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♪ Worn out places

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♪ Going nowhere, going nowhere

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♪ Their tears are filling up their glasses ♪

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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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♪ Made to feel the way that every child should ♪

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♪ Sit and listen

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♪ Went to school and I was very nervous ♪

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♪ Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson ♪

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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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[Buckminster Fuller] 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 navies 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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[Buckminster] We have this extraordinary technology.

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on the land in relation to trying to make man a success.

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It became very quickly apparent that the fundamental

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was based on Thomas Malthus.

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of the masters of the earth of the time.

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He's 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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in which he said apparently man was reproducing himself

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much more rapidly than producing goods 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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and might as well let them die in ignorance."

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Ignorance and hope.

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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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[headline hisses]

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[Newscaster] 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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Simon, thanks for being here. -[Simon] 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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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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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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[Operative #1] 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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[Operative #2] Yeah, too bad I didn't do a damn thing.

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Corporate terrorism just gets worse.

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[Operative #3] 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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what do you make of the support?

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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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-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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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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-Now, in regards to John Taylor,

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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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but I must say I am very much looking forward

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to speaking with my old associate.

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[Operative #4] So are we, Simon.

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-ell, 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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[director] So, can I get you anything before we get started?

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[Malikan] I think I'm good.

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[director] Alright, feel free to take a seat.

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How we doing on tech?

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-[tech] Almost there? -[director] All right.

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Well, let's, let's go ahead and roll for basic info

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and we'll, uh, we'll just, we'll tweak it as we go.

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Sound. [man] Speed.

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[tech] And rolling.

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[director] All right, so, please go ahead

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and introduce yourself and state your work.

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[Malikan] 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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[Cynthia] That's a good question. I guess time will tell.

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[director] All right. Let's, let's inch into this.

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Please state your name, vocation, and how you found

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interest in economics.

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I'm Cynthia Floris and I received

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an interdisciplinary degree in systems ecology and economics

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from the University of Cape Town, where I also now teach.

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I guess I would start by saying

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that I can't think of anything more relevant to the character

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of society than its economic foundation.

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[Aleniya] 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 to 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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[Vivian] So am I looking at you or the camera? -[director] 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 biologist,

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which simply means I try to better understand

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the synergies that mold human behavior

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and, by extension, culture.

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I joined the Center for Behavioral Studies

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in Oslo in 2115, and I continue to try

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to make sense of this lovable mess we call humanity.

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[somber music] There is absolutely no inevitability.

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So long as there is a willingness to comtemplate what is happening.
Marshall McLuhan

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[Malikan] 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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[Cynthia] 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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[Vivian] To make matters worse, the system was rooted

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in strategic human exploitation, which structurally ensured

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large wealth and power differences between groups,

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and the long term cultural result was very poor social integrity.

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Racism, xenophobia, sexism, and other forms of bigotry

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were an inevitable side effect of this kind of social system

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ultimately rooted in class stratification,

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otherwise known as socio-economic inequality.

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And when you put it all together,

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you realize a deep social pathology.

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A pathology that not only severely limited human potential,

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actually bringing out the worst of our biological and social nature,

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but one that was blindly pushing civilization toward oblivion

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due to accelerating ecological decline

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and systemic human conflict.

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[Aleniya] By the time we reached the 21st century

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the consequences of all this weren't subtle.

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We're talking massive global inequity and poverty,

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relentless worldwide conflict, endless power abuses

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and systematic oppression,

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not to mention the near irreversible

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decline of all life support systems.

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And while it seems obvious to us today,

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you have to understand the kind of indoctrination

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that occurred back then.

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The culture was so conditioned

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by the dominant worldview,

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they just couldn't recognize the flaws inherent

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to the structure of their society.

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So by force of this, they engaged in very superficial activism

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centered around political institutions that really were

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just a parody of themselves.

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[Malikan] Attempts at social change

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were deeply fragmented in focus

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because people's understanding

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of cause and effect was so shallow.

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So the whole thing just became a spectacle,

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An endless blame game between groups.

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Their so-called democratic process

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centered not on actual policy, but around these political

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institutions that seemed to vaguely represent such policy.

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A true democracy, as we now know, allows for public consensus

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on actual issues, not the appointment

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of representatives to make those decisions for them.

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That's not really democracy at all.

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That's simply a watered-down version of authoritarianism,

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voting for kings and queens.

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[Cynthia] And to add insult to injury,

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because society was rooted in this business system

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of property and trade, everything was for sale.

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People loved to argue about moral lines and ethics,

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but the fact was politicians, and hence policy,

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was just another commodity to be bought and sold.

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So inevitably those who did end up with true social power

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were the ones with the most wealth.

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That wasn't a corruption,

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that was simply the nature of the system.

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And needless to say this business power subculture

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was certainly the least likely to want to change the very system

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that had so disproportionately rewarded them.

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[Aleniya] And as science and technology increased efficiency,

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creating higher material standards of living in general,

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the lack of human rights progress and the anti-democratic

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nature of society became increasingly masked.

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People's dignity and integrity were bought off

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by gadgets and toys and addictions,

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feeding a materialist fetish

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that so distracted the minds of many.

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[Vivian] And you know, I often ponder all this,

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trying to put myself in the shoes

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of the average person back then,

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especially in the more affluent and highly unequal regions,

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such as the United States of America,

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and it really makes me shudder.

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People stuck in traffic, piling into these office prisons

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to push paper around, engaging meaningless occupations

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that wasted far more energy and wealth than they created

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so they can continue buying these things they don't need,

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elevating their artificial status and so on.

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It's like a bad horror movie.

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[somber music]

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[high speed steps humming]

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[muffled phone ringing]

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[muffled phone ringing]

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[phone ringing]

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[white noise]

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[clock ticking]

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[phone continues ringing]

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[high speed steps continue humming]

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[rain puttering]

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[ominous musical sting]

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[muffled footsteps]

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[chains rattling]

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[gun clicks and fires]

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[body thuds]

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[gun clicks and fires]

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[body thuds]

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-[gun fires] -[body thuds]

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[ominous music stops]

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[muffled robotic voice]

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[people chattering]

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[Malikan] If there's any historical through-line that reveals

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how important a system-based worldview is,

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both in understanding society and knowing how to change it,

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it's the long history of slavery and human exploitation.

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You can't have a society that's based upon hierarchical power

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and specialized labor, where people are seen

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as economic tools to be used

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strategically for another's differential gain,

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and ever expect high moral integrity.

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[Cynthia] Consider the function of cost efficiency.

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Cost efficiency is about trying to save money on production

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in order to maximize profit upon final sale.

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It's at the core of the basic gaming strategy

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that's required in market economics.

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And that simple incentive, the principle of seeking to reduce

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input costs to maximize output gains, is at the root

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of thousands of years of human slavery in one form or another.

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Whether indentured servitude, bonded labor,

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chattel slavery in earlier times, to human trafficking

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and debt-driven wage slavery in more modern times.

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And the point to make here is that this kind of framework

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was so normalized by the turn of the 21st century,

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a period, by the way, that had more slaves in absolute numbers

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than any time in human history.

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The average person still didn't see the connection.

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They had been conditioned by these mythical free market ideas

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arguing that because people could now choose

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which area of the economy to submit their labor to,

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choose which company to be subordinated, or perhaps get the capital

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and start their own company and then choose who to exploit

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for their own personal advantage.

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Somehow coercion just no longer existed.

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That was the illusion.

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And any advanced technological society that evolves

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not to organize an effort to provide basic life support

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to its citizens allowing them to pursue their own interest

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on their own terms, instead structurally forcing

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everyone to fight with each other for basic survival,

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for not defendable reason mind you,

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is not a free society at all.

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It's a system of violence and oppression

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regardless of how materially wealthy that society may appear.

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[fading] Now, all that said, it's important to consider...

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[gentle piano music]

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[audience applauding]

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[knocking on door]

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[doorbell buzzing]

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[chains rattling]

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[handcuffs clicking]

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[glass thuds]

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[Simon] You have meddled with the primal forces

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of nature, Mr. Beale.

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And you will atone.

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[John] It's been a long time, Simon.

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-So, the reason you're here with me

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and not in some vassal state being tortured

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is because the GSA needs your help.

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We're being overrun by a group of hackers and they appear to be

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advancing their abilities faster than we can counter.

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-Orion.

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-That's right. Orion.

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-We have been tracking them for years.

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Luddite anarchists.

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They want to return civilization

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to the Stone Age.

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-We figure if they continue their rate of progress,

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we only have a few weeks before they breach;

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taking control of our systems. -That'd be bad.

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-Hence our priorities. As aggravating as your little

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Concordia project has been, you were never this distasteful.

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-You do realize that even if Orion is stopped,

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another insurgency, likely more malicious,

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is just around the corner, right?

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-Your point? -My point

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is one way to measure the integrity of a society

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is by how many outliers it creates.

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Violent criminals, inner-city gangs, serial killers,

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mass murderers, terrorists,

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to now this lovely hacker dystopia you've inspired.

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You have a systemic problem, Simon,

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and it's only going to grow.

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-You're looking through the wrong lens, John.

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-And unlike the past, the outliers now

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have exponentially advancing technology.

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Some disgruntled kid fashioning a Molotov cocktail years ago,

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can now create weapons of mass destruction, or in this case weapons

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of mass disturbance with little more effort.

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-Again, you're looking through the wrong lens.

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No one ever said the natural course of humanity

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was going to be pretty.

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-So it's natural for humanity to flirt

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with its own destruction? And increasingly so?

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Because that's where all this leads.

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-Since the dawn of civilization, those with the most advanced

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tools are the ones who set the stage.

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From the rock, to the sword, to the gun, to the bomb,

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to AI, a sociological law of nature

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rooted in our evolutionary psychology.

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And if this race happens to lead to destruction,

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well, such is the natural course.

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Only human conceit assumes otherwise.

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-I see you haven't lost that charming nihilism.

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-Drink? -No.

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-And it's not nihilism, John. It's realism.

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Conflict is what makes the world go round.

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And whomever wins defines the course.

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-So what's the deal? -The deal is

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you help us tame the barbarians at the gate

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along with anything else we ask.

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In return,

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you'll be granted a decent life here.

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This ship might be a place of work,

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but it's also a self-contained city.

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We go back a long way, John, and despite our differences,

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I would hate to see that genius go to waste.

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-And if I don't?

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-You know the answer to that.

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Aside from this possible Orion catastrophe,

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which I doubt your humanist ego would allow,

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you'll be turned over to interrogation

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and it won't be cinematic.

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Either way, you're not leaving this ship.

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-Okay, Simon, but I have one condition.

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I want you to put an end to program UX83.

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Otherwise known as the Malthusian Mandate.

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-If you knew about the Mandate,

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why hasn't Concordia leaked it?

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-Never had a complete picture.

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-And what do you think you're missing? -Good question.

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We find it cryptically mentioned in documents

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related to the GSA's control programs.

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It appears the Mandate was employed in the death

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of at least 20 million last year alone.

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How this is occurring and why is not clear.

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So why don't you enlighten me?

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[soft music]

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[eerie music]

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[eerie music increasing]

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[robotic hissing]

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[robotic echoed crunching]

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[ominous music]

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[light hissing]

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[light loudly hissing]

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[dramatic cybernetic music]

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[music abruptly stops]

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[birds chirping]

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[director] So you wrote a book called The Neolithic Maladaptation

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which focuses on the nature of culture

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before the Great Transition.

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Can you clarify what you meant by this title?

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[Malikan] Sure. So I think the defining question of civilization

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is what characteristics enable us to survive and prosper,

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sustainably and peacefully, over generational time.

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Thousands of years ago, upon the advent of agriculture,

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the Neolithic Revolution, we found ourselves

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in a new social arrangement, a new structure,

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one that would later prove to be highly incompatible.

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Not only incompatible with the habitat,

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inherently unsustainable since the economy

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literally required consumption and growth,

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but also incompatible with our very social nature.

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And, long story short, humans are simply not meant to exist

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in an economically stratified society

528
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,560
if the expectation is high levels of public health

529
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,400
and peaceful coexistence.

530
00:37:17,430 --> 00:37:19,570
[Vivian] It's always interesting to review the work

531
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,640
of mainstream scientists at the turn of the 21st century

532
00:37:22,670 --> 00:37:24,970
as they desperately try to convince themselves

533
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,910
that a competitive, exploitative,

534
00:37:26,940 --> 00:37:30,440
vainly status-seeking mindset was an inalterable expression

535
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,480
of human nature, when the fact is our genes,

536
00:37:33,510 --> 00:37:35,980
our biology and how the environment interacts

537
00:37:36,020 --> 00:37:40,520
with our evolved selves allows for a vast range of orientations

538
00:37:40,550 --> 00:37:44,620
with narrow self-interest, greed, merely part of that range.

539
00:37:44,660 --> 00:37:47,930
[Aleniya] If we've proven to be anything, it's adaptable.

540
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,900
There's certainly no blank slate.

541
00:37:49,930 --> 00:37:52,600
We're not infinitely malleable,

542
00:37:52,630 --> 00:37:55,030
but it has been grossly underestimated historically

543
00:37:55,070 --> 00:37:57,570
just how wide our range of adaptive

544
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,670
potential really is. And what most determines

545
00:38:00,710 --> 00:38:04,110
which behavioral traits will define a society's culture

546
00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:06,080
is its social structure.

547
00:38:06,110 --> 00:38:10,120
Or more specifically, that structure's economic basis.

548
00:38:10,150 --> 00:38:13,050
The method by which we must survive.

549
00:38:13,090 --> 00:38:15,960
[Cynthia] If that structure rewards competition, dominance,

550
00:38:15,990 --> 00:38:18,420
and narrow self-interest, then the culture

551
00:38:18,460 --> 00:38:20,990
will predominantly express those values.

552
00:38:21,030 --> 00:38:25,360
If it rewards collaboration, empathy and pro-social concern,

553
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,670
the resulting culture will predominantly express those values.

554
00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:31,600
[Aleniya] For the majority of human history,

555
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,810
before the advent of agriculture,

556
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,640
We lived in non-hierarchical,

557
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,780
non-competitive social arrangements.

558
00:38:37,810 --> 00:38:40,680
Why? Because the economic basis of survival

559
00:38:40,710 --> 00:38:42,620
actually incentivized

560
00:38:42,650 --> 00:38:45,350
sharing and collaboration, and not the opposite.

561
00:38:46,450 --> 00:38:49,560
[Malikan] So what I mean by maladaptation is while humanity

562
00:38:49,590 --> 00:38:52,020
did successfully adapt to the survival requisites

563
00:38:52,060 --> 00:38:53,860
born from the Neolithic Revolution,

564
00:38:53,890 --> 00:38:55,630
the resulting social structure,

565
00:38:55,660 --> 00:38:58,800
the system that became codified, proved maladapted.

566
00:38:58,830 --> 00:39:01,630
[Cynthia] The economic system was simply incompatible

567
00:39:01,670 --> 00:39:05,740
with what was required for humanity to be sustainable in the long-term.

568
00:39:05,770 --> 00:39:08,770
Failing our need to integrate properly with the ecosystem

569
00:39:08,810 --> 00:39:12,980
while limiting our ability to coexist peacefully with each other.

570
00:39:13,010 --> 00:39:15,650
[Vivian] And by the time of the Industrial Revolution

571
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,020
in the 19th century, these flaws were rapidly

572
00:39:18,050 --> 00:39:19,850
coming to the surface.

573
00:39:19,890 --> 00:39:22,460
Conditions had changed and if it wasn't for our dramatic

574
00:39:22,490 --> 00:39:24,720
transformation to break out of that system,

575
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,690
there is little question society would have seen total

576
00:39:27,730 --> 00:39:31,000
ecologically collapse combined with catastrophic global war.

577
00:39:33,130 --> 00:39:35,630
[director] So it must be difficult to look back

578
00:39:35,670 --> 00:39:37,770
at that time given what we know now.

579
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,470
It seems like things should have changed much sooner, right?

580
00:39:40,510 --> 00:39:43,540
-Sure, but it reveals that as much as we'd like

581
00:39:43,580 --> 00:39:46,080
to believe we're rational, objective beings,

582
00:39:46,110 --> 00:39:49,950
we're actually bound by deep social vulnerability.

583
00:39:49,980 --> 00:39:53,520
We are social beings first and intellectual beings second.

584
00:39:54,220 --> 00:39:57,190
[Cynthia] What you see back then is a kind of mass hypnosis

585
00:39:57,220 --> 00:39:59,060
that paralyzed society,

586
00:39:59,090 --> 00:40:01,560
keeping people short-sighted and fearful,

587
00:40:01,590 --> 00:40:04,030
prone to conform to the values and practices of those

588
00:40:04,060 --> 00:40:07,530
who happen to be winning in the contrived economic game.

589
00:40:07,570 --> 00:40:10,700
One glance at the media from back then gives it all away.

590
00:40:10,740 --> 00:40:13,240
Status posturing, people obsessed with appearing

591
00:40:13,270 --> 00:40:17,140
affluent, accomplished, loved, famous, beautiful.

592
00:40:17,180 --> 00:40:20,750
All a kind of pathological emulation of those of high

593
00:40:20,780 --> 00:40:25,120
socioeconomic status; billionaires, celebrities.

594
00:40:25,150 --> 00:40:27,650
[Aleniya] As one notable philosopher stated long ago,

595
00:40:27,833 --> 00:40:29,967
It is no measure of health to be

596
00:40:30,375 --> 00:40:33,949
well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
~Krishnamurti

597
00:40:34,230 --> 00:40:36,960
[Malikan] So once again it all begs the question,

598
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,030
what actually defines success in the human condition?

599
00:40:40,070 --> 00:40:43,200
What kind of culture is most optimized to sustain itself

600
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:46,570
over time while, of course, being happy and stable?

601
00:40:46,610 --> 00:40:48,170
And while there's plenty to learn,

602
00:40:48,210 --> 00:40:50,610
we do know what doesn't define it:

603
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,980
the excessive materialistic wealth and status driven neurosis

604
00:40:54,010 --> 00:40:57,220
so characteristic back then has literally zero

605
00:40:57,250 --> 00:40:59,690
positive relationship to long-term species

606
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:02,920
sustainability and optimized public health.

607
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,830
[Cynthia] In short, the values were dead wrong.

608
00:41:05,860 --> 00:41:08,960
And not to sound mean, but if I were to resort to derisive

609
00:41:08,990 --> 00:41:11,730
status labeling, common to that period of time,

610
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,700
there's no question that the greatest failures

611
00:41:14,730 --> 00:41:18,000
were the ones who owned mansions, drove over-priced cars,

612
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,770
wore luxury jewelry, maintained extremely lucrative

613
00:41:21,810 --> 00:41:24,040
yet completely meaningless occupations

614
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,210
while hoarding great wealth.

615
00:41:26,250 --> 00:41:27,980
What kind of sad, insecure creature

616
00:41:28,010 --> 00:41:29,880
needs to flaunt such excess

617
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,620
clearly signaling opposition to other people's well-being?

618
00:41:33,650 --> 00:41:37,290
[Aleniya] True success is reinforcing harmony, balance.

619
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,030
The goal is not necessarily to become something,

620
00:41:40,060 --> 00:41:43,130
but to find out who and what you truly are.

621
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,160
And how you fit inside the ecosystem

622
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,270
of nature that gave birth to you.

623
00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:50,340
The most successful people, the true winners,

624
00:41:50,370 --> 00:41:54,970
are never the ones striving for celebrity and material excess,

625
00:41:55,010 --> 00:41:58,840
they are the humble minimalists valuing how they can contribute

626
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,910
to the well-being and health of everything,

627
00:42:01,950 --> 00:42:04,880
realizing the world is one system,

628
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,350
and the more they optimize that contribution,

629
00:42:07,390 --> 00:42:11,090
the more truly successful they actually become.

630
00:42:13,660 --> 00:42:15,960
[Cynthia] When I look back on all this,

631
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,030
I think what I find most tragic

632
00:42:18,060 --> 00:42:20,930
is the spiritual loss of the individual.

633
00:42:20,970 --> 00:42:25,100
How people were fundamentally alienated from themselves

634
00:42:25,140 --> 00:42:29,140
their identities hijacked by competitive insecurity,

635
00:42:29,170 --> 00:42:32,180
trying to conform to some acceptable profile

636
00:42:32,210 --> 00:42:34,710
that would serve their advantage best,

637
00:42:34,750 --> 00:42:36,280
not who they actually are,

638
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,920
but what the system requires them to become.

639
00:43:07,110 --> 00:43:09,750
[traffic humming]

640
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,260
[muffled people chattering]

641
00:43:25,060 --> 00:43:27,870
[fast speed hissing]

642
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,210
[muffled beeping]

643
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:38,940
[robotic humming]

644
00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:10,480
[with robotic voice] The soul selects her own society.
~Emily Dickinson, 1862

645
00:44:10,510 --> 00:44:13,910
Then shuts the door to her divine majority.

646
00:44:13,950 --> 00:44:17,250
Present no more. Unmoved.

647
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,020
She notes the chariots pausing at her low gate.

648
00:44:21,050 --> 00:44:24,320
Unmoved. An emperor be kneeling upon her mat.

649
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:29,290
I've known her from an ample nation. Choose one.

650
00:44:29,330 --> 00:44:33,330
Then close the valves of her attention. Like stone.

651
00:44:33,370 --> 00:44:35,400
[high-pitched whirring]

652
00:44:41,070 --> 00:44:43,780
[traffic humming]

653
00:45:25,020 --> 00:45:26,850
[humming stops]

654
00:45:26,890 --> 00:45:29,220
[humming resumes]

655
00:45:29,250 --> 00:45:31,220
[humming stops]

656
00:45:31,260 --> 00:45:33,160
[dramatic musical sting]

657
00:46:16,540 --> 00:46:18,900
-[robotic clicking] -[humming resumes]

658
00:46:18,940 --> 00:46:21,170
[sirens wailing]

659
00:46:43,167 --> 00:46:47,711
Insecure societies are the most intolerant
of those who are non-joiners.

660
00:46:48,083 --> 00:46:53,146
They're so unsure of the validity of their game rules,
that they say that everyone must play.
~Alan Watts

661
00:46:53,170 --> 00:46:54,540
[Simon] Let me ask you, John.

662
00:46:55,470 --> 00:46:57,180
What do you think the greatest form

663
00:46:57,210 --> 00:47:01,310
of social control is? Law? Debt?

664
00:47:01,350 --> 00:47:03,520
[scoffs] Religion.

665
00:47:03,550 --> 00:47:06,520
[John] And this has what to do with the Malthusian Mandate?

666
00:47:06,550 --> 00:47:09,920
-Humor me. -I don't know.

667
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,160
How about socialization? People policing each other.

668
00:47:13,190 --> 00:47:16,930
-A properly tuned culture does regulate itself, yes.

669
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:18,530
-We've had the same training, Simon.

670
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:20,630
I'm just as aware of what shapes psychology as you are.

671
00:47:20,670 --> 00:47:23,470
-Yeah, see, I'm not so sure.

672
00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:25,370
I don't think we'd be in this situation

673
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,310
if that was really the case. -You mean because I actually

674
00:47:27,340 --> 00:47:28,440
believe the world can change?

675
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,680
A child's born biologically programmed

676
00:47:35,710 --> 00:47:38,050
to adapt to its environment.

677
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,350
It grows, inching through formative years,

678
00:47:40,390 --> 00:47:43,290
shaped by the traditions and beliefs of culture.

679
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,060
Institutional education introduces structure

680
00:47:46,090 --> 00:47:50,130
creating comfort with authority, regimentation, status.

681
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,530
-Nurturing social schema. -And a fundamental insecurity

682
00:47:53,570 --> 00:47:56,300
forged by a deeply unequal world,

683
00:47:56,340 --> 00:47:58,170
a world of sanctioned indifference,

684
00:47:58,200 --> 00:47:59,470
where compassion is weakness

685
00:47:59,500 --> 00:48:01,540
and domination is virtuous.

686
00:48:01,570 --> 00:48:04,010
-What survival requires.

687
00:48:04,740 --> 00:48:07,180
-In the current arrangement, sure.

688
00:48:07,210 --> 00:48:09,950
And this early sense of insecurity has a unique effect.

689
00:48:09,980 --> 00:48:13,290
Once childish tendencies we humans are supposed to grow out of:

690
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,960
attention-seeking, spoiled self-interest, manipulativeness,

691
00:48:16,990 --> 00:48:20,030
bullying, competition, become ingrained.

692
00:48:20,060 --> 00:48:21,730
Maturity stunted.

693
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,700
Setting the stage for yet another disciple

694
00:48:23,730 --> 00:48:26,130
in the cult of narcissistic individualism.

695
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,630
-[chuckles] Poetic.

696
00:48:29,770 --> 00:48:31,640
-By the time higher education is reached,

697
00:48:31,670 --> 00:48:35,010
formalized academia, the stronghold of the status quo,

698
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:36,980
what natural curiosity may remain

699
00:48:37,010 --> 00:48:39,580
is now further constrained by socialization.

700
00:48:39,610 --> 00:48:43,450
Myopic focus, detached from the pursuit of knowledge,

701
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,590
existing only for the sake of commercial utility.

702
00:48:46,620 --> 00:48:50,660
-To define their product. -And ultimately their identity.

703
00:48:50,690 --> 00:48:53,130
Becoming little more than yet another agent of trade.

704
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,360
A civilization reduced to the goal of endless striving.

705
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,400
To sell something to someone else.

706
00:49:00,730 --> 00:49:03,600
-The world is a business, Mr. Beale.

707
00:49:05,240 --> 00:49:06,340
-So the cog turns.

708
00:49:07,710 --> 00:49:10,580
While in those fleeting moments economic stress does subside,

709
00:49:10,610 --> 00:49:12,480
when the shackles do come off,

710
00:49:12,510 --> 00:49:14,650
existential turbulence blooms,

711
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,150
as they desperately search for some kind of deeper meaning

712
00:49:17,180 --> 00:49:20,050
in the daily grind. And this emotional void,

713
00:49:20,090 --> 00:49:23,260
this state of loss, leads the pathological escapism.

714
00:49:23,290 --> 00:49:25,590
Distraction and self-medication become the hobby.

715
00:49:26,630 --> 00:49:28,760
-So they turn to their screens

716
00:49:28,790 --> 00:49:32,230
windows of projected normality equating freedom

717
00:49:32,260 --> 00:49:34,430
with the unattainable delusions

718
00:49:34,470 --> 00:49:36,470
of wealth, fame, honor.

719
00:49:36,500 --> 00:49:38,270
-While constantly being reminded that they are

720
00:49:38,300 --> 00:49:40,170
the authors of their own misery

721
00:49:40,210 --> 00:49:43,340
and success can only be a matter of winning versus losing.

722
00:49:43,380 --> 00:49:47,150
Since the vast majority will no doubt lose, they live vicariously.

723
00:49:47,180 --> 00:49:50,220
If their sports team wins the game, so do they.

724
00:49:50,250 --> 00:49:51,780
If their country goes to war,

725
00:49:51,820 --> 00:49:54,320
they wave their flags as if they were at war.

726
00:49:54,350 --> 00:49:56,490
While following their celebrity heroes,

727
00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:00,060
feeling as though somehow that success mirrors their own.

728
00:50:00,090 --> 00:50:02,660
-And when that doesn't work, they move inward,

729
00:50:02,690 --> 00:50:07,270
seeking self-help retreats, therapy, medication, illicit drugs.

730
00:50:07,300 --> 00:50:09,330
-Anything to avoid the identity crisis.

731
00:50:09,370 --> 00:50:11,570
[gentle music]

732
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,570
That the society they mirror just might be deeply flawed.

733
00:50:15,770 --> 00:50:17,710
So the masses remain complacent,

734
00:50:17,740 --> 00:50:20,250
short-sighted, bigoted,

735
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,280
primitive, delusional.

736
00:50:23,180 --> 00:50:24,080
-Manageable.

737
00:50:28,220 --> 00:50:30,460
No conspiracy required.

738
00:50:31,490 --> 00:50:34,430
Viable systems regulate themselves.

739
00:50:34,460 --> 00:50:37,660
-Viable? [scoffs] You see all this as sustainable.

740
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:41,270
-No conspiracy required.

741
00:50:41,300 --> 00:50:44,400
-Viable systems regulate them.
[Operative #4] We just picked up the signal.

742
00:50:48,670 --> 00:50:52,780
-Now there's one thing you missed in your monologue there.

743
00:50:54,810 --> 00:50:58,550
Aside from primal provocation, keeping people half-conscious,

744
00:50:58,580 --> 00:51:01,750
trapped in lower brain fight or flight mode.

745
00:51:01,790 --> 00:51:04,690
Aside from the cultural hegemony where people's values

746
00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:08,530
and envies mirror those of wealth and power,

747
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,530
reinforcing social order.

748
00:51:11,660 --> 00:51:14,530
And aside from the climate of opinion

749
00:51:14,570 --> 00:51:17,700
fostered by the acclaimed intelligentsia

750
00:51:17,740 --> 00:51:21,340
deciding the limits by which truth must conform,

751
00:51:21,370 --> 00:51:23,780
the most critical mechanism here

752
00:51:23,810 --> 00:51:26,510
is that of social inclusion.

753
00:51:26,550 --> 00:51:29,350
Nature wired us with a strong tendency

754
00:51:29,380 --> 00:51:32,620
to override rational thought in favor of group acceptance.

755
00:51:32,650 --> 00:51:35,290
Part of our evolutionary fitness.

756
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,890
And when people violate consensus

757
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,590
the nervous system seeks to correct the behavior

758
00:51:40,630 --> 00:51:43,230
with pain and fear, as there's little more

759
00:51:43,260 --> 00:51:47,230
psychologically damaging than social exclusion.

760
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,870
To be ostracized. Ridicule, stigma,

761
00:51:51,900 --> 00:51:55,710
loss of reputation, which could also mean loss of employment,

762
00:51:55,740 --> 00:51:58,280
income, loss of survival.

763
00:51:58,310 --> 00:52:01,180
-Yet there's a long history of people who have moved against that tendency.

764
00:52:01,210 --> 00:52:03,550
-A long history of very few people

765
00:52:03,580 --> 00:52:06,550
who inevitably turn into mere righteous symbols

766
00:52:06,590 --> 00:52:09,490
put on T-shirts rather than forces of revolution.

767
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,490
-So this Orion problem of yours, is it indicative of anything?

768
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,730
-Orion appears to be a fringe group of extremists

769
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,300
with no public support.

770
00:52:18,330 --> 00:52:23,240
This is about normative culture. And my point, John,

771
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:26,870
is that given our social nature,

772
00:52:26,910 --> 00:52:30,580
the stronger force here is not on the side of reason,

773
00:52:30,610 --> 00:52:34,550
it's on the side of inclusion and conformity,

774
00:52:34,580 --> 00:52:39,720
and that, my friend, is the greatest form of social control

775
00:52:39,750 --> 00:52:42,550
and why the masses will never break out

776
00:52:42,590 --> 00:52:45,390
of its self-perpetuated oppression.

777
00:52:46,990 --> 00:52:48,390
[elevator rings]

778
00:53:14,420 --> 00:53:16,690
[gentle jazz music]

779
00:53:59,700 --> 00:54:01,330
[slow motion buzz]

780
00:54:01,370 --> 00:54:03,940
[clock ticking]

781
00:54:12,110 --> 00:54:14,610
[robotic squeaking]

782
00:54:21,650 --> 00:54:24,760
[circus music]

783
00:54:29,860 --> 00:54:32,900
[upbeat music]

784
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:39,208
"I always say...

785
00:54:39,208 --> 00:54:43,816
When you're born into this world,
you're given a ticket to The Freak Show

786
00:54:44,333 --> 00:54:49,083
And if you're born in America-

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You get a front row seat.

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~George Carlin

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[dramatic musical sting]

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♪ Twenty-three I see come with me my dear ♪

791
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,450
♪ It's time we re-examine this reality ♪

792
00:55:28,625 --> 00:55:30,965
♪ So I understand there's been a fail
and you're back for sale. ♪

793
00:55:31,042 --> 00:55:33,942
♪ To no avail since we're bound, locked, overstocked ♪

794
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:35,900
♪ An endless scheme. The Industrial Machine. ♪

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♪ The unemployed, destroyed and forever void ♪

796
00:55:38,500 --> 00:55:40,292
♪ This Earthly sphere that we commandeer ♪

797
00:55:40,292 --> 00:55:42,000
♪ Now only as cogs in the machine of fear ♪

798
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:50,292
♪ Witness the human abyss of
aimless wants and vain appeals. ♪

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♪ So we'll start with the consumer monstrosity. ♪

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00:55:52,333 --> 00:55:54,750
♪ This indifferent acquisition for a status position. ♪

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00:55:54,750 --> 00:55:56,167
♪ The wall-to-wall mall ♪

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00:55:56,167 --> 00:55:58,826
♪ Now we see, built to fortify our culture of insecurity. ♪

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[music stops]

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♪ Such are the means by which commercial extremes ♪

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00:56:02,333 --> 00:56:05,958
♪ Exploit our social nature for material needs of sad fiends. ♪

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00:56:05,958 --> 00:56:08,750
♪ A neurotic appeal. Social exclusion. Confusion. ♪

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00:56:08,750 --> 00:56:11,708
♪ Fueled by an elitist sense. A Machiavellian Delusion. ♪

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00:56:11,708 --> 00:56:14,542
♪ Darwinistic Plight, an endless fight to oppress the poor ♪

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00:56:14,542 --> 00:56:15,792
♪ And reward those with more. ♪

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♪ CLASS WAR! ♪

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♪ Now that's what's in store. ♪

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♪ So take a pew. and bow to the alter of the money god. ♪

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00:56:21,042 --> 00:56:22,250
♪ The "Success" facade. ♪

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♪ But rest assured if you're granted employment stay, ♪

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♪ in time it'll be automated anyway. ♪

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Be ready?

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00:56:37,820 --> 00:56:41,930
♪ Welcome to the Freakshow, baby ♪

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00:56:42,167 --> 00:56:46,250
♪ This is what it is ♪

819
00:56:46,250 --> 00:56:50,625
♪ You aren't more than property here, dear. ♪

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00:56:50,625 --> 00:56:54,875
♪ A cog in the machine of fear. ♪

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00:56:54,875 --> 00:56:59,500
♪ Welcome to the freak show honey. ♪

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00:56:59,500 --> 00:57:03,375
♪ Industry is King. ♪

823
00:57:03,375 --> 00:57:08,167
♪ This world's merely commodity here, dear. ♪

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00:57:08,167 --> 00:57:10,750
♪ A circus built for the insincere to profiteer ♪

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♪ Off humanity's most primal fear. ♪

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♪ So you see, 23 ♪

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♪ The world that we inhabit's an atrocity. ♪

828
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♪ A global condition of submission; attrition. ♪

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♪ Ammunition to destroy by whatever ploy. ♪

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♪ This democracy of plutocracy ♪

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♪ will not be stopped by the public's idiocracy. ♪

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♪ So pick a complacent face ♪

833
00:57:27,625 --> 00:57:29,833
♪ And submit yourself as an inferior race. ♪

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00:57:29,833 --> 00:57:32,000
♪ Kickin'-it-up to the higher class that has amassed ♪

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♪ Wealth beyond the brutally vast. ♪

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♪ As the death toll mounts for all to see. ♪

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♪ The slow-motion genocide known as inequality. ♪

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♪ So welcome to the freak show, honey. ♪

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♪ A society beset by the capitalist threat. ♪

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♪ And the cast is currently stocked ♪

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♪ But we'll let you know if we need another floor ♪

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♪ To be mopped ♪

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[director] So earlier something was said to the effect

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that humans are not designed to exist

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in an economically stratified society.

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[Vivian] So to speak, yes.

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A stratified society is far more unhealthy and unstable

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when compared to an egalitarian one.

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[director] That seems like a pretty bold conclusion.

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Can you elaborate? -Sure.

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Consider our biology, specifically the human brain.

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We're profoundly wired for social response.

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For instance, the same brain centers that react

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00:58:25,900 --> 00:58:28,870
to physical pain also react to emotional pain,

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00:58:28,900 --> 00:58:32,670
such as feeling rejected, excluded, or shamed.

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00:58:32,700 --> 00:58:35,310
In early life, socially isolated infants

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00:58:35,340 --> 00:58:37,580
not receiving proper affection, will fail

858
00:58:37,610 --> 00:58:39,810
to produce critical growth hormones,

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harming development.

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00:58:41,350 --> 00:58:44,680
While in adulthood, similar effects occur.

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For example, there were these dehumanizing institutions

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00:58:48,020 --> 00:58:50,050
called prisons, and they practiced

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solitary confinement - severe social isolation.

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And that practice literally caused brain damage.

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Now, what do these examples have in common?

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They are negative responses to social related stress.

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And when you review the past 200 years

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of epidemiological study on the issue,

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you realize that an economically stratified society

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is one of the most toxically stressful conditions

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you could ever impose upon the human species.

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[Malikan] We've all learned about the horrors of abject poverty.

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A condition that affected a billion people

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00:59:22,390 --> 00:59:24,360
at the turn of the 21st century,

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causing literally millions of deaths each year.

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But the negative effects of economic stratification

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aren't limited to the distinctly poor.

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Inequality harms just about everyone.

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A kind of social pollution. And the lower one finds themselves

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on the stratified ladder, the worse their health becomes on average.

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[Cynthia] Consider a lower class mother

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00:59:43,980 --> 00:59:47,410
working two jobs, in debt, can't afford a car,

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00:59:47,450 --> 00:59:49,710
living paycheck to paycheck

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while trying to take care of her young child.

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They may not be homeless, starving, or even poor

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00:59:54,850 --> 00:59:56,250
by legal standards,

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but every day is still

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a battle to make ends meet.

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This is known as relative poverty,

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or more formally, low socioeconomic status.

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And a defining characteristic of this condition

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on average is high psychosocial stress,

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meaning stress related to social factors.

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[Aleniya] This stress includes not only feelings of general insecurity,

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such as worrying about paying your bills,

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affording your child's next doctor visit, or losing your job,

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but also the stress of social status itself.

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How one feels about themselves compared to others.

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And while that particular aspect may seem trivial,

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the fact is our brains have evolved to react

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in profoundly specific ways when it comes

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to how we think others see us.

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We have an acute sensitivity to our perceived social status.

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[Vivian] In other words, it's not just about the stress

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of endless worry and the technical difficulty

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01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,210
of being poor that's toxic.

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01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:56,950
It's equally, if not more, about the stress of feeling poor.

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For example, studies have shown if you take people with the same

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equal access to free health care,

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01:01:01,890 --> 01:01:03,860
controlling for lifestyle factors,

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01:01:03,890 --> 01:01:05,860
you will still see, as you inch down

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01:01:05,890 --> 01:01:08,330
the ladder of income and wealth, people's health getting

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01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,800
progressively worse on average.

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The lower they are in the class hierarchy

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the sicker they become.

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[Aleniya] One mechanism for this

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is that high psychological stress

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leads to a state of chronic inflammation

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and what's called an allostatic overload.

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Allostasis means your body's trying to recover from something

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working to return to a more balanced state.

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But it can't. And this causes

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the body and the mind to wear down rapidly.

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01:01:35,490 --> 01:01:39,260
Living in relative poverty in all its day-to-day insecurity

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and feelings of low self-worth,

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keeps people psychologically locked in a stressful state,

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ravaging mental and physical health.

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01:01:48,130 --> 01:01:51,270
[Vivian] Consider heart disease. low socioeconomic status

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01:01:51,300 --> 01:01:54,440
creates a 50% greater chance of its development.

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and not just because people may have poor lifestyle habits,

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01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:00,380
but due to psychosocial stress itself,

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01:02:00,410 --> 01:02:03,480
which increases the hormone cortisol, damaging arteries,

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01:02:03,510 --> 01:02:06,150
fostering strokes and heart attacks.

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01:02:06,180 --> 01:02:09,390
Low socioeconomic status is a heart disease risk factor

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on its own, similar for diabetes and cancer

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with far higher rates for those relatively poor.

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As one study put it, "Poverty itself is a carcinogen."

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[Malikan] And given that heart disease, diabetes, and cancer

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01:02:23,230 --> 01:02:26,070
were some of the leading causes of death in that highly unequal

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global society of the early 21st century,

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these facts help explain why life span gaps

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01:02:31,580 --> 01:02:34,380
between the rich and the poor were shockingly wide.

943
01:02:34,410 --> 01:02:38,180
Ranging from 15 to 40 years depending on region.

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[Cynthia] And then you have mental health.

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01:02:39,980 --> 01:02:43,320
Low socioeconomic status fuels much higher instances

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01:02:43,350 --> 01:02:45,860
of depression, anxiety disorders,

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01:02:45,890 --> 01:02:48,130
schizophrenia, suicide,

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not to mention violence, including child abuse.

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The condition of poverty was found to be the leading

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predictor of child abuse, which is particularly troubling

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01:02:57,270 --> 01:03:00,270
since such abuse often leads to adult disorders

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01:03:00,300 --> 01:03:03,210
such as addictions, antisocial behavior,

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01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:07,040
immune system problems, cognitive impairment.

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01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:09,380
[Malikan] In fact, it was found that children simply living

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01:03:09,410 --> 01:03:12,480
in the condition of poverty correlated to large decreases

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01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:15,220
in IQ, decreased brain development,

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01:03:15,250 --> 01:03:17,860
and worse overall health throughout the life cycle.

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01:03:17,890 --> 01:03:19,560
Personally, I would argue that

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01:03:19,590 --> 01:03:22,290
if child abuse is about negligence and harm,

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01:03:22,330 --> 01:03:25,630
any society that tolerates the existence of poverty,

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01:03:25,660 --> 01:03:27,870
when it has the means to end it,

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01:03:27,900 --> 01:03:30,870
is a society that is fundamentally abusive to children.

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01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:37,310
[Aleniya] Now, as far as behavioral violence in general, it's no surprise.

964
01:03:37,340 --> 01:03:40,280
The pre-transition period was saturated in it.

965
01:03:40,310 --> 01:03:44,080
The emotional pathogen behind most acts of violence is shame

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01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:48,090
and inequality produces shame like a finely tuned machine.

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01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:51,320
Shootings, gang violence, terrorism,

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01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:55,190
domestic violence, all highly correlated to inequality,

969
01:03:55,230 --> 01:03:58,560
like a toxic cloud hovering over civilization.

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01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:01,130
The more economically unequal a society,

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the more violent it tended to be on average.

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And that goes for most everything in terms of negative public health outcomes.

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[Cynthia] With higher incidences of disease, crime, obesity,

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01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:15,210
infant mortality, homicides, teen birth, mental illness,

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01:04:15,250 --> 01:04:18,050
poor education, conflict, domestic abuse,

976
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:20,950
illiteracy, suicide, premature mortality,

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01:04:20,990 --> 01:04:24,290
overall mistrust, and much more.

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01:04:25,290 --> 01:04:29,590
[Vivian] There is no viable defense of its existence on any level

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01:04:29,630 --> 01:04:31,360
and it's certainly not representative

980
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:33,500
of a fixed human nature.

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01:04:33,530 --> 01:04:37,600
Humans are basically allergic to socio-economic stratification.

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[ominous music]

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[lights buzzing]

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01:05:12,270 --> 01:05:13,670
[lights buzzing]

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01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:35,490
[muffled steps]

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01:06:05,660 --> 01:06:08,090
[muffled chattering]

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01:06:14,830 --> 01:06:16,600
[door creaking and thudding]

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01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,260
[ominous music increasing]

989
01:06:50,130 --> 01:06:52,070
[dramatic musical sting]

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01:06:52,100 --> 01:06:54,140
What are you doing? Come on!

991
01:06:54,170 --> 01:06:56,210
[siren wailing]

992
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:58,140
[gunshots in distance]

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01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:12,360
[lock rattling]

994
01:07:12,390 --> 01:07:13,560
[door creaking]

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01:07:19,830 --> 01:07:22,300
[ominous music]

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01:08:01,470 --> 01:08:03,870
[muffled white noise]

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01:09:35,970 --> 01:09:37,540
[ominous hissing]

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01:09:37,570 --> 01:09:39,270
[gun clicks]

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01:09:42,470 --> 01:09:43,870
[beeping]

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[Op #1] So how's this supposed to happen exactly?

1001
01:09:56,450 --> 01:09:57,920
[Op #3] I'm not sure.

1002
01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,960
The satellite details we need are very specific.

1003
01:10:00,990 --> 01:10:04,360
How John pulls this off is going to be interesting.

1004
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:10,000
Hey, where did you get the popcorn?

1005
01:10:10,030 --> 01:10:11,870
[Op #1] Oh, I don't know. It was just here.

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01:10:14,370 --> 01:10:15,540
[Op #3] Right.

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01:10:17,310 --> 01:10:19,310
Are they still in debate mode?

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01:10:19,340 --> 01:10:20,480
[Op #1] Listen for yourself.

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01:10:23,980 --> 01:10:25,950
Hope you went to college.

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01:10:25,980 --> 01:10:28,690
[Simon] ...and why the masses will never break out

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01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:31,860
of its self-perpetuated oppression.

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01:10:33,660 --> 01:10:37,460
[John] Historically observable. Biologically sound.

1013
01:10:37,490 --> 01:10:39,600
And grossly exaggerated.

1014
01:10:39,630 --> 01:10:43,000
While most may indeed be stuck in lower brain, limbic system reflexes,

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01:10:43,030 --> 01:10:45,800
you underestimate the prefrontal cortex.

1016
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,470
Our ability to transcend primitive reactions.

1017
01:10:48,510 --> 01:10:50,440
Whether you believe it or not, Simon,

1018
01:10:50,470 --> 01:10:52,980
the activists of the world are slowly becoming more aware,

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01:10:53,010 --> 01:10:56,410
more focused. -Focused on what?

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01:10:56,450 --> 01:10:57,850
The system?

1021
01:10:57,880 --> 01:10:59,920
-The origin of the social psychology that keeps

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01:10:59,950 --> 01:11:01,620
those feedback loops of oppression going.

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01:11:03,450 --> 01:11:06,520
-Ah, so a threat to the money God?

1024
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:09,360
-If you want to be spooky about it, sure.

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01:11:10,130 --> 01:11:13,360
The money God is eventually going to be overthrown.

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01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:15,370
This age-old march toward increased equality

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01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:17,970
in human rights is now accelerating into new territory.

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01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:21,510
And one way or another, it's eventually going to arrive

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01:11:21,540 --> 01:11:23,710
at the doorstep of the economy.

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01:11:23,740 --> 01:11:25,480
-And then what?

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01:11:25,510 --> 01:11:28,810
You seem to be suffering from a kind of amnesia, John.

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That moment's long past.

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01:11:30,910 --> 01:11:34,420
Immortalized by the failed Soviet experiment,

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01:11:34,450 --> 01:11:36,920
a memory that's fostered an enduring boogeyman.

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Anyone today daring to suggest economic equality,

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01:11:43,390 --> 01:11:45,660
which is what I assume you are getting at,

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01:11:45,700 --> 01:11:48,800
as some final stage of human rights progress,

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01:11:48,830 --> 01:11:52,470
will quickly be condemned as a freedom-hating socialist.

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01:11:52,500 --> 01:11:56,510
-Propaganda may be strong, but so are the mounting problems,

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01:11:56,540 --> 01:11:58,940
problems that have no in system solution,

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01:11:58,980 --> 01:12:02,380
forcing people to think differently. -Such as?

1042
01:12:02,410 --> 01:12:04,550
-How about the collective insult that one percent of the world's

1043
01:12:04,580 --> 01:12:07,120
population now owns 80% of the wealth?

1044
01:12:07,150 --> 01:12:09,990
Or more importantly, that every life support system

1045
01:12:10,020 --> 01:12:14,060
continues to be in decline, with now millions dislocated.

1046
01:12:14,090 --> 01:12:16,890
Famines, wars, growing poverty.

1047
01:12:16,930 --> 01:12:20,700
People will eventually realize the economic mechanisms behind this,

1048
01:12:20,730 --> 01:12:24,800
further opening the gate. Same for technological unemployment.

1049
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:27,570
Half of all jobs have already been automated.

1050
01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:30,670
And while nations have compensated by giving basic income,

1051
01:12:30,710 --> 01:12:32,710
the system contradiction is still clear.

1052
01:12:32,740 --> 01:12:35,510
What happens when people realize this welfare program is really

1053
01:12:35,550 --> 01:12:38,780
just an excuse to keep the labor system in place?

1054
01:12:38,820 --> 01:12:41,390
Hence keeping the ruling class in place.

1055
01:12:42,620 --> 01:12:44,660
-You assume too much, John.

1056
01:12:44,690 --> 01:12:46,920
Three-quarters of the people on that planet,

1057
01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:50,190
believe in supernatural beings that live in the sky

1058
01:12:50,230 --> 01:12:52,200
affecting their lives.

1059
01:12:52,230 --> 01:12:54,570
You're projecting your rare intelligence

1060
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:57,130
upon a sea of glorified savages.

1061
01:12:57,170 --> 01:13:00,170
And if you think the activist community has anything

1062
01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:04,580
in their toolkit to even approach system-level change,

1063
01:13:04,610 --> 01:13:06,840
you're not paying attention to their ignorance.

1064
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:08,850
-You mean the spectacle?

1065
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:10,950
People piling into free speech zones,

1066
01:13:10,980 --> 01:13:13,180
holding up signs, yelling at buildings,

1067
01:13:13,220 --> 01:13:16,690
ranting on social media, creating political art,

1068
01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:18,790
poetry, writing books...

1069
01:13:20,190 --> 01:13:22,060
making movies.

1070
01:13:22,090 --> 01:13:23,790
I agree it's mostly catharsis.

1071
01:13:23,830 --> 01:13:25,730
-It's a pressure release valve,

1072
01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:27,700
easing periodic tension,

1073
01:13:27,730 --> 01:13:30,570
making people feel like they're actually doing something.

1074
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:34,540
Aside, of course, from helping the economy,

1075
01:13:34,570 --> 01:13:35,970
the anti-establishment market

1076
01:13:36,010 --> 01:13:37,810
has been increasingly profitable.

1077
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,480
-[chuckles] Yes.

1078
01:13:40,510 --> 01:13:42,910
The anger dollar. If only such outrage

1079
01:13:42,950 --> 01:13:45,020
could be packaged and traded on Wall Street, right?

1080
01:13:45,050 --> 01:13:49,590
-[chuckles] And then social change might have a chance.

1081
01:13:49,620 --> 01:13:51,220
[both laugh hysterically]

1082
01:13:59,130 --> 01:14:03,970
But catharsis aside, John, the real issue is hope.

1083
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:07,200
Activism today is a hope industry.

1084
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,910
Take Concordia. It's been irritating

1085
01:14:10,940 --> 01:14:13,680
and I'm certainly bothered by the technology you have,

1086
01:14:13,710 --> 01:14:16,810
but your actions have posed no true threat.

1087
01:14:16,850 --> 01:14:20,980
What you do is give your millions of fans hope.

1088
01:14:21,020 --> 01:14:24,560
And hope is a drug that subdues.

1089
01:14:24,590 --> 01:14:27,560
-So the long history of rights progress is meaningless?

1090
01:14:27,590 --> 01:14:30,890
The abolition of slavery, women's liberation,

1091
01:14:30,930 --> 01:14:35,030
child labor laws, unions, indigenous restitution,

1092
01:14:35,070 --> 01:14:39,900
global decrees, LGBTQ equality, disability acts?

1093
01:14:39,940 --> 01:14:42,710
-All adaptations and accommodations.

1094
01:14:42,740 --> 01:14:45,110
No threat to the system itself.

1095
01:14:45,140 --> 01:14:47,080
Take abject slavery:

1096
01:14:47,110 --> 01:14:48,780
the origins are clear.

1097
01:14:48,810 --> 01:14:50,850
It was never about racism.

1098
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:52,550
-It was about economic exploitation.

1099
01:14:52,580 --> 01:14:54,790
-Hence business as usual.

1100
01:14:54,820 --> 01:14:57,250
And yet racism took the heat.

1101
01:14:57,290 --> 01:15:00,060
The system connection goes unrecognized.

1102
01:15:00,090 --> 01:15:02,260
-Limits of debate. People have been conditioned

1103
01:15:02,290 --> 01:15:04,860
to seek moral causes rather than structural ones.

1104
01:15:04,900 --> 01:15:08,800
-Which is exactly my point, they don't have the vocabulary.

1105
01:15:08,830 --> 01:15:10,930
-Nothing in their experience offers it.

1106
01:15:10,970 --> 01:15:14,100
The average person engages six hours of media a day

1107
01:15:14,140 --> 01:15:17,210
much of that news constantly reinforcing the status quo.

1108
01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:21,080
-I'm glad you brought that up. News is a business.

1109
01:15:21,110 --> 01:15:24,250
And do you think that any for-profit institution is ever

1110
01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:28,090
going to tolerate ideas that move against how it survives?

1111
01:15:29,790 --> 01:15:31,860
The odds are stacked, John.

1112
01:15:31,890 --> 01:15:34,760
The system protects itself on every level

1113
01:15:34,790 --> 01:15:37,560
almost as if it were a living organism.

1114
01:15:39,230 --> 01:15:42,100
But for argument's sake,

1115
01:15:42,130 --> 01:15:45,670
let's assume a formidable movement existed.

1116
01:15:45,700 --> 01:15:48,840
A united front to change the social structure.

1117
01:15:48,870 --> 01:15:50,140
Then what?

1118
01:15:50,170 --> 01:15:51,910
Does it play out on the stage

1119
01:15:51,940 --> 01:15:53,380
of political theater?

1120
01:15:53,410 --> 01:15:56,850
A stage owned and operated by business power?

1121
01:15:56,880 --> 01:16:00,020
-Part of the awakening. People are realizing their elected officials

1122
01:16:00,050 --> 01:16:02,220
are structurally corrupted by default,

1123
01:16:02,250 --> 01:16:03,920
regardless of intent.

1124
01:16:03,950 --> 01:16:06,290
Approaches will shift. -To what?

1125
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:09,260
Insurrection, violence, overthrow?

1126
01:16:09,290 --> 01:16:11,030
A French Revolution?

1127
01:16:11,060 --> 01:16:13,000
-Possible, but certainly not inevitable.

1128
01:16:13,030 --> 01:16:14,900
A critical mass large enough to stop

1129
01:16:14,930 --> 01:16:16,830
the machine in its tracks is really all that it's needed.

1130
01:16:16,870 --> 01:16:18,370
-You remember George Orwell?

1131
01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:20,770
-Of course. -He observed something

1132
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:22,840
interesting in this endless battle

1133
01:16:22,870 --> 01:16:26,110
between the haves and the have nots.

1134
01:16:26,140 --> 01:16:27,950
If it's true as you say,

1135
01:16:27,980 --> 01:16:30,780
the masses are beginning to understand the system.

1136
01:16:30,810 --> 01:16:32,180
Building force against it.

1137
01:16:32,220 --> 01:16:34,420
You should also recognize

1138
01:16:34,450 --> 01:16:36,850
that there's a natural counter-movement.

1139
01:16:36,890 --> 01:16:39,760
The system defending itself once again.

1140
01:16:40,460 --> 01:16:42,890
And every threat to its integrity,

1141
01:16:42,930 --> 01:16:45,100
what you see as progress,

1142
01:16:45,130 --> 01:16:47,970
will be twisted around and presented to the public

1143
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:50,370
as an attack on their way of life.

1144
01:16:51,700 --> 01:16:54,140
Those outliers that you spoke of,

1145
01:16:54,170 --> 01:16:57,410
the terrorists, gangs, criminals, mass murderers,

1146
01:16:57,440 --> 01:17:00,910
insurgencies, hackers, the Orions.

1147
01:17:00,940 --> 01:17:02,910
The Concordias.

1148
01:17:02,950 --> 01:17:05,950
All empower the system in the end

1149
01:17:05,980 --> 01:17:09,350
providing excuses to further tighten things down.

1150
01:17:09,390 --> 01:17:11,920
More police, more prisons,

1151
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:15,060
more laws, more bombs, more surveillance.

1152
01:17:16,160 --> 01:17:17,860
More control.

1153
01:17:19,230 --> 01:17:23,930
Again, no conspiracy required.

1154
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:28,110
It's the masses themselves that push for this,

1155
01:17:28,140 --> 01:17:31,240
willfully exchanging their freedom for security.

1156
01:17:32,180 --> 01:17:37,010
So they can comfortably return to their workstations

1157
01:17:37,050 --> 01:17:41,150
and continue pulling levers on the machine

1158
01:17:41,180 --> 01:17:44,720
just as the money God ordained.

1159
01:17:49,530 --> 01:17:51,960
[train honking]

1160
01:18:10,110 --> 01:18:12,950
[dramatic music]

1161
01:18:16,420 --> 01:18:19,120
[steam hissing]

1162
01:18:33,900 --> 01:18:36,440
[upbeat music]

1163
01:18:45,280 --> 01:18:47,450
[levers rattling]

1164
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:10,840
[light blaring]

1165
01:19:10,870 --> 01:19:12,010
[coin clinking]

1166
01:19:20,620 --> 01:19:22,050
[machine rattling and dinging]

1167
01:19:45,910 --> 01:19:48,110
[wheels rattling]

1168
01:19:49,910 --> 01:19:51,450
[lights blaring]

1169
01:19:51,480 --> 01:19:53,580
[coins clinking]

1170
01:19:59,920 --> 01:20:02,190
[machine dinging]

1171
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:47,940
[wheels rattling]

1172
01:20:59,950 --> 01:21:02,290
[spray hissing]

1173
01:21:13,460 --> 01:21:16,070
[slow motion buzzing]

1174
01:21:16,100 --> 01:21:17,630
[music resumes]

1175
01:21:22,710 --> 01:21:25,180
[toy rattling]

1176
01:21:27,480 --> 01:21:30,110
[seagulls cawing]

1177
01:21:36,020 --> 01:21:38,320
[Malikan] In the end, it wasn't the so-called communist,

1178
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:41,390
socialists, anarchists, or whatever counterculture group

1179
01:21:41,420 --> 01:21:45,030
that posed the most serious argument for the Great Transition.

1180
01:21:45,060 --> 01:21:47,060
It was the environmental scientist.

1181
01:21:47,100 --> 01:21:49,430
One could debate the ins and outs of morality,

1182
01:21:49,470 --> 01:21:51,370
public health and human rights,

1183
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:54,700
but if the habitat goes, all that becomes moot.

1184
01:21:54,740 --> 01:21:56,610
And at the turn of the 21st century,

1185
01:21:56,640 --> 01:22:00,440
our ecological negligence was pretty embarrassing.

1186
01:22:00,480 --> 01:22:02,250
With great inefficiency, we were using

1187
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:04,410
far more resources each year

1188
01:22:04,450 --> 01:22:06,250
than the planet produced,

1189
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,720
Had destroyed vast realms of biodiversity,

1190
01:22:08,750 --> 01:22:11,720
polluted the air, the soil, the water,

1191
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,720
not only destabilizing the entire global ecosystem

1192
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:17,990
but, by extension, society itself.

1193
01:22:18,030 --> 01:22:22,330
[Cynthia] The most common question I get when teaching this history is,

1194
01:22:22,370 --> 01:22:25,640
"How is it even possible things could get so bad?

1195
01:22:25,670 --> 01:22:28,200
How could everyone just keep blindly pulling levers

1196
01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:30,310
on that destructive economic machine

1197
01:22:30,340 --> 01:22:32,280
and not see what was happening?"

1198
01:22:32,310 --> 01:22:36,080
And it comes down to a kind of faith-based conditioning,

1199
01:22:36,110 --> 01:22:38,080
a religious pathology taking the form

1200
01:22:38,110 --> 01:22:40,080
of mass economic behavior.

1201
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:43,650
The doctrine was that of universal scarcity.

1202
01:22:43,690 --> 01:22:46,260
People had been taught to believe that at no time,

1203
01:22:46,290 --> 01:22:49,590
under no circumstance, can economic balance exist.

1204
01:22:49,630 --> 01:22:52,800
[Aleniya] The very idea an economy could be organized

1205
01:22:52,830 --> 01:22:56,270
to efficiently provide for everyone, while also being

1206
01:22:56,300 --> 01:23:00,040
in balance with the habitat, was a sacrilegious taboo.

1207
01:23:00,070 --> 01:23:03,110
The cult of scarcity and consumption wasn't having it.

1208
01:23:03,140 --> 01:23:05,210
They considered it utopian thinking.

1209
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:08,140
Supporting the myth that people had infinite wants

1210
01:23:08,180 --> 01:23:11,080
and were accusatively insatiable.

1211
01:23:11,110 --> 01:23:14,420
Hence, the poor had to exist and if anything was the problem,

1212
01:23:14,450 --> 01:23:17,290
it must be population, not the system.

1213
01:23:18,250 --> 01:23:22,560
That was the prevailing dogma. There must be too many people.

1214
01:23:22,590 --> 01:23:25,160
[Vivian] You can't have ecological balance in a system

1215
01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:28,260
that requires constant consumer activity to work.

1216
01:23:28,300 --> 01:23:30,500
It's one thing to consume based on need.

1217
01:23:30,530 --> 01:23:33,770
It's another to consume because the system demands it.

1218
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:35,840
And the market system of economics needed

1219
01:23:35,870 --> 01:23:39,110
constant turnover of goods to keep and create jobs,

1220
01:23:39,140 --> 01:23:42,080
providing workers, which of course were also consumers,

1221
01:23:42,110 --> 01:23:44,650
with income to spend back into the system,

1222
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:48,080
endlessly repeating the cycle of cyclical consumption.

1223
01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:50,220
If it didn't repeat fast enough or slowed,

1224
01:23:50,250 --> 01:23:51,760
the economy contracted.

1225
01:23:51,790 --> 01:23:53,820
Purchasing power wasn't circulating

1226
01:23:53,860 --> 01:23:56,660
and the society proceeded to shut down.

1227
01:23:56,690 --> 01:24:00,600
[Cynthia] A very unique historical moment occurred in the early 20th century

1228
01:24:00,630 --> 01:24:05,270
when it was realized that technology was now creating a goods surplus

1229
01:24:05,300 --> 01:24:07,640
and great confusion ensued.

1230
01:24:07,670 --> 01:24:10,770
The problem was this newfound productive efficiency

1231
01:24:10,810 --> 01:24:13,680
was not being met by people buying more stuff.

1232
01:24:13,710 --> 01:24:16,110
So two competing perspectives emerged:

1233
01:24:16,150 --> 01:24:19,750
on one side you had idealists, envisioning a new era.

1234
01:24:19,780 --> 01:24:22,550
If we can produce an overall goods surplus,

1235
01:24:22,590 --> 01:24:25,560
why not lower the cost of goods respectively,

1236
01:24:25,590 --> 01:24:28,390
reducing work hours and increase pay in proportion?

1237
01:24:28,430 --> 01:24:31,860
So you can now have, say, a person working only two days a week

1238
01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:33,730
without losing their standard of living,

1239
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:36,430
since the market value of labor and goods adjusted

1240
01:24:36,470 --> 01:24:38,640
to compensate for the increased efficiency.

1241
01:24:38,670 --> 01:24:40,840
This logic makes perfect sense when it comes

1242
01:24:40,870 --> 01:24:43,610
to the basic principle of supply and demand.

1243
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:46,840
Suddenly people have more free time, not buried in debt.

1244
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:49,610
They can enrich their social life, family life,

1245
01:24:49,650 --> 01:24:51,680
and pursue the things that have true meaning.

1246
01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:55,720
Well, that's not the way it played out,

1247
01:24:55,750 --> 01:24:57,520
nor would it ever.

1248
01:24:57,550 --> 01:25:00,520
[Malikan] Which brings us to the system level perspective

1249
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:03,590
since the system itself simply isn't designed inherently

1250
01:25:03,630 --> 01:25:05,760
for a steady-state equilibrium.

1251
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:09,500
Market economics is predicated on a 'more is better' ethic;

1252
01:25:09,530 --> 01:25:11,570
to be competitive in the quest for market share.

1253
01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:13,640
That's what's incentivized.

1254
01:25:13,670 --> 01:25:16,370
More growth, more sales, more employees,

1255
01:25:16,410 --> 01:25:21,280
more capital accumulation, more profit, constant expansion.

1256
01:25:21,310 --> 01:25:23,410
So what happened was to be expected,

1257
01:25:23,450 --> 01:25:24,950
fortifying a new industry,

1258
01:25:24,980 --> 01:25:26,780
commercial advertising.

1259
01:25:26,820 --> 01:25:28,550
What was once a simple media service,

1260
01:25:28,590 --> 01:25:31,290
notifying people of new goods they may need,

1261
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:34,660
turned into a powerful form of manipulative propaganda.

1262
01:25:34,690 --> 01:25:38,260
In the later stages, companies spent more money on advertising

1263
01:25:38,290 --> 01:25:40,730
than they did on research and development.

1264
01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:44,330
[Aleniya] What advertising does is abuse our social nature

1265
01:25:44,370 --> 01:25:46,770
by making people feel like they're missing out.

1266
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:48,710
They're not good enough without this,

1267
01:25:48,740 --> 01:25:50,940
they're lower in status without that.

1268
01:25:50,970 --> 01:25:54,710
They feel excluded from others if they don't own something.

1269
01:25:54,740 --> 01:25:57,210
And as pathetic as all that sounds it had

1270
01:25:57,250 --> 01:26:00,680
a profound effect on society with everyone keeping up

1271
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:04,590
with the Joneses in a hideous feedback loop.

1272
01:26:04,620 --> 01:26:07,290
[Cynthia] And the result, as industrial productivity

1273
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:10,730
still continued to rise, people worked more than ever,

1274
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:13,960
had less free time, were in staggering amounts of debt,

1275
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:16,730
and arguably had a lower standard of living

1276
01:26:16,770 --> 01:26:18,900
when you actually account for human happiness

1277
01:26:18,940 --> 01:26:21,340
and the level of stress people endured.

1278
01:26:21,370 --> 01:26:23,640
All to keep the economic machine moving.

1279
01:26:24,570 --> 01:26:26,980
[Vivian] One thing that's really interesting in all this,

1280
01:26:27,010 --> 01:26:28,750
is that the economic system back then

1281
01:26:28,780 --> 01:26:31,950
embraced a fantastic paradox.

1282
01:26:31,980 --> 01:26:33,580
So here you had a model

1283
01:26:33,620 --> 01:26:35,390
that defended itself by the assumption

1284
01:26:35,420 --> 01:26:38,560
of universal scarcity. Forcing competition,

1285
01:26:38,590 --> 01:26:40,820
oppression, exploitation,

1286
01:26:40,860 --> 01:26:43,760
poverty, and so on, while at the same time

1287
01:26:43,790 --> 01:26:47,830
the entire machine needed infinite consumption to work.

1288
01:26:47,860 --> 01:26:49,800
Think about that for a moment.

1289
01:26:49,830 --> 01:26:53,400
How do you justify these harsh outcomes of assumed scarcity

1290
01:26:53,440 --> 01:26:56,510
when the system itself disregards the idea entirely

1291
01:26:56,540 --> 01:26:59,280
when it comes to the very mechanics that make it work?

1292
01:26:59,310 --> 01:27:02,350
[Aleniya] And the bottom line is this wasn't an economy at all

1293
01:27:02,380 --> 01:27:05,550
by definition, it was an anti-economy,

1294
01:27:05,580 --> 01:27:08,620
with human beings functioning like cancer cells

1295
01:27:08,650 --> 01:27:10,590
eating the Earth alive.

1296
01:27:10,620 --> 01:27:14,390
In systems theory, this is known as a positive feedback loop.

1297
01:27:14,420 --> 01:27:16,460
Don't let that word 'positive' confuse you

1298
01:27:16,490 --> 01:27:18,660
as there's nothing positive about it.

1299
01:27:18,700 --> 01:27:21,900
It means there's nothing working to balance system behavior

1300
01:27:21,930 --> 01:27:23,970
to its regulatory environment.

1301
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,400
That environment in the case of Economics

1302
01:27:26,440 --> 01:27:29,810
is a finite planet with a delicate ecosystem.

1303
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:32,880
If respect for scarcity was taken seriously,

1304
01:27:32,910 --> 01:27:35,480
the goal would be to focus on efficiency,

1305
01:27:35,510 --> 01:27:37,880
working to reduce resource use, reduce waste

1306
01:27:37,910 --> 01:27:40,050
in the process of meeting human needs.

1307
01:27:40,080 --> 01:27:43,020
Manifesting, of course, a culture that's mature enough

1308
01:27:43,050 --> 01:27:45,790
to understand the boundaries of its own existence.

1309
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:48,690
[Malikan] Truly positive economic metrics

1310
01:27:48,730 --> 01:27:51,060
are the opposite of what was sought back then.

1311
01:27:51,090 --> 01:27:53,630
Degrowth, so to speak, would be the goal.

1312
01:27:53,660 --> 01:27:56,400
Doing more with less and needing less.

1313
01:27:56,430 --> 01:27:59,100
People would go on TV to give an economic report

1314
01:27:59,140 --> 01:28:02,510
and say something like, "Great metrics for the economy this month.

1315
01:28:02,540 --> 01:28:05,980
We reduced our use of energy and raw materials by another three percent.

1316
01:28:06,010 --> 01:28:09,680
Lowering sales once again with less need for human employment,

1317
01:28:09,710 --> 01:28:12,580
Increasing overall efficiency by a factor of two.

1318
01:28:12,620 --> 01:28:15,420
We continue to be in homeostatic balance with the planet

1319
01:28:15,450 --> 01:28:18,990
for yet another year and humanity has more free time than ever."

1320
01:28:19,020 --> 01:28:20,520
Here's Tom with the weather.

1321
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:21,690
[Cynthia] "Well, it's clear skies

1322
01:28:21,720 --> 01:28:23,060
across the hemispheres.

1323
01:28:23,090 --> 01:28:24,930
The Amazon rainforest isn't on fire.

1324
01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:27,530
We aren't clogging the atmosphere with CO2,

1325
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:29,770
and we haven't seen swarms of refugees cascading

1326
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:32,840
across continents in search of food for some time.

1327
01:28:32,870 --> 01:28:34,770
And the fog of billionaire douchebaggery

1328
01:28:34,800 --> 01:28:37,740
seems to have cleared a bit. We do expect some precipitation

1329
01:28:37,770 --> 01:28:40,680
adding to our already abundant fresh water supply

1330
01:28:40,710 --> 01:28:43,880
further improving topsoil while global abundance measures

1331
01:28:43,910 --> 01:28:46,920
has everyone sitting pretty for the foreseeable future."

1332
01:28:48,890 --> 01:28:53,790
[Malikan] Yeah, you would never hear anything like that, instead the opposite.

1333
01:28:53,820 --> 01:28:57,030
[Cynthia] Some dickhead PhD ivy league market economist

1334
01:28:57,060 --> 01:28:59,130
religious fanatic, who literally

1335
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:02,170
has no clue what the word economy even means,

1336
01:29:02,200 --> 01:29:04,730
would come on and say, "Quarterly earnings

1337
01:29:04,770 --> 01:29:07,900
were down last month in most sectors as GDP slows.

1338
01:29:07,940 --> 01:29:09,910
We're seeing an increasing in unemployment

1339
01:29:09,940 --> 01:29:11,910
due to the contraction, but hopefully

1340
01:29:11,940 --> 01:29:14,740
the coming Christmas season will spark new consumer demand,

1341
01:29:14,780 --> 01:29:16,950
while it's anticipated that the central bank

1342
01:29:16,980 --> 01:29:19,750
will lower interest rates and buy more bonds

1343
01:29:19,780 --> 01:29:22,720
to increase liquidity to ease the credit crunch.

1344
01:29:22,750 --> 01:29:25,720
Hopefully this will improve consumer confidence

1345
01:29:25,760 --> 01:29:28,730
inspiring investors to reallocate capital

1346
01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:31,060
into da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da."

1347
01:29:31,090 --> 01:29:35,600
Translated this means, "We need you people to take on more loans,

1348
01:29:35,630 --> 01:29:39,540
go into more debt to buy more things to create more jobs

1349
01:29:39,570 --> 01:29:42,540
so we can sell more things and use more of the Earth's

1350
01:29:42,570 --> 01:29:45,640
resources. If we're lucky, industry will improve

1351
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:48,680
on shortening good life spans through planned obsolescence.

1352
01:29:48,710 --> 01:29:50,650
Make things impossible to repair.

1353
01:29:50,680 --> 01:29:53,220
Hopefully more single-use goods will become the norm

1354
01:29:53,250 --> 01:29:56,650
so people can buy and throw away at an ever-increasing rate

1355
01:29:56,690 --> 01:29:58,120
keeping this shit show going."

1356
01:29:59,220 --> 01:30:01,583
[gentle music]

1357
01:30:01,583 --> 01:30:05,125
A human being is part of the whole

1358
01:30:05,125 --> 01:30:08,792
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings
as something separate from the rest

1359
01:30:08,792 --> 01:30:12,696
A kind of optical dillusion of consciousness.
~Albert Einstein

1360
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:15,040
[director] So I want to shift gears here a bit

1361
01:30:15,070 --> 01:30:18,240
and ask you about your work in group identity.

1362
01:30:18,270 --> 01:30:21,140
Specifically how it relates to economic conditions.

1363
01:30:22,580 --> 01:30:25,780
[Aleniya] Well, like everything is complex.

1364
01:30:25,820 --> 01:30:28,180
As we talked about earlier, our social nature

1365
01:30:28,220 --> 01:30:30,950
can get the best of us, and we have some

1366
01:30:30,990 --> 01:30:34,590
interesting evolutionary wiring when it comes to groups.

1367
01:30:34,620 --> 01:30:37,030
Us and them, in-groups and out-groups,

1368
01:30:37,060 --> 01:30:39,860
and perhaps what's most unique is

1369
01:30:39,900 --> 01:30:42,970
what defines an us and what defines a them

1370
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:46,000
is subjective and culturally dependent.

1371
01:30:46,040 --> 01:30:48,040
If you grow up only being exposed to people who look

1372
01:30:48,070 --> 01:30:51,070
like you, and then you're exposed to those that don't,

1373
01:30:51,110 --> 01:30:54,080
your brain tends to fire with apprehension.

1374
01:30:54,110 --> 01:30:57,610
But the same thing also occurs with something even more trivial

1375
01:30:57,650 --> 01:31:00,250
like baseball caps. You show people who like

1376
01:31:00,280 --> 01:31:03,790
a certain team photos of that team, and then throw in a photo

1377
01:31:03,820 --> 01:31:07,090
of an opposing team member, the same thing occurs.

1378
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:09,090
So for whatever evolutionary reason,

1379
01:31:09,130 --> 01:31:13,630
we have a propensity to divide society up and make judgments.

1380
01:31:13,660 --> 01:31:15,870
And there is no value in it whatsoever.

1381
01:31:15,900 --> 01:31:19,040
It's just dangerous baggage.

1382
01:31:19,070 --> 01:31:20,800
And before the Great Transition,

1383
01:31:20,840 --> 01:31:23,270
because the economy was fundamentally divisive

1384
01:31:23,310 --> 01:31:25,210
due to its competitive nature,

1385
01:31:25,240 --> 01:31:28,680
bigotry and group oppression was a huge problem.

1386
01:31:28,710 --> 01:31:31,050
[Malikan] So you have the human species developing in pockets

1387
01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:34,280
around the world with different environmental exposures.

1388
01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:36,950
Not only shaping appearance such as color of skin,

1389
01:31:36,990 --> 01:31:39,960
but also setting in motion cultural differences.

1390
01:31:39,990 --> 01:31:43,190
And as these groups began to mix, it got very messy.

1391
01:31:43,230 --> 01:31:46,060
Which is why you see, especially by the 20th century,

1392
01:31:46,100 --> 01:31:48,900
strong social movements by people trying to stop

1393
01:31:48,930 --> 01:31:51,900
group oppression, at least on the legal and political level.

1394
01:31:51,930 --> 01:31:55,040
The demand for gender, ethnic, sexual orientation,

1395
01:31:55,070 --> 01:31:57,170
and creed equality was constant,

1396
01:31:57,210 --> 01:32:00,310
with modest success given the fact society was still stuck

1397
01:32:00,340 --> 01:32:03,810
in an economic mode based upon mutual exploitation

1398
01:32:03,850 --> 01:32:06,750
amplifying the tendency for group antagonism.

1399
01:32:06,780 --> 01:32:09,020
[Vivian] But there was a side effect to all of this:

1400
01:32:09,050 --> 01:32:11,190
rather than seeking equality to neutralize

1401
01:32:11,220 --> 01:32:14,760
the group identity problem, many chose to embrace it.

1402
01:32:14,790 --> 01:32:18,230
They took what was an artificial construct imposed upon them

1403
01:32:18,260 --> 01:32:19,960
and defined themselves by it.

1404
01:32:20,860 --> 01:32:23,030
For example, someone descended

1405
01:32:23,070 --> 01:32:25,300
from the African slave trade in America

1406
01:32:25,330 --> 01:32:29,340
is only a black person via the construct of being called so.

1407
01:32:29,370 --> 01:32:31,870
There is no such thing as a black person

1408
01:32:31,910 --> 01:32:34,080
just as there's no such thing as a grey person,

1409
01:32:34,110 --> 01:32:37,180
just as there is no such thing as a white person.

1410
01:32:37,210 --> 01:32:39,150
These are all social constructs

1411
01:32:39,180 --> 01:32:42,180
that have invented to artificially categorize people.

1412
01:32:43,190 --> 01:32:44,790
And the same applies to culture,

1413
01:32:44,820 --> 01:32:47,090
just as there is no such thing as a white person,

1414
01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:49,630
there is no such thing as an Italian person

1415
01:32:49,660 --> 01:32:53,030
or a Buddhist person or an Irish person or a Jewish person.

1416
01:32:53,060 --> 01:32:56,770
[Cynthia] It is one thing to have a valued practice, meditation,

1417
01:32:56,800 --> 01:33:00,770
or a sense of philosophy that inspires you and educates you.

1418
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:05,270
History is rich with beautiful traditions across many belief systems.

1419
01:33:05,310 --> 01:33:08,880
Dogma aside, religion itself helps to serve as a kind

1420
01:33:08,910 --> 01:33:12,820
of gateway into our spiritual and intellectual evolution.

1421
01:33:12,850 --> 01:33:14,980
[Malikan] Finding meaning in meditation,

1422
01:33:15,020 --> 01:33:17,820
or putting up a Christmas tree or lighting the menorah

1423
01:33:17,850 --> 01:33:22,060
creates ritualistic connection that can have great personal meeting.

1424
01:33:22,090 --> 01:33:25,190
But engaging Buddhist practice doesn't make you Buddhist.

1425
01:33:25,230 --> 01:33:28,130
Being born from a bloodline in Italy doesn't mean you're an Italian

1426
01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:31,070
and going to church doesn't mean you're Christian.

1427
01:33:31,100 --> 01:33:33,240
[Aleniya] The moment you go from a person that enjoys

1428
01:33:33,270 --> 01:33:35,670
the practice of something, to saying

1429
01:33:35,710 --> 01:33:37,670
"I am this or that,"

1430
01:33:37,710 --> 01:33:41,210
is the moment you draw dangerous lines through the species.

1431
01:33:41,240 --> 01:33:43,110
Taking such pride in your ethnic,

1432
01:33:43,150 --> 01:33:44,980
religious, or regional background

1433
01:33:45,010 --> 01:33:47,880
creates an identity with the group by label

1434
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:51,190
and it is fundamentally elitist and bigoted by nature.

1435
01:33:52,150 --> 01:33:54,890
There is only one race, the human race.

1436
01:33:54,920 --> 01:33:56,960
And within the confines of that fact,

1437
01:33:56,990 --> 01:33:59,060
to separate yourself any further

1438
01:33:59,100 --> 01:34:01,430
leads to absolutely nothing positive.

1439
01:34:01,460 --> 01:34:04,700
[gentle music fading]

1440
01:34:06,440 --> 01:34:09,340
[slow motion buzzing]

1441
01:34:18,410 --> 01:34:19,720
[notification beeps]

1442
01:34:29,790 --> 01:34:31,260
[ominous music]

1443
01:35:12,070 --> 01:35:14,500
[ominous music increasing]

1444
01:35:29,450 --> 01:35:30,350
[with robotic voice] Kike.

1445
01:35:31,820 --> 01:35:33,860
No, looks more like a wop.

1446
01:35:33,890 --> 01:35:36,230
Yeah greaseball dago to be sure.

1447
01:35:36,260 --> 01:35:38,090
Just another Eurotrash wetback.

1448
01:35:38,130 --> 01:35:40,030
Cracker guinea freeloader.

1449
01:35:40,060 --> 01:35:42,100
And look at those clothes.

1450
01:35:42,130 --> 01:35:44,470
A Nancy Drew Becky wanna be Stacy.

1451
01:35:44,500 --> 01:35:46,940
Looking for her chad that never comes.

1452
01:35:46,970 --> 01:35:49,910
No doubt a tree hugging, dirt worshipping feminazi.

1453
01:35:49,940 --> 01:35:52,240
Soy boy beta cuck magnet.

1454
01:35:52,270 --> 01:35:56,580
A card-carrying purple haired, muff diving, spook lovin'

1455
01:35:56,610 --> 01:35:58,850
self-righteous socialist pinko.

1456
01:35:58,880 --> 01:36:01,450
Coloring in her little book with her junglebunny

1457
01:36:01,480 --> 01:36:03,820
Towelhead libtard comrades.

1458
01:36:03,850 --> 01:36:07,960
Just a sea of bleeding-heart social justice warrior welfare queens.

1459
01:36:07,990 --> 01:36:13,100
Bootlicking, anti-freedom globalist vegan red zombie.

1460
01:36:13,130 --> 01:36:15,300
A communist snowflake cumdumpster.

1461
01:36:15,330 --> 01:36:18,900
So just move back to Cuba with all the other crybaby,

1462
01:36:18,930 --> 01:36:20,370
regressive, leftist,

1463
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,140
Marxist, Antifa

1464
01:36:22,170 --> 01:36:23,440
Utopianists.

1465
01:36:23,470 --> 01:36:26,310
[audience booing]

1466
01:36:34,350 --> 01:36:37,190
[muffled booing]

1467
01:36:53,170 --> 01:36:54,370
[muffled thudding]

1468
01:37:10,220 --> 01:37:12,860
[ominous music]

1469
01:37:50,590 --> 01:37:52,260
[music stops]

1470
01:38:20,390 --> 01:38:25,460
[Op #4] Break time. [Op #1] Yeah, I need to zone out for a bit.

1471
01:38:26,530 --> 01:38:29,500
[Op #1] This final programming is melting my brain.

1472
01:38:32,030 --> 01:38:35,470
-What's this? -Good question.

1473
01:38:35,500 --> 01:38:38,410
Some old film by this guy, Joseph.

1474
01:38:38,440 --> 01:38:41,210
It's like an abstract social commentary.

1475
01:38:41,240 --> 01:38:42,680
I haven't quite figured it out.

1476
01:38:45,010 --> 01:38:46,220
-Looks pretentious.

1477
01:38:48,550 --> 01:38:50,020
-How's the great debate?

1478
01:38:50,050 --> 01:38:51,690
-That's what I'm going to find out.

1479
01:38:54,360 --> 01:38:56,130
I'm sorry.

1480
01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:58,760
I thought we were trying to save the world.

1481
01:38:58,790 --> 01:39:00,600
[Op #3] Everything's ahead of schedule.

1482
01:39:00,630 --> 01:39:03,370
[Op #5] And I can't do much more without the satellite coordinates.

1483
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:05,630
[Op #2] Plus this is getting good. -Hm-mm.

1484
01:39:05,670 --> 01:39:07,770
According to the script, looks like John's about to school

1485
01:39:07,800 --> 01:39:09,570
Simon on the nature of hierarchy.

1486
01:39:11,740 --> 01:39:14,740
[Op #5] Wait, how is it we're seeing both in the shot at once.

1487
01:39:14,780 --> 01:39:16,710
The camera links to his eye.

1488
01:39:16,750 --> 01:39:20,320
[Op #2] Shh. Audiences don't usually notice things like that.

1489
01:39:20,350 --> 01:39:24,650
[Simon] And besides, where do you see equality in the animal kingdom?

1490
01:39:24,690 --> 01:39:26,360
No one's equal, John.

1491
01:39:26,390 --> 01:39:29,020
[John] And it would be painfully boring if they were.

1492
01:39:29,060 --> 01:39:30,630
Humans are diverse.

1493
01:39:30,660 --> 01:39:32,530
Everyone has different capabilities,

1494
01:39:32,560 --> 01:39:35,460
strengths, weaknesses, talents.

1495
01:39:35,500 --> 01:39:37,470
The push for social equality and human rights

1496
01:39:37,500 --> 01:39:39,600
is about how that diversity is understood.

1497
01:39:40,540 --> 01:39:42,270
And you seem to think people should only be valued

1498
01:39:42,300 --> 01:39:44,310
by how well they compete in the business game,

1499
01:39:44,340 --> 01:39:46,680
as if the violence spread between the rich and the poor

1500
01:39:46,710 --> 01:39:48,610
reflects objective human worth.

1501
01:39:48,640 --> 01:39:52,180
-John, I amuse myself with the notion

1502
01:39:52,210 --> 01:39:55,280
of the money god because it isn't far from the truth.

1503
01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:59,320
Some system has to exist to divide up a scarce world

1504
01:39:59,360 --> 01:40:03,330
and nature has spoken as to what that system must be.

1505
01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:06,500
Those who reach the top of the pyramid deserve it,

1506
01:40:06,530 --> 01:40:09,160
not because you or I think it's right,

1507
01:40:09,200 --> 01:40:12,470
but because that's what nature is selecting for.

1508
01:40:12,500 --> 01:40:14,640
-So nature prefers sociopaths and psychopaths

1509
01:40:14,670 --> 01:40:17,110
to guide the species? Because those are the dominating

1510
01:40:17,140 --> 01:40:18,740
traits of the ruling class today.

1511
01:40:18,770 --> 01:40:21,810
-The system is as the system does.

1512
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:24,210
-Is that what the Malthusian Mandate is about?

1513
01:40:24,250 --> 01:40:26,320
To then select out the poor and weak.

1514
01:40:27,380 --> 01:40:29,250
-We'll get to the mandate in a moment.

1515
01:40:30,720 --> 01:40:33,390
I'm still bothered by your denial of the fact

1516
01:40:33,420 --> 01:40:37,290
our social system reflects our true biological nature.

1517
01:40:37,330 --> 01:40:41,130
And if this revolution you speak of did magically occur,

1518
01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:43,500
it would just be a matter of time before the innate

1519
01:40:43,530 --> 01:40:48,170
compulsion towards social dominance prevailed yet again.

1520
01:40:48,200 --> 01:40:52,240
Deep down, John, the slaves don't want to be free.

1521
01:40:52,270 --> 01:40:54,540
They want to be slave owners.

1522
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:56,750
-Nice one.

1523
01:40:58,310 --> 01:41:00,180
Too bad history paints a different picture.

1524
01:41:01,280 --> 01:41:02,820
-Our hierarchies have remained

1525
01:41:02,850 --> 01:41:05,590
constant throughout recorded civilization.

1526
01:41:05,620 --> 01:41:08,520
-For perhaps the last 12,000 years, sure.

1527
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:10,330
But you know as well as I do, before the discovery

1528
01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:12,760
of agriculture, there was no such thing.

1529
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:15,330
Ninety-nine percent of human history has been egalitarian.

1530
01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:18,170
-I said civilization, John.

1531
01:41:18,200 --> 01:41:20,640
Meandering hunter-gatherer tribes

1532
01:41:20,670 --> 01:41:24,870
chucking spears and eating grubs isn't civilization.

1533
01:41:24,910 --> 01:41:26,580
-How contemporacist of you.

1534
01:41:27,580 --> 01:41:31,210
Yet 20th century study of numerous hunter-gatherer tribes,

1535
01:41:31,250 --> 01:41:34,220
those still surviving in remote areas just as they did

1536
01:41:34,250 --> 01:41:36,790
thousands of years prior, actually show socially

1537
01:41:36,820 --> 01:41:40,920
rich cultures. Adult life spans not far from ours.

1538
01:41:40,960 --> 01:41:43,590
Relatively peaceful in balance with nature.

1539
01:41:43,630 --> 01:41:48,230
No leaders, no group hierarchy, no inequality.

1540
01:41:48,260 --> 01:41:52,400
To argue today's society is somehow more civilized is dubious at best.

1541
01:41:52,430 --> 01:41:54,640
-Well, then perhaps you can encourage

1542
01:41:54,670 --> 01:41:56,540
all your enlightened followers

1543
01:41:56,570 --> 01:41:58,840
to come together and live out their utopian

1544
01:41:58,870 --> 01:42:00,780
fantasy in the Amazon jungle.

1545
01:42:00,810 --> 01:42:03,510
-You mean what's left of it? What hasn't been destroyed

1546
01:42:03,550 --> 01:42:05,750
by the supposedly advanced culture that's ravaged

1547
01:42:05,780 --> 01:42:07,920
the natural world into total decline

1548
01:42:07,950 --> 01:42:11,890
in the name of infinite consumption and economic growth?

1549
01:42:11,920 --> 01:42:14,720
And the point here, Simon, is hunter-gatherer cultures

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01:42:14,760 --> 01:42:16,860
are evidence of human variability.

1551
01:42:16,890 --> 01:42:19,960
variability which contradicts your vague biological determinism.

1552
01:42:20,000 --> 01:42:22,500
-John, just because history shows

1553
01:42:22,530 --> 01:42:25,900
a range of behaviors across time doesn't prove anything.

1554
01:42:25,930 --> 01:42:29,200
The introduction of agriculture indeed changed

1555
01:42:29,240 --> 01:42:33,440
the human condition, because it triggered a dormant trait

1556
01:42:33,480 --> 01:42:35,880
in our evolutionary psychology.

1557
01:42:35,910 --> 01:42:38,650
A trait that wasn't expressed before.

1558
01:42:38,680 --> 01:42:39,720
-How?

1559
01:42:39,750 --> 01:42:41,350
-By the advent

1560
01:42:41,380 --> 01:42:43,320
of economic surplus.

1561
01:42:43,350 --> 01:42:44,920
-[scoffs] Economic surplus.

1562
01:42:44,950 --> 01:42:48,460
-Resources and goods that could be stored,

1563
01:42:48,490 --> 01:42:50,930
hoarded, stockpiled, owned,

1564
01:42:50,960 --> 01:42:54,600
traded, controlled, leveraged for personal gain.

1565
01:42:54,630 --> 01:42:58,970
A phenomenon that was impossible in a hunter-gatherer reality.

1566
01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:02,570
And it was that realization that sparked our now

1567
01:43:02,600 --> 01:43:05,970
omnipresent drive toward dominance and hierarchy.

1568
01:43:09,380 --> 01:43:10,350
-I didn't know that.

1569
01:43:11,350 --> 01:43:14,950
Genetic dormancy of an evolutionary expression.

1570
01:43:14,980 --> 01:43:17,390
Needed an environmental trigger,

1571
01:43:17,420 --> 01:43:20,460
psychological drive, but then morphs into complex

1572
01:43:20,490 --> 01:43:22,860
oppressive institutions and structures.

1573
01:43:23,790 --> 01:43:27,460
Compelling. Intuitive. Plausible.

1574
01:43:28,900 --> 01:43:30,570
Too bad it's total bullshit.

1575
01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:32,800
All simpleton, pedestrian, bio-deterministic

1576
01:43:32,830 --> 01:43:35,540
conclusions that are nothing more than elitist projections.

1577
01:43:35,570 --> 01:43:39,510
-You think it's wise to insult me given this circumstance, John.

1578
01:43:40,580 --> 01:43:41,480
And listen.

1579
01:43:41,510 --> 01:43:44,510
[phone ringing]

1580
01:44:00,030 --> 01:44:01,030
[phone ringing stops]

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01:44:12,470 --> 01:44:14,680
-Agriculture did change everything.

1582
01:44:14,710 --> 01:44:16,880
But not because of someone's dormant psychological

1583
01:44:16,910 --> 01:44:19,820
drive magically triggered by economic surplus.

1584
01:44:19,850 --> 01:44:22,750
It was about what such a society technically required,

1585
01:44:22,780 --> 01:44:26,960
dramatically shifting incentives and very nature of human relationships.

1586
01:44:26,990 --> 01:44:30,330
Think about it. First you need the proper land,

1587
01:44:30,360 --> 01:44:32,530
water, the right conditions to farm,

1588
01:44:32,560 --> 01:44:34,630
then creating settlements around those fruitful areas

1589
01:44:34,660 --> 01:44:36,600
as opposed to foraging.

1590
01:44:36,630 --> 01:44:39,570
And since land quality varies some settlements will prosper

1591
01:44:39,600 --> 01:44:42,440
due to their geography and some will falter.

1592
01:44:42,470 --> 01:44:44,940
So what happens when a group finds itself with failed crops

1593
01:44:44,970 --> 01:44:46,980
and no way to survive the winter?

1594
01:44:47,010 --> 01:44:48,580
They may trade with other groups,

1595
01:44:48,610 --> 01:44:50,580
building out what we call a market today,

1596
01:44:50,610 --> 01:44:53,650
giving way to the idea of property and so on.

1597
01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:55,820
Or if they have nothing to trade, desperate,

1598
01:44:55,850 --> 01:44:59,720
they may invade, they may steal, compete,

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01:44:59,760 --> 01:45:03,130
establishing the need for protection, laws, armies,

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01:45:03,160 --> 01:45:04,890
the state institution itself.

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01:45:05,860 --> 01:45:08,500
At the same time people begin to notice the imbalance

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01:45:08,530 --> 01:45:10,870
and power of this new propertied reality,

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01:45:10,900 --> 01:45:14,500
rationalizing the hoarding of wealth for the sake of future security.

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01:45:15,400 --> 01:45:19,880
Hence the birth of inequity, poverty, socio-economic class.

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01:45:20,810 --> 01:45:24,880
Simon, every major structural aspect of society today,

1606
01:45:24,910 --> 01:45:27,950
from ownership, to trade, to nation states

1607
01:45:27,980 --> 01:45:31,020
to institutional warfare at the competitive ethic

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01:45:31,050 --> 01:45:36,160
to vast economic inequality and power hierarchy was predictable.

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01:45:36,190 --> 01:45:37,630
Snowballing ever since.

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01:45:38,790 --> 01:45:43,770
-So your theory is if you change the structure of society

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01:45:43,800 --> 01:45:45,770
you change the human condition?

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01:45:47,170 --> 01:45:50,670
There's no going back, John. -No one's going back.

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01:45:50,710 --> 01:45:52,140
We're going forward.

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01:45:52,170 --> 01:45:54,480
Humanity has been trapped in this immature stage

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01:45:54,510 --> 01:45:56,880
for too long, not to mention the sickness manifest

1616
01:45:56,910 --> 01:46:00,580
by this endless striving towards social status is palpable.

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01:46:00,620 --> 01:46:02,450
Children, when who asked what they want

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01:46:02,480 --> 01:46:06,050
to be when they grow up say, "Rich and famous."

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01:46:06,090 --> 01:46:08,960
How the most wealthy nations, those beacons of supposed

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01:46:08,990 --> 01:46:12,630
success are by far the most mentally ill.

1621
01:46:12,660 --> 01:46:16,200
People don't know who they are, where they're going,

1622
01:46:16,230 --> 01:46:17,700
or what they're doing.

1623
01:46:17,730 --> 01:46:19,970
Lost in a perversion of social image.

1624
01:46:20,870 --> 01:46:24,110
A spectacle that no longer has any relationship

1625
01:46:24,140 --> 01:46:25,570
to anything real.

1626
01:46:28,210 --> 01:46:30,150
[door creaking]

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01:46:37,690 --> 01:46:38,890
[door thuds]

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[white noise]

1629
01:46:46,730 --> 01:46:49,130
[gentle rock music]

1630
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[dinging]

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01:47:25,170 --> 01:47:27,040
[high-pitched whirring]

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[dinging]

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01:47:56,900 --> 01:47:58,970
[high-pitched whirring]

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[rock music continues]

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01:48:27,360 --> 01:48:28,330
[dinging]

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01:48:28,360 --> 01:48:29,970
[high-pitched whirring]

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01:48:44,250 --> 01:48:45,610
[dinging]

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01:48:45,650 --> 01:48:47,280
[high-pitched whirring]

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01:49:17,410 --> 01:49:18,780
[dinging]

1640
01:49:18,810 --> 01:49:21,320
[rock music intensifies]

1641
01:49:48,980 --> 01:49:51,080
[rock music continues increasing]

1642
01:50:05,890 --> 01:50:07,400
[rock music abruptly stops]

1643
01:50:11,770 --> 01:50:13,970
[white noise]

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[gentle music]

1645
01:50:28,167 --> 01:50:30,792
Money is a new form of slavery

1646
01:50:30,792 --> 01:50:34,042
Distinguishable from the old simply by the
fact that it is impersonal.

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01:50:34,042 --> 01:50:39,800
That there is no human relation between master and slave.
~Leo Tolstoy

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[director] So I'd like to go back to the subject of inequality.

1649
01:50:42,300 --> 01:50:44,430
But this time to understand the mechanics

1650
01:50:44,470 --> 01:50:47,700
of the oppression how the hierarchy was kept in place?

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01:50:47,740 --> 01:50:49,700
[Cynthia] Okay, let's start with money.

1652
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[gentle music]

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Money was the infrastructure of the market economy.

1654
01:50:54,840 --> 01:50:56,880
And how it was created and moved around

1655
01:50:56,910 --> 01:50:59,810
was instrumental to lower class oppression.

1656
01:50:59,850 --> 01:51:03,180
[Malikan] So you had these things called banks, and they had

1657
01:51:03,220 --> 01:51:07,020
the ungodly power to make abstract value out of nothing.

1658
01:51:07,060 --> 01:51:11,030
If a person needed money for a home or car or business,

1659
01:51:11,060 --> 01:51:14,200
they went to their local bank and applied for a loan,

1660
01:51:14,230 --> 01:51:16,800
and if approved the person signed a contract

1661
01:51:16,830 --> 01:51:20,800
binding them to return that loaned money at a future date.

1662
01:51:20,840 --> 01:51:23,000
Though, it's not really a loan

1663
01:51:23,040 --> 01:51:26,270
in the sense of somebody lending out what they already owned.

1664
01:51:26,310 --> 01:51:28,940
Contrary to what most assumed, banks didn't loan out money

1665
01:51:28,980 --> 01:51:32,250
they actually had. They instead created new money

1666
01:51:32,280 --> 01:51:35,450
in the form of credit backed by debt.

1667
01:51:35,480 --> 01:51:37,950
[Vivian] So on one side, money represented

1668
01:51:37,990 --> 01:51:40,260
a store of value people could spend,

1669
01:51:40,290 --> 01:51:43,930
while on the other it was a liability made out of debt.

1670
01:51:43,960 --> 01:51:46,330
In other words, for every dollar that existed,

1671
01:51:46,360 --> 01:51:48,460
there was also a debt of a dollar

1672
01:51:48,500 --> 01:51:50,900
owed to some bank somewhere.

1673
01:51:50,930 --> 01:51:53,270
That was how money was brought into existence,

1674
01:51:53,300 --> 01:51:57,810
and when someone repaid the loan debt, the money then disappeared.

1675
01:51:57,840 --> 01:52:01,010
[Cynthia] That understood, any kind of service in that economy

1676
01:52:01,040 --> 01:52:03,780
sought a profit, and in the case of a loan,

1677
01:52:03,810 --> 01:52:06,850
that came in the form of a fee called interest.

1678
01:52:06,880 --> 01:52:10,190
So the borrower not only had to eventually repay the loan,

1679
01:52:10,220 --> 01:52:12,990
but also the interest charged as well.

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01:52:14,020 --> 01:52:16,290
[Aleniya] Imagine an island of a hundred people.

1681
01:52:16,320 --> 01:52:19,860
They decide to organize themselves through market economy.

1682
01:52:19,890 --> 01:52:22,360
They plop a bank down and each of them take a loan

1683
01:52:22,400 --> 01:52:25,900
for 100 credits of money at ten percent interest.

1684
01:52:25,930 --> 01:52:28,540
So they all now have 10,000 credits total

1685
01:52:28,570 --> 01:52:31,210
in their money supply, and they begin to work

1686
01:52:31,240 --> 01:52:34,180
in exchange creating economic activity.

1687
01:52:34,210 --> 01:52:36,410
When the time comes to pay back the loan,

1688
01:52:36,440 --> 01:52:40,080
they realized they owe not only the 100 credits,

1689
01:52:40,120 --> 01:52:43,950
but the ten percent interest, so 110 credits.

1690
01:52:43,990 --> 01:52:46,020
Same for the whole society.

1691
01:52:46,050 --> 01:52:49,060
In total, everyone on the island now owes the bank

1692
01:52:49,090 --> 01:52:51,060
11,000 credits.

1693
01:52:51,090 --> 01:52:55,300
But yet, only 10,000 actually exist in the money supply.

1694
01:52:55,330 --> 01:53:00,140
There is now more debt owed than money in existence

1695
01:53:00,170 --> 01:53:02,000
due to the interest charged.

1696
01:53:02,040 --> 01:53:04,940
[Cynthia] So three things can happen: one, those short

1697
01:53:04,970 --> 01:53:07,210
can take on more loans to temporarily cover

1698
01:53:07,240 --> 01:53:09,380
the old ones postponing the problem.

1699
01:53:09,410 --> 01:53:12,250
Two, people could ramp up competitive trade

1700
01:53:12,280 --> 01:53:14,320
increasing economic activity

1701
01:53:14,350 --> 01:53:17,020
to try to get enough from others to cover the debt,

1702
01:53:17,050 --> 01:53:20,860
displacing the debt responsibility like a game of musical chairs.

1703
01:53:20,890 --> 01:53:24,260
Or three, the bank comes in and takes real property

1704
01:53:24,290 --> 01:53:26,390
to compensate for the outstanding debt,

1705
01:53:26,430 --> 01:53:30,200
which is inevitably what happens somewhere down the line anyway.

1706
01:53:30,230 --> 01:53:31,930
[director] Wait, that, that can't be right.

1707
01:53:31,970 --> 01:53:34,340
That would just be a system of organized theft.

1708
01:53:34,370 --> 01:53:38,870
Yes, banks were vehicles of creation on one side,

1709
01:53:38,910 --> 01:53:40,210
and a system of organized theft

1710
01:53:40,240 --> 01:53:42,110
and class oppression on the other.

1711
01:53:42,140 --> 01:53:45,180
But in a large complex global society, one based

1712
01:53:45,210 --> 01:53:48,150
on economic growth, money moves so rapidly

1713
01:53:48,180 --> 01:53:50,990
it was very hard for the mechanics of this to be recognized.

1714
01:53:51,020 --> 01:53:53,620
Obscured by things like the boom-and-bust cycle,

1715
01:53:53,660 --> 01:53:56,120
monetary expansion and contraction.

1716
01:53:57,030 --> 01:54:00,030
-[director] Mm, please continue. -So back to our island again.

1717
01:54:01,330 --> 01:54:03,670
But this time for the sake of simplicity,

1718
01:54:03,700 --> 01:54:06,500
let's remove the interest fee from the equation,

1719
01:54:06,530 --> 01:54:10,540
and focus only on the outcomes of competitive trade itself.

1720
01:54:10,570 --> 01:54:13,640
[Aleniya] So the 10,000 credits of money has been moving around

1721
01:54:13,680 --> 01:54:15,980
through trade, labor, investment,

1722
01:54:16,010 --> 01:54:18,410
starting businesses, hiring employees,

1723
01:54:18,450 --> 01:54:20,980
and as is inevitable to the game,

1724
01:54:21,020 --> 01:54:24,490
some businesses will outperform winning disproportion income,

1725
01:54:24,520 --> 01:54:27,490
while others will fall behind losing income.

1726
01:54:27,520 --> 01:54:29,960
And naturally those with more money

1727
01:54:29,990 --> 01:54:32,960
can then increase their gaming advantage becoming

1728
01:54:32,990 --> 01:54:37,400
ever more competitive and, of course, more prone to keep winning.

1729
01:54:37,430 --> 01:54:40,030
[Vivian] As the old adage went, the rich get richer

1730
01:54:40,070 --> 01:54:41,700
and the poor get poorer.

1731
01:54:41,740 --> 01:54:44,370
A small business with limited means simply can't compete

1732
01:54:44,410 --> 01:54:47,710
with a larger one that can outperform them in the same service

1733
01:54:47,740 --> 01:54:50,680
due to having more resources to work with.

1734
01:54:50,710 --> 01:54:53,450
[Cynthia] So on our Island, we see an inevitable

1735
01:54:53,480 --> 01:54:56,550
point in time where say ten percent of that population

1736
01:54:56,580 --> 01:54:59,520
managed to acquire 90% of the island's wealth

1737
01:54:59,550 --> 01:55:01,420
while the other 90% of the population

1738
01:55:01,460 --> 01:55:03,560
now has only ten percent.

1739
01:55:03,590 --> 01:55:06,690
By the way, this isn't some arbitrary assumption,

1740
01:55:06,730 --> 01:55:08,960
this can be modeled mathematically.

1741
01:55:09,000 --> 01:55:12,070
The dynamics of mass competitive trade in any society

1742
01:55:12,100 --> 01:55:15,000
always moves toward disequilibrium.

1743
01:55:15,040 --> 01:55:17,710
So back to my point, when you put this together

1744
01:55:17,740 --> 01:55:21,540
a displaced debt burden and the application of interest,

1745
01:55:21,580 --> 01:55:24,410
you can begin to see the insidiousness.

1746
01:55:24,450 --> 01:55:27,550
An economic process based upon competitive advantage and trade

1747
01:55:27,580 --> 01:55:31,220
that inevitably consolidates wealth increasing that advantage.

1748
01:55:31,250 --> 01:55:33,520
Coupled with a financial system that is charging

1749
01:55:33,550 --> 01:55:36,760
interest on loans that can never be fully repaid.

1750
01:55:36,790 --> 01:55:39,730
[Malikan] So it's no surprise that in the early 21st century,

1751
01:55:39,760 --> 01:55:43,100
the global economy had about 200 trillion in debt

1752
01:55:43,130 --> 01:55:45,630
and only 80 trillion in outstanding currency.

1753
01:55:45,670 --> 01:55:47,570
While in the United States, then considered

1754
01:55:47,600 --> 01:55:49,540
the richest nation on the planet,

1755
01:55:49,570 --> 01:55:53,370
half of the population had less than 1,000 dollars in savings

1756
01:55:53,410 --> 01:55:56,710
while also spending more each year than they actually earned,

1757
01:55:56,740 --> 01:55:58,410
just trying to keep up.

1758
01:55:59,580 --> 01:56:02,050
[Vivian] While on the global level, nearly 50 percent

1759
01:56:02,080 --> 01:56:04,390
of the population lived in poverty on less

1760
01:56:04,420 --> 01:56:08,520
than $5.50 a day as roughly 30 individuals,

1761
01:56:08,560 --> 01:56:14,230
yes '30', owned more wealth than the bottom half, 3.6 billion.

1762
01:56:15,260 --> 01:56:17,770
[Aleniya] Now, there are plenty of other intermitted things

1763
01:56:17,800 --> 01:56:19,530
that contribute to this disparity.

1764
01:56:20,440 --> 01:56:22,600
Offshore tax havens for the rich.

1765
01:56:22,640 --> 01:56:26,070
The mythology of trickle-down economics where government favors

1766
01:56:26,110 --> 01:56:29,510
business over the public's well-being, gaming strategies

1767
01:56:29,540 --> 01:56:32,810
to restrict the power of unions and keep wages low,

1768
01:56:32,850 --> 01:56:35,080
various shenanigans related to this thing

1769
01:56:35,120 --> 01:56:37,320
called the stock market.

1770
01:56:37,350 --> 01:56:41,060
But the financial system and its use of debt is really

1771
01:56:41,090 --> 01:56:42,560
the foundation of it all.

1772
01:56:42,590 --> 01:56:44,290
[director] Wow,

1773
01:56:44,330 --> 01:56:46,290
you would expect riots in the streets if people

1774
01:56:46,330 --> 01:56:49,160
really understood that. [Malikan] Well, there eventually were.

1775
01:56:49,200 --> 01:56:51,570
But again, at the time, people just couldn't see it.

1776
01:56:51,600 --> 01:56:55,240
But, no, it wasn't until the complete abolition of debt

1777
01:56:55,270 --> 01:56:58,670
on all levels that human slavery finally ended on this planet.

1778
01:56:59,840 --> 01:57:02,540
[director] Speaking of awareness, I'd like to talk

1779
01:57:02,580 --> 01:57:05,210
a little about how the awakening started.

1780
01:57:05,250 --> 01:57:07,180
I know Concordia was instrumental

1781
01:57:07,220 --> 01:57:10,220
to technical change later on, but what about before that,

1782
01:57:10,250 --> 01:57:12,820
perhaps starting in 20th century?

1783
01:57:12,850 --> 01:57:14,860
-Well, it's sporadic.

1784
01:57:14,890 --> 01:57:16,660
The largest move against this system was

1785
01:57:16,690 --> 01:57:19,590
the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, inspired by a man

1786
01:57:19,630 --> 01:57:22,600
named Karl Marx. That brought about the Soviet Union,

1787
01:57:22,630 --> 01:57:24,770
which existed for a couple decades.

1788
01:57:24,800 --> 01:57:27,270
And it employed a top-down regulation system

1789
01:57:27,300 --> 01:57:29,440
they called communism. But it proved to be

1790
01:57:29,470 --> 01:57:31,370
inefficient and oppressive.

1791
01:57:31,410 --> 01:57:34,380
It was also wildly opposed by Western capitalist powers

1792
01:57:34,410 --> 01:57:38,280
which sought to destroy it by any means necessary.

1793
01:57:38,310 --> 01:57:41,820
Criticism was generally infused with civil rights movements.

1794
01:57:41,850 --> 01:57:44,850
[Vivian] For example, Mahatma Gandhi, who helped liberate India

1795
01:57:44,890 --> 01:57:48,220
from Colonial rule, was notably against the system,

1796
01:57:48,260 --> 01:57:50,660
recognizing its creation of poverty.

1797
01:57:50,690 --> 01:57:54,900
Once saying that "poverty was the worst form of violence."

1798
01:57:54,930 --> 01:57:56,600
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

1799
01:57:56,630 --> 01:57:59,170
was also steadfast against capitalism,

1800
01:57:59,200 --> 01:58:01,800
seeing it as a part of a system of oppression

1801
01:58:01,840 --> 01:58:05,440
fueling racism. Same for the Black Panther Party.

1802
01:58:05,470 --> 01:58:08,540
That had chapters all over the world in the 1960s.

1803
01:58:08,580 --> 01:58:11,410
You also had more academic-minded organizations

1804
01:58:11,450 --> 01:58:13,310
like the technocracy movement,

1805
01:58:13,350 --> 01:58:16,480
largely inspired by famous economist Thorstein Veblen,

1806
01:58:16,520 --> 01:58:18,250
who recognize that a society

1807
01:58:18,290 --> 01:58:21,160
run by business people was a very bad idea.

1808
01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:26,290
[Aleniya] And by the 21st century, when economic inequality was reaching

1809
01:58:26,330 --> 01:58:30,500
unprecedented extremes coupled with a growing ecological crisis,

1810
01:58:30,530 --> 01:58:33,300
many more were realizing something had to be done.

1811
01:58:34,770 --> 01:58:38,470
[Malikan] But there is one that sticks out to me in the context

1812
01:58:38,510 --> 01:58:41,410
of the value system disorder present at the time.

1813
01:58:41,440 --> 01:58:44,210
An iconic speech given by a man named Omar Padillo.

1814
01:58:44,980 --> 01:58:48,220
Omar was born in poverty in Los Angeles, California.

1815
01:58:48,250 --> 01:58:50,220
And as a young man, he just happened to win

1816
01:58:50,250 --> 01:58:54,360
the largest state lottery ever in 2037, and he decided

1817
01:58:54,390 --> 01:58:58,460
to use that money to solve the vast homeless crisis in his hometown.

1818
01:58:58,490 --> 01:59:02,230
He funded non-profits, established housing treatment centers.

1819
01:59:02,260 --> 01:59:03,870
Not only getting people off the streets,

1820
01:59:03,900 --> 01:59:06,470
but really helping them recover and acclimate.

1821
01:59:06,500 --> 01:59:08,640
Something that hadn't been done before.

1822
01:59:08,670 --> 01:59:11,410
And they gave him a Nobel Peace Prize for it.

1823
01:59:11,440 --> 01:59:13,880
But what he had to say during his speech

1824
01:59:13,910 --> 01:59:15,840
wasn't exactly what they expected.

1825
01:59:23,720 --> 01:59:26,490
[audience applauding]

1826
01:59:26,520 --> 01:59:28,760
[solemn music]

1827
01:59:39,000 --> 01:59:40,430
[Omar] Thank you.

1828
01:59:40,470 --> 01:59:41,740
And while I'm happy for those

1829
01:59:41,770 --> 01:59:43,740
we have helped over the past few years,

1830
01:59:43,770 --> 01:59:47,740
taking about 75,000 homeless off the Los Angeles streets,

1831
01:59:47,780 --> 01:59:50,410
I must say that the problem

1832
01:59:50,440 --> 01:59:52,880
at hand runs much deeper than the poverty

1833
01:59:52,910 --> 01:59:56,420
we see around us. When I created this program,

1834
01:59:56,450 --> 01:59:59,850
focusing on just this one regional crises,

1835
01:59:59,890 --> 02:00:02,660
my long-term hope was that it would set a new precedent.

1836
02:00:02,690 --> 02:00:04,690
That those who disproportionately benefit

1837
02:00:04,730 --> 02:00:08,330
in this world would be inspired, step up,

1838
02:00:08,360 --> 02:00:11,300
and help take responsibility for the plight

1839
02:00:11,330 --> 02:00:12,870
of the less fortunate.

1840
02:00:12,900 --> 02:00:15,270
After all, what I have done here

1841
02:00:15,300 --> 02:00:17,770
is merely a patch that can only help a few.

1842
02:00:17,810 --> 02:00:20,410
For the true source of poverty,

1843
02:00:20,440 --> 02:00:23,640
our social system, continues to go unaddressed.

1844
02:00:24,650 --> 02:00:27,420
We live in a world of stories and myths.

1845
02:00:27,450 --> 02:00:30,320
And we've been told that the vast inequities that we see

1846
02:00:30,350 --> 02:00:33,890
is the price we must pay for innovation and progress.

1847
02:00:33,920 --> 02:00:35,790
Well, innovation to what end,

1848
02:00:35,820 --> 02:00:38,930
and how do we define this notion of progress?

1849
02:00:38,960 --> 02:00:43,300
For if progress is about how much one can own, the availability of jobs,

1850
02:00:43,330 --> 02:00:46,900
the state of a nation's GDP, the rise of the stock market,

1851
02:00:46,930 --> 02:00:50,400
or the development of some gadget to entertain and distract you,

1852
02:00:50,440 --> 02:00:53,670
then we face a serious existential crisis.

1853
02:00:53,710 --> 02:00:57,580
I submit that true progress can only be measured in the health,

1854
02:00:57,610 --> 02:01:02,320
stability, integrity, and responsible freedom of a civilization.

1855
02:01:02,350 --> 02:01:05,920
Responsible to ourselves, responsible to each other,

1856
02:01:05,950 --> 02:01:09,520
and responsible to their earthly habitat we all share.

1857
02:01:09,560 --> 02:01:11,830
And by those measures, my friends,

1858
02:01:11,860 --> 02:01:14,400
there is now little progress to be found,

1859
02:01:14,430 --> 02:01:16,830
as we all sit idly by, presupposing

1860
02:01:16,860 --> 02:01:19,770
that the way society works is the only way it ever could.

1861
02:01:20,700 --> 02:01:23,870
That said, if it's true that we must persist

1862
02:01:23,900 --> 02:01:26,510
in this inhumane economic order,

1863
02:01:26,540 --> 02:01:29,510
an order that has proven it can only create affluence

1864
02:01:29,540 --> 02:01:33,410
for a minority at the cost of destitution for the majority,

1865
02:01:34,720 --> 02:01:37,920
then our only choice is to seek a new level

1866
02:01:37,950 --> 02:01:40,520
of humanitarian effort.

1867
02:01:40,550 --> 02:01:42,760
Today, three people have more wealth

1868
02:01:42,790 --> 02:01:46,460
than the bottom 75% of the world's population,

1869
02:01:46,490 --> 02:01:48,400
six billion people,

1870
02:01:48,430 --> 02:01:51,730
the total wealth of the 4,000 billionaires out there

1871
02:01:51,770 --> 02:01:55,670
have the means to end global poverty a hundred times over,

1872
02:01:55,700 --> 02:01:59,370
and yet if you study their philanthropy,

1873
02:01:59,410 --> 02:02:02,110
it is clear that they are far more concerned

1874
02:02:02,140 --> 02:02:04,850
with their own interests, their own comforts,

1875
02:02:04,880 --> 02:02:07,850
than working to counter this ongoing structural violence.

1876
02:02:09,920 --> 02:02:13,120
You see there's a deeper kind of poverty here.

1877
02:02:14,560 --> 02:02:18,560
A spiritual poverty, a poverty that grows a culture

1878
02:02:18,590 --> 02:02:22,430
of sociopaths and the more they have, the more they want,

1879
02:02:22,460 --> 02:02:24,130
and the less they seem to care otherwise.

1880
02:02:24,170 --> 02:02:28,470
Moral bankruptcy hiding behind this age-old story

1881
02:02:28,500 --> 02:02:31,770
that one can have a billion dollars in the bank while others starve

1882
02:02:31,810 --> 02:02:34,840
is somehow natural to the human condition.

1883
02:02:38,180 --> 02:02:40,650
In a number of months my program will end

1884
02:02:41,550 --> 02:02:44,090
as the funds will be gone.

1885
02:02:44,120 --> 02:02:48,920
And to date not one wealthy, so-called philanthropist

1886
02:02:48,960 --> 02:02:51,130
has offered to help keep the program running.

1887
02:02:54,030 --> 02:02:57,160
Now I know this event is about peace,

1888
02:02:57,200 --> 02:03:00,630
but it must be understood that the wealthy of this world,

1889
02:03:00,670 --> 02:03:05,670
those at the root of true political power are sick.

1890
02:03:05,710 --> 02:03:09,440
Their priorities have nothing to do with true progress.

1891
02:03:09,480 --> 02:03:12,080
And the time for tolerance is over.

1892
02:03:13,710 --> 02:03:17,620
The billionaire's of this world are not symbols of success.

1893
02:03:17,650 --> 02:03:20,650
They are symbols of violence.

1894
02:03:25,090 --> 02:03:26,990
And until that violence ends,

1895
02:03:29,700 --> 02:03:32,230
there will be no peace on this planet.

1896
02:03:32,270 --> 02:03:34,940
[somber music]

1897
02:03:56,720 --> 02:03:57,690
[Simon] [sighs]

1898
02:04:06,730 --> 02:04:08,970
I am sorry, Peter. Can we cut?

1899
02:04:09,940 --> 02:04:11,010
[Peter] Cut!

1900
02:04:13,170 --> 02:04:15,240
-Well, it's, you know, it's this opening section.

1901
02:04:15,280 --> 02:04:19,610
I'm, I'm still not getting it. I know we've been through it but, uh,

1902
02:04:19,650 --> 02:04:21,850
it's just not landing for me. -[Peter] I'm just going to keep rolling here.

1903
02:04:21,880 --> 02:04:23,780
[cameraman] Can you grab that color swatch for me?

1904
02:04:23,820 --> 02:04:25,920
[Peter] You have to think about the interpretation in reference

1905
02:04:25,950 --> 02:04:27,960
-to the-- -[tech] All right. Thank you.

1906
02:04:30,120 --> 02:04:32,560
This tripod head is toilet.

1907
02:04:35,560 --> 02:04:37,670
[actor] You know, my latte was cold this morning.

1908
02:04:37,700 --> 02:04:39,600
And that's my problem because?

1909
02:04:39,630 --> 02:04:42,700
[Simon] Okay, okay, I, I think I got it.

1910
02:04:42,740 --> 02:04:44,610
Thanks. [Peter] No problem. All right

1911
02:04:44,640 --> 02:04:46,140
everybody, let's move. [Simon] [sighs]

1912
02:04:46,170 --> 02:04:49,310
Jesus, take a screenwriting class for Christ's sake.

1913
02:04:49,340 --> 02:04:52,280
No one's going to understand any of this shit.

1914
02:04:52,310 --> 02:04:53,780
-[Peter] Camera? -[man] Rolling.

1915
02:04:53,810 --> 02:04:55,750
-[Peter] Audio? -[woman] Speeding.

1916
02:04:55,780 --> 02:04:57,050
[man 2] Slate.

1917
02:04:57,080 --> 02:04:59,320
[man 3] Scene 37, take 23.

1918
02:04:59,350 --> 02:05:00,620
[clicks]

1919
02:05:01,760 --> 02:05:03,290
[playful music]

1920
02:05:03,320 --> 02:05:06,030
[audience applauding]

1921
02:05:08,100 --> 02:05:10,870
[Simon] What if I told you, John, what many see

1922
02:05:10,900 --> 02:05:15,270
as problems in the world are actually solutions in transition.

1923
02:05:15,300 --> 02:05:16,800
-Is that some kind of Taoist riddle?

1924
02:05:16,840 --> 02:05:18,670
[audience laughing]

1925
02:05:20,140 --> 02:05:23,310
-Poverty, crime, war, disease, even the ongoing

1926
02:05:23,340 --> 02:05:25,310
destruction of the habitat.

1927
02:05:25,350 --> 02:05:28,080
What if they were actually productive forces

1928
02:05:28,120 --> 02:05:29,920
assisting a larger end?

1929
02:05:31,020 --> 02:05:32,990
-I'd suggest you lighten up on the Nietzsche.

1930
02:05:33,020 --> 02:05:34,860
[audience laughing]

1931
02:05:37,320 --> 02:05:40,630
-What separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom

1932
02:05:40,660 --> 02:05:44,100
is that we have no natural predators.

1933
02:05:44,130 --> 02:05:47,970
Nothing out there to snatch us up for an afternoon snack.

1934
02:05:48,000 --> 02:05:52,710
We're also uniquely aware of our own mortality and fight it

1935
02:05:52,740 --> 02:05:56,740
with hospitals, medicine, inoculations.

1936
02:05:56,780 --> 02:05:59,780
Little stopping us from reproducing

1937
02:05:59,810 --> 02:06:02,320
to the very limit of our host,

1938
02:06:02,350 --> 02:06:04,290
at least not externally.

1939
02:06:04,320 --> 02:06:08,220
Evolution had to do something a bit different with us.

1940
02:06:09,290 --> 02:06:13,990
So, instead, we  are our own predators.

1941
02:06:15,100 --> 02:06:17,330
Predator and prey in one.

1942
02:06:19,330 --> 02:06:20,370
-How convenient.

1943
02:06:20,400 --> 02:06:23,140
[audience laughing]

1944
02:06:23,170 --> 02:06:26,340
-Which explains not only why humans murder each other

1945
02:06:26,370 --> 02:06:30,110
at a rate unparalleled by any other species,

1946
02:06:30,140 --> 02:06:34,210
but also why we've generated a social structure

1947
02:06:34,250 --> 02:06:39,890
that by systemic force further ensures a consistent rate

1948
02:06:39,920 --> 02:06:41,820
of premature mortality.

1949
02:06:43,160 --> 02:06:47,060
-You mean structural violence. -Embedded into the very design

1950
02:06:47,090 --> 02:06:48,960
of civilization itself.

1951
02:06:50,300 --> 02:06:52,970
-So that is what the Malthusian Mandate does,

1952
02:06:53,000 --> 02:06:54,870
regulate how to kill off the weak.

1953
02:06:55,870 --> 02:06:59,440
-No, the Mandate isn't a policy of action.

1954
02:06:59,470 --> 02:07:02,740
It's a policy of inaction, a commitment

1955
02:07:02,780 --> 02:07:05,880
not to interfere with the natural course of the system.

1956
02:07:07,180 --> 02:07:09,850
-So the invisible hand of the market has a machete.

1957
02:07:09,880 --> 02:07:11,920
[audience laughing]

1958
02:07:16,360 --> 02:07:18,230
I don't expect to win you over, John.

1959
02:07:18,260 --> 02:07:20,190
I'm just telling you the way it is.

1960
02:07:20,230 --> 02:07:21,800
I agree it's ugly.

1961
02:07:21,830 --> 02:07:23,700
But without the premature death

1962
02:07:23,730 --> 02:07:26,770
that capitalism brings in the form of inequality,

1963
02:07:26,800 --> 02:07:30,070
that planet would have flown off its access long ago.

1964
02:07:32,870 --> 02:07:33,940
As you know,

1965
02:07:34,940 --> 02:07:37,280
the Industrial Revolution set in motion

1966
02:07:37,310 --> 02:07:40,710
population growth that was hyperbolic.

1967
02:07:40,750 --> 02:07:43,780
And out of the 70 million who now die each year

1968
02:07:43,820 --> 02:07:46,750
30 million do so because of unequal conditions.

1969
02:07:47,520 --> 02:07:49,190
-So 40 percent of all global deaths

1970
02:07:49,220 --> 02:07:50,760
are structurally inflicted,

1971
02:07:50,790 --> 02:07:52,430
you know, there's a word for that, Simon.

1972
02:07:52,460 --> 02:07:54,130
-Oh, don't be dramatic.

1973
02:07:54,160 --> 02:07:57,230
Again, this is system-level behavior, John.

1974
02:07:57,260 --> 02:08:00,170
Not some nefarious conspiracy.

1975
02:08:00,200 --> 02:08:02,340
You want to know what the population would be

1976
02:08:02,370 --> 02:08:03,900
if this wasn't the case?

1977
02:08:03,940 --> 02:08:06,870
If we removed inequality driven mortality

1978
02:08:06,910 --> 02:08:10,210
for the last 100 years, accounting for fertility,

1979
02:08:10,240 --> 02:08:12,410
about 16 billion would be sucking up

1980
02:08:12,450 --> 02:08:14,820
resources on that planet today

1981
02:08:14,850 --> 02:08:18,890
with a carrying capacity still at only ten billion.

1982
02:08:18,920 --> 02:08:20,990
And you think things are messy now.

1983
02:08:22,320 --> 02:08:24,290
-First of all, Simon.

1984
02:08:24,320 --> 02:08:26,960
When the great Reverend Thomas Malthus decided

1985
02:08:26,990 --> 02:08:29,830
population would forever outpace resources,

1986
02:08:29,860 --> 02:08:31,500
only one billion existed.

1987
02:08:31,530 --> 02:08:34,870
We're almost ten times that now despite his projections.

1988
02:08:34,900 --> 02:08:36,200
Second, in the modern era,

1989
02:08:36,240 --> 02:08:37,540
the greatest predictor of regional

1990
02:08:37,570 --> 02:08:40,010
overpopulation is poverty itself.

1991
02:08:40,040 --> 02:08:42,880
If the world ever did abolish it, increasing education,

1992
02:08:42,910 --> 02:08:45,180
population growth would dramatically slow

1993
02:08:45,210 --> 02:08:47,920
likely approaching equilibrium.

1994
02:08:47,950 --> 02:08:50,380
Your 16 billion number doesn't account for that.

1995
02:08:50,420 --> 02:08:52,420
And third, you're completely disregarding

1996
02:08:52,450 --> 02:08:54,460
what the Fullerian study proved long ago,

1997
02:08:54,490 --> 02:08:56,560
a study sanctioned by your own department.

1998
02:08:56,590 --> 02:08:59,960
-The Fullerian study was purely theoretical, John.

1999
02:08:59,990 --> 02:09:03,160
A model only possible if humans magically conform

2000
02:09:03,200 --> 02:09:06,830
to strict sustainability and efficiency principles.

2001
02:09:06,870 --> 02:09:09,540
It required a completely egalitarian

2002
02:09:09,570 --> 02:09:12,240
structure without money and markets.

2003
02:09:12,270 --> 02:09:16,540
A fantasy given once again the reality of human nature.

2004
02:09:16,580 --> 02:09:19,110
-Fantasy or not, the study was clear.

2005
02:09:19,150 --> 02:09:21,820
Not only can the Earth hold upwards of 30 billion,

2006
02:09:21,850 --> 02:09:24,250
it can do so with each having a standard of living equivalent

2007
02:09:24,280 --> 02:09:26,050
to today's upper-middle-class.

2008
02:09:26,090 --> 02:09:29,020
-Yeah, again, assuming equal distribution,

2009
02:09:29,060 --> 02:09:30,520
which is absurd.

2010
02:09:30,560 --> 02:09:32,530
Humans have infinite wants.

2011
02:09:32,560 --> 02:09:35,160
-No... they don't.

2012
02:09:35,200 --> 02:09:37,970
Infinite wants is a value disorder,

2013
02:09:38,000 --> 02:09:41,030
inspired by an economy that needs infinite consumption to work.

2014
02:09:41,070 --> 02:09:44,140
People are just as prone to be minimalist as they are materialist.

2015
02:09:44,170 --> 02:09:46,270
Comes down to the social condition.

2016
02:09:46,310 --> 02:09:49,010
Today, if people didn't have highly acquisitive values,

2017
02:09:50,010 --> 02:09:51,610
the entire economy would collapse.

2018
02:09:51,650 --> 02:09:53,950
-Fine, believe what you will, John.

2019
02:09:53,980 --> 02:09:56,020
It's all moot anyway.

2020
02:09:56,050 --> 02:09:58,050
You asked me what the Malthusian Mandate

2021
02:09:58,090 --> 02:09:59,990
was and I'm telling you.

2022
02:10:00,020 --> 02:10:01,260
Whether you like it or not,

2023
02:10:01,290 --> 02:10:04,220
this is the reality of things today.

2024
02:10:05,260 --> 02:10:06,390
[buzzing]

2025
02:10:09,360 --> 02:10:10,960
[Op #4] We got Mandate metadata,

2026
02:10:11,000 --> 02:10:12,270
please tell me this is recording.

2027
02:10:12,300 --> 02:10:13,270
[Op #2] It certainly is.

2028
02:10:14,540 --> 02:10:16,440
[Op #5] Looks like John got his subterfuge.

2029
02:10:17,540 --> 02:10:19,410
[John] So how's this organized then?

2030
02:10:19,440 --> 02:10:22,940
Tracking demographics and mechanisms? [Simon] We are.

2031
02:10:22,980 --> 02:10:25,180
As you'll notice, conditions related to absolute

2032
02:10:25,210 --> 02:10:27,450
poverty in the third world countries account

2033
02:10:27,480 --> 02:10:30,280
for about 40 percent of all premature deaths.

2034
02:10:30,320 --> 02:10:32,320
-And I see you're also tracking poverty related illness

2035
02:10:32,350 --> 02:10:34,450
and violence in the industrialized nations.

2036
02:10:34,490 --> 02:10:37,560
-With heart diseases, cancer, and diabetes

2037
02:10:37,590 --> 02:10:39,160
remaining at the top,

2038
02:10:39,190 --> 02:10:41,330
while suicide, inner-city gang warfare,

2039
02:10:41,360 --> 02:10:44,260
and drug overdoses coming a close second.

2040
02:10:44,300 --> 02:10:46,400
-What about deep
stomach
 relationships?

2041
02:10:46,430 --> 02:10:48,000
Lack of education, childhood stress?

2042
02:10:48,040 --> 02:10:50,070
-Correlated as well.

2043
02:10:50,100 --> 02:10:52,310
Actually, very consistent.

2044
02:10:52,340 --> 02:10:56,310
Regional cycles of deprivation are like clockwork.

2045
02:10:56,340 --> 02:11:00,080
Poor families continue to produce more poor families,

2046
02:11:00,110 --> 02:11:03,220
even in the richest states. -And the mechanisms?

2047
02:11:03,250 --> 02:11:06,320
-Standard class war stuff. Only difference now

2048
02:11:06,350 --> 02:11:08,990
is the ecological and climate crisis,

2049
02:11:09,020 --> 02:11:11,160
which has rapidly increased mortality

2050
02:11:11,190 --> 02:11:14,430
in poverty-stricken desert and coastal regions.

2051
02:11:14,460 --> 02:11:16,460
But the same story otherwise.

2052
02:11:16,500 --> 02:11:19,030
The rich get richer with disproportional

2053
02:11:19,070 --> 02:11:20,670
opportunity in capital.

2054
02:11:20,700 --> 02:11:22,240
The political establishment

2055
02:11:22,270 --> 02:11:24,500
favors business and wealthy interests

2056
02:11:24,540 --> 02:11:26,970
over social support programs,

2057
02:11:27,010 --> 02:11:31,040
and the banking system keeps a solid stranglehold on social

2058
02:11:31,080 --> 02:11:36,180
mobility by saturating the lower class in insurmountable debt.

2059
02:11:36,220 --> 02:11:38,120
Same on the global level

2060
02:11:38,150 --> 02:11:40,490
through international finance institutions,

2061
02:11:40,520 --> 02:11:44,490
structural adjustments, austerity, sanctions.

2062
02:11:44,520 --> 02:11:47,360
In fact, the financial system is really

2063
02:11:47,390 --> 02:11:50,260
the glue that holds all this together,

2064
02:11:50,300 --> 02:11:52,670
keeping constant downward pressure

2065
02:11:52,700 --> 02:11:55,270
on the impecunious masses.

2066
02:11:58,670 --> 02:12:01,280
[loud rumbling]

2067
02:12:06,050 --> 02:12:07,610
[robotic buzzing]

2068
02:12:09,520 --> 02:12:11,950
[traffic noises]

2069
02:12:40,750 --> 02:12:44,050
[ominous music]

2070
02:13:11,280 --> 02:13:14,380
[eerie music]

2071
02:13:56,560 --> 02:13:58,260
[ominous music increasing]

2072
02:14:02,860 --> 02:14:07,830
[announcement] Final warning. Please evacuate proximal region.

2073
02:14:09,140 --> 02:14:12,840
Program will commence in ten,

2074
02:14:12,870 --> 02:14:19,480
nine, eight, seven, six,

2075
02:14:19,510 --> 02:14:22,620
five, four...

2076
02:14:30,360 --> 02:14:32,760
[building rumbles]

2077
02:14:36,530 --> 02:14:39,100
[muffled rumbling]

2078
02:14:44,770 --> 02:14:46,840
[glass shattering]

2079
02:14:57,220 --> 02:14:59,490
[gentle music]

2080
02:15:01,220 --> 02:15:04,490
[Malikan] Centuries ago humans discovered hydrocarbon energy,

2081
02:15:04,520 --> 02:15:06,860
fossil fuels, and for a good chunk of time,

2082
02:15:06,890 --> 02:15:10,330
it was a critical mechanism advancing civilization.

2083
02:15:10,360 --> 02:15:12,370
But after a while it became obvious that

2084
02:15:12,400 --> 02:15:15,900
its continued use posed insurmountable repercussions,

2085
02:15:15,940 --> 02:15:17,870
damaging the environment.

2086
02:15:17,900 --> 02:15:20,310
So we eventually had to stop using it completely,

2087
02:15:20,340 --> 02:15:23,410
figuring out other means. And this is a good analogy

2088
02:15:23,440 --> 02:15:27,650
as to why we also needed to transcend that social system.

2089
02:15:27,680 --> 02:15:29,520
[Cynthia] I look at capitalism

2090
02:15:29,550 --> 02:15:32,850
as an adolescent stage in the growth of civilization.

2091
02:15:32,890 --> 02:15:36,520
Let's let loose and have people be selfish, building and creating

2092
02:15:36,560 --> 02:15:40,590
in a belligerent manner with no regard for consequences.

2093
02:15:40,630 --> 02:15:43,600
And we learned a lot. I think without this phase,

2094
02:15:43,630 --> 02:15:46,670
we wouldn't have been able to recognize and amplify

2095
02:15:46,700 --> 02:15:49,600
what really makes us unique as a species.

2096
02:15:49,640 --> 02:15:52,470
We started as DNA moving from simplicity

2097
02:15:52,510 --> 02:15:55,780
to complexity, evolving a brain with consciousness,

2098
02:15:55,810 --> 02:15:58,350
while blessed with a profound social nature,

2099
02:15:58,380 --> 02:16:00,950
merging us into a truly global consciousness

2100
02:16:00,980 --> 02:16:03,550
continuing this expansion.

2101
02:16:03,580 --> 02:16:06,350
Not through our biology, but through the sharing

2102
02:16:06,390 --> 02:16:09,260
of knowledge, cultural evolution.

2103
02:16:10,420 --> 02:16:13,590
[Vivian] There was a great library in a city called Alexandria

2104
02:16:13,630 --> 02:16:16,460
long, long ago, and it contained some of the most

2105
02:16:16,500 --> 02:16:19,530
foundational texts of human civilization.

2106
02:16:19,570 --> 02:16:22,300
And sadly, it was destroyed in war.

2107
02:16:22,340 --> 02:16:24,570
Many centuries later, a famous astronomer named

2108
02:16:24,600 --> 02:16:26,910
Carl Sagan commented on the subject,

2109
02:16:27,417 --> 02:16:32,292
"It was if the entire civilization had undergone
some self-inflicted brain surgery,

2110
02:16:32,292 --> 02:16:38,425
And most of its memories, discoveries, ideas, and passions
were extinguished irrevocably." ~Carl Sagan

2111
02:16:38,450 --> 02:16:41,020
[Aleniya] So the great question of scientific and hence,

2112
02:16:41,050 --> 02:16:44,583
economic progress, inevitably becomes,

2113
02:16:44,583 --> 02:16:48,000
How do we optimize the power of our group mind

2114
02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:50,476
To increase knowledge and solve problems?

2115
02:16:50,500 --> 02:16:53,330
How do we harness our different talents and skills

2116
02:16:53,370 --> 02:16:55,870
to bring out our best potential,

2117
02:16:55,900 --> 02:16:59,040
not only as individuals, but as a civilization?

2118
02:16:59,070 --> 02:17:01,310
[Malikan] We know the hardware, so to speak.

2119
02:17:01,340 --> 02:17:04,280
A finite yet profoundly regenerative planet

2120
02:17:04,310 --> 02:17:05,980
bound by laws of nature

2121
02:17:06,010 --> 02:17:08,820
with our species part of a delicate ecosystem

2122
02:17:08,850 --> 02:17:11,020
sharing common ground.

2123
02:17:11,050 --> 02:17:13,650
[Aleniya] The true measure of economic progress

2124
02:17:13,690 --> 02:17:15,920
is simply doing more with less.

2125
02:17:15,960 --> 02:17:19,760
Efficiency, the ability to build something for a given purpose

2126
02:17:19,790 --> 02:17:23,400
that is not only better than what came before it in utility,

2127
02:17:23,430 --> 02:17:26,730
but also better in terms of reducing the amount of labor,

2128
02:17:26,770 --> 02:17:30,040
energy and resources required to make it work.

2129
02:17:30,070 --> 02:17:33,810
Which means it all comes down to design.

2130
02:17:34,770 --> 02:17:36,680
[Cynthia] And back to my point about markets,

2131
02:17:36,710 --> 02:17:39,050
the infrastructure it created set the groundwork

2132
02:17:39,080 --> 02:17:42,850
for powerful new means to merge human talent and skill.

2133
02:17:42,880 --> 02:17:45,990
We just needed to remove the counter-productive aspects.

2134
02:17:46,020 --> 02:17:48,820
And, needless to say, wasteful human competition,

2135
02:17:48,860 --> 02:17:52,930
proprietary knowledge, and people motivated to sell things over and over

2136
02:17:52,960 --> 02:17:57,000
to feed a system of infinite growth wasn't going to work.

2137
02:17:57,030 --> 02:18:00,800
There had to be a way to bridge minds and solve problems directly,

2138
02:18:00,830 --> 02:18:04,540
not by proxy of market competition and profit.

2139
02:18:04,570 --> 02:18:06,970
[Malikan] I think the smartest thing we ever did as a society

2140
02:18:07,010 --> 02:18:11,110
was the adoption of an open source, shared resource commons.

2141
02:18:11,140 --> 02:18:14,680
It exponentially catapulted our problem solving creativity.

2142
02:18:14,710 --> 02:18:17,550
We ended corporations, localized communities,

2143
02:18:17,580 --> 02:18:19,550
and shared all knowledge.

2144
02:18:19,590 --> 02:18:21,390
In fact, if it wasn't for that move,

2145
02:18:21,420 --> 02:18:23,720
I really don't think we would've solved the climate crisis

2146
02:18:23,760 --> 02:18:26,430
and all the other ecological and social problems

2147
02:18:26,460 --> 02:18:28,090
we faced before the Great Transition.

2148
02:18:29,060 --> 02:18:32,700
[Aleniya] I still stand in awe today at the stunningly productive

2149
02:18:32,730 --> 02:18:35,470
collective design processes we created,

2150
02:18:35,500 --> 02:18:39,710
where status is driven not by differential competition for gain,

2151
02:18:39,740 --> 02:18:42,110
but by the degree of your contribution:

2152
02:18:42,140 --> 02:18:45,010
how dedicated you are to problem solving and creation,

2153
02:18:45,050 --> 02:18:48,950
working to improve the fabric of society itself.

2154
02:18:48,980 --> 02:18:52,690
[Cynthia] We also realized the true purpose of a means of production

2155
02:18:52,720 --> 02:18:55,160
based upon automated technology.

2156
02:18:55,190 --> 02:18:57,560
Not as some brute industrial mechanism

2157
02:18:57,590 --> 02:19:00,460
to produce an endless stream of arbitrary goods,

2158
02:19:00,490 --> 02:19:04,000
but as a way to free ourselves from uncreative labor,

2159
02:19:04,030 --> 02:19:07,570
not to mention improving efficiency and safety.

2160
02:19:07,600 --> 02:19:09,840
[Vivian] And one final evolution worth noting

2161
02:19:09,870 --> 02:19:12,670
was the removal of the price system.

2162
02:19:12,710 --> 02:19:15,110
People stuck these numbers on everything

2163
02:19:15,140 --> 02:19:18,880
that suggested some kind of earthly value.

2164
02:19:18,910 --> 02:19:22,920
The numbers were a result of a particularly crude equation

2165
02:19:22,950 --> 02:19:25,450
dealing with supply and demand.

2166
02:19:25,490 --> 02:19:27,750
And while the high priests of the market religion

2167
02:19:27,790 --> 02:19:30,820
saw those price decrees as the word of God,

2168
02:19:30,860 --> 02:19:34,790
the truth was any price value determined by market dynamics alone

2169
02:19:34,830 --> 02:19:36,900
was woefully incomplete.

2170
02:19:36,930 --> 02:19:38,830
[Malikan] And the only term to know in regard to that

2171
02:19:38,870 --> 02:19:41,700
is negative market externality.

2172
02:19:41,740 --> 02:19:45,810
These are cost values, unaccounted for by the market price equation

2173
02:19:45,840 --> 02:19:48,010
related to damage done by industry.

2174
02:19:48,040 --> 02:19:50,440
For example, in the early 21st century,

2175
02:19:50,480 --> 02:19:54,810
the running price of hydrocarbon energy was in a particular range.

2176
02:19:54,850 --> 02:19:56,980
But yet, there was actually an additional

2177
02:19:57,020 --> 02:20:00,650
5.3 trillion dollars in cost every year

2178
02:20:00,690 --> 02:20:02,820
as people worked to clean up the damage

2179
02:20:02,860 --> 02:20:05,990
the use of hydrocarbons was doing to the planet.

2180
02:20:06,030 --> 02:20:09,930
[Aleniya] Same for the plastics industry, a serious problem back then.

2181
02:20:09,960 --> 02:20:15,540
It had an externalized cost of 2.5 trillion dollars a year

2182
02:20:15,570 --> 02:20:17,770
just to clean up the oceans.

2183
02:20:17,800 --> 02:20:19,740
[Malikan] In fact, if you went back

2184
02:20:19,770 --> 02:20:22,740
and did the accounting for global industry as a whole

2185
02:20:22,780 --> 02:20:25,480
factoring in these negative market externalities,

2186
02:20:25,510 --> 02:20:28,550
again, these costs not reflected in the set prices,

2187
02:20:28,580 --> 02:20:31,550
you would find that no company on the planet

2188
02:20:31,580 --> 02:20:33,150
was actually even profitable.

2189
02:20:34,050 --> 02:20:37,760
[Cynthia] So, of course today we have a very different system of accounting.

2190
02:20:37,790 --> 02:20:42,160
We know almost exactly what's happening or could happen in downstream effects

2191
02:20:42,200 --> 02:20:46,670
and we improve our total system efficiency every single year because of it.

2192
02:20:46,700 --> 02:20:49,170
It's a true economy, in other words.

2193
02:20:50,240 --> 02:20:53,710
[Vivian] And all of this creates a very different social atmosphere.

2194
02:20:53,740 --> 02:20:56,280
Today our incentives are aligned.

2195
02:20:56,310 --> 02:20:58,850
No one cuts corners, there's no reason to.

2196
02:20:58,880 --> 02:21:01,050
No one is trying to improve some bottom line

2197
02:21:01,080 --> 02:21:03,620
by disregarding our ecological stewardship

2198
02:21:03,650 --> 02:21:05,750
or the well-being of others.

2199
02:21:05,790 --> 02:21:07,890
We finally got it right.

2200
02:21:07,920 --> 02:21:09,720
[Aleniya] And I compare the footage of the way

2201
02:21:09,760 --> 02:21:13,060
people behaved back then to the way they do now.

2202
02:21:13,090 --> 02:21:17,860
It's an astounding amount of pride and community, meaning and purpose.

2203
02:21:17,900 --> 02:21:20,630
They don't feel alone.

2204
02:21:20,670 --> 02:21:24,040
They know they have support, not just from their friends and family,

2205
02:21:24,070 --> 02:21:27,270
but from the very design of the social system itself,

2206
02:21:28,240 --> 02:21:30,710
a system designed to actually care.

2207
02:21:33,210 --> 02:21:34,110
Imagine that.

2208
02:21:37,120 --> 02:21:39,150
[loud traffic]

2209
02:21:46,990 --> 02:21:48,030
[horn faintly honks]

2210
02:21:54,200 --> 02:21:56,200
[horn honking loudly]

2211
02:21:56,240 --> 02:21:58,270
[train softly rattling]

2212
02:22:37,980 --> 02:22:40,010
[train rattles loudly]

2213
02:22:45,150 --> 02:22:46,690
[rattling stops]

2214
02:22:50,060 --> 02:22:52,790
[soft gentle music]

2215
02:23:05,070 --> 02:23:07,110
[men speaking indistinctively]

2216
02:23:45,350 --> 02:23:47,850
[man speaking with distorted voice]

2217
02:23:56,860 --> 02:23:59,360
[man speaking with distorted voice]

2218
02:24:19,880 --> 02:24:21,310
[softly scoffs]

2219
02:24:21,350 --> 02:24:23,280
The low polygon people are here.

2220
02:24:27,790 --> 02:24:28,860
[sighs]

2221
02:24:30,220 --> 02:24:33,090
-I wish they'd go back to their own resolution.

2222
02:24:45,770 --> 02:24:47,810
[distorted chat continues]

2223
02:25:09,160 --> 02:25:11,200
[gentle music]

2224
02:25:58,510 --> 02:25:59,410
[loud whoosh]

2225
02:25:59,450 --> 02:26:01,480
[ominous music]

2226
02:26:10,560 --> 02:26:13,390
[John] How are you still standing? What is that, your tenth drink?

2227
02:26:19,300 --> 02:26:20,200
[joyful sigh]

2228
02:26:21,630 --> 02:26:22,840
[Simon] Apple juice.

2229
02:26:22,870 --> 02:26:25,040
[loud beeps]

2230
02:26:25,070 --> 02:26:26,110
-What's that?

2231
02:26:27,610 --> 02:26:30,480
-That is a breach alarm.

2232
02:26:30,510 --> 02:26:33,380
Looks like Orion is continuing through our security.

2233
02:26:34,350 --> 02:26:37,420
And on that note, John, I need to know your intent.

2234
02:26:37,450 --> 02:26:41,290
I've explained the Mandate and how it's far bigger than both of us.

2235
02:26:41,320 --> 02:26:44,020
-Policy of inaction is still a policy of action, Simon.

2236
02:26:44,060 --> 02:26:46,330
-Well, if you'd like, we could continue

2237
02:26:46,360 --> 02:26:48,390
this colorful debate another time.

2238
02:26:48,430 --> 02:26:50,830
Assuming you're willing to assist us here now.

2239
02:26:53,400 --> 02:26:56,170
-Signal source, what are the regional markers?

2240
02:26:58,910 --> 02:27:01,110
-Well...

2241
02:27:01,140 --> 02:27:02,580
...that's part of the problem.

2242
02:27:02,610 --> 02:27:04,440
The best we have is a desert region

2243
02:27:04,480 --> 02:27:05,910
on the west side of North America

2244
02:27:05,950 --> 02:27:08,050
about 10,000 square miles.

2245
02:27:08,080 --> 02:27:10,380
-It's not too horrible. I assume your satellites

2246
02:27:10,420 --> 02:27:12,190
have been scanning more remote terrain.

2247
02:27:12,220 --> 02:27:15,220
-Of course, nothing out of the ordinary has been seen.

2248
02:27:15,250 --> 02:27:18,260
-What about surveillance gaps? Are the satellite passes seamless?

2249
02:27:18,290 --> 02:27:21,430
-For the most part, there are some periodic latitudinal gaps,

2250
02:27:21,460 --> 02:27:23,500
but they only last a few hours.

2251
02:27:23,530 --> 02:27:26,570
-Is it possible Orion is aware of them? Exploiting them?

2252
02:27:28,600 --> 02:27:31,200
That's what I'd do. -I suppose,

2253
02:27:31,240 --> 02:27:32,670
but highly unlikely.

2254
02:27:32,710 --> 02:27:34,610
They would have to already be in our system

2255
02:27:34,640 --> 02:27:36,280
to know the trajectories.

2256
02:27:37,240 --> 02:27:38,310
-Show me the gaps.

2257
02:27:41,580 --> 02:27:42,620
You want my help or not?

2258
02:27:45,420 --> 02:27:46,520
[high pitched whirring]

2259
02:27:46,550 --> 02:27:47,450
[sharp beep]

2260
02:27:50,720 --> 02:27:52,190
Zoom into the area in question.

2261
02:27:52,230 --> 02:27:53,160
[high pitched whirring]

2262
02:27:54,330 --> 02:27:55,560
[Op #4] Perfect.

2263
02:27:55,600 --> 02:27:57,160
Hold it right there, John.

2264
02:27:58,660 --> 02:28:01,200
[Simon] We've already conducted sub-sonar scans.

2265
02:28:01,230 --> 02:28:04,470
If they're underground, they're using some kind of reflective shield.

2266
02:28:04,500 --> 02:28:06,270
But what I think would be best for you

2267
02:28:06,310 --> 02:28:08,410
is to analyze the signal code itself,

2268
02:28:08,440 --> 02:28:10,340
see if you can find a signature.

2269
02:28:14,410 --> 02:28:15,410
John?

2270
02:28:16,550 --> 02:28:19,150
[John] Yeah, sorry, I was just thinking.

2271
02:28:20,390 --> 02:28:24,160
Hey, remember that Aqua Terraformation project we worked on years ago?

2272
02:28:24,190 --> 02:28:25,630
[soft tense music]

2273
02:28:25,660 --> 02:28:27,690
-Sounds like you need to get some sleep.

2274
02:28:27,730 --> 02:28:30,060
Your attention span is going.

2275
02:28:30,100 --> 02:28:32,100
And of course...

2276
02:28:32,130 --> 02:28:36,440
...how can I forget? Ionized nanotech pop-up islands

2277
02:28:36,470 --> 02:28:37,500
from seawater.

2278
02:28:37,540 --> 02:28:39,740
Too bad it never worked.

2279
02:28:39,770 --> 02:28:41,570
We could've extended populations

2280
02:28:41,610 --> 02:28:44,040
into the ocean, free up some space.

2281
02:28:44,080 --> 02:28:44,980
-Yeah.

2282
02:28:45,950 --> 02:28:48,310
What other ambitious stuff did we work on?

2283
02:28:48,350 --> 02:28:49,680
Those were some exciting times.

2284
02:28:51,020 --> 02:28:52,290
Remember TRD Hollow Cloak?

2285
02:28:52,320 --> 02:28:54,050
-Huh!

2286
02:28:54,090 --> 02:28:55,490
A sci-fi classic.

2287
02:28:55,520 --> 02:28:58,060
Tactile remote drone hologram.

2288
02:28:59,090 --> 02:29:01,460
We played with that for a while here,

2289
02:29:01,490 --> 02:29:03,000
but proved impossible,

2290
02:29:03,030 --> 02:29:05,330
light just can't merge like that.

2291
02:29:05,360 --> 02:29:07,300
-Yeah. Too bad.

2292
02:29:08,430 --> 02:29:12,000
Lots of uses for a fully controlled remote tactile human hologram.

2293
02:29:13,210 --> 02:29:15,240
[upbeat tense music]

2294
02:29:20,150 --> 02:29:22,180
[high pitched whirring]

2295
02:29:23,220 --> 02:29:25,480
[sharp thuds]

2296
02:29:35,330 --> 02:29:37,360
[high pitched whirring]

2297
02:29:39,200 --> 02:29:40,100
Cool, huh?

2298
02:29:46,510 --> 02:29:48,340
And it's at this juncture, Simon,

2299
02:29:48,370 --> 02:29:49,710
I'm afraid I have to deliver some kind

2300
02:29:49,740 --> 02:29:51,580
of protagonistical declaration

2301
02:29:51,610 --> 02:29:53,480
of moral superiority

2302
02:29:53,510 --> 02:29:56,320
to indicate the philosophical error of your ways.

2303
02:29:57,450 --> 02:29:58,280
So here it goes.

2304
02:30:00,120 --> 02:30:02,720
Those that seek to create in this world,

2305
02:30:02,760 --> 02:30:06,090
those who embrace change as a natural force,

2306
02:30:06,130 --> 02:30:09,430
helping to unify humankind as one entity

2307
02:30:09,460 --> 02:30:11,400
in one shared direction,

2308
02:30:11,430 --> 02:30:13,730
realizing that injustice anywhere

2309
02:30:13,770 --> 02:30:15,370
is injustice everywhere,

2310
02:30:16,440 --> 02:30:20,140
will always be one step ahead of the traditionalists,

2311
02:30:20,170 --> 02:30:22,640
the preservers, the elitists,

2312
02:30:22,680 --> 02:30:26,710
who, in defense of their separatist identities and egoist fears,

2313
02:30:26,750 --> 02:30:32,120
seek to divide, conquer, oppress, and destroy.

2314
02:30:33,190 --> 02:30:36,160
The pursuit of livingry will always be one step ahead

2315
02:30:36,190 --> 02:30:37,390
of the pursuit of weaponry.

2316
02:30:40,590 --> 02:30:43,600
-Orion doesn't exist, does it?

2317
02:30:43,630 --> 02:30:45,360
-Nope.

2318
02:30:45,400 --> 02:30:47,200
We just put a virus in your firewall.

2319
02:30:48,400 --> 02:30:50,740
-Why? What's the point of all of this?

2320
02:30:50,770 --> 02:30:52,510
-To expose the Mandate, of course,

2321
02:30:52,540 --> 02:30:53,570
which will be leaked shortly

2322
02:30:53,610 --> 02:30:54,640
to every major news network.

2323
02:30:54,670 --> 02:30:55,810
[chuckles]

2324
02:30:55,840 --> 02:30:58,880
-Oh, seriously, that's it?

2325
02:30:58,910 --> 02:31:01,880
You think we can't absorb that?

2326
02:31:01,910 --> 02:31:04,520
That we haven't perfected endless ways

2327
02:31:04,550 --> 02:31:07,690
to deflate and confuse public perception when needed?

2328
02:31:07,720 --> 02:31:10,490
-Well, then I guess you have nothing to worry about.

2329
02:31:11,460 --> 02:31:12,530
See you around, Simon.

2330
02:31:13,460 --> 02:31:14,390
[loud whoosh]

2331
02:31:14,430 --> 02:31:16,460
[high pitched beeps]

2332
02:31:28,410 --> 02:31:32,180
[Op #1] Hey, token white guy is back! -[John, chuckling] Shut up.

2333
02:31:32,210 --> 02:31:33,910
All right, folks. We don't have much time.

2334
02:31:33,950 --> 02:31:35,880
I don't think he's going to buy that story for long.

2335
02:31:35,920 --> 02:31:37,650
How're we doing?

2336
02:31:37,680 --> 02:31:40,290
[Op #5] Satellite coordinates locked, everything's ready.

2337
02:31:40,320 --> 02:31:42,860
But keep in mind, even with bypassing your surveillance,

2338
02:31:42,890 --> 02:31:45,490
once this thing hits, the heat signature is going to be out of control.

2339
02:31:45,520 --> 02:31:47,660
[John] That's what the subterfuge is for.

2340
02:31:47,690 --> 02:31:50,200
Mandate leak on the blockchain yet? [Op #2] Packaging now.

2341
02:31:50,230 --> 02:31:52,570
Should be in the hands of every major media outlet in about 20 minutes.

2342
02:31:52,600 --> 02:31:54,470
-Good.

2343
02:31:54,500 --> 02:31:56,870
Don't forget to show Simon's stupid face.

2344
02:31:56,900 --> 02:32:00,410
So this is it folks. We have a clear path avoiding GSA surveillance.

2345
02:32:00,440 --> 02:32:02,410
Once the Mandate exposure hits the press,

2346
02:32:02,440 --> 02:32:04,680
Simon and company will be in damage control,

2347
02:32:04,710 --> 02:32:06,610
hopefully long enough so we can pull this off.

2348
02:32:07,810 --> 02:32:08,850
Anybody need anything?

2349
02:32:08,880 --> 02:32:10,320
-Music. -Music.

2350
02:32:10,350 --> 02:32:11,720
-Music. -Music.

2351
02:32:13,220 --> 02:32:13,920
You got it.

2352
02:32:13,950 --> 02:32:16,500
[drum beats]

2353
02:32:16,500 --> 02:32:18,875
Your magic unites
what custom strictly divided

2354
02:32:18,875 --> 02:32:19,875
Be Embraced.

2355
02:32:20,490 --> 02:32:21,500
[mechanical whirring starts]

2356
02:32:21,500 --> 02:32:25,500
This kiss is for the whole world

2357
02:32:25,700 --> 02:32:28,230
[cheerful instrumental music]

2358
02:32:31,370 --> 02:32:33,410
[helicopter blades buzz loudly]

2359
02:32:54,990 --> 02:32:57,230
[singing opera]

2360
02:33:41,470 --> 02:33:44,010
-[loud whirring] -[loud laughs]

2361
02:33:44,040 --> 02:33:46,310
-[claps] -[director] All right, everybody, come on.

2362
02:33:46,350 --> 02:33:48,780
We got-- we got to finish this goddamn movie already.

2363
02:33:48,810 --> 02:33:51,720
Left. Right. Left.

2364
02:33:51,750 --> 02:33:52,950
[loud whirring]

2365
02:33:52,990 --> 02:33:55,020
[singing opera]

2366
02:34:06,330 --> 02:34:07,870
[muffled explosion]

2367
02:34:07,900 --> 02:34:09,800
[sharp whoosh]

2368
02:34:24,520 --> 02:34:26,520
[Reporter #1] Responding to this new leak by Concordia,

2369
02:34:26,550 --> 02:34:28,690
purporting to reveal a policy of neglect,

2370
02:34:28,720 --> 02:34:30,390
where the death of millions in poverty

2371
02:34:30,420 --> 02:34:31,920
was deliberately accentuated

2372
02:34:31,960 --> 02:34:34,330
by International Trade policy.

2373
02:34:34,360 --> 02:34:36,400
[#2] Leaked documents even include what appears to be

2374
02:34:36,430 --> 02:34:38,960
a video of GSA's current head, Simon Devoe.

2375
02:34:47,370 --> 02:34:48,710
[Simon] Don't look at me like that.

2376
02:34:48,740 --> 02:34:51,340
Standard operating procedure, folks.

2377
02:34:51,380 --> 02:34:54,480
Get your media agents out there and start changing the narrative.

2378
02:34:54,510 --> 02:34:56,550
[instrumental music continues]

2379
02:34:56,580 --> 02:34:57,920
[water splashes]

2380
02:35:04,460 --> 02:35:05,960
[GSA Op #1] Sir.

2381
02:35:05,990 --> 02:35:07,860
[radar beeps]

2382
02:35:07,890 --> 02:35:09,630
-What is it? -I don't know.

2383
02:35:09,660 --> 02:35:12,460
We don't have visual coverage in that region yet.

2384
02:35:12,500 --> 02:35:13,430
-Send the drones.

2385
02:35:14,400 --> 02:35:16,640
[high pitched whoosh]

2386
02:35:16,670 --> 02:35:18,700
[water splashes]

2387
02:35:29,050 --> 02:35:30,750
[John] Holy shit, it worked.

2388
02:35:30,780 --> 02:35:32,380
[Op #5] Shall we alert the base?

2389
02:35:32,420 --> 02:35:33,120
-Indeed.

2390
02:35:34,050 --> 02:35:35,550
The migration begins.

2391
02:35:35,590 --> 02:35:37,620
[hologram buzzes]

2392
02:35:38,760 --> 02:35:40,860
[GSA Op #1] It's an artificial island, Sir,

2393
02:35:40,890 --> 02:35:44,730
in the Pacific, about 700 miles off the coast of North America.

2394
02:35:46,770 --> 02:35:49,440
[Simon] Holy shit, it worked.

2395
02:35:50,700 --> 02:35:52,570
[GSA Op #2] Scramble fighters to destroy it?

2396
02:35:52,600 --> 02:35:55,770
-No. See this?

2397
02:35:55,810 --> 02:35:59,450
It's a plasma congealed electromagnetic field,

2398
02:35:59,480 --> 02:36:01,710
impenetrable. [GSA Op #1] How do you know that?

2399
02:36:02,720 --> 02:36:04,480
-Because I know the creator.

2400
02:36:07,520 --> 02:36:08,990
[John] End scene!

2401
02:36:09,020 --> 02:36:10,620
[music ends]

2402
02:36:15,958 --> 02:36:21,417
One Year Later

2403
02:36:21,417 --> 02:36:28,042
[water splashing]

2404
02:36:36,750 --> 02:36:39,220
[Reporter] So, we've just arrived at the colony of Concordia,

2405
02:36:39,250 --> 02:36:41,020
where almost a million people have migrated

2406
02:36:41,050 --> 02:36:43,860
to basically get away from the rest of the world.

2407
02:36:43,890 --> 02:36:46,530
We are the first press allowed in,

2408
02:36:46,560 --> 02:36:48,490
waiting to meet our guide.

2409
02:36:50,660 --> 02:36:53,170
-Hi, I'm Elnoria. -Nice to meet you.

2410
02:36:53,200 --> 02:36:54,730
Thank you for having us.

2411
02:36:54,770 --> 02:36:56,170
-I suggest we move to the city center,

2412
02:36:56,200 --> 02:36:57,940
start our tour from there.

2413
02:36:57,970 --> 02:37:00,110
-[softly] You can cut.

2414
02:37:06,080 --> 02:37:08,210
So, there's been a lot of speculation on the mainland

2415
02:37:08,250 --> 02:37:10,080
about what goes on here.

2416
02:37:10,120 --> 02:37:12,890
You're depicted as some kind of a cult.

2417
02:37:12,920 --> 02:37:14,720
Claims of human right abuses,

2418
02:37:14,750 --> 02:37:17,820
and your media is being censored pretty aggressively.

2419
02:37:17,860 --> 02:37:20,030
-Well, that's why you're here.

2420
02:37:20,060 --> 02:37:22,590
This island wasn't created to escape the world,

2421
02:37:22,630 --> 02:37:26,060
it was created to set an example to change the world,

2422
02:37:26,100 --> 02:37:29,800
show what's actually possible if humankind decided to work together.

2423
02:37:29,840 --> 02:37:32,040
So, where would you like to start?

2424
02:37:32,070 --> 02:37:33,940
-I guess technicals.

2425
02:37:33,970 --> 02:37:35,510
How are you powering this place?

2426
02:37:36,580 --> 02:37:38,840
[Elnoria] Mixed renewable integration.

2427
02:37:38,880 --> 02:37:42,780
The island's core baseload systems are solar, wind and ocean,

2428
02:37:42,820 --> 02:37:44,920
while localized kinetic energy capture,

2429
02:37:44,950 --> 02:37:46,690
mixed use/reuse mechanisms,

2430
02:37:46,720 --> 02:37:48,750
are designed into most everything.

2431
02:37:48,790 --> 02:37:50,090
-Like footsteps?

2432
02:37:50,120 --> 02:37:52,020
-Footsteps, vehicle motion,

2433
02:37:52,060 --> 02:37:55,960
pipe flows, anything that moves, we recapture.

2434
02:37:55,990 --> 02:37:58,200
We're at about 5,000 percent efficiency,

2435
02:37:58,230 --> 02:38:00,700
more energy than we know what to do with.

2436
02:38:00,730 --> 02:38:02,200
-That's insane.

2437
02:38:02,230 --> 02:38:03,770
-Not really.

2438
02:38:03,800 --> 02:38:04,970
The earth is, in effect,

2439
02:38:05,000 --> 02:38:06,870
a perpetual motion machine.

2440
02:38:06,910 --> 02:38:09,780
You people on the mainland could easily do the same thing,

2441
02:38:09,810 --> 02:38:13,810
but your economic system simply isn't conducive to integrative design.

2442
02:38:13,850 --> 02:38:17,050
Speaking of which, let's head to the development center around the corner.

2443
02:38:17,080 --> 02:38:18,020
-Okay.

2444
02:38:24,020 --> 02:38:26,090
-This is one of our design facilities.

2445
02:38:27,230 --> 02:38:29,930
-Okay. Like an office.

2446
02:38:31,200 --> 02:38:32,730
So these people are employed.

2447
02:38:34,370 --> 02:38:37,870
-Employed. Um, I suppose in the most technical sense of the word, sure.

2448
02:38:37,900 --> 02:38:39,970
But we have no systemic slavery here.

2449
02:38:40,010 --> 02:38:43,080
No one is coerced to submit for their basic survival,

2450
02:38:43,110 --> 02:38:45,610
something I suspect might be very foreign to you.

2451
02:38:46,850 --> 02:38:49,250
-But everyone needs to do something, right?

2452
02:38:49,280 --> 02:38:53,090
So how do you network skills, organized trade, markets?

2453
02:38:53,120 --> 02:38:54,790
-There is no trade.

2454
02:38:54,820 --> 02:38:57,790
There are no markets. There is no currency.

2455
02:38:57,820 --> 02:39:00,690
Those who wish to contribute do so through collaborative design

2456
02:39:00,730 --> 02:39:02,900
in an open-source environment.

2457
02:39:02,930 --> 02:39:05,600
What you think of as industries of production on the mainland

2458
02:39:05,630 --> 02:39:06,900
is unified here.

2459
02:39:06,930 --> 02:39:08,100
-Wait, I don't understand.

2460
02:39:09,300 --> 02:39:11,100
These people are not paid to be here?

2461
02:39:12,910 --> 02:39:14,310
How are they motivated?

2462
02:39:14,340 --> 02:39:16,610
-Well, how is anyone motivated?

2463
02:39:16,640 --> 02:39:19,280
Do you need to get paid to get out of bed in the morning?

2464
02:39:19,310 --> 02:39:21,650
Do you need to be paid to ensure your own health,

2465
02:39:21,680 --> 02:39:23,980
the health of your family and friends?

2466
02:39:24,020 --> 02:39:27,890
Paid to show stewardship for the habitat and society that supports you?

2467
02:39:27,920 --> 02:39:31,220
-How about innovation? -Innovation to what end?

2468
02:39:31,260 --> 02:39:35,030
To create something to improve life and experience?

2469
02:39:35,060 --> 02:39:36,730
Or to create something to sell?

2470
02:39:38,300 --> 02:39:42,070
If you think about it, it has been the blind economic drive toward innovation,

2471
02:39:42,100 --> 02:39:44,400
as you know it, that continues to lead your society

2472
02:39:44,440 --> 02:39:46,910
to destruction -Okay, then. [sighs]

2473
02:39:46,940 --> 02:39:49,140
Once these people have designed something, then what?

2474
02:39:50,110 --> 02:39:51,880
[Elnoria] If a design meets proper criteria

2475
02:39:51,910 --> 02:39:54,750
in terms of efficiency and sustainability protocols,

2476
02:39:54,780 --> 02:39:58,820
it is then accessible by our mostly additive manufacturing system.

2477
02:39:58,850 --> 02:40:01,150
[reporter] Additive? 3D printers?

2478
02:40:01,190 --> 02:40:03,960
[Elnoria] Which have been perfected to a degree where modular arrays

2479
02:40:03,990 --> 02:40:07,660
can produce most anything conceived of with traditional material.

2480
02:40:07,690 --> 02:40:09,730
[gentle whimsical music]

2481
02:40:11,100 --> 02:40:13,270
And by the way, there's no waste here.

2482
02:40:13,300 --> 02:40:16,000
Our AI designed filters won't allow production of any item

2483
02:40:16,030 --> 02:40:18,140
that isn't 100% regenerative.

2484
02:40:20,140 --> 02:40:21,940
-Sorry, I'm speechless.

2485
02:40:21,970 --> 02:40:23,210
If what you say is true,

2486
02:40:24,140 --> 02:40:25,710
you've actually done it.

2487
02:40:25,740 --> 02:40:26,780
-Done what?

2488
02:40:26,810 --> 02:40:28,210
-You've created Utopia.

2489
02:40:28,250 --> 02:40:29,820
[Elnoria chuckles]

2490
02:40:29,850 --> 02:40:31,880
If you want to sound like an idiot, sure.

2491
02:40:32,880 --> 02:40:36,990
This isn't Utopia, friend. It's simply pragmatic design.

2492
02:40:37,020 --> 02:40:39,790
Come, let me now show you our democratic system,

2493
02:40:39,830 --> 02:40:41,990
how we use direct democracy to eliminate politicians

2494
02:40:42,030 --> 02:40:43,360
and control problems.

2495
02:40:43,400 --> 02:40:45,400
[reporter] What? No elections?

2496
02:40:45,430 --> 02:40:48,030
-No goons? -[Elnoria] God, no.

2497
02:40:48,070 --> 02:40:51,240
[reporter] Whoa. So... so where do I sign up?

2498
02:40:51,270 --> 02:40:53,310
I want to join your cult as soon as possible.

2499
02:40:53,340 --> 02:40:55,910
-[Elnoria chuckles] I'll see what I can do. -Please.

2500
02:40:55,940 --> 02:40:57,780
I don't know if I can take much more.

2501
02:40:57,810 --> 02:40:58,980
[soft chuckles]

2502
02:41:00,410 --> 02:41:02,310
[director] So, I'm afraid we're going to have to wrap this up for now,

2503
02:41:02,350 --> 02:41:04,250
but a-- as we discussed, I will be back

2504
02:41:04,280 --> 02:41:06,280
for the second part of this interview fairly soon,

2505
02:41:06,320 --> 02:41:09,220
uh, specifically to discuss the colony of Concordia

2506
02:41:09,250 --> 02:41:11,390
and their historical influence.

2507
02:41:11,420 --> 02:41:14,490
-Sure. So what's the name of the documentary?

2508
02:41:14,530 --> 02:41:16,330
[director] InterReflections.

2509
02:41:16,360 --> 02:41:18,330
-Interesting. -But before we end,

2510
02:41:18,360 --> 02:41:20,030
I have a rather strange request.

2511
02:41:21,800 --> 02:41:26,100
If you could address those vulnerable, confused souls,

2512
02:41:26,140 --> 02:41:27,740
you know, before the Great Transition,

2513
02:41:27,770 --> 02:41:28,870
given, as you put it earlier,

2514
02:41:28,910 --> 02:41:30,440
we barely made it at all,

2515
02:41:32,010 --> 02:41:33,180
what would you say to them?

2516
02:41:34,310 --> 02:41:36,820
-Wow, that is a strange request.

2517
02:41:37,820 --> 02:41:38,780
Hm.

2518
02:41:39,650 --> 02:41:41,820
I think I would paraphrase the words

2519
02:41:41,850 --> 02:41:43,520
of a notable civil rights activist

2520
02:41:43,560 --> 02:41:46,960
from the mid-20th century named Bayard Rustin.

2521
02:41:50,900 --> 02:41:51,860
And he said,

2522
02:41:54,270 --> 02:41:55,370
"You are all one.

2523
02:41:56,640 --> 02:42:00,910
And if you don't know it, you're going to find out the hard way."

2524
02:42:00,940 --> 02:42:03,310
[upbeat music]

2525
02:42:06,340 --> 02:42:08,910
♪ It's a bacchanalia

2526
02:42:08,950 --> 02:42:11,280
♪ It's a cornucopia

2527
02:42:11,320 --> 02:42:13,250
♪ Champagne and a caviar

2528
02:42:13,290 --> 02:42:16,190
♪ What else is there?

2529
02:42:16,220 --> 02:42:18,520
♪ Swimming pool and fancy yacht ♪

2530
02:42:18,560 --> 02:42:21,230
♪ Vacation in the south of France ♪

2531
02:42:21,260 --> 02:42:23,160
♪ You got anything you want

2532
02:42:23,200 --> 02:42:25,560
♪ What else is there?

2533
02:42:25,600 --> 02:42:28,130
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2534
02:42:28,170 --> 02:42:30,540
♪ Teach you how to share?

2535
02:42:30,570 --> 02:42:33,270
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2536
02:42:33,310 --> 02:42:35,440
♪ Teach you how to share?

2537
02:42:35,470 --> 02:42:38,040
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2538
02:42:38,080 --> 02:42:40,410
♪ Teach you how to share?

2539
02:42:40,450 --> 02:42:43,250
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2540
02:42:43,280 --> 02:42:45,380
♪ Teach you how to share?

2541
02:42:50,990 --> 02:42:53,160
♪ Your company has rising stock ♪

2542
02:42:53,190 --> 02:42:55,560
♪ Cheaper labor in the eastern block ♪

2543
02:42:55,590 --> 02:42:57,900
♪ No complaining in the sweat shop ♪

2544
02:42:57,930 --> 02:43:00,530
♪ What else is there?

2545
02:43:00,570 --> 02:43:03,070
♪ Making deals in the back room ♪

2546
02:43:03,100 --> 02:43:05,440
♪ If you don't like it you can change the rules ♪

2547
02:43:05,470 --> 02:43:07,540
♪ Thank your friends in the Legislature ♪

2548
02:43:07,570 --> 02:43:10,180
♪ What else is there?

2549
02:43:10,210 --> 02:43:12,610
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2550
02:43:12,640 --> 02:43:15,080
♪ Teach you how to share?

2551
02:43:15,110 --> 02:43:17,950
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2552
02:43:17,980 --> 02:43:20,090
♪ Teach you how to share?

2553
02:43:20,120 --> 02:43:22,450
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2554
02:43:22,490 --> 02:43:25,020
♪ Teach you how to share?

2555
02:43:25,060 --> 02:43:27,860
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2556
02:43:27,890 --> 02:43:29,960
♪ Teach you how to share?

2557
02:43:49,310 --> 02:43:51,350
[crowd claps and cheers]

2558
02:43:57,460 --> 02:43:59,990
♪ Never felt like we had enough ♪

2559
02:44:00,030 --> 02:44:02,330
♪ Welfare check don't buy much ♪

2560
02:44:02,360 --> 02:44:04,560
♪ I started working from eight on up ♪

2561
02:44:04,600 --> 02:44:07,430
♪ What else is there?

2562
02:44:07,470 --> 02:44:09,900
♪ I know when I look at you

2563
02:44:09,940 --> 02:44:12,300
♪ You got feelings like I do

2564
02:44:12,340 --> 02:44:14,440
♪ Can we go by the golden rule? ♪

2565
02:44:14,470 --> 02:44:17,040
♪ What else is there?

2566
02:44:17,080 --> 02:44:19,410
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2567
02:44:19,440 --> 02:44:22,010
♪ Teach you how to share?

2568
02:44:22,050 --> 02:44:24,650
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2569
02:44:24,680 --> 02:44:26,990
♪ Teach you how to share?

2570
02:44:27,020 --> 02:44:29,350
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2571
02:44:29,390 --> 02:44:31,920
♪ Teach you how to share?

2572
02:44:31,960 --> 02:44:34,560
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2573
02:44:34,590 --> 02:44:36,660
♪ Teach you how to share?

2574
02:44:36,700 --> 02:44:39,230
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2575
02:44:39,260 --> 02:44:41,600
-♪ Teach you how to share? -♪ Help somebody

2576
02:44:41,630 --> 02:44:44,470
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2577
02:44:44,500 --> 02:44:46,540
-♪ Teach you how to share? -♪ Help somebody

2578
02:44:46,570 --> 02:44:49,170
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2579
02:44:49,210 --> 02:44:51,540
-♪ Teach you how to share? -♪ Help somebody

2580
02:44:51,580 --> 02:44:54,410
♪ Did your mama teach you how to ♪

2581
02:44:54,450 --> 02:44:57,680
-♪ Teach you how to share? -♪ Help somebody

2582
02:44:57,720 --> 02:44:58,920
[music fades]