Why Are We Here? The question that unites humanity.
Channel: thewiseturtle
Date: 28/01/2024

Why is the big question that rests deep in our hearts and minds for most of our lives.  I explore the idea of why, and what the question is ultimately guiding our species and our planet towards: finding a collective answer through creating a memetic family tree of all of our most meaningful stories of past and future, helping us explore who we are and what we want for our future.

This is a complement to the previous video on purpose, where I spoke of the questions when, how, and where?

Both of these videos feature the process I call Speaking Up, which helps us identify the flow of our life stories as they move through our loves, losses, dreams, and needs, similar to the helical process of learning and grieving.

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This video was created using many different AI generation tools.  If my memory serves me well enough, this includes: Midjourney, Glif.app, Artbreeder, Leonardo.AI, D-ID, and AI Test Kitchen.  Some images and video are also my own.

The band at the very end is the delightful sea shandy folk band from England, The Longest Johns, with the song Hog Eye Man in the background very briefly.  Andy Yates is the one speaking in the clip, as part of his introduction to the sea shanty song Wellerman, which they were probably partly responsible for making famous during those early days of 2021 when life had slowed down and we were spending more time at home looking for cultural inspiration.  The video was filmed by me in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Middle East club in May 2022 on the Friday show.  If you like English folk music, do check the band out. :-)

~Namaste