
you'll be turned over
to interrogation
433
00:33:02,562 --> 00:33:05,232
and it won't be cinematic.
434
00:33:06,332 --> 00:33:10,070
Either way,
you're not leaving this ship.
435
00:33:12,572 --> 00:33:15,475
Okay, Simon,
but I have one condition.
436
00:33:16,542 --> 00:33:19,079
I want you to put an end
to program UX83.
437
00:33:20,547 --> 00:33:22,650
Otherwise known
as the Malthusian Mandate.
438
00:33:28,355 --> 00:33:30,491
If you knew about the Mandate,
439
00:33:30,523 --> 00:33:32,525
why hasn't Concordia leaked it?
440
00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:34,528
Never had a complete picture.
441
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,598
- And what do you think you're missing?
- Good question.
442
00:33:37,630 --> 00:33:39,632
We find a cryptically
mentioned in documents
443
00:33:39,665 --> 00:33:41,769
related to the GSA's
control programs.
444
00:33:42,668 --> 00:33:44,571
It appears the Mandate
was employed in the death
445
00:33:44,605 --> 00:33:47,374
of at least 20 million
last year alone.
446
00:33:47,406 --> 00:33:49,676
How this is occurring
and why is not clear.
447
00:33:50,810 --> 00:33:52,346
So why don't you enlighten me?
448
00:36:19,526 --> 00:36:22,796
So you wrote a book
called The Neolithic Maladaptation
449
00:36:22,828 --> 00:36:25,265
which focuses
on the nature of culture
450
00:36:25,298 --> 00:36:27,967
before the Great Transition.
451
00:36:28,001 --> 00:36:31,671
Can you clarify
what you meant by this title?
452
00:36:31,705 --> 00:36:35,776
Sure. So I think the defining
question of civilization
453
00:36:35,809 --> 00:36:39,479
is what characteristics
enable us to survive and prosper
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00:36:39,513 --> 00:36:42,383
sustainably and peacefully
over generational time.
455
00:36:43,450 --> 00:36:46,419
Thousands of years ago,
upon the advent of agriculture,
456
00:36:46,452 --> 00:36:49,389
the Neolithic Revolution,
we found ourselves
457
00:36:49,423 --> 00:36:52,325
in a new social arrangement,
a new structure,
458
00:36:52,359 --> 00:36:55,529
one that would later prove
to be highly incompatible.
459
00:36:55,562 --> 00:36:57,731
Not only incompatible
with the habitat,
460
00:36:57,763 --> 00:36:59,767
inherently unsustainable
since the economy
461
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,303
literally required
consumption and growth,
462
00:37:02,336 --> 00:37:05,571
but also incompatible
with our very social nature.
463
00:37:05,604 --> 00:37:09,776
And, long story short, humans
are simply not meant to exist
464
00:37:09,810 --> 00:37:12,346
in an economically
stratified society
465
00:37:12,379 --> 00:37:15,582
if the expectation is high
levels of public health
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00:37:15,615 --> 00:37:17,417
and peaceful coexistence.
467
00:37:17,450 --> 00:37:19,586
It's always interesting
to review the work
468
00:37:19,618 --> 00:37:22,655
of mainstream scientists
at the turn of the 21st century
469
00:37:22,689 --> 00:37:24,992
as they desperately try
to convince themselves
470
00:37:25,024 --> 00:37:26,926
that a competitive,
exploitative,
471
00:37:26,959 --> 00:37:30,463
vainly status seeking mindset
was an inalterable expression
472
00:37:30,497 --> 00:37:33,500
of human nature,
when the fact is our genes,
473
00:37:33,533 --> 00:37:36,002
our biology and how
the environment interacts
474
00:37:36,035 --> 00:37:40,540
with our evolved selves allows
for a vast range of orientations
475
00:37:40,573 --> 00:37:44,644
with narrow self-interest,
greed, merely part of that range.
476
00:37:44,678 --> 00:37:47,948
If we've proven to be anything,
it's adaptable.
477
00:37:47,981 --> 00:37:49,917
There's certainly
no blank slate.
478
00:37:49,950 --> 00:37:52,618
We're not infinitely malleable,
479
00:37:52,651 --> 00:37:55,054
but it has been grossly
underestimated historically
480
00:37:55,088 --> 00:37:57,591
just how wide
our range of adaptive
481
00:37:57,624 --> 00:38:00,694
potential really is.
And what most determines
482
00:38:00,727 --> 00:38:04,131
which behavioral traits
will define a society's culture
483
00:38:04,164 --> 00:38:06,100
is its social structure.
484
00:38:06,133 --> 00:38:10,136
Or more specifically,
that structure's economic basis.
485
00:38:10,169 --> 00:38:13,072
The method
by which we must survive.
486
00:38:13,106 --> 00:38:15,975
If that structure
rewards competition, dominance,
487
00:38:16,008 --> 00:38:18,444
and narrow self-interest,
then the culture
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00:38:18,477 --> 00:38:21,013
will predominantly
express those values.
489
00:38:21,046 --> 00:38:25,385
If it rewards collaboration,
empathy and pro-social concern,
490
00:38:25,419 --> 00:38:29,690
the resulting culture will
predominantly express those values.
491
00:38:29,722 --> 00:38:31,624
For the majority
of human history,
492
00:38:31,658 --> 00:38:33,827
before the advent
of agriculture,
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00:38:33,859 --> 00:38:35,662
We lived in non-hierarchical,
494
00:38:35,694 --> 00:38:37,798
non-competitive
social arrangements.
495
00:38:37,830 --> 00:38:40,700
Why? Because the economic
basis of survival
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00:38:40,734 --> 00:38:42,636
actually incentivized
497
00:38:42,669 --> 00:38:45,373
sharing and collaboration,
and not the opposite.
498
00:38:46,472 --> 00:38:49,575
So what I mean by maladaptation
is while humanity
499
00:38:49,609 --> 00:38:52,045
did successfully adapt
to the survival requisites
500
00:38:52,077 --> 00:38:53,880
born from
the Neolithic Revolution,
501
00:38:53,914 --> 00:38:55,649
the resulting social structure,
502
00:38:55,682 --> 00:38:58,819
the system that became codified,
proved maladapted.
503
00:38:58,852 --> 00:39:01,655
The economic system
was simply incompatible
504
00:39:01,687 --> 00:39:05,758
with what was required for humanity
to be sustainable in the long-term.
505
00:39:05,792 --> 00:39:08,796
Failing our need to integrate
properly with the ecosystem
506
00:39:08,828 --> 00:39:12,999
while limiting our ability to
coexist peacefully with each other.
507
00:39:13,033 --> 00:39:15,669
And by the time of
the Industrial Revolution
508
00:39:15,702 --> 00:39:18,037
in the 19th century,
these flaws were rapidly
509
00:39:18,071 --> 00:39:19,873
coming to the surface.
510
00:39:19,906 --> 00:39:22,476
Conditions had changed and
if it wasn't for our dramatic
511
00:39:22,508 --> 00:39:24,744
transformation to break out
of that system,
512
00:39:24,778 --> 00:39:27,714
there is little question,
society would have seen total
513
00:39:27,747 --> 00:39:31,018
ecologically collapse combined
with catastrophic global war.
514
00:39:33,153 --> 00:39:35,656
So it must be
difficult to look back
515
00:39:35,689 --> 00:39:37,790
at that time given
what we know now.
516
00:39:37,823 --> 00:39:40,493
It seems like things should have
changed much sooner, right?
517
00:39:40,526 --> 00:39:43,563
Sure, but it reveals
that as much as we'd like
518
00:39:43,597 --> 00:39:46,098
to believe we're rational,
objective beings,
519
00:39:46,131 --> 00:39:49,970
we're actually bound
by deep social vulnerability.
520
00:39:50,002 --> 00:39:53,540
We are social beings first
and intellectual beings second.
521
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:57,210
What you see back then
is a kind of mass hypnosis
522
00:39:57,243 --> 00:39:59,078
that paralyzed society,
523
00:39:59,111 --> 00:40:01,581
keeping people short-sighted
and fearful,
524
00:40:01,615 --> 00:40:04,051
prone to conform to the values
and practices of those
525
00:40:04,084 --> 00:40:07,553
who happen to be winning
in the contrived economic game.
526
00:40:07,586 --> 00:40:10,723
One glance at the media from
back then gives it all away.
527
00:40:10,756 --> 00:40:13,260
Status posturing,
people obsessed with appearing
528
00:40:13,292 --> 00:40:17,164
affluent, accomplished, loved,
famous, beautiful.
529
00:40:17,196 --> 00:40:20,767
All a kind of pathological
emulation of those of high
530
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:25,138
socioeconomic status,
billionaires, celebrities.
531
00:40:25,171 --> 00:40:27,675
As one notable philosopher
stated long ago,
532
00:40:34,247 --> 00:40:36,984
So once again
it all begs the question,
533
00:40:37,017 --> 00:40:40,053
what actually defines success
in the human condition?
534
00:40:40,086 --> 00:40:43,223
What kind of culture is most
optimized to sustain itself
535
00:40:43,256 --> 00:40:46,593
over time while, of course,
being happy and stable?
536
00:40:46,626 --> 00:40:48,194
And while there's
plenty to learn,
537
00:40:48,227 --> 00:40:50,630
we do know
what doesn't define it:
538
00:40:50,664 --> 00:40:54,001
the excessive materialistic
wealth and status driven neurosis
539
00:40:54,033 --> 00:40:57,236
so characteristic back then
has literally zero
540
00:40:57,269 --> 00:40:59,705
positive relationship
to long-term species
541
00:40:59,738 --> 00:41:02,943
sustainability and optimized
public health.
542
00:41:02,975 --> 00:41:05,845
In short,
the values were dead wrong.
543
00:41:05,879 --> 00:41:08,982
And not to sound mean, but
if I were to resort to derisive
544
00:41:09,015 --> 00:41:11,752
status labeling,
common to that period of time,
545
00:41:11,785 --> 00:41:14,721
there's no question
that the greatest failures
546
00:41:14,754 --> 00:41:18,025
were the ones who own mansions,
drove over priced cars,
547
00:41:18,057 --> 00:41:21,794
wore luxury jewelry,
maintained extremely lucrative
548
00:41:21,827 --> 00:41:24,063
yet completely
meaningless occupations
549
00:41:24,097 --> 00:41:26,232
while hoarding great wealth.
550
00:41:26,265 --> 00:41:28,001
What kind of sad,
insecure creature
551
00:41:28,033 --> 00:41:29,903
needs to flaunt such excess
552
00:41:29,935 --> 00:41:33,640
clearly signaling opposition
to other people's well-being?
553
00:41:33,673 --> 00:41:37,310
True success is reinforcing
harmony, balance.
554
00:41:37,343 --> 00:41:40,046
The goal is not necessarily
to become something,
555
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,150
but to find out who
and what you truly are.
556
00:41:43,182 --> 00:41:45,184
And how you fit
inside the ecosystem
557
00:41:45,218 --> 00:41:47,287
of nature
that gave birth to you.
558
00:41:47,319 --> 00:41:50,356
The most successful people,
the true winners,
559
00:41:50,390 --> 00:41:54,995
are never the ones striving for
celebrity and material excess,
560
00:41:55,028 --> 00:41:58,865
they are the humble minimalists
valuing how they can contribute
561
00:41:58,897 --> 00:42:01,934
to the well-being
and health of everything,
562
00:42:01,968 --> 00:42:04,905
realizing the world
is one system,
563
00:42:04,937 --> 00:42:07,374
and the more they optimize
that contribution,
564
00:42:07,406 --> 00:42:11,111
the more truly successful
they actually become.
565
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,982
When I look back on all this,
566
00:42:16,015 --> 00:42:18,082
I think what I find most tragic
567
00:42:18,084 --> 00:42:20,953
is the spiritual loss
of the individual.
568
00:42:20,986 --> 00:42:25,124
How people were fundamentally
alienated from themselves
569
00:42:25,158 --> 00:42:29,162
their identities hijacked
by competitive insecurity,
570
00:42:29,194 --> 00:42:32,198
trying to conform
to some acceptable profile
571
00:42:32,231 --> 00:42:34,734
that would serve
their advantage best,
572
00:42:34,767 --> 00:42:36,302
not who they actually are,
573
00:42:36,336 --> 00:42:38,939
but what the system
requires them to become.
574
00:44:07,359 --> 00:44:10,497
The
soul selects her own society.
575
00:44:10,530 --> 00:44:13,934
Then shuts the door
to her divine majority.
576
00:44:13,966 --> 00:44:17,269
Present no more. Unmoved.
577
00:44:17,303 --> 00:44:21,040
She notes the chariots
pausing at her low gate.
578
00:44:21,073 --> 00:44:24,343
Unmoved. An emperor
be kneeling upon her mat.
579
00:44:24,377 --> 00:44:29,316
I've known her from
an ample nation. Choose one.
580
00:44:29,348 --> 00:44:33,352
Then close the valves
of her attention. Like stone.
581
00:46:53,191 --> 00:46:54,560
Let me ask you, John.
582
00:46:55,495 --> 00:46:57,197
What do you think
the greatest form
583
00:46:57,229 --> 00:47:01,333
of social control is? Law? Debt?
584
00:47:01,367 --> 00:47:03,535
Religion.
585
00:47:03,568 --> 00:47:06,538
And this has what to do
with the Malthusian Mandate?
586
00:47:06,571 --> 00:47:09,943
- Humor me.
- I don't know.
587
00:47:09,975 --> 00:47:13,178
How about socialization?
People policing each other.
588
00:47:13,211 --> 00:47:16,949
A properly tuned culture
does regulate itself, yes.
589
00:47:16,982 --> 00:47:18,551
We've had the same training,
Simon.
590
00:47:18,584 --> 00:47:20,654
I'm just as aware of what
shapes psychology as you are.
591
00:47:20,687 --> 00:47:23,490
Yeah, see, I'm not so sure.
592
00:47:23,522 --> 00:47:25,392
I don't think we'd be
in this situation
593
00:47:25,425 --> 00:47:27,327
- if that was really the case.
- You mean because I actually
594
00:47:27,359 --> 00:47:28,461
believe the world can change?
595
00:47:33,098 --> 00:47:35,702
A child's born
biologically programmed
596
00:47:35,734 --> 00:47:38,070
to adapt to its environment.
597
00:47:38,104 --> 00:47:40,372
It grows,
inching through formative years,
598
00:47:40,406 --> 00:47:43,310
shaped by the traditions
and beliefs of culture.
599
00:47:43,343 --> 00:47:46,078
Institutional education
introduces structure
600
00:47:46,111 --> 00:47:50,149
creating comfort with authority,
regimentation, status.
601
00:47:50,182 --> 00:47:53,552
- Nurturing social schema.
- And a fundamental insecurity
602
00:47:53,586 --> 00:47:56,323
forged
by a deeply unequal world,
603
00:47:56,356 --> 00:47:58,191
a world of sanctioned
indifference,
604
00:47:58,223 --> 00:47:59,492
where compassion is weakness
605
00:47:59,524 --> 00:48:01,560
and domination is virtuous.
606
00:48:01,593 --> 00:48:04,030
What survival requires.
607
00:48:04,763 --> 00:48:07,200
In the current arrangement,
sure.
608
00:48:07,232 --> 00:48:09,970
And this early sense of
insecurity has a unique effect.
609
00:48:10,002 --> 00:48:13,305
Once childish tendencies we humans
are supposed to grow out of:
610
00:48:13,339 --> 00:48:16,977
attention-seeking, spoiled
self-interest, manipulativeness,
611
00:48:17,010 --> 00:48:20,046
bullying,
competition become ingrained.
612
00:48:20,078 --> 00:48:21,747
Maturity stunted.
613
00:48:21,781 --> 00:48:23,717
Setting the stage
for yet another disciple
614
00:48:23,749 --> 00:48:26,151
in the cult of narcissistic
individualism.
615
00:48:26,185 --> 00:48:28,655
Poetic.
616
00:48:29,789 --> 00:48:31,658
By the time higher
education is reached,
617
00:48:31,691 --> 00:48:35,028
formalized academia,
the stronghold of the status quo,
618
00:48:35,060 --> 00:48:36,997
what natural curiosity
may remain
619
00:48:37,030 --> 00:48:39,598
is now further constrained
by socialization.
620
00:48:39,631 --> 00:48:43,470
Myopic focus, detached
from the pursuit of knowledge,
621
00:48:43,502 --> 00:48:46,606
existing only for the sake
of commercial utility.
622
00:48:46,638 --> 00:48:50,676
- To define their product.
- And ultimately their identity.
623
00:48:50,709 --> 00:48:53,146
Becoming little more than
yet another agent of trade.
624
00:48:53,178 --> 00:48:56,383
A civilization reduced to
the goal of endless striving.
625
00:48:56,415 --> 00:48:58,417
To sell something
to someone else.
626
00:49:00,752 --> 00:49:03,622
The world is a business,
Mr. Beale.
627
00:49:05,258 --> 00:49:06,359
So the cog turns.
628
00:49:07,727 --> 00:49:10,597
While in those fleeting moments
economic stress does subside,
629
00:49:10,629 --> 00:49:12,499
when the shackles do come off,
630
00:49:12,531 --> 00:49:14,667
existential turbulence blooms,
631
00:49:14,700 --> 00:49:17,169
as they desperately search
for some kind of deeper meaning
632
00:49:17,202 --> 00:49:20,072
in the daily grind.
And this emotional void,
633
00:49:20,106 --> 00:49:23,276
this state of loss, leads
the pathological escapism.
634
00:49:23,309 --> 00:49:25,611
Distraction and self-medication
become the hobby.
635
00:49:26,646 --> 00:49:28,781
So they turn to their screens
636
00:49:28,814 --> 00:49:32,251
windows of projected normality
equating freedom
637
00:49:32,285 --> 00:49:34,453
with the unattainable delusions
638
00:49:34,486 --> 00:49:36,488
of wealth, fame, honor.
639
00:49:36,522 --> 00:49:38,290
While constantly
being reminded that they are
640
00:49:38,323 --> 00:49:40,193
the authors of their own misery
641
00:49:40,225 --> 00:49:43,363
and success can only be a matter
of winning versus losing.
642
00:49:43,396 --> 00:49:47,167
Since the vast majority will no doubt
lose, they live vicariously.
643
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,236
If their sports team wins
the game, so do they.
644
00:49:50,269 --> 00:49:51,805
If their country goes to war,
645
00:49:51,838 --> 00:49:54,339
they wave their flags
as if they were at war.
646
00:49:54,372 --> 00:49:56,508
While following
their celebrity heroes,
647
00:49:56,542 --> 00:50:00,080
feeling as though somehow
that success mirrors their own.
648
00:50:00,113 --> 00:50:02,682
And when that doesn't
work, they move inward,
649
00:50:02,714 --> 00:50:07,287
seeking self-help retreats,
therapy, medication, illicit drugs.
650
00:50:07,319 --> 00:50:09,354
Anything to avoid
the identity crisis.
651
00:50:11,624 --> 00:50:14,593
That the society they mirror
just might be deeply flawed.
652
00:50:15,794 --> 00:50:17,729
So the masses remain complacent,
653
00:50:17,763 --> 00:50:20,266
short-sighted, bigoted,
654
00:50:20,298 --> 00:50:22,301
primitive, delusional.
655
00:50:23,202 --> 00:50:24,104
Manageable.
656
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:30,476
No conspiracy required.
657
00:50:31,510 --> 00:50:34,446
Viable systems
regulate themselves.
658
00:50:34,479 --> 00:50:37,684
Viable?
You see all this as sustainable.
659
00:50:38,618 --> 00:50:41,287
No conspiracy required.
660
00:50:41,319 --> 00:50:44,423
- Viable systems regulate them...
- We just picked up the signal.
661
00:50:48,693 --> 00:50:52,798
Now there's one thing you missed
in your monologue there.
662
00:50:54,834 --> 00:50:58,571
Aside from primal provocation,
keeping people half-conscious,
663
00:50:58,604 --> 00:51:01,774
trapped in lower brain
fight or flight mode.
664
00:51:01,807 --> 00:51:04,711
Aside from the cultural hegemony
where people's values
665
00:51:04,743 --> 00:51:08,548
and envies mirror
those of wealth and power,
666
00:51:08,580 --> 00:51:10,550
reinforcing social order.
667
00:51:11,684 --> 00:51:14,553
And aside
from the climate of opinion
668
00:51:14,586 --> 00:51:17,723
fostered by the acclaimed
intelligentsia
669
00:51:17,756 --> 00:51:21,360
deciding the limits
by which truth must conform
670
00:51:21,394 --> 00:51:23,796
the most critical mechanism here
671
00:51:23,828 --> 00:51:26,533
is that of social inclusion.
672
00:51:26,566 --> 00:51:29,368
Nature wired us
with a strong tendency
673
00:51:29,401 --> 00:51:32,638
to override rational thought
in favor of group acceptance.
674
00:51:32,671 --> 00:51:35,307
Part of our evolutionary
fitness.
675
00:51:35,341 --> 00:51:37,911
And when people
violate consensus
676
00:51:37,943 --> 00:51:40,612
the nervous system seeks
to correct the behavior
677
00:51:40,646 --> 00:51:43,249
with pain and fear,
as there's little more
678
00:51:43,281 --> 00:51:47,254
psychologically damaging
than social exclusion.
679
00:51:49,222 --> 00:51:51,890
To be ostracized.
Ridicule, stigma,
680
00:51:51,923 --> 00:51:55,727
loss of reputation which could
also mean loss of employment,
681
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,297
income, lost and survival.
682
00:51:58,330 --> 00:52:01,200
Yet there's a long history of people
who have moved against that tendency.
683
00:52:01,234 --> 00:52:03,569
A long history
of very few people
684
00:52:03,602 --> 00:52:06,572
who inevitably turn
into mere righteous symbols
685
00:52:06,606 --> 00:52:09,508
put on T-shirts rather
than forces of revolution.
686
00:52:09,542 --> 00:52:12,511
So this Orion problem of yours
isn't indicative of anything?
687
00:52:12,544 --> 00:52:15,747
Orion appears to be
a fringe group of extremists
688
00:52:15,781 --> 00:52:18,318
with no public support.
689
00:52:18,350 --> 00:52:23,256
This is about normative culture,
and my point, John,
690
00:52:24,256 --> 00:52:26,892
is that given our social nature,
691
00:52:26,926 --> 00:52:30,597
the stronger force here
is not on the side of reason,
692
00:52:30,629 --> 00:52:34,566
it's on the side of inclusion
and conformity,
693
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:39,739
and that, my friend, is the
greatest form of social control
694
00:52:39,772 --> 00:52:42,575
and why the masses
will never break out
695
00:52:42,607 --> 00:52:45,412
of its self-perpetuated
oppression.
696
00:55:23,868 --> 00:55:25,905
♪ Twenty-three I see
come with me my dear ♪
697
00:55:25,937 --> 00:55:28,474
♪ It's time we re-examine
this reality ♪
698
00:56:36,175 --> 00:56:37,810
♪ Be ready ♪
699
00:56:37,843 --> 00:56:41,948
♪ Welcome
to the Freakshow, baby ♪
700
00:56:41,981 --> 00:56:45,118
♪ This is what it is ♪
701
00:57:12,211 --> 00:57:14,613
♪ So you see, 23 ♪
702
00:57:42,841 --> 00:57:44,777
♪ And the cast
is currently stocked ♪
703
00:57:44,810 --> 00:57:46,746
♪ But we'll let you know
if we need another floor ♪
704
00:57:46,778 --> 00:57:48,146
♪ To be mopped ♪
705
00:57:55,754 --> 00:57:58,190
So earlier something
was said to the effect
706
00:57:58,222 --> 00:58:00,258
that humans
are not designed to exist
707
00:58:00,292 --> 00:58:03,896
in an economically
stratified society.
708
00:58:03,928 --> 00:58:05,764
So to speak, yes.
709
00:58:05,798 --> 00:58:09,001
A stratified society is far
more unhealthy and unstable
710
00:58:09,033 --> 00:58:11,136
when compared
to an egalitarian one.
711
00:58:11,169 --> 00:58:13,673
That seems like
a pretty bold conclusion.
712
00:58:13,705 --> 00:58:16,341
- Can you elaborate?
- Sure.
713
00:58:16,374 --> 00:58:20,312
Consider our biology,
specifically the human brain.
714
00:58:20,345 --> 00:58:23,114
We're profoundly wired
for social response.
715
00:58:23,147 --> 00:58:25,885
For instance, the same
brain centers that react
716
00:58:25,917 --> 00:58:28,887
to physical pain also
react to emotional pain,
717
00:58:28,921 --> 00:58:32,692
such as feeling rejected,
excluded or shamed.
718
00:58:32,725 --> 00:58:35,328
In early life,
socially isolated infants,
719
00:58:35,361 --> 00:58:37,597
not receiving proper
affection will fail
720
00:58:37,629 --> 00:58:39,832
to produce critical
growth hormones,
721
00:58:39,865 --> 00:58:41,334
harming development.
722
00:58:41,367 --> 00:58:44,703
While in adulthood
similar effects occur.
723
00:58:44,736 --> 00:58:48,006
For example, there were
these dehumanizing institutions
724
00:58:48,039 --> 00:58:50,075
called prisons
and they practiced
725
00:58:50,109 --> 00:58:53,613
solitary confinement,
severe social isolation,
726
00:58:53,646 --> 00:58:56,281
and that practice literally
caused brain damage.
727
00:58:57,249 --> 00:58:59,919
Now, what do these
examples have in common?
728
00:58:59,952 --> 00:59:03,923
They are negative responses
to social related stress.
729
00:59:03,955 --> 00:59:06,057
And when you review
the past 200 years,
730
00:59:06,091 --> 00:59:08,694
of epidemiological study
on the issue,
731
00:59:08,727 --> 00:59:11,763
you realize that an economically
stratified society
732
00:59:11,796 --> 00:59:14,399
is one of the most toxically
stressful conditions
733
00:59:14,432 --> 00:59:17,135
you could ever impose
upon the human species.
734
00:59:18,037 --> 00:59:20,740
We've all learned about
the horrors of abject poverty.
735
00:59:20,772 --> 00:59:22,374
A condition that
affected a billion people
736
00:59:22,408 --> 00:59:24,377
at the turn of the 21st century,
737
00:59:24,410 --> 00:59:27,178
causing literally millions
of deaths each year.
738
00:59:27,211 --> 00:59:30,248
But the negative effects
of economic stratification
739
00:59:30,281 --> 00:59:32,251
aren't limited
to the distinctly poor.
740
00:59:32,283 --> 00:59:34,720
Inequality harms
just about everyone.
741
00:59:34,752 --> 00:59:38,124
A kind of social pollution and
the lower one finds themselves
742
00:59:38,156 --> 00:59:42,060
on the stratified ladder,
the worse their health becomes on average.
743
00:59:42,093 --> 00:59:43,963
Consider a lower class mother
744
00:59:43,995 --> 00:59:47,432
working two jobs, in debt,
can't afford a car,
745
00:59:47,466 --> 00:59:49,734
living paycheck to paycheck
746
00:59:49,767 --> 00:59:52,003
while trying to take care
of her young child.
747
00:59:52,037 --> 00:59:54,839
They may not be homeless,
starving or even poor
748
00:59:54,872 --> 00:59:56,274
by legal standards,
749
00:59:56,307 --> 00:59:57,842
but every day is still
750
00:59:57,876 --> 00:59:59,778
a battle to make ends meet.
751
00:59:59,812 --> 01:00:03,249
This is known as relative
poverty or more formally
752
01:00:03,281 --> 01:00:06,051
low socioeconomic status.
753
01:00:06,084 --> 01:00:09,054
And a defining characteristic
of this condition
754
01:00:09,088 --> 01:00:12,357
on average
is high psychosocial stress,
755
01:00:12,390 --> 01:00:15,026
meaning stress related
to social factors.
756
01:00:15,060 --> 01:00:18,764
This stress includes not only
feelings of general insecurity,
757
01:00:18,796 --> 01:00:20,800
such as worrying
about paying your bills,
758
01:00:20,832 --> 01:00:24,869
affording your child's next
doctor visit or losing your job,
759
01:00:24,903 --> 01:00:27,906
but also the stress
of social status itself.
760
01:00:27,939 --> 01:00:31,743
How one feels about themselves
compared to others.
761
01:00:31,776 --> 01:00:34,412
And while that particular
aspect may seem trivial,
762
01:00:34,446 --> 01:00:37,415
the fact is our brains
have evolved to react
763
01:00:37,448 --> 01:00:39,885
in profoundly specific
ways when it comes
764
01:00:39,917 --> 01:00:42,354
to how we think others see us.
765
01:00:42,386 --> 01:00:46,859
We have an acute sensitivity
to our perceived social status.
766
01:00:46,892 --> 01:00:48,894
In other words,
it's not just about the stress
767
01:00:48,926 --> 01:00:51,062
of endless worry
and the technical difficulty
768
01:00:51,095 --> 01:00:53,231
of being poor that's toxic.
769
01:00:53,265 --> 01:00:56,969
It's equally if not more about
the stress of feeling poor.
770
01:00:57,002 --> 01:01:00,272
For example, studies have shown
if you take people with the same
771
01:01:00,305 --> 01:01:01,874
equal access
to free health care,
772
01:01:01,906 --> 01:01:03,876
controlling
for lifestyle factors,
773
01:01:03,908 --> 01:01:05,877
you will still see,
as you inch down
774
01:01:05,910 --> 01:01:08,347
the ladder of income and wealth,
people's health getting
775
01:01:08,379 --> 01:01:10,816
progressively worse on average.
776
01:01:10,848 --> 01:01:13,051
The lower they are
in the class hierarchy
777
01:01:13,084 --> 01:01:15,220
the sicker they become.
778
01:01:15,254 --> 01:01:16,856
One mechanism for this
779
01:01:16,888 --> 01:01:18,890
is that high
psychological stress
780
01:01:18,923 --> 01:01:21,259
leads to a state
of chronic inflammation
781
01:01:21,292 --> 01:01:24,497
and what's called
an allostatic overload.
782
01:01:24,530 --> 01:01:27,932
Allostasis means your body's
trying to recover from something
783
01:01:27,966 --> 01:01:30,502
working to return
to a more balanced state.
784
01:01:30,535 --> 01:01:32,470
But it can't. And this causes
785
01:01:32,504 --> 01:01:35,473
the body and the mind
to wear down rapidly.
786
01:01:35,506 --> 01:01:39,278
Living in relative poverty
in all its day-to-day insecurity
787
01:01:39,310 --> 01:01:41,446
and feelings of low self-worth,
788
01:01:41,479 --> 01:01:45,150
keeps people psychologically
locked in a stressful state.
789
01:01:45,184 --> 01:01:48,120
Ravaging mental
and physical health.
790
01:01:48,153 --> 01:01:51,290
Consider heart disease.
low socioeconomic status
791
01:01:51,323 --> 01:01:54,460
creates a 50% greater chance
of its development.
792
01:01:54,493 --> 01:01:57,463
and not just because people
may have poor lifestyle habits,
793
01:01:57,495 --> 01:02:00,398
but due to psychosocial
stress itself,
794
01:02:00,432 --> 01:02:03,502
which increases the hormone
cortisol, damaging arteries
795
01:02:03,535 --> 01:02:06,172
fostering strokes
and heart attacks.
796
01:02:06,205 --> 01:02:09,408
Low socioeconomic status
is a heart disease risk factor
797
01:02:09,441 --> 01:02:12,977
on its own,
similar for diabetes and cancer
798
01:02:13,010 --> 01:02:16,080
with far higher rates
for those relatively poor.
799
01:02:16,113 --> 01:02:20,586
As one study put it,
"Poverty itself is a carcinogen."
800
01:02:20,618 --> 01:02:23,222
And given that heart disease
diabetes and cancer
801
01:02:23,254 --> 01:02:26,090
were some of the leading causes
of death in that highly unequal
802
01:02:26,124 --> 01:02:28,560
global society
of the early 21st century,
803
01:02:28,593 --> 01:02:31,563
these facts help explain
why life span gaps
804
01:02:31,597 --> 01:02:34,399
between the rich and the poor
were shockingly wide.
805
01:02:34,432 --> 01:02:38,203
Ranging from 15 to 40 years
depending on region.
806
01:02:38,236 --> 01:02:39,972
And then you have mental health.
807
01:02:40,004 --> 01:02:43,341
Low socioeconomic status
fuels much higher instances
808
01:02:43,374 --> 01:02:45,877
of depression,
anxiety disorders,
809
01:02:45,910 --> 01:02:48,146
schizophrenia, suicide,
810
01:02:48,180 --> 01:02:51,417
not to mention violence,
including child abuse.
811
01:02:51,450 --> 01:02:53,953
The condition of poverty
was found to be the leading
812
01:02:53,986 --> 01:02:57,256
predictor of child abuse,
which is particularly troubling
813
01:02:57,289 --> 01:03:00,292
since such abuse often
leads to adult disorders
814
01:03:00,325 --> 01:03:03,229
such as addictions,
antisocial behavior,
815
01:03:03,261 --> 01:03:07,066
immune system problems,
cognitive impairment.
816
01:03:07,098 --> 01:03:09,401
In fact, it was found
that children simply living
817
01:03:09,434 --> 01:03:12,504
in the condition of poverty
correlated to large decreases
818
01:03:12,537 --> 01:03:15,241
in IQ,
decreased brain development,
819
01:03:15,274 --> 01:03:17,877
and worst overall, health
throughout the life cycle.
820
01:03:17,910 --> 01:03:19,578
Personally, I would argue that
821
01:03:19,611 --> 01:03:22,314
if child abuse is
about negligence and harm,
822
01:03:22,347 --> 01:03:25,651
any society that tolerates
the existence of poverty
823
01:03:25,684 --> 01:03:27,886
when it has the means to end it,
824
01:03:27,919 --> 01:03:30,889
is a society that is
fundamentally abusive to children.
825
01:03:32,457 --> 01:03:37,328
Now, as far as behavioral violence
in general, it's no surprise.
826
01:03:37,361 --> 01:03:40,298
The pre-transition period
was saturated in it.
827
01:03:40,332 --> 01:03:44,103
The emotional pathogen behind
most acts of violence is shame
828
01:03:44,135 --> 01:03:48,106
and inequality produces shame
like a finely tuned machine.
829
01:03:48,140 --> 01:03:51,343
Shootings, gang violence,
terrorism,
830
01:03:51,376 --> 01:03:55,214
domestic violence, all highly
correlated to inequality,
831
01:03:55,247 --> 01:03:58,584
like a toxic cloud hovering
over civilization.
832
01:03:58,617 --> 01:04:01,153
The more economically
unequal a society,
833
01:04:01,185 --> 01:04:03,555
the more violent it tended
to be on average.
834
01:04:03,588 --> 01:04:07,926
And that goes for most everything in
terms of negative public health outcomes.
835
01:04:07,959 --> 01:04:11,463
With higher incidences
of disease, crime, obesity,
836
01:04:11,495 --> 01:04:15,233
infant mortality, homicides,
teen birth, mental illness,
837
01:04:15,267 --> 01:04:18,069
poor education, conflict,
domestic abuse,
838
01:04:18,102 --> 01:04:20,972
illiteracy, suicide,
premature mortality,
839
01:04:21,006 --> 01:04:24,310
overall mistrust and much more.
840
01:04:25,310 --> 01:04:29,615
There is no viable defense
of its existence on any level
841
01:04:29,647 --> 01:04:31,383
and it's certainly
not representative
842
01:04:31,415 --> 01:04:33,519
of a fixed human nature.
843
01:04:33,551 --> 01:04:37,622
Humans are basically allergic to
socio-economic stratification.
844
01:06:52,124 --> 01:06:54,158
What are you doing? Come on!
845
01:09:53,738 --> 01:09:56,441
So how's this supposed
to happen exactly?
846
01:09:56,473 --> 01:09:57,943
I'm not sure.
847
01:09:57,976 --> 01:10:00,979
The satellite details
we need are very specific.
848
01:10:01,012 --> 01:10:04,383
How John pulls this off
is going to be interesting.
849
01:10:07,819 --> 01:10:10,022
Hey, where did
you get the popcorn?
850
01:10:10,055 --> 01:10:11,890
Oh, I don't know.
It was just here.
851
01:10:14,391 --> 01:10:15,560
Right.
852
01:10:17,329 --> 01:10:19,331
Are they still in debate mode?
853
01:10:19,364 --> 01:10:20,499
Listen for yourself.
854
01:10:24,002 --> 01:10:25,971
Hope you went to college.
855
01:10:26,003 --> 01:10:28,707
...and why the masses
will never break out
856
01:10:28,739 --> 01:10:31,876
of its self-perpetuated
oppression.
857
01:10:33,677 --> 01:10:37,481
Historically observable.
Biologically sound.
858
01:10:37,515 --> 01:10:39,618
And grossly exaggerated.
859
01:10:39,650 --> 01:10:43,020
While most may indeed be stuck in
lower brain, limbic system reflexes,
860
01:10:43,053 --> 01:10:45,824
you underestimate
the prefrontal cortex.
861
01:10:45,856 --> 01:10:48,493
Our ability to transcend
primitive reactions.
862
01:10:48,525 --> 01:10:50,461
Whether you believe it
or not, Simon,
863
01:10:50,494 --> 01:10:52,997
the activists of the world
are slowly becoming more aware,
864
01:10:53,030 --> 01:10:56,435
- more focused.
- Focused on what?
865
01:10:56,467 --> 01:10:57,868
The system?
866
01:10:57,901 --> 01:10:59,937
The origin of the social
psychology that keeps
867
01:10:59,971 --> 01:11:01,640
those feedback loops
of oppression going.
868
01:11:03,475 --> 01:11:06,544
Ah, so threat to the money God?
869
01:11:07,579 --> 01:11:09,381
If you want to be
spooky about it, sure.
870
01:11:10,147 --> 01:11:13,385
The money God is eventually
going to be overthrown.
871
01:11:13,418 --> 01:11:15,387
This age-old march
toward increased the quality
872
01:11:15,419 --> 01:11:17,989
and human rights is now
accelerating into new territory.
873
01:11:19,056 --> 01:11:21,525
And one way or another it's
eventually going to arrive
874
01:11:21,559 --> 01:11:23,729
at the doorstep of the economy.
875
01:11:23,762 --> 01:11:25,497
And then what?
876
01:11:25,529 --> 01:11:28,833
You seem to be suffering
from a kind of amnesia, John.
877
01:11:28,867 --> 01:11:30,901
That moment's long past.
878
01:11:30,935 --> 01:11:34,439
Immortalized by the failed
Soviet experiment,
879
01:11:34,471 --> 01:11:36,941
a memory that's fostered
an enduring boogeyman.
880
01:11:38,943 --> 01:11:43,382
Anyone today daring
to suggest economic equality,
881
01:11:43,414 --> 01:11:45,684
which is what I assume
you are getting at,
882
01:11:45,717 --> 01:11:48,820
as some final stage
of human rights progress,
883
01:11:48,852 --> 01:11:52,490
will quickly be condemned
as a freedom-hating socialist.
884
01:11:52,524 --> 01:11:56,528
Propaganda may be strong,
but so are the mounting problems,
885
01:11:56,561 --> 01:11:58,964
problems that have
no in system solution,
886
01:11:58,997 --> 01:12:02,401
- forcing people to think differently.
- Such as?
887
01:12:02,434 --> 01:12:04,569
How about the collective insult
that one percent of the world's
888
01:12:04,601 --> 01:12:07,138
population now owns
80% of the wealth?
889
01:12:07,172 --> 01:12:10,008
Or more importantly,
that every life support system
890
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:14,078
continues to be in decline
with now millions dislocated.
891
01:12:14,111 --> 01:12:16,914
Famines, wars, growing poverty.
892
01:12:16,948 --> 01:12:20,718
People will eventually realize the
economic mechanisms behind this.
893
01:12:20,752 --> 01:12:24,823
Further opening the gate.
Same for technological unemployment.
894
01:12:24,855 --> 01:12:27,591
Half of all jobs have
already been automated.
895
01:12:27,624 --> 01:12:30,694
And while nations have compensated
by giving basic income,
896
01:12:30,727 --> 01:12:32,730
the system contradiction
is still clear.
897
01:12:32,763 --> 01:12:35,534
What happens when people realize
this welfare program is really
898
01:12:35,566 --> 01:12:38,803
just an excuse to keep
the labor system in place?
899
01:12:38,837 --> 01:12:41,406
Hence keeping
the ruling class in place.
900
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:44,676
You assume too much, John.
901
01:12:44,708 --> 01:12:46,944
Three-quarters of the people
on that planet,
902
01:12:46,977 --> 01:12:50,214
believe in supernatural
beings that live in the sky
903
01:12:50,248 --> 01:12:52,217
affecting their lives.
904
01:12:52,249 --> 01:12:54,586
You're projecting
your rare intelligence
905
01:12:54,619 --> 01:12:57,155
upon a sea of glorified savages.
906
01:12:57,187 --> 01:13:00,191
And if you think the activist
community has anything
907
01:13:00,225 --> 01:13:04,596
in their toolkit to even
approach system level change,
908
01:13:04,628 --> 01:13:06,864
you're not paying attention
to their ignorance.
909
01:13:06,897 --> 01:13:08,867
You mean the spectacle?
910
01:13:08,900 --> 01:13:10,969
People piling
into free speech zones,
911
01:13:11,002 --> 01:13:13,205
holding up signs,
yelling at buildings,
912
01:13:13,238 --> 01:13:16,708
ranting on social media,
creating political art,
913
01:13:16,740 --> 01:13:18,810
poetry, writing books...
914
01:13:20,211 --> 01:13:22,079
making movies.
915
01:13:22,113 --> 01:13:23,815
I agree it's mostly catharsis.
916
01:13:23,847 --> 01:13:25,749
It's a pressure release valve,
917
01:13:25,783 --> 01:13:27,718
easing periodic tension,
918
01:13:27,752 --> 01:13:30,589
making people feel like they're
actually doing something.
919
01:13:31,623 --> 01:13:34,559
Aside, of course,
from helping the economy,
920
01:13:34,592 --> 01:13:35,994
the anti-establishment market
921
01:13:36,026 --> 01:13:37,828
has been increasingly
profitable.
922
01:13:37,861 --> 01:13:40,498
Yes.
923
01:13:40,531 --> 01:13:42,934
The anger dollar.
If only such outrage
924
01:13:42,967 --> 01:13:45,036
could be packaged and traded
on Wall Street, right?
925
01:13:45,069 --> 01:13:49,607
And then social
change might have a chance.
926
01:13:59,150 --> 01:14:03,989
But catharsis aside, John,
the real issue is hope.
927
01:14:04,021 --> 01:14:07,225
Activism today
is a hope industry.
928
01:14:08,258 --> 01:14:10,928
Take Concordia.
It's been irritating
929
01:14:10,962 --> 01:14:13,698
and I'm certainly bothered
by the technology you have,
930
01:14:13,730 --> 01:14:16,834
but your actions have posed
no true threat.
931
01:14:16,868 --> 01:14:21,006
What you do is give
your millions of fans hope.
932
01:14:21,038 --> 01:14:24,575
And hope is a drug that subdues.
933
01:14:24,609 --> 01:14:27,579
So the long history of rights
progress is meaningless?
934
01:14:27,611 --> 01:14:30,915
The abolition of slavery,
women's liberation,
935
01:14:30,949 --> 01:14:35,053
child labor laws, unions,
indigenous restitution,
936
01:14:35,086 --> 01:14:39,925
global decrees, LGBTQ equality,
disability acts?
937
01:14:39,958 --> 01:14:42,727
All adaptations
and accommodations.
938
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:45,129
No threat to the system itself.
939
01:14:45,163 --> 01:14:47,098
Take abject slavery:
940
01:14:47,131 --> 01:14:48,800
the origins are clear.
941
01:14:48,833 --> 01:14:50,869
It was never about racism.
942
01:14:50,901 --> 01:14:52,570
It was about economic
exploitation.
943
01:14:52,604 --> 01:14:54,806
Hence business as usual.
944
01:14:54,838 --> 01:14:57,274
And yet racism took the heat.
945
01:14:57,307 --> 01:15:00,078
The system connection
goes unrecognized.
946
01:15:00,110 --> 01:15:02,279
Limits of debate.
People have been conditioned
947
01:15:02,312 --> 01:15:04,882
to seek moral causes
rather than structural ones.
948
01:15:04,915 --> 01:15:08,820
Which is exactly my point,
they don't have the vocabulary.
949
01:15:08,852 --> 01:15:10,955
Nothing
in their experience offers it.
950
01:15:10,989 --> 01:15:14,125
The average person engages
six hours of media a day
951
01:15:14,158 --> 01:15:17,227
much of that news constantly
reinforcing the status quo.
952
01:15:17,261 --> 01:15:21,098
I'm glad you brought that up.
News is a business.
953
01:15:21,132 --> 01:15:24,269
And do you think that any
for-profit institution is ever
954
01:15:24,302 --> 01:15:28,106
going to tolerate ideas that
move against how it survives?
955
01:15:29,806 --> 01:15:31,876
The odds are stacked, John.
956
01:15:31,909 --> 01:15:34,779
The system protects
itself on every level
957
01:15:34,811 --> 01:15:37,582
almost as if it were
a living organism.
958
01:15:39,249 --> 01:15:42,119
But for argument's sake,
959
01:15:42,153 --> 01:15:45,690
let's assume a formidable
movement existed.
960
01:15:45,722 --> 01:15:48,859
A united front to change
the social structure.
961
01:15:48,892 --> 01:15:50,160
Then what?
962
01:15:50,194 --> 01:15:51,930
Does it play out on the stage
963
01:15:51,962 --> 01:15:53,397
of political theater?
964
01:15:53,431 --> 01:15:56,868
A stage owned and operated
by business power?
965
01:15:56,900 --> 01:16:00,037
Part of the awakening. People are
realizing their elected officials
966
01:16:00,070 --> 01:16:02,239
are structurally
corrupted by default,
967
01:16:02,272 --> 01:16:03,941
regardless of intent.
968
01:16:03,975 --> 01:16:06,311
- Approaches will shift.
- To what?
969
01:16:06,343 --> 01:16:09,279
Insurrection, violence,
overthrow?
970
01:16:09,312 --> 01:16:11,048
A French Revolution?
971
01:16:11,082 --> 01:16:13,017
Possible,
but certainly not inevitable.
972
01:16:13,051 --> 01:16:14,919
A critical mass large
enough to stop
973
01:16:14,952 --> 01:16:16,855
the machine in its tracks is
really all that it's needed.
974
01:16:16,887 --> 01:16:18,390
You remember George Orwell?
975
01:16:18,422 --> 01:16:20,791
- Of course.
- He observed something
976
01:16:20,824 --> 01:16:22,860
interesting
in this endless battle
977
01:16:22,894 --> 01:16:26,131
between the haves
and the have nots.
978
01:16:26,163 --> 01:16:27,965
If it's true as you say,
979
01:16:27,998 --> 01:16:30,801
the masses are beginning
to understand the system.
980
01:16:30,834 --> 01:16:32,203
Building force against it.
981
01:16:32,235 --> 01:16:34,439
You should also recognize
982
01:16:34,471 --> 01:16:36,874
that there's a natural
counter-movement.
983
01:16:36,908 --> 01:16:39,778
The system defending
itself once again.
984
01:16:40,477 --> 01:16:42,913
And every threat
to its integrity,
985
01:16:42,946 --> 01:16:45,115
what you see as progress,
986
01:16:45,149 --> 01:16:47,986
will be twisted around
and presented to the public
987
01:16:48,019 --> 01:16:50,388
as an attack
on their way of life.
988
01:16:51,722 --> 01:16:54,158
Those outliers
that you spoke of,
989
01:16:54,191 --> 01:16:57,428
the terrorists, gangs,
criminals, mass murderers,
990
01:16:57,462 --> 01:17:00,932
insurgencies, hackers,
the Orions.
991
01:17:00,964 --> 01:17:02,934
The Concordias.
992
01:17:02,967 --> 01:17:05,970
All empower
the system in the end
993
01:17:06,003 --> 01:17:09,374
providing excuses
to further tighten things down.
994
01:17:09,406 --> 01:17:11,943
More police, more prisons,
995
01:17:11,976 --> 01:17:15,080
more laws, more bombs,
more surveillance.
996
01:17:16,180 --> 01:17:17,883
More control.
997
01:17:19,249 --> 01:17:23,954
Again, no conspiracy required.
998
01:17:24,855 --> 01:17:28,126
It's the masses themselves
that push for this,
999
01:17:28,159 --> 01:17:31,263
willfully exchanging
their freedom for security.
1000
01:17:32,195 --> 01:17:37,034
So they can comfortably
return to their workstations
1001
01:17:37,068 --> 01:17:41,172
and continue pulling
levers on the machine
1002
01:17:41,204 --> 01:17:44,742
just as a money God ordained.
1003
01:21:36,039 --> 01:21:38,342
In the end,
it wasn't the so-called communist,
1004
01:21:38,376 --> 01:21:41,412
socialists, anarchists or
whatever counterculture group
1005
01:21:41,445 --> 01:21:45,049
that posed the most serious
argument for the Great Transition.
1006
01:21:45,082 --> 01:21:47,084
It was the environmental
scientist.
1007
01:21:47,118 --> 01:21:49,454
One could debate
the ins and outs of morality,
1008
01:21:49,486 --> 01:21:51,388
public health and human rights,
1009
01:21:51,422 --> 01:21:54,726
but if the habitat goes
all that becomes moot.
1010
01:21:54,758 --> 01:21:56,627
And at the turn
of the 21st century
1011
01:21:56,659 --> 01:22:00,464
our ecological negligence
was pretty embarrassing.
1012
01:22:00,498 --> 01:22:02,266
With great inefficiency
we were using
1013
01:22:02,298 --> 01:22:04,435
far more resources each year
1014
01:22:04,467 --> 01:22:06,269
than the planet produced.
1015
01:22:06,302 --> 01:22:08,739
Had destroyed vast realms
of biodiversity,
1016
01:22:08,772 --> 01:22:11,743
polluted the air, the soil,
the water,
1017
01:22:11,775 --> 01:22:14,745
not only destabilizing
the entire global ecosystem
1018
01:22:14,779 --> 01:22:18,016
but by extension society itself.
1019
01:22:18,048 --> 01:22:22,352
The most common question I get
when teaching this history is,
1020
01:22:22,386 --> 01:22:25,656
"How is it even possible
things could get so bad?
1021
01:22:25,689 --> 01:22:28,226
How could everyone just keep
blindly pulling levers
1022
01:22:28,258 --> 01:22:30,328
on that destructive
economic machine
1023
01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:32,296
and not see what was happening?"
1024
01:22:32,329 --> 01:22:36,100
And it comes down to a kind
of faith-based conditioning,
1025
01:22:36,132 --> 01:22:38,101
a religious pathology
taking the form
1026
01:22:38,135 --> 01:22:40,104
of mass economic behavior.
1027
01:22:40,137 --> 01:22:43,674
The doctrine was
that of universal scarcity.
1028
01:22:43,707 --> 01:22:46,276
People had been taught
to believe that at no time,
1029
01:22:46,310 --> 01:22:49,614
under no circumstance,
can economic balance exist.
1030
01:22:49,646 --> 01:22:52,816
The very idea an
economy could be organized
1031
01:22:52,850 --> 01:22:56,287
to efficiently provide
for everyone while also being
1032
01:22:56,320 --> 01:23:00,058
in balance with the habitat
was a sacrilegious taboo.
1033
01:23:00,091 --> 01:23:03,127
The cult of scarcity and
consumption wasn't having it.
1034
01:23:03,159 --> 01:23:05,229
They considered it
utopian thinking.
1035
01:23:05,262 --> 01:23:08,166
Supporting the myth
that people had infinite wants
1036
01:23:08,199 --> 01:23:11,102
and were accusatively
insatiable.
1037
01:23:11,135 --> 01:23:14,439
Hence, the poor had to exist
and if anything was the problem,
1038
01:23:14,471 --> 01:23:17,307
it must be population
not the system.
1039
01:23:18,275 --> 01:23:22,580
That was the prevailing dogma.
There must be too many people.
1040
01:23:22,613 --> 01:23:25,182
You can't have ecological
balance in a system
1041
01:23:25,216 --> 01:23:28,285
that requires constant
consumer activity to work.
1042
01:23:28,319 --> 01:23:30,521
It's one thing to consume
based on need.
1043
01:23:30,553 --> 01:23:33,790
It's another to consume
because the system demands it.
1044
01:23:33,824 --> 01:23:35,860
And the market system
of economics needed
1045
01:23:35,892 --> 01:23:39,129
constant turnover of goods
to keep and create jobs,
1046
01:23:39,163 --> 01:23:42,100
providing workers, which
of course were also consumers,
1047
01:23:42,132 --> 01:23:44,668
with income to spend back
into the system,
1048
01:23:44,702 --> 01:23:48,106
endlessly repeating the cycle
of cyclical consumption.
1049
01:23:48,138 --> 01:23:50,240
If it didn't repeat
fast enough or slowed,
1050
01:23:50,274 --> 01:23:51,776
the economy contracted.
1051
01:23:51,809 --> 01:23:53,845
Purchasing power
wasn't circulating
1052
01:23:53,878 --> 01:23:56,681
and the society
proceeded to shut down.
1053
01:23:56,713 --> 01:24:00,618
A very unique historical
moment occurred in the early 20th century
1054
01:24:00,650 --> 01:24:05,288
when it was realized that technology
was now creating a good surplus
1055
01:24:05,321 --> 01:24:07,658
and great confusion ensued.
1056
01:24:07,690 --> 01:24:10,794
The problem was this newfound
productive efficiency
1057
01:24:10,828 --> 01:24:13,698
was not being met by people
buying more stuff.
1058
01:24:13,730 --> 01:24:16,133
So two competing
perspectives emerged:
1059
01:24:16,167 --> 01:24:19,770
on one side you had idealists,
envisioning a new era.
1060
01:24:19,802 --> 01:24:22,573
If we can produce
an overall good surplus,
1061
01:24:22,605 --> 01:24:25,575
why not lower the cost
of goods respectively
1062
01:24:25,609 --> 01:24:28,412
reducing work hours and
increased pay in proportion?
1063
01:24:28,445 --> 01:24:31,883
So you can now have say a person
working only two days a week
1064
01:24:31,915 --> 01:24:33,751
without losing
their standard of living
1065
01:24:33,784 --> 01:24:36,454
since the market value
of labor and goods adjusted
1066
01:24:36,486 --> 01:24:38,655
to compensate
for the increased efficiency.
1067
01:24:38,689 --> 01:24:40,857
This logic makes perfect
sense when it comes
1068
01:24:40,891 --> 01:24:43,628
to the basic principle
of supply and demand.
1069
01:24:43,660 --> 01:24:46,864
Suddenly people have more
free time, not buried in debt.
1070
01:24:46,896 --> 01:24:49,633
They can enrich their social
life, family life,
1071
01:24:49,667 --> 01:24:51,703
and pursue the things
that have true meaning.
1072
01:24:52,703 --> 01:24:55,740
Well, that's not
the way it played out
1073
01:24:55,772 --> 01:24:57,542
nor would it ever.
1074
01:24:57,574 --> 01:25:00,544
Which brings us to
the system level perspective
1075
01:25:00,578 --> 01:25:03,614
since the system itself simply
isn't designed inherently
1076
01:25:03,646 --> 01:25:05,783
for steady state equilibrium.
1077
01:25:05,815 --> 01:25:09,519
Market economics is predicated
on a more is better ethic.
1078
01:25:09,552 --> 01:25:11,588
To be competitive in the quest
for market share.
1079
01:25:11,622 --> 01:25:13,658
That's what's incentivized.
1080
01:25:13,690 --> 01:25:16,394
More growth, more sales,
more employees,
1081
01:25:16,427 --> 01:25:21,299
more capital accumulation,
more profit, constant expansion.
1082
01:25:21,332 --> 01:25:23,434
So what happened
was to be expected,
1083
01:25:23,467 --> 01:25:24,969
fortifying a new industry,
1084
01:25:25,002 --> 01:25:26,803
commercial advertising.
1085
01:25:26,837 --> 01:25:28,573
What was once
a simple media service,
1086
01:25:28,605 --> 01:25:31,309
notifying people
of new goods they may need,
1087
01:25:31,342 --> 01:25:34,679
turned into a powerful form
of manipulative propaganda.
1088
01:25:34,712 --> 01:25:38,281
In the later stages, companies
spent more money on advertising
1089
01:25:38,315 --> 01:25:40,751
than they did on research
and development.
1090
01:25:40,784 --> 01:25:44,355
What advertising does is
abuse our social nature
1091
01:25:44,387 --> 01:25:46,790
by making people feel
like they're missing out.
1092
01:25:46,824 --> 01:25:48,726
They're not good
enough without this,
1093
01:25:48,758 --> 01:25:50,962
they're lower in status
without that.
1094
01:25:50,994 --> 01:25:54,731
They feel excluded from others
if they don't own something.
1095
01:25:54,765 --> 01:25:57,235
And as pathetic as
all that sounds it had
1096
01:25:57,267 --> 01:26:00,704
a profound effect on society
with everyone keeping up
1097
01:26:00,738 --> 01:26:04,609
with the Joneses
in a hideous feedback loop.
1098
01:26:04,641 --> 01:26:07,310
And the result
as industrial productivity
1099
01:26:07,343 --> 01:26:10,748
still continued to rise,
people worked more than ever,
1100
01:26:10,780 --> 01:26:13,984
had less free time, were
in staggering amounts of debt,
1101
01:26:14,017 --> 01:26:16,753
and arguably had a lower
standard of living
1102
01:26:16,787 --> 01:26:18,923
when you actually account
for human happiness
1103
01:26:18,955 --> 01:26:21,359
and the level
of stress people endured.
1104
01:26:21,391 --> 01:26:23,660
All to keep
the economic machine moving.
1105
01:26:24,595 --> 01:26:26,998
One thing that's
really interesting in all this,
1106
01:26:27,030 --> 01:26:28,765
is that the economic
system back then
1107
01:26:28,798 --> 01:26:31,968
embraced a fantastic paradox.
1108
01:26:32,002 --> 01:26:33,604
So here you had a model
1109
01:26:33,637 --> 01:26:35,406
that defended itself
by the assumption
1110
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:38,575
of universal scarcity.
Forcing competition,
1111
01:26:38,609 --> 01:26:40,845
oppression, exploitation,
1112
01:26:40,878 --> 01:26:43,781
poverty and so on,
while at the same time
1113
01:26:43,814 --> 01:26:47,851
the entire machine needed
infinite consumption to work.
1114
01:26:47,885 --> 01:26:49,820
Think about that for a moment.
1115
01:26:49,852 --> 01:26:53,423
How do you justify these harsh
outcomes of assumed scarcity
1116
01:26:53,457 --> 01:26:56,526
when the system itself
disregards the idea entirely
1117
01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:59,297
when it comes to the very
mechanics that make it work?
1118
01:26:59,329 --> 01:27:02,365
And the bottom line is
this wasn't an economy at all
1119
01:27:02,399 --> 01:27:05,569
by definition,
it was an anti-economy,
1120
01:27:05,601 --> 01:27:08,638
with human beings functioning
like cancer cells
1121
01:27:08,672 --> 01:27:10,607
eating the Earth alive.
1122
01:27:10,641 --> 01:27:14,412
In systems theory this is known
as a positive feedback loop.
1123
01:27:14,445 --> 01:27:16,480
Don't let that word, positive,
confuse you
1124
01:27:16,512 --> 01:27:18,682
as there's nothing
positive about it.
1125
01:27:18,716 --> 01:27:21,919
It means there's nothing working
to balance system behavior
1126
01:27:21,952 --> 01:27:23,988
to its regulatory environment.
1127
01:27:24,020 --> 01:27:26,423
That environment
in the case of Economics
1128
01:27:26,457 --> 01:27:29,827
is a finite planet
with a delicate ecosystem.
1129
01:27:29,860 --> 01:27:32,897
If respect for scarcity
was taken seriously,
1130
01:27:32,930 --> 01:27:35,499
the goal would be
to focus on efficiency,
1131
01:27:35,531 --> 01:27:37,901
working to reduce resource use,
reduce waste
1132
01:27:37,935 --> 01:27:40,071
in the process
of meeting human needs.
1133
01:27:40,104 --> 01:27:43,039
Manifesting of course a culture
that's mature enough
1134
01:27:43,073 --> 01:27:45,810
to understand the boundaries
of its own existence.
1135
01:27:46,744 --> 01:27:48,713
Truly positive economic metrics
1136
01:27:48,745 --> 01:27:51,082
are the opposite of what
was sought back then.
1137
01:27:51,114 --> 01:27:53,650
Degrowth, so to speak,
would be the goal.
1138
01:27:53,684 --> 01:27:56,419
Doing more with less
and needing less.
1139
01:27:56,453 --> 01:27:59,123
People would go on TV
to give an economic report
1140
01:27:59,155 --> 01:28:02,525
and say something like,
"Great metrics for the economy this month.
1141
01:28:02,559 --> 01:28:05,995
We reduced our use of energy and raw
materials by another three percent.
1142
01:28:06,029 --> 01:28:09,700
Lowering sales once again with
less need for human employment,
1143
01:28:09,732 --> 01:28:12,602
Increasing overall efficiency
by a factor of two.
1144
01:28:12,636 --> 01:28:15,439
We continue to be in homeostatic
balance with the planet
1145
01:28:15,471 --> 01:28:19,008
for yet another year and humanity
has more free time than ever."
1146
01:28:19,042 --> 01:28:20,544
Here's Tom with the weather.
1147
01:28:20,577 --> 01:28:21,712
"Well, it's clear skies
1148
01:28:21,744 --> 01:28:23,079
across the hemispheres.
1149
01:28:23,113 --> 01:28:24,949
The Amazon rainforest
isn't on fire.
1150
01:28:24,981 --> 01:28:27,551
We aren't clogging
the atmosphere with CO2,
1151
01:28:27,583 --> 01:28:29,787
and we haven't seen swarms
of refugees cascading
1152
01:28:29,820 --> 01:28:32,857
across continents in search
of food for some time.
1153
01:28:32,890 --> 01:28:34,792
And the fog of billionaire
douchebaggery
1154
01:28:34,824 --> 01:28:37,761
seems to have cleared a bit.
We do expect some precipitation
1155
01:28:37,794 --> 01:28:40,698
adding to our already
abundant fresh water supply
1156
01:28:40,730 --> 01:28:43,900
further improving topsoil
while global abundance measures
1157
01:28:43,934 --> 01:28:46,937
has everyone sitting pretty
for the foreseeable future."
1158
01:28:48,905 --> 01:28:53,810
Yeah, you would never hear anything
like that, instead the opposite.
1159
01:28:53,843 --> 01:28:57,047
Some dickhead PhD ivy league
market economist
1160
01:28:57,079 --> 01:28:59,149
religious fanatic who literally
1161
01:28:59,182 --> 01:29:02,185
has no clue what the word
economy even means,
1162
01:29:02,218 --> 01:29:04,754
would come on and say,
"Quarterly earnings
1163
01:29:04,788 --> 01:29:07,925
were down last month
in most sectors as GDP slows.
1164
01:29:07,958 --> 01:29:09,927
We're seeing an increasing
in unemployment
1165
01:29:09,959 --> 01:29:11,928
due to the contraction,
but hopefully
1166
01:29:11,962 --> 01:29:14,765
the coming Christmas season
will spark new consumer demand
1167
01:29:14,797 --> 01:29:16,966
while it's anticipated
that the central bank
1168
01:29:16,999 --> 01:29:19,770
will lower interest
rates and buy more bonds
1169
01:29:19,802 --> 01:29:22,739
to increase liquidity
to ease the credit crunch.
1170
01:29:22,772 --> 01:29:25,743
Hopefully this will
improve consumer confidence
1171
01:29:25,775 --> 01:29:28,745
inspiring investors
to reallocate capital
1172
01:29:28,779 --> 01:29:31,080
into da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da."
1173
01:29:31,114 --> 01:29:35,619
Translated this means,
"We need you people to take on more loans,
1174
01:29:35,651 --> 01:29:39,556
go into more debt to buy more
things to create more jobs
1175
01:29:39,589 --> 01:29:42,560
so we can sell more things
and use more of the Earth's
1176
01:29:42,592 --> 01:29:45,662
resources. If we're lucky
industry will improve
1177
01:29:45,695 --> 01:29:48,698
on shortening good life spans
through planned obsolescence.
1178
01:29:48,731 --> 01:29:50,667
Make things impossible
to repair.
1179
01:29:50,700 --> 01:29:53,236
Hopefully more single-use
goods will become the norm
1180
01:29:53,270 --> 01:29:56,674
so people can buy and throw away
at an ever increasing rate
1181
01:29:56,707 --> 01:29:58,142
keeping this shit show going."
1182
01:30:13,022 --> 01:30:15,059
So I want to
shift gears here a bit
1183
01:30:15,092 --> 01:30:18,262
and ask you about your
work in group identity.
1184
01:30:18,294 --> 01:30:21,164
Specifically how it relates
to economic conditions.
1185
01:30:22,598 --> 01:30:25,802
Well, like everything
is complex.
1186
01:30:25,836 --> 01:30:28,204
As we talked about earlier
our social nature
1187
01:30:28,238 --> 01:30:30,975
can get the best of us
and we have some
1188
01:30:31,007 --> 01:30:34,611
interesting evolutionary
wiring when it comes to groups.
1189
01:30:34,645 --> 01:30:37,047
Us and them,
in groups and out groups,
1190
01:30:37,079 --> 01:30:39,883
and perhaps what's
most unique is
1191
01:30:39,917 --> 01:30:42,986
what defines an us
and what defines a them
1192
01:30:43,020 --> 01:30:46,022
is subjective
and culturally dependent.
1193
01:30:46,056 --> 01:30:48,058
If you grow up only being
exposed to people who look
1194
01:30:48,091 --> 01:30:51,095
like you and then you're exposed
to those that don't,
1195
01:30:51,128 --> 01:30:54,098
your brain tends
to fire with apprehension.
1196
01:30:54,131 --> 01:30:57,635
But the same thing also occurs
with something even more trivial
1197
01:30:57,668 --> 01:31:00,271
like baseball caps.
You show people who like
1198
01:31:00,303 --> 01:31:03,806
a certain team photos of that
team and then throw in a photo
1199
01:31:03,839 --> 01:31:07,110
of an opposing team member,
the same thing occurs.
1200
01:31:07,144 --> 01:31:09,113
So for whatever
evolutionary reason,
1201
01:31:09,145 --> 01:31:13,650
we have a propensity to divide
society up and make judgments.
1202
01:31:13,684 --> 01:31:15,886
And there is no value
in it whatsoever.
1203
01:31:15,918 --> 01:31:19,055
It's just dangerous baggage.
1204
01:31:19,088 --> 01:31:20,823
And before the Great Transition,
1205
01:31:20,856 --> 01:31:23,293
because the economy
was fundamentally divisive
1206
01:31:23,327 --> 01:31:25,229
due to its competitive nature,
1207
01:31:25,262 --> 01:31:28,699
bigotry and group oppression
was a huge problem.
1208
01:31:28,731 --> 01:31:31,068
So you have the human species
developing in pockets
1209
01:31:31,101 --> 01:31:34,305
around the world with different
environmental exposures.
1210
01:31:34,337 --> 01:31:36,973
Not only shaping appearance
such as color of skin,
1211
01:31:37,007 --> 01:31:39,977
but also setting in motion
cultural differences
1212
01:31:40,010 --> 01:31:43,213
and as these groups began
to mix it got very messy,
1213
01:31:43,245 --> 01:31:46,083
which is why you see,
especially by the 20th century,
1214
01:31:46,115 --> 01:31:48,918
strong social movements
by people trying to stop
1215
01:31:48,952 --> 01:31:51,922
group oppression,
at least on the legal and political level.
1216
01:31:51,954 --> 01:31:55,059
The demand for gender, ethnic,
sexual orientation,
1217
01:31:55,092 --> 01:31:57,194
and creed equality was constant
1218
01:31:57,226 --> 01:32:00,330
with modest success given
the fact society was still stuck
1219
01:32:00,364 --> 01:32:03,834
in an economic mode
based upon mutual exploitation
1220
01:32:03,867 --> 01:32:06,770
amplifying the tendency
for group antagonism.
1221
01:32:06,802 --> 01:32:09,038
But there was a side
effect to all of this:
1222
01:32:09,071 --> 01:32:11,208
rather than seeking
equality to neutralize
1223
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:14,778
the group identity problem,
many chose to embrace it.
1224
01:32:14,811 --> 01:32:18,248
They took what was an artificial
construct imposed upon them
1225
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:19,984
and defined themselves by it.
1226
01:32:20,883 --> 01:32:23,052
For example, someone descended
1227
01:32:23,086 --> 01:32:25,321
from the African slave
trade in America
1228
01:32:25,355 --> 01:32:29,360
is only a black person via the
construct of being called so.
1229
01:32:29,392 --> 01:32:31,895
There is no such thing
as a black person
1230
01:32:31,927 --> 01:32:34,097
just as there's no
such thing as a grey person,
1231
01:32:34,131 --> 01:32:37,200
just as there is no
such thing as a white person.
1232
01:32:37,234 --> 01:32:39,169
These are all social constructs
1233
01:32:39,202 --> 01:32:42,205
that have invented to
artificially categorize people.
1234
01:32:43,205 --> 01:32:44,807
And the same applies to culture,
1235
01:32:44,841 --> 01:32:47,111
just as there is no such
thing as a white person,
1236
01:32:47,144 --> 01:32:49,646
there is no such thing
as an Italian person
1237
01:32:49,680 --> 01:32:53,050
or a Buddhist person or an Irish
person or a Jewish person.
1238
01:32:53,083 --> 01:32:56,787
It is one thing to have
a valued practice, meditation,
1239
01:32:56,820 --> 01:33:00,790
or sense of philosophy that
inspires you and educates you.
1240
01:33:00,824 --> 01:33:05,294
History is rich with beautiful
traditions across many belief systems.
1241
01:33:05,328 --> 01:33:08,899
Dogma aside religion itself
helps to serve as a kind
1242
01:33:08,931 --> 01:33:12,836
of gateway into our spiritual
and intellectual evolution.
1243
01:33:12,869 --> 01:33:15,005
Finding meaning in meditation,
1244
01:33:15,038 --> 01:33:17,841
or putting up a Christmas tree
or lighting the menorah
1245
01:33:17,873 --> 01:33:22,078
creates ritualistic connection that
can have great personal meeting.
1246
01:33:22,111 --> 01:33:25,214
But engaging Buddhist practice
doesn't make you Buddhist.
1247
01:33:25,248 --> 01:33:28,152
Being born from a bloodline in
Italy doesn't mean you're an Italian
1248
01:33:28,185 --> 01:33:31,088
and going to church
doesn't mean you're Christian.
1249
01:33:31,120 --> 01:33:33,257
The moment you go
from a person that enjoys
1250
01:33:33,289 --> 01:33:35,693
the practice
of something to saying,
1251
01:33:35,726 --> 01:33:37,695
"I am this or that,"
1252
01:33:37,727 --> 01:33:41,230
is the moment you draw dangerous
lines through the species.
1253
01:33:41,263 --> 01:33:43,132
Taking such pride
in your ethnic,
1254
01:33:43,165 --> 01:33:45,002
religious,
or regional background
1255
01:33:45,034 --> 01:33:47,904
creates an identity
with the group by label
1256
01:33:47,937 --> 01:33:51,208
and it is fundamentally
elitist and bigoted by nature.
1257
01:33:52,175 --> 01:33:54,912
There is only one race,
the human race.
1258
01:33:54,945 --> 01:33:56,980
And within the confines
of that fact
1259
01:33:57,012 --> 01:33:59,082
to separate yourself any further
1260
01:33:59,115 --> 01:34:01,452
leads to absolutely
nothing positive.
1261
01:35:29,471 --> 01:35:30,373
Kike.
1262
01:35:31,842 --> 01:35:33,877
No, looks more like a wop.
1263
01:35:33,909 --> 01:35:36,245
Yeah greaseball dago to be sure.
1264
01:35:36,279 --> 01:35:38,115
Just another Eurotrash wetback.
1265
01:35:38,147 --> 01:35:40,050
Cracker guinea freeloader.
1266
01:35:40,083 --> 01:35:42,119
And look at those clothes.
1267
01:35:42,151 --> 01:35:44,488
A Nancy Drew Becky
wanna be Stacy.
1268
01:35:44,520 --> 01:35:46,956
Looking for her chad
that never comes.
1269
01:35:46,989 --> 01:35:49,926
No doubt, a tree hugging,
dirt worshipping feminazi.
1270
01:35:49,959 --> 01:35:52,261
Soy boy beta cuck magnet.
1271
01:35:52,294 --> 01:35:56,600
A card-carrying purple haired,
muff diving, spook loving.
1272
01:35:56,632 --> 01:35:58,868
Self-righteous socialist pinko.
1273
01:35:58,901 --> 01:36:01,471
Coloring in her little
book with her junglebunny.
1274
01:36:01,503 --> 01:36:03,841
Towelhead libtard comrades.
1275
01:36:03,873 --> 01:36:07,977
Just a sea of bleeding-heart social
justice warrior welfare queens.
1276
01:36:08,011 --> 01:36:13,115
Bootlicking, anti-freedom
globalist, vegan red zombie.
1277
01:36:13,149 --> 01:36:15,319
A communist snowflake
cumdumpster.
1278
01:36:15,351 --> 01:36:18,921
So just move back to Cuba
with all the other crybaby.
1279
01:36:18,954 --> 01:36:20,390
Regressive, leftist.
1280
01:36:20,422 --> 01:36:22,158
Marxist, Antifa.
1281
01:36:22,191 --> 01:36:23,459
Utopianists.
1282
01:38:20,409 --> 01:38:25,481
- Break time.
- Yeah, I need to zone out for a bit.
1283
01:38:26,548 --> 01:38:29,519
This final programming
is melting my brain.
1284
01:38:32,055 --> 01:38:35,492
- What's this?
- Good question.
1285
01:38:35,525 --> 01:38:38,428
Some old film
by this guy, Joseph.
1286
01:38:38,461 --> 01:38:41,231
It's like an abstract
social commentary.
1287
01:38:41,263 --> 01:38:42,699
I haven't quite figured it out.
1288
01:38:45,034 --> 01:38:46,235
Looks pretentious.
1289
01:38:48,570 --> 01:38:50,039
How's the great debate?
1290
01:38:50,073 --> 01:38:51,709
That's what I'm going
to find out.
1291
01:38:54,377 --> 01:38:56,146
I'm sorry.
1292
01:38:56,178 --> 01:38:58,781
I thought we were
trying to save the world.
1293
01:38:58,815 --> 01:39:00,617
Everything's ahead of schedule.
1294
01:39:00,650 --> 01:39:03,387
And I can't do much more without
the satellite coordinates.
1295
01:39:03,419 --> 01:39:05,654
- Plus this is getting good.
- Hm-mm.
1296
01:39:05,687 --> 01:39:07,790
According to the script, looks
like John's about to school
1297
01:39:07,824 --> 01:39:09,593
Simon on the nature
of hierarchy.
1298
01:39:11,761 --> 01:39:14,765
Wait, how is it we're
seeing both in the shot at once.
1299
01:39:14,797 --> 01:39:16,732
The camera links to his eye.
1300
01:39:16,766 --> 01:39:20,337
Shh. Audiences don't
usually notice things like that.
1301
01:39:20,369 --> 01:39:24,673
And besides where do you see
equality in the animal kingdom?
1302
01:39:24,707 --> 01:39:26,376
No one's equal, John.
1303
01:39:26,409 --> 01:39:29,046
And it would be painfully
boring if they were.
1304
01:39:29,079 --> 01:39:30,647
Humans are diverse.
1305
01:39:30,680 --> 01:39:32,548
Everyone has
different capabilities,
1306
01:39:32,582 --> 01:39:35,485
strengths, weaknesses, talents.
1307
01:39:35,517 --> 01:39:37,486
The push for social equality
and human rights
1308
01:39:37,520 --> 01:39:39,623
is about how that diversity
is understood.
1309
01:39:40,556 --> 01:39:42,291
And you've seemed to think
people should only be valued
1310
01:39:42,324 --> 01:39:44,327
by how well they compete
in the business game
1311
01:39:44,360 --> 01:39:46,696
as if the violence spread
between the rich and the poor
1312
01:39:46,729 --> 01:39:48,632
reflects objective human worth.
1313
01:39:48,664 --> 01:39:52,202
John,
I amuse myself with the notion
1314
01:39:52,235 --> 01:39:55,305
of the money God because
it isn't far from the truth.
1315
01:39:55,337 --> 01:39:59,341
Some system has to exist
to divide up a scarce world
1316
01:39:59,374 --> 01:40:03,345
and nature has spoken as
to what that system must be.
1317
01:40:03,378 --> 01:40:06,515
Those who reach the top
of the pyramid deserve it,
1318
01:40:06,548 --> 01:40:09,185
not because you
or I think it's right,
1319
01:40:09,218 --> 01:40:12,489
but because that's
what nature is selecting for.
1320
01:40:12,521 --> 01:40:14,658
So nature prefers sociopaths
and psychopaths
1321
01:40:14,690 --> 01:40:17,126
to guide the species?
Because those are the dominating
1322
01:40:17,159 --> 01:40:18,761
traits
of the ruling class today.
1323
01:40:18,794 --> 01:40:21,832
The system is
as the system does.
1324
01:40:21,864 --> 01:40:24,233
Is that what the Malthusian
Mandate is about?
1325
01:40:24,266 --> 01:40:26,336
To then select out
the poor and weak.
1326
01:40:27,403 --> 01:40:29,272
We'll get to the mandate
in a moment.
1327
01:40:30,739 --> 01:40:33,409
I'm still bothered
by your denial of the fact
1328
01:40:33,443 --> 01:40:37,314
our social system reflects
our true biological nature.
1329
01:40:37,346 --> 01:40:41,150
And if this revolution you
speak of did magically occur,
1330
01:40:41,184 --> 01:40:43,520
it would just be a matter
of time before the innate
1331
01:40:43,552 --> 01:40:48,190
compulsion towards social
dominance prevailed yet again.
1332
01:40:48,223 --> 01:40:52,261
Deep down, John, the slaves
don't want to be free.
1333
01:40:52,294 --> 01:40:54,565
They want to be slave owners.
1334
01:40:55,899 --> 01:40:56,767
Nice one.
1335
01:40:58,333 --> 01:41:00,203
Too bad history paints
a different picture.
1336
01:41:01,303 --> 01:41:02,838
Our hierarchies have remained
1337
01:41:02,872 --> 01:41:05,609
constant throughout
recorded civilization.
1338
01:41:05,641 --> 01:41:08,544
For perhaps the last
12,000 years, sure.
1339
01:41:08,578 --> 01:41:10,347
But you know as well as I do,
before the discovery
1340
01:41:10,379 --> 01:41:12,781
of agriculture,
there was no such thing.
1341
01:41:12,815 --> 01:41:15,352
Ninety-nine percent of human
history has been egalitarian.
1342
01:41:15,385 --> 01:41:18,187
I said civilization, John.
1343
01:41:18,221 --> 01:41:20,656
Meandering
hunter-gatherer tribes
1344
01:41:20,690 --> 01:41:24,895
chucking spears and eating
grubs isn't civilization.
1345
01:41:24,927 --> 01:41:26,596
How contemporacist of you.
1346
01:41:27,596 --> 01:41:31,233
Yet 20th century study of
numerous hunter-gatherer tribes,
1347
01:41:31,266 --> 01:41:34,236
those still surviving in
remote areas just as they did
1348
01:41:34,270 --> 01:41:36,806
thousands of years prior,
actually show socially
1349
01:41:36,838 --> 01:41:40,943
rich cultures. Adult life
spans not far from ours.
1350
01:41:40,976 --> 01:41:43,613
Relatively peaceful
in balance with nature.
1351
01:41:43,645 --> 01:41:48,250
No leaders, no group hierarchy,
no inequality.
1352
01:41:48,284 --> 01:41:52,422
To argue today's society is somehow
more civilized is dubious at best.
1353
01:41:52,454 --> 01:41:54,658
Well, then perhaps
you can encourage
1354
01:41:54,690 --> 01:41:56,559
all your enlightened followers
1355
01:41:56,592 --> 01:41:58,861
to come together
and live out their utopian
1356
01:41:58,895 --> 01:42:00,797
fantasy in the Amazon jungle.
1357
01:42:00,829 --> 01:42:03,533
You mean what's left of it?
What hasn't been destroyed
1358
01:42:03,565 --> 01:42:05,769
by the supposedly advanced
culture that's ravaged
1359
01:42:05,802 --> 01:42:07,938
the natural world
into total decline
1360
01:42:07,971 --> 01:42:11,908
in the name of infinite
consumption and economic growth?
1361
01:42:11,940 --> 01:42:14,743
And the point here, Simon,
is hunter-gatherer cultures
1362
01:42:14,776 --> 01:42:16,879
are evidence of human
variability.
1363
01:42:16,913 --> 01:42:19,982
variability which contradicts
your vague biological determinism.
1364
01:42:20,016 --> 01:42:22,519
John, just because history shows
1365
01:42:22,552 --> 01:42:25,922
a range of behaviors across
time doesn't prove anything.
1366
01:42:25,954 --> 01:42:29,225
The introduction
of agriculture indeed changed
1367
01:42:29,258 --> 01:42:33,462
the human condition because
it triggered a dormant trait
1368
01:42:33,495 --> 01:42:35,899
in our evolutionary psychology.
1369
01:42:35,931 --> 01:42:38,667
A trait that wasn't
expressed before.
1370
01:42:38,700 --> 01:42:39,735
How?
1371
01:42:39,769 --> 01:42:41,370
By the advent
1372
01:42:41,404 --> 01:42:43,339
of economic surplus.
1373
01:42:43,373 --> 01:42:44,941
Economic surplus.
1374
01:42:44,973 --> 01:42:48,477
Resources and goods
that could be stored,
1375
01:42:48,511 --> 01:42:50,946
hoarded, stockpiled, owned,
1376
01:42:50,980 --> 01:42:54,618
traded, controlled,
leveraged for personal gain.
1377
01:42:54,650 --> 01:42:58,988
A phenomenon that was impossible
in a hunter-gatherer reality.
1378
01:42:59,021 --> 01:43:02,591
And it was that realization
that sparked our now
1379
01:43:02,624 --> 01:43:05,995
omnipresent drive toward
dominance and hierarchy.
1380
01:43:09,399 --> 01:43:10,367
I didn't know that.
1381
01:43:11,368 --> 01:43:14,971
Genetic dormancy
of an evolutionary expression.
1382
01:43:15,003 --> 01:43:17,406
Needed an environmental trigger,
1383
01:43:17,440 --> 01:43:20,477
psychological drive,
but then morphs into complex
1384
01:43:20,510 --> 01:43:22,878
oppressive institutions
and structures.
1385
01:43:23,812 --> 01:43:27,484
Compelling. Intuitive.
Plausible.
1386
01:43:28,918 --> 01:43:30,587
Too bad it's total bullshit.
1387
01:43:30,619 --> 01:43:32,821
All simpleton, pedestrian,
bio-deterministic
1388
01:43:32,855 --> 01:43:35,558
conclusions that are nothing
more than elitist projections.
1389
01:43:35,591 --> 01:43:39,529
You think it's wise to insult me
given this circumstance, John.
1390
01:43:40,596 --> 01:43:41,498
And listen.
1391
01:44:12,494 --> 01:44:14,698
Agriculture did change
everything.
1392
01:44:14,730 --> 01:44:16,899
But not because of someone's
dormant psychological
1393
01:44:16,932 --> 01:44:19,836
drive magically triggered
by economic surplus.
1394
01:44:19,869 --> 01:44:22,772
It was about what such a society
technically required,
1395
01:44:22,805 --> 01:44:26,976
dramatically shifting incentives and
very nature of human relationships.
1396
01:44:27,008 --> 01:44:30,346
Think about it.
First you need the proper land,
1397
01:44:30,379 --> 01:44:32,548
water,
the right conditions to farm,
1398
01:44:32,582 --> 01:44:34,651
then creating settlements
around those fruitful areas
1399
01:44:34,684 --> 01:44:36,619
as opposed to foraging.
1400
01:44:36,651 --> 01:44:39,588
And since land quality varies
some settlements will prosper
1401
01:44:39,622 --> 01:44:42,459
due to their geography
and some will falter.
1402
01:44:42,492 --> 01:44:44,961
So what happens when a group
finds itself with failed crops
1403
01:44:44,994 --> 01:44:46,996
and no way
to survive the winter?
1404
01:44:47,029 --> 01:44:48,598
They may trade
with other groups,
1405
01:44:48,631 --> 01:44:50,600
building out
what we call a market today,
1406
01:44:50,632 --> 01:44:53,669
giving way to the idea
of property and so on.
1407
01:44:53,703 --> 01:44:55,839
Or if they have
nothing to trade, desperate,
1408
01:44:55,872 --> 01:44:59,743
they may invade, they may steal,
compete,
1409
01:44:59,775 --> 01:45:03,145
establishing the need
for protection, laws, armies,
1410
01:45:03,178 --> 01:45:04,914
the state institution itself.
1411
01:45:05,882 --> 01:45:08,518
At the same time people
begin to notice the imbalance
1412
01:45:08,551 --> 01:45:10,887
and power
of this new propertied reality,
1413
01:45:10,919 --> 01:45:14,524
rationalizing the hoarding of wealth
for the sake of future security.
1414
01:45:15,425 --> 01:45:19,895
Hence the birth of inequity,
poverty, socio-economic class.
1415
01:45:20,829 --> 01:45:24,900
Simon, every major structural
aspect of society today,
1416
01:45:24,934 --> 01:45:27,971
from ownership to trade,
to nation states
1417
01:45:28,003 --> 01:45:31,039
to institutional warfare
at the competitive ethic
1418
01:45:31,073 --> 01:45:36,178
to vast economic inequality and
power hierarchy was predictable.
1419
01:45:36,212 --> 01:45:37,647
Snowballing ever since.
1420
01:45:38,814 --> 01:45:43,787
So your theory is if you change
the structure of society
1421
01:45:43,820 --> 01:45:45,789
you change the human condition?
1422
01:45:47,190 --> 01:45:50,693
- There's no going back, John.
- No one's going back.
1423
01:45:50,726 --> 01:45:52,162
We're going forward.
1424
01:45:52,195 --> 01:45:54,497
Humanity has been trapped
in this immature stage
1425
01:45:54,529 --> 01:45:56,899
for too long, not to mention
the sickness manifest
1426
01:45:56,932 --> 01:46:00,602
by this endless striving towards
social status is palpable.
1427
01:46:00,636 --> 01:46:02,472
Children,
when who asked what they want
1428
01:46:02,504 --> 01:46:06,074
to be when they grow up say,
"Rich and famous."
1429
01:46:06,107 --> 01:46:08,977
How the most wealthy nations,
those beacons of supposed
1430
01:46:09,011 --> 01:46:12,649
success are by far
the most mentally ill.
1431
01:46:12,681 --> 01:46:16,218
People don't know who they are,
where they're going
1432
01:46:16,252 --> 01:46:17,720
and what they're doing.
1433
01:46:17,753 --> 01:46:19,990
Lost in a perversion
of social image.
1434
01:46:20,890 --> 01:46:24,127
A spectacle that no longer
has any relationship
1435
01:46:24,159 --> 01:46:25,595
to anything real.
1436
01:50:39,914 --> 01:50:42,284
So I'd like to go back
to the subject of inequality.
1437
01:50:42,318 --> 01:50:44,454
But this time
to understand the mechanics
1438
01:50:44,486 --> 01:50:47,723
of the oppression how the
hierarchy was kept in place?
1439
01:50:47,757 --> 01:50:49,726
Okay, let's start with money.
1440
01:50:51,994 --> 01:50:54,831
Money was the infrastructure
of the market economy
1441
01:50:54,864 --> 01:50:56,899
and how it was created
and moved around
1442
01:50:56,931 --> 01:50:59,836
was instrumental
to lower class oppression.
1443
01:50:59,869 --> 01:51:03,206
So you had these
things called banks and they had
1444
01:51:03,239 --> 01:51:07,043
the ungodly power to make
abstract value out of nothing.
1445
01:51:07,075 --> 01:51:11,046
If a person needed money
for a home or car or business,
1446
01:51:11,079 --> 01:51:14,216
they went to their local bank
and applied for a loan,
1447
01:51:14,249 --> 01:51:16,819
and if approved
the person signed a contract
1448
01:51:16,851 --> 01:51:20,822
binding them to return that
loaned money at a future date.
1449
01:51:20,855 --> 01:51:23,024
Though, it's not really a lone
1450
01:51:23,057 --> 01:51:26,294
in the sense of somebody lending
out what they already owned.
1451
01:51:26,328 --> 01:51:28,964
Contrary to what most assumed
banks didn't loan out money
1452
01:51:28,998 --> 01:51:32,268
they actually had,
they instead created new money
1453
01:51:32,301 --> 01:51:35,471
in the form of credit
backed by debt.
1454
01:51:35,503 --> 01:51:37,973
So on one side money represented
1455
01:51:38,007 --> 01:51:40,276
a store of value
people could spend,
1456
01:51:40,309 --> 01:51:43,945
while on the other it was
a liability made out of debt.
1457
01:51:43,979 --> 01:51:46,348
In other words,
for every dollar that existed,
1458
01:51:46,382 --> 01:51:48,484
there was also
a debt of a dollar
1459
01:51:48,516 --> 01:51:50,919
owed to some bank somewhere.
1460
01:51:50,953 --> 01:51:53,289
That was how money was
brought into existence
1461
01:51:53,321 --> 01:51:57,827
and when someone repaid the loan
debt the money then disappeared.
1462
01:51:57,860 --> 01:52:01,030
That understood any
kind of service in that economy
1463
01:52:01,062 --> 01:52:03,800
sought a profit,
and in the case of a loan,
1464
01:52:03,833 --> 01:52:06,869
that came in the form
of a fee called interest.
1465
01:52:06,901 --> 01:52:10,205
So the borrower not only had
to eventually repay the loan
1466
01:52:10,239 --> 01:52:13,009
but also the interest
charged as well.
1467
01:52:14,043 --> 01:52:16,312
Imagine an
island of a hundred people,
1468
01:52:16,345 --> 01:52:19,882
they decide to organize
themselves through market economy.
1469
01:52:19,914 --> 01:52:22,385
They plop a bank down
and each of them take a loan
1470
01:52:22,418 --> 01:52:25,922
for 100 credits of money
at ten percent interest.
1471
01:52:25,954 --> 01:52:28,557
So they all now have
10,000 credits total
1472
01:52:28,591 --> 01:52:31,227
in their money supply
and they begin to work
1473
01:52:31,260 --> 01:52:34,196
in exchange creating
economic activity.
1474
01:52:34,230 --> 01:52:36,432
When the time comes
to pay back the loan,
1475
01:52:36,464 --> 01:52:40,101
they realized they owe
not only the 100 credits,
1476
01:52:40,135 --> 01:52:43,972
but the ten percent interest,
so 110 credits.
1477
01:52:44,006 --> 01:52:46,042
Same for the whole society,
1478
01:52:46,074 --> 01:52:49,077
in total everyone on
the island now owes the bank
1479
01:52:49,110 --> 01:52:51,079
11,000 credits.
1480
01:52:51,113 --> 01:52:55,318
But yet, only 10,000 actually
exist in the money supply.
1481
01:52:55,351 --> 01:53:00,156
There is now more depth
owed than money in existence
1482
01:53:00,189 --> 01:53:02,024
due to the interest charged.
1483
01:53:02,056 --> 01:53:04,961
So three things can happen:
one, those short
1484
01:53:04,994 --> 01:53:07,230
can take on more loans
to temporarily cover
1485
01:53:07,262 --> 01:53:09,397
the old ones postponing
the problem.
1486
01:53:09,431 --> 01:53:12,268
Two, people could ramp up
competitive trade
1487
01:53:12,301 --> 01:53:14,337
increasing economic activity
1488
01:53:14,369 --> 01:53:17,038
to try to get enough
from others to cover the debt,
1489
01:53:17,071 --> 01:53:20,877
displacing the debt responsibility
like a game of musical chairs.
1490
01:53:20,909 --> 01:53:24,279
Or three, the bank comes in
and takes real property
1491
01:53:24,312 --> 01:53:26,414
to compensate
for the outstanding debt,
1492
01:53:26,448 --> 01:53:30,218
which is inevitably what happens
somewhere down the line anyway.
1493
01:53:30,252 --> 01:53:31,954
Wait, that,
that can't be right.
1494
01:53:31,986 --> 01:53:34,356
That would just be a system
of organized theft.
1495
01:53:34,390 --> 01:53:38,895
Yes, banks were vehicles
of creation on one side,
1496
01:53:38,927 --> 01:53:40,229
and a system of organized theft
1497
01:53:40,262 --> 01:53:42,131
and class oppression
on the other.
1498
01:53:42,163 --> 01:53:45,200
But in a large complex
global society, one based
1499
01:53:45,234 --> 01:53:48,169
on economic growth,
money moves so rapidly
1500
01:53:48,203 --> 01:53:51,007
it was very hard for the mechanics
of this to be recognized.
1501
01:53:51,039 --> 01:53:53,642
Obscured by things
like the boom-and-bust cycle,
1502
01:53:53,676 --> 01:53:56,145
monetary expansion
and contraction.
1503
01:53:57,046 --> 01:54:00,048
- Mm, please continue.
- So back to our island again.
1504
01:54:01,350 --> 01:54:03,686
But this time
for the sake of simplicity,
1505
01:54:03,718 --> 01:54:06,521
let's remove the interest
fee from the equation,
1506
01:54:06,555 --> 01:54:10,559
and focus only on the outcomes
of competitive trade itself.
1507
01:54:10,592 --> 01:54:13,663
So the 10,000 credits
of money has been moving around
1508
01:54:13,695 --> 01:54:15,997
through trade, labor investment,
1509
01:54:16,030 --> 01:54:18,434
starting businesses,
hiring employees,
1510
01:54:18,467 --> 01:54:21,003
and as is inevitable
to the game,
1511
01:54:21,035 --> 01:54:24,506
some businesses will outperform
winning disproportion income,
1512
01:54:24,539 --> 01:54:27,510
while others will fall
behind losing income.
1513
01:54:27,543 --> 01:54:29,979
And naturally
those with more money
1514
01:54:30,012 --> 01:54:32,982
can then increase
their gaming advantage becoming
1515
01:54:33,015 --> 01:54:37,419
ever more competitive and of
course more prone to keep winning.
1516
01:54:37,453 --> 01:54:40,056
As the old adage went,
the rich get richer
1517
01:54:40,088 --> 01:54:41,723
and the poor get poorer.
1518
01:54:41,757 --> 01:54:44,393
A small business with limited
means simply can't compete
1519
01:54:44,426 --> 01:54:47,730
with a larger one that can
outperform them in the same service
1520
01:54:47,762 --> 01:54:50,699
due to having more
resources to work with.
1521
01:54:50,732 --> 01:54:53,468
So on our Island,
we see an inevitable
1522
01:54:53,502 --> 01:54:56,571
point in time where say ten
percent of that population
1523
01:54:56,605 --> 01:54:59,542
managed to acquire
90% of the island's wealth
1524
01:54:59,574 --> 01:55:01,443
while the other
90% of the population
1525
01:55:01,476 --> 01:55:03,578
now has only ten percent.
1526
01:55:03,611 --> 01:55:06,716
By the way, this isn't
some arbitrary assumption,
1527
01:55:06,748 --> 01:55:08,984
this can be modeled
mathematically.
1528
01:55:09,017 --> 01:55:12,087
The dynamics of mass
competitive trade in any society
1529
01:55:12,120 --> 01:55:15,024
always moves toward
disequilibrium.
1530
01:55:15,056 --> 01:55:17,726
So back to my point,
when you put this together
1531
01:55:17,760 --> 01:55:21,564
a displaced debt burden
and the application of interest,
1532
01:55:21,596 --> 01:55:24,432
you can begin to see
the insidiousness.
1533
01:55:24,466 --> 01:55:27,570
An economic process based upon
competitive advantage and trade
1534
01:55:27,602 --> 01:55:31,239
that inevitably consolidates
wealth increasing that advantage.
1535
01:55:31,272 --> 01:55:33,542
Coupled with a financial
system that is charging
1536
01:55:33,574 --> 01:55:36,778
interest on loans that can
never be fully repaid.
1537
01:55:36,811 --> 01:55:39,748
So it's no surprise
that in the early 21st century
1538
01:55:39,781 --> 01:55:43,119
the global economy had
about 200 trillion in debt
1539
01:55:43,151 --> 01:55:45,654
and only 80 trillion
in outstanding currency.
1540
01:55:45,686 --> 01:55:47,589
While in the United States,
then considered
1541
01:55:47,623 --> 01:55:49,558
the richest nation
on the planet,
1542
01:55:49,591 --> 01:55:53,396
half of the population had less
than 1,000 dollars in savings
1543
01:55:53,428 --> 01:55:56,731
while also spending more each
year than they actually earned.
1544
01:55:56,765 --> 01:55:58,434
Just trying to keep up.
1545
01:55:59,601 --> 01:56:02,071
While on the global level
in nearly 50 percent
1546
01:56:02,104 --> 01:56:04,406
of the population lived
in poverty on less
1547
01:56:04,440 --> 01:56:08,544
than $5.50 a day
as roughly 30 individuals.
1548
01:56:08,577 --> 01:56:14,249
Yes, 30, owned more wealth than
the bottom half, 3.6 billion.
1549
01:56:15,284 --> 01:56:17,787
Now, there are plenty
of other intermitted things
1550
01:56:17,820 --> 01:56:19,555
that contribute
to this disparity.
1551
01:56:20,455 --> 01:56:22,624
Offshore tax havens
for the rich.
1552
01:56:22,658 --> 01:56:26,095
The mythology of trickle-down
economics were government favors
1553
01:56:26,128 --> 01:56:29,532
business over the public's
well-being, gaming strategies
1554
01:56:29,565 --> 01:56:32,835
to restrict the power
of unions and keep wages low,
1555
01:56:32,868 --> 01:56:35,104
various shenanigans
related to this thing
1556
01:56:35,137 --> 01:56:37,339
called the stock market,
1557
01:56:37,372 --> 01:56:41,077
but the financial system
and its use of depth is really
1558
01:56:41,110 --> 01:56:42,578
the foundation of it all.
1559
01:56:42,610 --> 01:56:44,312
Wow, you, you,
1560
01:56:44,346 --> 01:56:46,315
you would expect riots
in the streets if people
1561
01:56:46,347 --> 01:56:49,185
- really understood that.
- Well, there eventually were.
1562
01:56:49,217 --> 01:56:51,586
But again, at the time,
people just couldn't see it.
1563
01:56:51,619 --> 01:56:55,256
But, no, it wasn't until
the complete abolition of debt
1564
01:56:55,289 --> 01:56:58,694
on all levels that human slavery
finally ended on this planet.
1565
01:56:59,861 --> 01:57:02,565
Speaking of
awareness I'd like to talk
1566
01:57:02,597 --> 01:57:05,234
a little about
how the awakening started.
1567
01:57:05,266 --> 01:57:07,202
I know Concordia
was instrumental
1568
01:57:07,235 --> 01:57:10,238
to technical change later on,
but what about before that
1569
01:57:10,271 --> 01:57:12,841
perhaps starting
in 20th century?
1570
01:57:12,874 --> 01:57:14,877
Well, it's sporadic.
1571
01:57:14,909 --> 01:57:16,678
The largest move
against this system was
1572
01:57:16,712 --> 01:57:19,615
the Bolshevik Revolution
in Russia inspired by a man
1573
01:57:19,647 --> 01:57:22,618
named Karl Marx, that brought
about the Soviet Union
1574
01:57:22,650 --> 01:57:24,787
which existed
for a couple decades.
1575
01:57:24,820 --> 01:57:27,289
And it employed a top-down
regulation system
1576
01:57:27,321 --> 01:57:29,458
they called communism
but it proved to be
1577
01:57:29,490 --> 01:57:31,392
inefficient and oppressive.
1578
01:57:31,426 --> 01:57:34,396
It was also wildly opposed
by Western capitalist powers,
1579
01:57:34,428 --> 01:57:38,300
which sought to destroy it
by any means necessary.
1580
01:57:38,333 --> 01:57:41,837
Criticism was generally infused
with civil rights movements.
1581
01:57:41,869 --> 01:57:44,873
For example, Mahatma Gandhi,
who helped liberate India
1582
01:57:44,906 --> 01:57:48,244
from Colonial rule,
was notably against the system
1583
01:57:48,276 --> 01:57:50,678
recognizing
its creation of poverty.
1584
01:57:50,712 --> 01:57:54,917
Once saying that "poverty was
the worst form of violence."
1585
01:57:54,949 --> 01:57:56,618
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
1586
01:57:56,651 --> 01:57:59,187
was also steadfast
against capitalism,
1587
01:57:59,221 --> 01:58:01,824
seeing it as a part
of a system of oppression
1588
01:58:01,856 --> 01:58:05,461
fueling racism.
Same for the Black Panther Party
1589
01:58:05,494 --> 01:58:08,564
that had chapters all over
the world in the 1960s.
1590
01:58:08,596 --> 01:58:11,432
You also had more academic
minded organizations
1591
01:58:11,466 --> 01:58:13,334
like the technocracy movement
1592
01:58:13,368 --> 01:58:16,504
largely inspired by famous
economist, Thorstein Veblen,
1593
01:58:16,538 --> 01:58:18,274
who recognize that a society
1594
01:58:18,306 --> 01:58:21,176
run by business people
was a very bad idea.
1595
01:58:21,944 --> 01:58:26,315
And by the 21st century
when economic inequality was reaching
1596
01:58:26,347 --> 01:58:30,519
unprecedented extremes coupled
with a growing ecological crisis
1597
01:58:30,552 --> 01:58:33,322
many more were realizing
something had to be done.
1598
01:58:34,789 --> 01:58:38,493
But there is one that sticks
out to me in the context
1599
01:58:38,526 --> 01:58:41,430
of the value system disorder
present at the time.
1600
01:58:41,462 --> 01:58:44,232
An iconic speech given
by a man named Omar Padillo.
1601
01:58:44,999 --> 01:58:48,236
Omar was born in poverty
in Los Angeles, California.
1602
01:58:48,270 --> 01:58:50,239
And as a young man,
he just happened to win
1603
01:58:50,271 --> 01:58:54,376
the largest state lottery
ever in 2037 and he decided
1604
01:58:54,409 --> 01:58:58,480
to use that money to solve the vast
homeless crisis in his hometown.
1605
01:58:58,512 --> 01:59:02,251
He funded non-profits,
established housing treatment centers.
1606
01:59:02,284 --> 01:59:03,886
Not only getting people
off the streets,
1607
01:59:03,918 --> 01:59:06,488
but really helping them
recover and acclimate.
1608
01:59:06,520 --> 01:59:08,656
Something that hadn't
been done before.
1609
01:59:08,690 --> 01:59:11,427
And they gave him
a Nobel Peace Prize for it.
1610
01:59:11,459 --> 01:59:13,895
But what he had
to say during his speech
1611
01:59:13,928 --> 01:59:15,864
wasn't exactly
what they expected.
1612
01:59:39,020 --> 01:59:40,455
Thank you.
1613
01:59:40,489 --> 01:59:41,757
And while I'm happy for those
1614
01:59:41,789 --> 01:59:43,758
we have helped
over the past few years,
1615
01:59:43,792 --> 01:59:47,762
taking about 75,000 homeless
off the Los Angeles streets,
1616
01:59:47,796 --> 01:59:50,432
I must say that the problem
1617
01:59:50,464 --> 01:59:52,900
at hand runs much deeper
than the poverty
1618
01:59:52,934 --> 01:59:56,437
we see around us.
When I created this program,
1619
01:59:56,471 --> 01:59:59,875
focusing on just
this one regional crises,
1620
01:59:59,908 --> 02:00:02,678
my long-term hope was that
it would set a new precedent.
1621
02:00:02,711 --> 02:00:04,713
That those
who disproportionately benefit
1622
02:00:04,745 --> 02:00:08,350
in this world would be inspired,
step up
1623
02:00:08,382 --> 02:00:11,319
and help take responsibility
for the plight
1624
02:00:11,352 --> 02:00:12,887
of the less fortunate.
1625
02:00:12,921 --> 02:00:15,290
After all, what I have done here
1626
02:00:15,324 --> 02:00:17,793
is merely a patch
that can only help a few.
1627
02:00:17,825 --> 02:00:20,428
For the true source of poverty,
1628
02:00:20,462 --> 02:00:23,665
our social system,
continues to go unaddressed.
1629
02:00:24,665 --> 02:00:27,436
We live in a world
of stories and myths.
1630
02:00:27,468 --> 02:00:30,338
And we've been told that
the vast inequities that we see
1631
02:00:30,372 --> 02:00:33,909
is the price we must pay
for innovation and progress.
1632
02:00:33,941 --> 02:00:35,810
Well, innovation to what end
1633
02:00:35,843 --> 02:00:38,946
and how do we define
this notion of progress?
1634
02:00:38,980 --> 02:00:43,319
For if progress is about how much
one can own, the availability of jobs
1635
02:00:43,351 --> 02:00:46,921
the state of a nation's GDP,
the rise of the stock market,
1636
02:00:46,954 --> 02:00:50,425
or the development of some gadget
to entertain and distract you,
1637
02:00:50,458 --> 02:00:53,695
then we face a serious
existential crisis.
1638
02:00:53,729 --> 02:00:57,598
I submit that true progress can
only be measured in the health,
1639
02:00:57,632 --> 02:01:02,338
stability, integrity and responsible
freedom of a civilization.
1640
02:01:02,370 --> 02:01:05,940
Responsible to ourselves,
responsible to each other
1641
02:01:05,973 --> 02:01:09,544
and responsible to their earthly
habitat we all share.
1642
02:01:09,578 --> 02:01:11,847
And by those measures,
my friends,
1643
02:01:11,879 --> 02:01:14,415
there is now little
progress to be found.
1644
02:01:14,449 --> 02:01:16,852
As we all sit idly by,
presupposing
1645
02:01:16,885 --> 02:01:19,789
that the way society works
is the only way it ever could.
1646
02:01:20,721 --> 02:01:23,891
That said, if it's true
that we must persist
1647
02:01:23,925 --> 02:01:26,528
in this inhumane economic order,
1648
02:01:26,561 --> 02:01:29,531
an order that has proven
it can only create affluence
1649
02:01:29,564 --> 02:01:33,436
for a minority at the cost
of destitution for the majority,
1650
02:01:34,735 --> 02:01:37,939
then our only choice
is to seek a new level
1651
02:01:37,972 --> 02:01:40,542
of humanitarian effort.
1652
02:01:40,574 --> 02:01:42,778
Today, three people
have more wealth
1653
02:01:42,811 --> 02:01:46,482
than the bottom 75%
of the world's population,
1654
02:01:46,515 --> 02:01:48,417
six billion people,
1655
02:01:48,449 --> 02:01:51,753
the total wealth of the 4,000
billionaires out there
1656
02:01:51,787 --> 02:01:55,691
have the means to end global
poverty a hundred times over,
1657
02:01:55,723 --> 02:01:59,395
and yet if you study
their philanthropy,
1658
02:01:59,427 --> 02:02:02,131
it is clear that they are
far more concerned
1659
02:02:02,163 --> 02:02:04,867
with their own interests,
their own comforts,
1660
02:02:04,900 --> 02:02:07,870
than working to counter this
ongoing structural violence.
1661
02:02:09,937 --> 02:02:13,141
You see there's a deeper
kind of poverty here.
1662
02:02:14,575 --> 02:02:18,579
A spiritual poverty,
a poverty that grows a culture
1663
02:02:18,613 --> 02:02:22,450
of sociopaths and the more
they have, the more they want,
1664
02:02:22,484 --> 02:02:24,153
and the less they seem
to care otherwise.
1665
02:02:24,186 --> 02:02:28,490
Moral bankruptcy hiding
behind this age-old story
1666
02:02:28,522 --> 02:02:31,793
that one can have a billion dollars
in the bank while others starve
1667
02:02:31,827 --> 02:02:34,864
is somehow natural
to the human condition.
1668
02:02:38,199 --> 02:02:40,668
In a number of months
my program will end
1669
02:02:41,570 --> 02:02:44,106
as the funds will be gone.
1670
02:02:44,138 --> 02:02:48,944
And to date not one wealthy,
so-called philanthropist
1671
02:02:48,976 --> 02:02:51,146
has offered to help keep
the program running.
1672
02:02:54,048 --> 02:02:57,185
Now I know this event
is about peace,
1673
02:02:57,218 --> 02:03:00,655
but it must be understood
that the wealthy of this world,
1674
02:03:00,689 --> 02:03:05,694
those at the root of true
political power are sick.
1675
02:03:05,726 --> 02:03:09,464
Their priorities have nothing
to do with true progress.
1676
02:03:09,498 --> 02:03:12,101
And the time
for tolerance is over.
1677
02:03:13,735 --> 02:03:17,639
The billionaire's of this world
are not symbols of success.
1678
02:03:17,672 --> 02:03:20,676
They are symbols of violence.
1679
02:03:25,113 --> 02:03:27,016
And until that violence ends,
1680
02:03:29,717 --> 02:03:32,253
there will be no peace
on this planet.
1681
02:04:06,754 --> 02:04:08,990
I am sorry, Peter. Can we cut?
1682
02:04:09,958 --> 02:04:11,026
Cut!
1683
02:04:13,194 --> 02:04:15,263
Well, it's, you know,
it's this opening section.
1684
02:04:15,297 --> 02:04:19,635
I'm... I'm still not getting it.
I know we've been through it but, uh,
1685
02:04:19,668 --> 02:04:21,870
- it's just not landing for me.
- I'm just going to keep rolling here.
1686
02:04:21,903 --> 02:04:23,805
Can you grab that
color swatch for me?
1687
02:04:23,837 --> 02:04:25,940
You have to think about
the interpretation in reference
1688
02:04:25,973 --> 02:04:27,976
- to the...
- All right. Thank you.
1689
02:04:30,145 --> 02:04:32,580
This tripod head is toilet.
1690
02:04:35,583 --> 02:04:37,685
You know,
my latte was cold this morning.
1691
02:04:37,718 --> 02:04:39,620
And that's my problem because?
1692
02:04:39,654 --> 02:04:42,723
Okay, okay, I, I think I got it.
1693
02:04:42,757 --> 02:04:44,626
- Thanks.
- No problem. All right
1694
02:04:44,659 --> 02:04:46,161
everybody, let's move.
1695
02:04:46,194 --> 02:04:49,330
Jesus, take a screenwriting
class for Christ's sake.
1696
02:04:49,364 --> 02:04:52,301
No one's going to understand
any of this shit.
1697
02:04:52,333 --> 02:04:53,801
- Camera?
- Rolling.
1698
02:04:53,834 --> 02:04:55,770
- Audio?
- Speeding.
1699
02:04:55,803 --> 02:04:57,071
Slate.
1700
02:04:57,105 --> 02:04:59,341
Scene 37, take 23.
1701
02:05:08,115 --> 02:05:10,886
What if I told you, John,
what many see
1702
02:05:10,918 --> 02:05:15,289
as problems in the world are
actually solutions in transition.
1703
02:05:15,323 --> 02:05:16,825
Is that some kind
of Taoist riddle?
1704
02:05:20,160 --> 02:05:23,332
Poverty, crime, war, disease,
even the ongoing
1705
02:05:23,364 --> 02:05:25,333
destruction of the habitat.
1706
02:05:25,367 --> 02:05:28,102
What if they were
actually productive forces
1707
02:05:28,136 --> 02:05:29,939
assisting a larger end?
1708
02:05:31,038 --> 02:05:33,007
I'd suggest you lighten up
on the Nietzsche.
1709
02:05:37,345 --> 02:05:40,649
What separate us from
the rest of the animal kingdom
1710
02:05:40,681 --> 02:05:44,118
is that we have
no natural predators.
1711
02:05:44,151 --> 02:05:47,989
Nothing out there to snatch us
up for an afternoon snack.
1712
02:05:48,022 --> 02:05:52,727
We're also uniquely aware of
our own mortality and fight it
1713
02:05:52,761 --> 02:05:56,765
with hospitals, medicine,
inoculations.
1714
02:05:56,797 --> 02:05:59,800
Little stopping us
from reproducing
1715
02:05:59,833 --> 02:06:02,336
to the very limit of our host,
1716
02:06:02,369 --> 02:06:04,305
at least not externally.
1717
02:06:04,338 --> 02:06:08,243
Evolution had to do something
a bit different with us.
1718
02:06:09,310 --> 02:06:14,016
So, instead,
we are our own predators.
1719
02:06:15,115 --> 02:06:17,352
Predator and prey in one.
1720
02:06:19,354 --> 02:06:20,388
How convenient.
1721
02:06:23,190 --> 02:06:26,360
Which explains not only
why humans murder each other
1722
02:06:26,394 --> 02:06:30,132
at a rate unparalleled
by any other species,
1723
02:06:30,164 --> 02:06:34,235
but also why we've generated
a social structure
1724
02:06:34,269 --> 02:06:39,908
that by systemic force further
ensures a consistent rate
1725
02:06:39,940 --> 02:06:41,843
of premature mortality.
1726
02:06:43,177 --> 02:06:47,082
- You mean structural violence.
- Embedded into the very design
1727
02:06:47,114 --> 02:06:48,983
of civilization itself.
1728
02:06:50,318 --> 02:06:52,988
So that is what
the Malthusian Mandate does,
1729
02:06:53,020 --> 02:06:54,889
regulate
how to kill off the week.
1730
02:06:55,890 --> 02:06:59,461
No, the Mandate
isn't a policy of action.
1731
02:06:59,494 --> 02:07:02,764
It's a policy of inaction,
a commitment
1732
02:07:02,797 --> 02:07:05,901
not to interfere with the
natural course of the system.
1733
02:07:07,202 --> 02:07:09,870
So the invisible hand
of the market has a machete.
1734
02:07:16,377 --> 02:07:18,245
I don't expect
to win you over, John.
1735
02:07:18,279 --> 02:07:20,214
I'm just telling you
the way it is.
1736
02:07:20,248 --> 02:07:21,817
I agree it's ugly.
1737
02:07:21,850 --> 02:07:23,718
But without the premature death
1738
02:07:23,752 --> 02:07:26,788
that capitalism brings
in the form of inequality
1739
02:07:26,820 --> 02:07:30,091
that planet would have flown
off its access long ago.
1740
02:07:32,894 --> 02:07:33,962
As you know,
1741
02:07:34,962 --> 02:07:37,298
the Industrial Revolution
set in motion
1742
02:07:37,332 --> 02:07:40,736
population growth
that was hyperbolic.
1743
02:07:40,769 --> 02:07:43,805
And out of the 70 million
who now die each year
1744
02:07:43,837 --> 02:07:46,774
30 million do so
because of unequal conditions.
1745
02:07:47,542 --> 02:07:49,211
So 40 percent
of all global deaths
1746
02:07:49,244 --> 02:07:50,779
are structurally inflicted,
1747
02:07:50,811 --> 02:07:52,446
you know,
there's a word for that, Simon.
1748
02:07:52,480 --> 02:07:54,149
Oh, don't be dramatic.
1749
02:07:54,181 --> 02:07:57,251
Again, this is system-level
behavior, John.
1750
02:07:57,284 --> 02:08:00,187
Not some nefarious conspiracy.
1751
02:08:00,221 --> 02:08:02,357
You want to know
what the population would be
1752
02:08:02,390 --> 02:08:03,925
if this wasn't the case?
1753
02:08:03,958 --> 02:08:06,895
If we removed inequality
driven mortality
1754
02:08:06,927 --> 02:08:10,231
for the last 100 years
accounting for fertility,
1755
02:08:10,265 --> 02:08:12,434
about 16 billion
would be sucking up
1756
02:08:12,467 --> 02:08:14,836
resources on that planet today
1757
02:08:14,869 --> 02:08:18,906
with a carrying capacity
still at only ten billion.
1758
02:08:18,940 --> 02:08:21,009
And you think
things are messing now.
1759
02:08:22,342 --> 02:08:24,311
First of all, Simon.
1760
02:08:24,345 --> 02:08:26,981
When the great Reverend
Thomas Malthus decided
1761
02:08:27,015 --> 02:08:29,851
population would forever
outpace resources,
1762
02:08:29,883 --> 02:08:31,520
only one billion existed.
1763
02:08:31,552 --> 02:08:34,890
We're almost ten times that
now despite his projections.
1764
02:08:34,922 --> 02:08:36,223
Second, in the modern era,
1765
02:08:36,257 --> 02:08:37,559
the greatest predictor
of regional
1766
02:08:37,592 --> 02:08:40,028
overpopulation
is poverty itself.
1767
02:08:40,061 --> 02:08:42,898
If the world ever did abolish
it, increasing education,
1768
02:08:42,931 --> 02:08:45,200
population growth
would dramatically slow
1769
02:08:45,232 --> 02:08:47,936
likely approaching equilibrium.
1770
02:08:47,968 --> 02:08:50,404
Your 16 billion number
doesn't account for that.
1771
02:08:50,437 --> 02:08:52,440
And third,
you're completely disregarding
1772
02:08:52,472 --> 02:08:54,475
what the Fullerian study
proved long ago,
1773
02:08:54,508 --> 02:08:56,578
a study sanctioned
by your own department.
1774
02:08:56,610 --> 02:08:59,980
The Fullerian study
was purely theoretical, John.
1775
02:09:00,013 --> 02:09:03,185
A model only possible
if humans magically conform
1776
02:09:03,217 --> 02:09:06,854
to strict sustainability
and efficiency principles.
1777
02:09:06,887 --> 02:09:09,557
It required
a completely egalitarian
1778
02:09:09,591 --> 02:09:12,260
structure
without money and markets.
1779
02:09:12,293 --> 02:09:16,565
A fantasy given once again
the reality of human nature.
1780
02:09:16,597 --> 02:09:19,133
Fantasy or not,
the study was clear.
1781
02:09:19,167 --> 02:09:21,837
Not only can the Earth
hold upwards of 30 billion,
1782
02:09:21,869 --> 02:09:24,271
it can do so with each having
a standard of living equivalent
1783
02:09:24,305 --> 02:09:26,074
to today's upper-middle-class.
1784
02:09:26,106 --> 02:09:29,043
Yeah, again,
assuming equal distribution,
1785
02:09:29,077 --> 02:09:30,544
which is absurd.
1786
02:09:30,578 --> 02:09:32,547
Humans have infinite wants.
1787
02:09:32,579 --> 02:09:35,182
No... they don't.
1788
02:09:35,216 --> 02:09:37,986
Infinite wants
is a value disorder,
1789
02:09:38,019 --> 02:09:41,056
inspired by an economy that needs
infinite consumption to work.
1790
02:09:41,088 --> 02:09:44,158
People are just as prone to be
minimalist as they are materialist.
1791
02:09:44,191 --> 02:09:46,293
Comes down
to the social condition.
1792
02:09:46,327 --> 02:09:49,030
Today, if people didn't have
highly acquisitive values,
1793
02:09:50,030 --> 02:09:51,632
the entire economy
would collapse.
1794
02:09:51,665 --> 02:09:53,968
Fine, believe what you want,
John.
1795
02:09:54,002 --> 02:09:56,037
It's all moot anyway.
1796
02:09:56,070 --> 02:09:58,073
You asked me
what the Malthusian Mandate
1797
02:09:58,105 --> 02:10:00,007
was and I'm telling you.
1798
02:10:00,040 --> 02:10:01,275
Whether you like it or not,
1799
02:10:01,309 --> 02:10:04,245
this is the reality
of things today.
1800
02:10:09,383 --> 02:10:10,985
We got Mandate metadata,
1801
02:10:11,019 --> 02:10:12,287
please tell me
this is recording.
1802
02:10:12,320 --> 02:10:13,288
It certainly is.
1803
02:10:14,555 --> 02:10:16,458
Looks like John
got his subterfuge.
1804
02:10:17,557 --> 02:10:19,426
So how's this organized then?
1805
02:10:19,459 --> 02:10:22,963
- Tracking demographics and mechanisms?
- We are.
1806
02:10:22,997 --> 02:10:25,200
As you'll notice conditions
related to absolute
1807
02:10:25,232 --> 02:10:27,468
poverty in the third world
countries account
1808
02:10:27,502 --> 02:10:30,305
for about 40 percent
of all premature deaths.
1809
02:10:30,337 --> 02:10:32,339
And I see you're also tracking
poverty related illness
1810
02:10:32,373 --> 02:10:34,476
and violence
in the industrialized nations.
1811
02:10:34,508 --> 02:10:37,578
With heart diseases,
cancer and diabetes
1812
02:10:37,611 --> 02:10:39,180
remaining at the top,
1813
02:10:39,212 --> 02:10:41,348
while suicide,
inner-city gang warfare
1814
02:10:41,382 --> 02:10:44,286
and drug overdoses
coming a close second.
1815
02:10:44,319 --> 02:10:46,421
What about deep
stomach relationships?
1816
02:10:46,454 --> 02:10:48,023
Lack of education,
childhood stress?
1817
02:10:48,056 --> 02:10:50,091
Correlated as well.
1818
02:10:50,123 --> 02:10:52,327
Actually, very consistent.
1819
02:10:52,360 --> 02:10:56,330
Regional cycles of deprivation
are like clockwork.
1820
02:10:56,364 --> 02:11:00,101
Poor families continue
to produce more poor families,
1821
02:11:00,133 --> 02:11:03,238
- even in the richest states.
- And the mechanisms?
1822
02:11:03,270 --> 02:11:06,340
Standard class war stuff.
Only difference now
1823
02:11:06,373 --> 02:11:09,010
is ecological
and climate crisis,
1824
02:11:09,043 --> 02:11:11,179
which has rapidly
increased mortality
1825
02:11:11,212 --> 02:11:14,449
in poverty-stricken desert
and coastal regions.
1826
02:11:14,481 --> 02:11:16,484
But the same story otherwise.
1827
02:11:16,516 --> 02:11:19,053
The rich get richer
with disproportional
1828
02:11:19,087 --> 02:11:20,689
opportunity in capital.
1829
02:11:20,721 --> 02:11:22,256
The political establishment
1830
02:11:22,289 --> 02:11:24,525
favors business
and wealthy interests
1831
02:11:24,559 --> 02:11:26,994
over social support programs,
1832
02:11:27,028 --> 02:11:31,065
and the banking system keeps
a solid stranglehold on social
1833
02:11:31,098 --> 02:11:36,203
mobility by saturating the lower
class in insurmountable debt.
1834
02:11:36,236 --> 02:11:38,138
Same on the global level
1835
02:11:38,172 --> 02:11:40,508
through international
finance institutions,
1836
02:11:40,540 --> 02:11:44,511
structural adjustments,
austerity sanctions.
1837
02:11:44,544 --> 02:11:47,382
In fact,
the financial system is really
1838
02:11:47,414 --> 02:11:50,284
the glue that holds
all this together
1839
02:11:50,318 --> 02:11:52,686
keeping constant
downward pressure
1840
02:11:52,720 --> 02:11:55,289
on the impecunious masses.
1841
02:14:02,883 --> 02:14:07,855
Final warning.
Please evacuate proximal region.
1842
02:14:09,156 --> 02:14:12,860
Program will commence in ten,
1843
02:14:12,894 --> 02:14:19,501
nine, eight, seven, six,
1844
02:14:19,534 --> 02:14:22,637
five, four...
1845
02:15:01,242 --> 02:15:04,512
Centuries ago humans
discovered hydrocarbon energy,
1846
02:15:04,544 --> 02:15:06,881
fossil fuels,
and for a good chunk of time,
1847
02:15:06,913 --> 02:15:10,350
it was a critical mechanism
advancing civilization,
1848
02:15:10,383 --> 02:15:12,386
but after a while
it became obvious that
1849
02:15:12,419 --> 02:15:15,923
its continued use posed
insurmountable repercussions,
1850
02:15:15,957 --> 02:15:17,892
damaging the environment.
1851
02:15:17,925 --> 02:15:20,328
So we eventually had
to stop using it completely,
1852
02:15:20,360 --> 02:15:23,430
figuring out other means.
And this is a good analogy
1853
02:15:23,463 --> 02:15:27,668
as to why we also needed
to transcend that social system.
1854
02:15:27,702 --> 02:15:29,537
I look at capitalism
1855
02:15:29,570 --> 02:15:32,874
as an adolescent stage
in the growth of civilization.
1856
02:15:32,906 --> 02:15:36,543
Let's let loose and have people
be selfish building and creating
1857
02:15:36,577 --> 02:15:40,614
in a belligerent manner
with no regard for consequences.
1858
02:15:40,647 --> 02:15:43,618
And we learned a lot.
I think without this phase,
1859
02:15:43,650 --> 02:15:46,687
we wouldn't have been able
to recognize and amplify
1860
02:15:46,721 --> 02:15:49,624
what really makes us
unique as a species.
1861
02:15:49,656 --> 02:15:52,493
We started as DNA
moving from simplicity
1862
02:15:52,525 --> 02:15:55,796
to complexity evolving
a brain with consciousness,
1863
02:15:55,829 --> 02:15:58,365
while blessed
with a profound social nature,
1864
02:15:58,399 --> 02:16:00,968
merging us into a truly
global consciousness
1865
02:16:01,002 --> 02:16:03,571
continuing this expansion.
1866
02:16:03,604 --> 02:16:06,374
Not through our biology
but through the sharing
1867
02:16:06,406 --> 02:16:09,276
of knowledge,
cultural evolution.
1868
02:16:10,444 --> 02:16:13,615
There was a great library
in a city called Alexandria
1869
02:16:13,647 --> 02:16:16,484
long, long ago, and
it contained some of the most
1870
02:16:16,516 --> 02:16:19,553
foundational texts
of human civilization.
1871
02:16:19,587 --> 02:16:22,323
And sadly
it was destroyed in war.
1872
02:16:22,355 --> 02:16:24,591
Many centuries later,
a famous astronomer named
1873
02:16:24,624 --> 02:16:26,927
Carl Sagan,
commented on the subject,
1874
02:16:38,472 --> 02:16:41,042
So the great question
of scientific and hence,
1875
02:16:41,074 --> 02:16:44,545
economic progress,
inevitably becomes,
1876
02:16:50,518 --> 02:16:53,354
How do we harness
our different talents and skills
1877
02:16:53,386 --> 02:16:55,890
to bring out our best potential,
1878
02:16:55,922 --> 02:16:59,060
not only as individuals,
but as a civilization?
1879
02:16:59,092 --> 02:17:01,329
We know the hardware,
so to speak.
1880
02:17:01,361 --> 02:17:04,298
A finite yet profoundly
regenerative planet
1881
02:17:04,331 --> 02:17:05,999
bound by laws of nature
1882
02:17:06,033 --> 02:17:08,836
with our species part
of a delicate ecosystem
1883
02:17:08,868 --> 02:17:11,038
sharing common ground.
1884
02:17:11,072 --> 02:17:13,675
The true measure
of economic progress
1885
02:17:13,707 --> 02:17:15,943
is simply doing more with less.
1886
02:17:15,975 --> 02:17:19,780
Efficiency, the ability to build
something for a given purpose
1887
02:17:19,813 --> 02:17:23,417
that is not only better than
what came before it in utility,
1888
02:17:23,450 --> 02:17:26,753
but also better in terms
of reducing the amount of labor,
1889
02:17:26,786 --> 02:17:30,057
energy and resources
required to make it work.
1890
02:17:30,090 --> 02:17:33,827
Which means it all
comes down to design.
1891
02:17:34,795 --> 02:17:36,698
And back to my point
about markets,
1892
02:17:36,731 --> 02:17:39,066
the infrastructure
it created set the groundwork
1893
02:17:39,099 --> 02:17:42,869
for powerful new means
to merge human talent and skill.
1894
02:17:42,902 --> 02:17:46,006
We just needed to remove
the counter-productive aspects.
1895
02:17:46,039 --> 02:17:48,842
And, needless to say,
wasteful human competition,
1896
02:17:48,875 --> 02:17:52,946
proprietary knowledge, and people
motivated to sell things over and over
1897
02:17:52,980 --> 02:17:57,018
to feed a system of infinite
growth wasn't going to work.
1898
02:17:57,051 --> 02:18:00,822
There had to be a way to bridge
minds and solve problems directly,
1899
02:18:00,855 --> 02:18:04,559
not by proxy of market
competition and profit.
1900
02:18:04,591 --> 02:18:06,993
I think the smartest thing
we ever did as a society
1901
02:18:07,027 --> 02:18:11,132
was the adoption of an open
source, shared resource commons.
1902
02:18:11,164 --> 02:18:14,702
It exponentially catapulted
our problem solving creativity.
1903
02:18:14,734 --> 02:18:17,571
We ended corporations,
localized communities,
1904
02:18:17,605 --> 02:18:19,573
and shared all knowledge.
1905
02:18:19,607 --> 02:18:21,409
In fact,
if it wasn't for that move,
1906
02:18:21,441 --> 02:18:23,744
I really don't think we would've
solved the climate crisis
1907
02:18:23,777 --> 02:18:26,446
and all the other ecological
and social problems
1908
02:18:26,480 --> 02:18:28,116
we faced
before the Great Transition.
1909
02:18:29,082 --> 02:18:32,720
I still stand in awe today
at the stunningly productive
1910
02:18:32,752 --> 02:18:35,489
collective design
processes we created,
1911
02:18:35,522 --> 02:18:39,726
where status is driven not by
differential competition for gain,
1912
02:18:39,759 --> 02:18:42,129
but by the degree
of your contribution:
1913
02:18:42,162 --> 02:18:45,031
how dedicated you are
to problem solving and creation,
1914
02:18:45,064 --> 02:18:48,970
working to improve
the fabric of society itself.
1915
02:18:49,002 --> 02:18:52,706
We also realized the true
purpose of a means of production
1916
02:18:52,740 --> 02:18:55,176
based upon automated technology.
1917
02:18:55,208 --> 02:18:57,578
Not as some brute
industrial mechanism
1918
02:18:57,610 --> 02:19:00,481
to produce an endless
stream of arbitrary goods,
1919
02:19:00,513 --> 02:19:04,018
but as a way to free ourselves
from uncreative labor,
1920
02:19:04,051 --> 02:19:07,588
not to mention improving
efficiency and safety.
1921
02:19:07,620 --> 02:19:09,857
And one final
evolution worth noting
1922
02:19:09,890 --> 02:19:12,693
was the removal
of the price system.
1923
02:19:12,725 --> 02:19:15,128
People stuck these numbers
on everything
1924
02:19:15,161 --> 02:19:18,899
that suggested
some kind of earthly value.
1925
02:19:18,932 --> 02:19:22,937
The numbers were a result
of a particularly crude equation
1926
02:19:22,970 --> 02:19:25,473
dealing with the supply
and demand.
1927
02:19:25,506 --> 02:19:27,775
And while the high priests
of the market religion
1928
02:19:27,807 --> 02:19:30,845
saw those price decrees
as the word of God,
1929
02:19:30,877 --> 02:19:34,815
the truth was any price value
determined by market dynamics alone
1930
02:19:34,849 --> 02:19:36,918
was woefully incomplete.
1931
02:19:36,950 --> 02:19:38,852
And the only term to know
in regard to that
1932
02:19:38,885 --> 02:19:41,721
is negative market externality.
1933
02:19:41,754 --> 02:19:45,827
These are cost values unaccounted
for by the market price equation
1934
02:19:45,859 --> 02:19:48,028
related to damage
done by industry.
1935
02:19:48,062 --> 02:19:50,465
For example,
in the early 21st century,
1936
02:19:50,498 --> 02:19:54,836
the running price of hydrocarbon
energy was in a particular range.
1937
02:19:54,868 --> 02:19:57,003
But yet,
there was actually an additional
1938
02:19:57,036 --> 02:20:00,675
5.3 trillion dollars
in cost every year
1939
02:20:00,707 --> 02:20:02,843
as people worked
to clean up the damage
1940
02:20:02,876 --> 02:20:06,012
the use of hydrocarbons
was doing to the planet.
1941
02:20:06,045 --> 02:20:09,950
Same for the plastics
industry, a serious problem back then.
1942
02:20:09,983 --> 02:20:15,555
It had an externalized cost
of 2.5 trillion dollars a year
1943
02:20:15,589 --> 02:20:17,792
just to clean up the oceans.
1944
02:20:17,824 --> 02:20:19,759
In fact, if you went back
1945
02:20:19,793 --> 02:20:22,762
and did the accounting
for global industry as a whole
1946
02:20:22,795 --> 02:20:25,499
factoring in these negative
market externalities,
1947
02:20:25,533 --> 02:20:28,569
again, these costs not reflected
in the set prices,
1948
02:20:28,601 --> 02:20:31,571
you would find that
no company on the planet
1949
02:20:31,605 --> 02:20:33,173
was actually even profitable.
1950
02:20:34,073 --> 02:20:37,777
So, of course today we have a very
different system of accounting.
1951
02:20:37,811 --> 02:20:42,182
We know almost exactly what's happening
or could happen in downstream effects
1952
02:20:42,215 --> 02:20:46,686
and we improve our total system efficiency
every single year because of it.
1953
02:20:46,720 --> 02:20:49,189
It's a true economy,
in other words.
1954
02:20:50,257 --> 02:20:53,727
And all of this creates a
very different social atmosphere.
1955
02:20:53,760 --> 02:20:56,296
Today our incentives
are aligned.
1956
02:20:56,330 --> 02:20:58,866
No one cuts corners,
there's no reason to.
1957
02:20:58,899 --> 02:21:01,068
No one is trying
to improve some bottom line
1958
02:21:01,100 --> 02:21:03,637
by disregarding
our ecological stewardship
1959
02:21:03,670 --> 02:21:05,772
or the well-being of others.
1960
02:21:05,805 --> 02:21:07,908
We finally got it right.
1961
02:21:07,941 --> 02:21:09,743
And I compare
the footage of the way
1962
02:21:09,777 --> 02:21:13,080
people behaved back then
to the way they do now.
1963
02:21:13,113 --> 02:21:17,885
It's an astounding amount of pride
and community, meaning and purpose.
1964
02:21:17,918 --> 02:21:20,654
They don't feel alone.
1965
02:21:20,688 --> 02:21:24,058
They know they have support,
not just from their friends and family,
1966
02:21:24,090 --> 02:21:27,294
but from the very design
of the social system itself,
1967
02:21:28,261 --> 02:21:30,731
a system designed
to actually care.
1968
02:21:33,233 --> 02:21:34,135
Imagine that.
1969
02:24:21,367 --> 02:24:23,303
The low polygon people are here.
1970
02:24:30,243 --> 02:24:33,114
I wish they'd go back to their own resolution.
1971
02:26:10,577 --> 02:26:13,413
How are you still standing?
What is that your tenth drink?
1972
02:26:21,654 --> 02:26:22,856
Apple juice.
1973
02:26:25,091 --> 02:26:26,126
What's that?
1974
02:26:27,627 --> 02:26:30,497
That is a breach alarm.
1975
02:26:30,529 --> 02:26:33,400
Looks like Orion
is continuing through our security.
1976
02:26:34,367 --> 02:26:37,437
And on that note, John,
I need to know your intent.
1977
02:26:37,471 --> 02:26:41,307
I've explained the Mandate and how
it's far bigger than both of us.
1978
02:26:41,340 --> 02:26:44,043
Policy of inaction is still
a policy of action, Simon.
1979
02:26:44,077 --> 02:26:46,347
Well, if you'd like,
we could continue
1980
02:26:46,379 --> 02:26:48,414
this colorful debate
another time.
1981
02:26:48,447 --> 02:26:50,851
Assuming you're willing
to assist us here now.
1982
02:26:53,420 --> 02:26:56,190
Signal source,
what are the regional markers?
1983
02:26:58,926 --> 02:27:01,127
Well...
1984
02:27:01,161 --> 02:27:02,596
...that's part of the problem.
1985
02:27:02,628 --> 02:27:04,464
The best we have
is a desert region
1986
02:27:04,498 --> 02:27:05,932
on the west side
of North America
1987
02:27:05,965 --> 02:27:08,068
about 10,000 square miles.
1988
02:27:08,100 --> 02:27:10,403
It's not too horrible.
I assume your satellites
1989
02:27:10,437 --> 02:27:12,206
have been scanning
more remote terrain.
1990
02:27:12,239 --> 02:27:15,242
Of course, nothing out
of the ordinary has been seen.
1991
02:27:15,275 --> 02:27:18,279
What about surveillance gaps?
Are the satellite passes seamless?
1992
02:27:18,312 --> 02:27:21,448
For the most part,
there are some periodic latitudinal gaps,
1993
02:27:21,481 --> 02:27:23,517
but they only last a few hours.
1994
02:27:23,550 --> 02:27:26,587
Is it possible Orion is aware
of them? Exploiting them?
1995
02:27:28,622 --> 02:27:31,224
- That's what I'd do.
- I suppose,
1996
02:27:31,258 --> 02:27:32,693
but highly unlikely.
1997
02:27:32,725 --> 02:27:34,627
They would have
to already be in our system
1998
02:27:34,661 --> 02:27:36,297
to know the trajectories.
1999
02:27:37,263 --> 02:27:38,331
Show me the gaps.
2000
02:27:41,600 --> 02:27:42,636
You want my help or not?
2001
02:27:50,743 --> 02:27:52,212
Zoom into the area in question.
2002
02:27:54,348 --> 02:27:55,582
Perfect.
2003
02:27:55,615 --> 02:27:57,184
Hold it right there, John.
2004
02:27:58,685 --> 02:28:01,221
We've already conducted
sub sonar scans.
2005
02:28:01,253 --> 02:28:04,490
If they're underground, they're
using some kind of reflective shield.
2006
02:28:04,524 --> 02:28:06,293
But what I think
would be best for you
2007
02:28:06,325 --> 02:28:08,428
is to analyze
the signal code itself,
2008
02:28:08,462 --> 02:28:10,364
see if you can find a signature.
2009
02:28:14,434 --> 02:28:15,436
John?
2010
02:28:16,570 --> 02:28:19,172
Yeah, sorry,
I was just thinking.
2011
02:28:20,406 --> 02:28:24,178
Hey, remember that Aqua Terraformation
project we worked on years ago?
2012
02:28:25,679 --> 02:28:27,715
Sounds like you need
to get some sleep.
2013
02:28:27,748 --> 02:28:30,083
Your attention span is going.
2014
02:28:30,116 --> 02:28:32,118
And of course...
2015
02:28:32,152 --> 02:28:36,457
...how can I forget?
Ionized nanotech pop-up islands
2016
02:28:36,490 --> 02:28:37,524
from seawater.
2017
02:28:37,556 --> 02:28:39,759
Too bad it never worked.
2018
02:28:39,793 --> 02:28:41,595
We could've extended populations
2019
02:28:41,627 --> 02:28:44,063
into the ocean,
free up some space.
2020
02:28:44,097 --> 02:28:44,999
Yeah.
2021
02:28:45,965 --> 02:28:48,334
What other ambitious
stuff did we work on?
2022
02:28:48,367 --> 02:28:49,703
Those were some exciting times.
2023
02:28:51,037 --> 02:28:52,305
Remember TRD Hollow Cloak?
2024
02:28:52,339 --> 02:28:54,074
Huh!
2025
02:28:54,107 --> 02:28:55,509
A sci-fi classic.
2026
02:28:55,542 --> 02:28:58,079
Tactile remote drone hologram.
2027
02:28:59,111 --> 02:29:01,482
We played with that
for a while here,
2028
02:29:01,515 --> 02:29:03,017
but proved impossible,
2029
02:29:03,050 --> 02:29:05,351
light just can't
merge like that.
2030
02:29:05,384 --> 02:29:07,320
Yeah. Too bad.
2031
02:29:08,455 --> 02:29:12,026
Lots of uses for a fully controlled
remote tactile human hologram.
2032
02:29:39,218 --> 02:29:40,120
Cool, huh?
2033
02:29:46,526 --> 02:29:48,361
And it's at this juncture,
Simon,
2034
02:29:48,394 --> 02:29:49,729
I'm afraid I have
to deliver some kind
2035
02:29:49,762 --> 02:29:51,597
of protagonistical declaration
2036
02:29:51,631 --> 02:29:53,500
of moral superiority
2037
02:29:53,533 --> 02:29:56,337
to indicate the philosophical
error of your ways.
2038
02:29:57,471 --> 02:29:58,305
So here it goes.
2039
02:30:00,140 --> 02:30:02,742
Those that seek
to create in this world,
2040
02:30:02,776 --> 02:30:06,113
those who embrace change
as a natural force,
2041
02:30:06,145 --> 02:30:09,449
helping to unify
humankind as one entity
2042
02:30:09,483 --> 02:30:11,418
in one shared direction,
2043
02:30:11,450 --> 02:30:13,753
realizing
that injustice anywhere
2044
02:30:13,786 --> 02:30:15,388
is injustice everywhere,
2045
02:30:16,456 --> 02:30:20,160
will always be one step ahead
of the traditionalists,
2046
02:30:20,193 --> 02:30:22,662
the preservers, the elitists,
2047
02:30:22,696 --> 02:30:26,733
who, in defense of their separatist
identities and egoist fears,
2048
02:30:26,766 --> 02:30:32,138
seek to divide, conquer,
oppress and destroy.
2049
02:30:33,206 --> 02:30:36,176
The pursuit of livingry
will always be one step ahead
2050
02:30:36,208 --> 02:30:37,410
of the pursuit of weaponry.
2051
02:30:40,614 --> 02:30:43,617
Orion doesn't exist, does it?
2052
02:30:43,650 --> 02:30:45,385
Nope.
2053
02:30:45,418 --> 02:30:47,221
We just put a virus
in your firewall.
2054
02:30:48,420 --> 02:30:50,756
Why?
What's the point of all of this?
2055
02:30:50,789 --> 02:30:52,526
To expose the Mandate,
of course,
2056
02:30:52,559 --> 02:30:53,593
which will be leaked shortly
2057
02:30:53,626 --> 02:30:54,660
to every major news network.
2058
02:30:55,861 --> 02:30:58,899
Oh, seriously, that's it?
2059
02:30:58,931 --> 02:31:01,901
You think we can't absorb that?
2060
02:31:01,935 --> 02:31:04,537
That we haven't perfected
endless ways
2061
02:31:04,571 --> 02:31:07,708
to deflate and confuse
public perception when needed?
2062
02:31:07,741 --> 02:31:10,511
Well, then I guess
you have nothing to worry about.
2063
02:31:11,477 --> 02:31:12,545
See you around, Simon.
2064
02:31:28,428 --> 02:31:32,199
- Hey, token white guy is back!
- Shut up.
2065
02:31:32,232 --> 02:31:33,934
All right, folks.
We don't have much time.
2066
02:31:33,966 --> 02:31:35,902
I don't think he's going
to buy that story for long.
2067
02:31:35,936 --> 02:31:37,671
How're we doing?
2068
02:31:37,704 --> 02:31:40,306
Satellite coordinates locked,
everything's ready.
2069
02:31:40,340 --> 02:31:42,876
But keep in mind,
even with bypassing your surveillance,
2070
02:31:42,909 --> 02:31:45,511
once this thing hits, the heat
signature is going to be out of control.
2071
02:31:45,545 --> 02:31:47,681
That's what
the subterfuge is for.
2072
02:31:47,714 --> 02:31:50,217
- Mandate leak on the blockchain yet?
- Packaging now.
2073
02:31:50,250 --> 02:31:52,586
Should be in the hands of every major
media outlet in about 20 minutes.
2074
02:31:52,618 --> 02:31:54,488
Good.
2075
02:31:54,520 --> 02:31:56,890
Don't forget to show
Simon's stupid face.
2076
02:31:56,922 --> 02:32:00,427
So this is it folks. We have a clear
path avoiding GSA surveillance.
2077
02:32:00,459 --> 02:32:02,428
Once the Mandate exposure
hits the press,
2078
02:32:02,462 --> 02:32:04,698
Simon and company
will be in damage control,
2079
02:32:04,731 --> 02:32:06,634
hopefully long enough
so we can pull this off.
2080
02:32:07,833 --> 02:32:08,868
Anybody need anything?
2081
02:32:08,902 --> 02:32:10,337
- Music.
- Music.
2082
02:32:10,369 --> 02:32:11,739
- Music.
- Music.
2083
02:32:13,240 --> 02:32:13,940
You got it.
2084
02:33:44,063 --> 02:33:46,332
- - All
right, everybody, come on.
2085
02:33:46,366 --> 02:33:48,802
We got... we got to finish
this goddamn movie already.
2086
02:33:48,834 --> 02:33:51,738
Left. Right. Left.
2087
02:34:24,536 --> 02:34:26,539
Responding
to this new leak by Concordia,
2088
02:34:26,572 --> 02:34:28,708
purporting to reveal
a policy of neglect,
2089
02:34:28,741 --> 02:34:30,409
where the death
of millions in poverty
2090
02:34:30,443 --> 02:34:31,945
was deliberately accentuated
2091
02:34:31,977 --> 02:34:34,348
by International Trade policy.
2092
02:34:34,381 --> 02:34:36,415
Leaked documents even include
what appears to be
2093
02:34:36,448 --> 02:34:38,985
a video of GSA's current head,
Simon Devoe.
2094
02:34:47,393 --> 02:34:48,728
Don't look at me like that.
2095
02:34:48,761 --> 02:34:51,364
Standard operating procedure,
folks.
2096
02:34:51,397 --> 02:34:54,500
Get your media agents out there
and start changing the narrative.
2097
02:35:04,476 --> 02:35:05,979
Sir.
2098
02:35:07,913 --> 02:35:09,649
- What is it?
- I don't know.
2099
02:35:09,681 --> 02:35:12,485
We don't have visual coverage
in that region yet.
2100
02:35:12,518 --> 02:35:13,453
Send the drones.
2101
02:35:29,068 --> 02:35:30,770
Holy shit, it worked.
2102
02:35:30,804 --> 02:35:32,406
Shall we alert the base?
2103
02:35:32,438 --> 02:35:33,139
Indeed.
2104
02:35:34,072 --> 02:35:35,574
The migration begins.
2105
02:35:38,777 --> 02:35:40,880
It's an artificial island, Sir,
2106
02:35:40,913 --> 02:35:44,750
in the Pacific, about 700 miles
off the coast of North America.
2107
02:35:46,786 --> 02:35:49,456
Holy shit, it worked.
2108
02:35:50,723 --> 02:35:52,592
Scramble fighters to destroy it?
2109
02:35:52,625 --> 02:35:55,796
No. See this?
2110
02:35:55,829 --> 02:35:59,466
It's a plasma congealed
electromagnetic field,
2111
02:35:59,499 --> 02:36:01,735
- impenetrable.
- How do you know that?
2112
02:36:02,734 --> 02:36:04,504
Because I know the creator.
2113
02:36:07,539 --> 02:36:09,008
And sing.
2114
02:36:36,768 --> 02:36:39,238
So, we've just arrived
at the colony of Concordia,
2115
02:36:39,271 --> 02:36:41,040
where almost
a million people have migrated
2116
02:36:41,073 --> 02:36:43,876
to basically get away
from the rest of the world.
2117
02:36:43,910 --> 02:36:46,546
We are the first press
allowed in,
2118
02:36:46,579 --> 02:36:48,515
waiting to meet our guide.
2119
02:36:50,682 --> 02:36:53,186
- Hi, I'm Elnoria.
- Nice to meet you.
2120
02:36:53,218 --> 02:36:54,753
Thank you for having us.
2121
02:36:54,786 --> 02:36:56,188
I suggest we move
to the city center,
2122
02:36:56,222 --> 02:36:57,958
start our tour from there.
2123
02:36:57,991 --> 02:37:00,127
You can cut.
2124
02:37:06,099 --> 02:37:08,235
So, there's been a lot
of speculation on the mainland
2125
02:37:08,268 --> 02:37:10,102
about what goes on here.
2126
02:37:10,135 --> 02:37:12,905
You're depicted
as some kind of a cult.
2127
02:37:12,938 --> 02:37:14,740
Claims of human right abuses,
2128
02:37:14,774 --> 02:37:17,843
and your media is being
censored pretty aggressively.
2129
02:37:17,876 --> 02:37:20,045
Well, that's why you're here.
2130
02:37:20,079 --> 02:37:22,616
This island wasn't created
to escape the world,
2131
02:37:22,649 --> 02:37:26,086
it was created to set
an example to change the world,
2132
02:37:26,118 --> 02:37:29,822
show what's actually possible if
humankind decided to work together.
2133
02:37:29,856 --> 02:37:32,057
So,
where would you like to start?
2134
02:37:32,090 --> 02:37:33,959
I guess technicals.
2135
02:37:33,992 --> 02:37:35,528
How are you powering this place?
2136
02:37:36,596 --> 02:37:38,865
Mixed renewable integration.
2137
02:37:38,897 --> 02:37:42,802
The island's core baseload
systems are solar, wind and ocean,
2138
02:37:42,834 --> 02:37:44,937
while localized
kinetic energy capture,
2139
02:37:44,971 --> 02:37:46,706
mixed use, reuse mechanisms,
2140
02:37:46,739 --> 02:37:48,775
are designed
into most everything.
2141
02:37:48,807 --> 02:37:50,109
Like footsteps?
2142
02:37:50,143 --> 02:37:52,045
Footsteps, vehicle motion,
2143
02:37:52,078 --> 02:37:55,982
pipe flows, anything that moves,
we recapture.
2144
02:37:56,015 --> 02:37:58,217
We're at about 5,000
percent efficiency,
2145
02:37:58,250 --> 02:38:00,719
more energy than we know
what to do with.
2146
02:38:00,752 --> 02:38:02,221
That's insane.
2147
02:38:02,254 --> 02:38:03,789
Not really.
2148
02:38:03,822 --> 02:38:04,990
The earth is, in effect,
2149
02:38:05,024 --> 02:38:06,893
a perpetual motion machine.
2150
02:38:06,926 --> 02:38:09,796
You people on the mainland
could easily do the same thing,
2151
02:38:09,829 --> 02:38:13,833
but your economic system simply isn't
conducive to integrative design.
2152
02:38:13,866 --> 02:38:17,070
Speaking of which, let's head to the
development center around the corner.
2153
02:38:17,102 --> 02:38:18,037
Okay.
2154
02:38:24,043 --> 02:38:26,113
This is one
of our design facilities.
2155
02:38:27,245 --> 02:38:29,949
Okay. Like an office.
2156
02:38:31,216 --> 02:38:32,752
So these people are employed.
2157
02:38:34,386 --> 02:38:37,891
Employed. Um, I suppose in the
most technical sense of the word, sure.
2158
02:38:37,923 --> 02:38:39,992
But we have
no systemic slavery here.
2159
02:38:40,026 --> 02:38:43,096
No one is coerced to submit
for their basic survival,
2160
02:38:43,128 --> 02:38:45,632
something I suspect might be
very foreign to you.
2161
02:38:46,866 --> 02:38:49,269
But everyone needs
to do something, right?
2162
02:38:49,302 --> 02:38:53,106
So how do you network skills,
organized trade, markets?
2163
02:38:53,138 --> 02:38:54,807
There is no trade.
2164
02:38:54,840 --> 02:38:57,810
There are no markets.
There is no currency.
2165
02:38:57,843 --> 02:39:00,714
Those who wish to contribute do
so through collaborative design
2166
02:39:00,747 --> 02:39:02,915
in an open source environment.
2167
02:39:02,948 --> 02:39:05,618
What you think of as industries
of production on the mainland
2168
02:39:05,652 --> 02:39:06,920
is unified here.
2169
02:39:06,953 --> 02:39:08,120
Wait, I don't understand.
2170
02:39:09,322 --> 02:39:11,124
These people are
not paid to be here?
2171
02:39:12,925 --> 02:39:14,327
How are they motivated?
2172
02:39:14,359 --> 02:39:16,629
Well, how is anyone motivated?
2173
02:39:16,662 --> 02:39:19,298
Do you need to get paid to get
out of bed in the morning?
2174
02:39:19,331 --> 02:39:21,667
Do you need to be paid
to ensure your own health,
2175
02:39:21,700 --> 02:39:24,003
the health of your family
and friends?
2176
02:39:24,036 --> 02:39:27,906
Paid to show stewardship for the
habitat and society that supports you?
2177
02:39:27,939 --> 02:39:31,243
- How about innovation?
- Innovation to what end?
2178
02:39:31,277 --> 02:39:35,048
To create something to improve
life and experience?
2179
02:39:35,081 --> 02:39:36,750
Or to create something to sell?
2180
02:39:38,318 --> 02:39:42,088
If you think about it, it has been the
blind economic drive toward innovation,
2181
02:39:42,120 --> 02:39:44,423
as you know it, that continues
to lead your society
2182
02:39:44,456 --> 02:39:46,925
- to destruction
- Okay, then.
2183
02:39:46,958 --> 02:39:49,161
Once these people have
designed something, then what?
2184
02:39:50,128 --> 02:39:51,897
If a design
meets proper criteria
2185
02:39:51,930 --> 02:39:54,767
in terms of efficiency
and sustainability protocols,
2186
02:39:54,801 --> 02:39:58,838
it is then accessible by our mostly
additive manufacturing system.
2187
02:39:58,870 --> 02:40:01,173
Additive? 3D printers?
2188
02:40:01,206 --> 02:40:03,976
Which have been perfected
to a degree where modular arrays
2189
02:40:04,009 --> 02:40:07,680
can produce most anything conceived
of with traditional material.
2190
02:40:11,116 --> 02:40:13,285
And by the way,
there's no waste here.
2191
02:40:13,319 --> 02:40:16,021
Our AI designed filters won't
allow production of any item
2192
02:40:16,054 --> 02:40:18,157
that isn't 100% regenerative.
2193
02:40:20,159 --> 02:40:21,961
Sorry, I'm speechless.
2194
02:40:21,993 --> 02:40:23,230
If what you say is true,
2195
02:40:24,162 --> 02:40:25,731
you've actually done it.
2196
02:40:25,765 --> 02:40:26,800
Done what?
2197
02:40:26,832 --> 02:40:28,233
You've created Utopia.
2198
02:40:29,868 --> 02:40:31,904
If you want to sound
like an idiot, sure.
2199
02:40:32,904 --> 02:40:37,009
This isn't Utopia, friend.
It's simply pragmatic design.
2200
02:40:37,043 --> 02:40:39,813
Come, let me now show you
our democratic system,
2201
02:40:39,846 --> 02:40:42,015
how we use direct democracy
to eliminate politicians
2202
02:40:42,047 --> 02:40:43,382
and control problems.
2203
02:40:43,415 --> 02:40:45,418
What? No elections?
2204
02:40:45,450 --> 02:40:48,053
- No goons?
- God, no.
2205
02:40:48,087 --> 02:40:51,257
Whoa. So...
so where do I sign up?
2206
02:40:51,289 --> 02:40:53,325
I want to join your cult
as soon as possible.
2207
02:40:53,358 --> 02:40:55,928
- I'll see what I can do.
- Please.
2208
02:40:55,962 --> 02:40:57,796
I don't know
if I can take much more.
2209
02:41:00,432 --> 02:41:02,334
So, I'm afraid we're going
to have to wrap this up for now,
2210
02:41:02,367 --> 02:41:04,269
but a... as we discussed,
I will be back
2211
02:41:04,303 --> 02:41:06,306
for the second part
of this interview fairly soon,
2212
02:41:06,339 --> 02:41:09,242
uh, specifically to discuss
the colony of Concordia
2213
02:41:09,275 --> 02:41:11,411
and their historical influence.
2214
02:41:11,444 --> 02:41:14,513
Sure. So what's the name
of the documentary?
2215
02:41:14,546 --> 02:41:16,348
InterReflections.
2216
02:41:16,382 --> 02:41:18,350
- Interesting.
- But before we end,
2217
02:41:18,384 --> 02:41:20,053
I have a rather strange request.
2218
02:41:21,821 --> 02:41:26,126
If you could address those
vulnerable, confused souls,
2219
02:41:26,159 --> 02:41:27,761
you know,
before the Great Transition,
2220
02:41:27,794 --> 02:41:28,895
given, as you put it earlier,
2221
02:41:28,928 --> 02:41:30,464
we barely made it at all,
2222
02:41:32,030 --> 02:41:33,199
what would you say to them?
2223
02:41:34,332 --> 02:41:36,837
Wow, that is a strange request.
2224
02:41:37,837 --> 02:41:38,805
Hm.
2225
02:41:39,671 --> 02:41:41,840
I think I would
paraphrase the words
2226
02:41:41,874 --> 02:41:43,543
of a notable
civil rights activist
2227
02:41:43,575 --> 02:41:46,980
from the mid-20th century
named Bayard Rustin.
2228
02:41:50,917 --> 02:41:51,885
And he said,
2229
02:41:54,286 --> 02:41:55,387
"You are all one.
2230
02:41:56,654 --> 02:42:00,927
And if you don't know it, you're
going to find out the hard way."
2231
02:42:06,365 --> 02:42:08,935
♪ It's a bacchanalia ♪
2232
02:42:08,967 --> 02:42:11,303
♪ It's a cornucopia ♪
2233
02:42:11,337 --> 02:42:13,272
♪ Champagne and a caviar ♪
2234
02:42:13,305 --> 02:42:16,208
♪ What else is there? ♪
2235
02:42:16,241 --> 02:42:18,544
♪ Swimming pool
and fancy yacht ♪
2236
02:42:18,578 --> 02:42:21,247
♪ Vacation
in the south of France ♪
2237
02:42:21,279 --> 02:42:23,182
♪ You got anything you want ♪
2238
02:42:23,215 --> 02:42:25,584
♪ What else is there? ♪
2239
02:42:25,617 --> 02:42:28,153
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2240
02:42:28,187 --> 02:42:30,557
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2241
02:42:30,590 --> 02:42:33,293
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2242
02:42:33,325 --> 02:42:35,461
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2243
02:42:35,493 --> 02:42:38,063
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2244
02:42:38,097 --> 02:42:40,432
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2245
02:42:40,465 --> 02:42:43,268
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2246
02:42:43,302 --> 02:42:45,404
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2247
02:42:51,009 --> 02:42:53,178
♪ Your company
has rising stock ♪
2248
02:42:53,212 --> 02:42:55,582
♪ Cheaper labor
in the eastern block ♪
2249
02:42:55,615 --> 02:42:57,917
♪ No complaining
in the sweat shop ♪
2250
02:42:57,949 --> 02:43:00,552
♪ What else is there? ♪
2251
02:43:00,586 --> 02:43:03,089
♪ Making deals
in the back room ♪
2252
02:43:03,122 --> 02:43:05,457
♪ If you don't like it
you can change the rules ♪
2253
02:43:05,491 --> 02:43:07,560
♪ Thank your friends
in the Legislature ♪
2254
02:43:07,592 --> 02:43:10,195
♪ What else is there? ♪
2255
02:43:10,229 --> 02:43:12,632
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2256
02:43:12,664 --> 02:43:15,100
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2257
02:43:15,134 --> 02:43:17,971
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2258
02:43:18,003 --> 02:43:20,106
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2259
02:43:20,138 --> 02:43:22,474
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2260
02:43:22,508 --> 02:43:25,044
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2261
02:43:25,077 --> 02:43:27,881
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2262
02:43:27,913 --> 02:43:29,982
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2263
02:43:57,475 --> 02:44:00,012
♪ Never felt
like we had enough ♪
2264
02:44:00,045 --> 02:44:02,347
♪ Welfare check
don't buy much ♪
2265
02:44:02,381 --> 02:44:04,583
♪ I started working
from eight on up ♪
2266
02:44:04,616 --> 02:44:07,452
♪ What else is there? ♪
2267
02:44:07,485 --> 02:44:09,922
♪ I know when I look at you ♪
2268
02:44:09,956 --> 02:44:12,325
♪ You got feelings like I do ♪
2269
02:44:12,358 --> 02:44:14,460
♪ Can we go
by the golden rule? ♪
2270
02:44:14,492 --> 02:44:17,062
♪ What else is there? ♪
2271
02:44:17,096 --> 02:44:19,431
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2272
02:44:19,465 --> 02:44:22,035
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2273
02:44:22,068 --> 02:44:24,670
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2274
02:44:24,704 --> 02:44:27,006
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2275
02:44:27,038 --> 02:44:29,374
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2276
02:44:29,408 --> 02:44:31,945
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2277
02:44:31,977 --> 02:44:34,580
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2278
02:44:34,613 --> 02:44:36,682
♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
2279
02:44:36,715 --> 02:44:39,251
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2280
02:44:39,285 --> 02:44:41,620
- ♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
- ♪ Help somebody ♪
2281
02:44:41,653 --> 02:44:44,489
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2282
02:44:44,522 --> 02:44:46,559
- ♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
- ♪ Help somebody ♪
2283
02:44:46,591 --> 02:44:49,194
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2284
02:44:49,227 --> 02:44:51,563
- ♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
- ♪ Help somebody ♪
2285
02:44:51,597 --> 02:44:54,434
♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪
2286
02:44:54,466 --> 02:44:57,703
- ♪ Teach you how to share? ♪
- ♪ Help somebody ♪
2287
02:44:58,974 --> 02:45:03,974
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