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User: Title: Interreflections | HD | Fantasy | Full movie in english
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Caption: [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] all around me are familiar faces Worn out Places Worn Out faces brighten the for the daily races going nowhere going nowhere the tears are filling up their glasses no expression no expression hide my head I want to drown my sorrow no tomorrow no tomorrow and I find it kind of fun I find it kind the dreams in have the best I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to tell when people run in circles it&#39;s a very very [Music] bad children waiting for the day they feel good happy birthday happy birthday made to feel the way that every child should sit and listen sit and listen went to school and I was very nous no one knew me no one knew me hello teacher tell me what&#39;s my less look right through me look way through me and I find it kind of fun I find it kind of sad the dreams Rich the best i&#39; ever I find it hard to tell you I find it how to take when people run in circles it&#39;s a very very [Music] bad bad [Music] [Music] d [Music] [Music] [Music] what I call the world game now is an exercise that I have been following through for a great many years can you hear me in back or right and it started with my being in the United States Navy the time of World War I at that time the Navies represented investment of all the science all the chemistry all the physics all the mathematics known about our universe and I was shocked that it was only going in this negative thing of [Music] [Applause] [Music] killing we had this extraordinary technology men were not doing anything with that kind of accuracy on the land in relation to trying to make man a success it became very quickly apparent that the fundamental razon date in all of our statecraft is based on Thomas marus now Thomas marus was the scientific servant of the the masters of the Earth at the time he&#39;s the first Economist in the history of man to receive the total Vital Statistics from around the sperical earth and in 1800 he wrote his first book which he said apparently man was reproducing himself much more R than producing Goods to support himself therefore very sad but man is supposed to be a failure [Music] shall we inform the whole world the whole world at that time being more than 90% illiterate and unable to then even read any information we sent to them should we try to inform the whole world there&#39;s nowhere nearly enough to go around we divide up evenly and all die slowly together and that that that that didn&#39;t seem logical to them at all they said what we can do is the following all these people out here are ignorant of what we know about and because they&#39;re ignorant they think they have some hope and we know they don&#39;t have hope most of them why why eliminate their hope they&#39;re going to die poor characters and might as well let let them die in ignorance and ignorance and hope this is the kindliest thing to do and that&#39;s exactly what they did do [Music] [Music] how&#39;s it going everything seems to be on Pace but you know there&#39;s only so much we can be sure of since it&#39;s thetical think it&#39;s going to work I have no idea hey any word about John yet glad you asked actually yes John just made the evening news and it appears Simon wants to gloat about it they call themselves Concordia after the ancient Roman goddess of Harmony the pro-revolution activist group world famous after a decade of subversion suffered a major blow this week with the capture of leader John Taylor once a high-ranking military engineer Taylor is being held in an undisclosed location by the un&#39;s Global Security Agency and with us to discuss is GSA director General Simon devvo Simon thanks for being here my pleasure so let&#39;s theep back if you don&#39;t mind who are these people and how have they operated with such impunity after all these years Concordia was formed by a group of cyber warfare experts that defected from their military positions around 2050 and in the process a great deal of classified information and Advanced Technologies were stolen what kind of Technologies mostly Communications cloaking encryption surveillance hence why they remain so elusive but the gsa&#39;s core concern is the theft of some highly experimental Warfare technology advancements in Biochemistry and molecular science that have dramatic potential for large scale harm aside from all the hacks leaks and other things that have made them so famous yes they certainly enjoy being disruptive disruptive indeed just last year they breached the accounts of the world&#39;s richest CEOs extracting almost $2 trillion moving that money into virtually traceless Charity donations worldwide I tell you the warm fuzzy feeling I got from that when has yet to go away delicious before that were the notorious email leaks revealing major wall stre Street firms had lobbied CIA mi9 and mad to help gain Monopoly control of rare earth metals in Asia yeah too bad it didn&#39;t do a damn thing corporate terrorism just gets worse exposure media does very little these days it just sets a tone and in 2054 they jammed both Chinese and American defense systems during the Saudi Annex crisis disabling thousands of warheads a move concordian sympathizers claim might have stopped World War II and speaking of sympathizers what do you make of the support Legions of followers worldwide troubling but I get it lots of problems out there the Food Water Crisis Refugee migration automation driven unemployment serious ecological decline I get it and it&#39;s natural to be angry but anger doesn&#39;t solve problems or Justify unlawful acts this Robin Hood savior appeal of Concordia is just an immature fat a passing Trend I think so as cinematic as the idea is of Concordia the radical yet benevolent protagonist fighting for their utopian Revolution against the evil establishment last I checked this is reality not a movie seems that way so I encourage people to regain trust in our time tested institutions and Democratic process not tear it all down as Concordia would like to see now in regards to <PRESIDIO_ANONYMIZED_PERSON> I understand you want to work together starting in Special Forces yes I even considered him a good friend at one time have you had contact with him since his capture not yet but I must say I am very much looking forward to speaking with my old associate so are we Simon well I wish I could be a fly on the wall for that thanks for being here Simon always a pleasure so can I get anything before we get started I think I&#39;m good all right feel free to take a seat how we doing on Tech almost there all right well let&#39;s let&#39;s go ahead and roll for basic info and we&#39;ll uh we&#39;ll just we&#39;ll tweak it as we go Sound Speed and rolling all right so please go ahead and introduce yourself and state your work my name is Malik and Soyka and I&#39;m a professor of his history at Columbia University my specialty of Interest surrounds what most historians call today the great transition that period of time between the 21st and early 22nd century where Global Society underwent a rather spectacular social Revolution that&#39;s a good question I guess time will tell all right let&#39;s let&#39;s inch into this please uh state your name vocation and how you found interest in economics I&#39;m Cynthia Flores and I received an interdisciplinary degree in systems ecology and economics from the University of Cape Town where I also Now teach I guess I would start by saying that I can&#39;t think of anything more relevant to the character of society than his economic Foundation hello I&#39;m melenia deir and I teach epidemiology at the University of Istanbul epidemiology is the study of public well-being or what one could call population level phenomena specifically the distribution of physical and mental health across Society with respect your documentary I would say the period before the great transition likely marked the most unhealthy and unstable period in human history so am I looking at you or the camera at me got it whenever you&#39;re ready I&#39;m Vivien Marcella and I&#39;m a sociocultural biologist which simply means I try to better understand the synergies that mold human behavior and by extension culture I joined the Center for Behavioral Studies in Oslo in 20115 and I continue to to try to make sense of this lovable mess we call [Music] Humanity there&#39;s an exercise I often do with my first year students I have them research mainstream economic Publications from the 16th to the 21st century trying to find any mention of basic sustainability principles and each year the students come back stunned by how this period gave no priority to even the most obvious regenerative science let alone anything related to Public Health such things were considered external to this contrived competitive game they called business here you had an entire Global civilization powering itself through the mechanism of consuming that&#39;s literally what drove their economy as absurd as that sounds and the more people bought and consumed the more demand for jobs hence more circulating purchasing power to again be spent on consuming and LLY and viciously repeating that was the economic system back then and to think any part of that would be workable in the long run on a finite planet is pure lunacy to make matters worse the system was rooted in strategic human exploitation which structurally ensured large wealth and power differences between groups and the long-term cultural result was very poor social Integrity racism xenophobia sexism and other forms of bigotry were an inevitable side effect of this kind of social social system ultimately rooted in class stratification otherwise known as socioeconomic inequality and when you put it all together you realize a deep social pathology a pathology that not only severely limited human potential actually bringing out the worst of our biological and social nature but one that was blindly pushing civilization toward Oblivion due to accelerating ecological Decline and systemic human Conflict by the time we reached the 21st century the consequences of all this weren&#39;t subtle we&#39;re talking massive Global inequity and poverty Relentless worldwide conflict endless power abuses and systematic oppression not to mention the near irreversible decline of all life support systems and while it seems obvious to us today he have to understand the kind of indoctrination that occurred back then the culture was so conditioned by the dominant worldview they just couldn&#39;t recognize the flaws inherent to the structure of their society so by force of this they engaged in very superficial activism centered around political institutions that really were just a parody of themselves attempts at social change were deeply fragmented in Focus because people&#39;s understanding of cause and effect was so shallow so the whole thing just became a spectacle an endless blame game between groups their so-called Democratic process centered not on actual policy but around these political institutions that seem to vaguely represent such policy a true democracy As We Know now know allows for public consensus on actual issues not the appointment of Representatives to make those decisions for them that&#39;s not really democracy at all that&#39;s simply a watered down version of authoritarianism voting for kings and queens and to add insult to injury because Society was rooted in this business system of property and trade everything was for sale people love to argue about moral lines and ethics but the fact was politicians and hence policy was just another Comm to be bought and sold so inevitably those who did end up with true Social Power were the ones with the most wealth that wasn&#39;t a corruption that was simply the nature of the system and needless to say this business power subculture was certainly the least likely to want to change the very system that had so disproportionately rewarded them and as Science and Technology increased efficiency creating higher material standards of living in general the lack of Human Rights progress and the anti-democratic nature of society became increasingly masked people&#39;s dignity and integrity were bought off by gadgets and toys and addictions feeding a materialist fetish that so distracted the minds of many and you know I often Ponder all this trying to put myself in the shoes of the average person back then especially in the more affluent and highly unequal regions such as the United States of America and it really makes me shudder people stuck in traffic piling into these office prisons to push paper around engaging meaningless occupations that wasted far more energy and wealth than they created so they can continue buying these things they don&#39;t need elevating their artificial status and so on it&#39;s like a bad horror movie [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah I [Music] [Music] if there&#39;s any historical through line that reveals how important a system-based worldview is both in understanding society and knowing how to change it it&#39;s a long history of slavery and human exploitation you can&#39;t have a society that&#39;s based upon hierarch archical power and specialized labor where people are seen as economic tools to be used strategically for another&#39;s differential gain and ever expect high moral Integrity consider the function of cost efficiency cost efficiency is about trying to save money on production in order to maximize profit upon final sale it&#39;s at the core of the basic gaming strategy that&#39;s required in market economics and that simple incentive the principle of seeking to reduce input cost to maximize output gains is at the root of thousands of years of human slavery in one form or another whether indentured servitude bonded labor chatt slavery in earlier times to human trafficking and debt driven wage slavery in more modern times and the point to make here is that this kind of framework was so normalized by the turn of the 21st century a period by the way that had more slaves in absolute numbers than any time in human history the average person still didn&#39;t see the connection they had been conditioned by these mythical free market ideas arguing that because people could now choose which area of the economy to submit their labor to choose which company to be subordinated or perhaps get the capital and start their own company and then choose who to exploit for their own personal Advantage somehow coercion just no longer existed that was the illusion and any advanced technological society that evolves not to organize in an effort to provide basic life support to its citizens allowing them to pursue their own interest on their own terms instead structurally forcing everyone to fight with each other for basic survival for no defendable reason mind you is not a free Society at all it&#39;s a system of violence and oppression regardless of how materially wealthy that Society may appear now all that said it&#39;s important to consider [Music] is [Music] you have meddled with the Primal forces of nature Mr Beal and you will aone it&#39;s been a long time sonim so the reason you&#39;re here with me and not in some vassel State being tortured is because the GSA needs your help we&#39;re being over overrun by a group of hackers and they appear to be advancing their abilities faster than we can counter Orion that&#39;s right Orion we&#39;ve been tracking them for years bloode anarchists they want to return civilization to the Stone Age we figure if they continue their rate of progress we only have a few weeks before they breach taking control of our systems that&#39;d be bad hence our priorities as aggravating as your little Concordia project has been you were never this distasteful you do realize that even if Orion is stopped another Insurgency likely more malicious is just around the corner right your point my point is one way to measure the Integrity of a society is by how many outliers it creates violent criminals inner city gangs serial killers Mass murderers terrorists to now this lovely hacker dystopia you&#39;ve inspired you have a systemic problem Simon and it&#39;s only going to grow you&#39;re looking through the wrong lens John and unlike the past the outliers now have exponentially advancing technology some disgruntled kid fashioning a Molotov cocktail years ago can now create weapons of mass destruction or in this case Weapons of Mass disturbance with a little more effort again you&#39;re looking through the wrong lens no one ever said the natural course of humanity was going to be pretty so it&#39;s natural for Humanity to flirt with its own destruction and increasingly so cuz that&#39;s where all this leads since the dawn of civilization those with the most advanced tools are the ones who set the stage from The Rock to the sword to the gun to the bomb to AI a sociological law of nature rooted in our evolutionary psychology and if this race happens to lead to destruction well such is the natural course only human conceit assumes otherwise [Music] see you haven&#39;t lost that Charming nihilism drink no and it&#39;s not nihilism John it&#39;s realism conflict is what makes the world go around and whomever wins defines the course so what&#39;s the deal the deal is you help us tame The Barbarians at the gate along with anything else we ask in return you&#39;ll be granted a decent life here this ship might be a place of work but it&#39;s also a self-contained City we go back a long way John and despite our differences I would hate to see that genius go to waste and if I don&#39;t you know the answer to that aside from this possible Orion catastrophe which I doubt your humanist Eagle would allow you&#39;ll be turned over to interrogation and it won&#39;t be cinematic either way you&#39;re not leaving the ship okay Simon but I have one condition I want you to put an end to program ux 83 although known as the malthusian Mandate if you knew about the Mandate why hasn&#39;t Concordia leaked it never had a complete picture and what do you think you&#39;re missing good question we find it cryptically mentioned in documents related to the gsa&#39;s control programs it appears the Mandate was employed in the death of at least 20 million last year alone how this is occurring and why is not clear so why don&#39;t you enlighten me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so you wrote a book called called the Neolithic maladaptation which focuses on the nature of culture before the great transition can you clarify what you meant by this title sure so I think the defining question of civilization is what characteristics enable us to survive and prosper sustainably and peacefully over generational time thousands of years ago upon the Advent of Agriculture the Neolithic Revolution we found ourselves in a new social arrangement m a new structure one that would later prove to be highly incompatible not only incompatible with the habitat inherently unsustainable since the economy literally required consumption and growth but also incompatible with our very social nature and long story short humans are simply not meant to exist in economically stratified Society if the expectation is high levels of Public Health and peaceful coexistence it&#39;s always interesting to review the work of mainstream science scientists at the turn of the 21st century as they desperately try to convince themselves that a competitive exploitative vainly status-seeking mindset was an inalterable expression of human nature when the fact is our genes our biology and how the environment interacts with our evolved selves allows for vast range of orientations with narrow self-interest greed merely part of that range if we&#39;ve proven to be anything it&#39;s adaptable there&#39;s certainly no Blank Slate we&#39;re not infinitely malleable but it has been grossly underestimated historically just how wide our range of adaptive potential really is and what most determines which behavioral traits will Define a society&#39;s culture is its social structure or more specifically that structure&#39;s economic basis the method by which we must survive if that structure rewards competition dominance and narrow self-interest then the culture will predominantly Express those values vales if it rewards collaboration empathy and pro-social concern the resulting culture will predominantly Express those values for the majority of human history before the Advent of Agriculture we lived in non-hierarchical non-competitive Social Arrangements why because the economic basis of survival actually incentivized sharing and collaboration and not the opposite so what I mean by maladaptation is while Humanity did success adapt to the survival requisites born from the Neolithic Revolution the resulting social structure the system that became codified proved maladapted the economic system was simply incompatible with what was required for Humanity to be sustainable in the long term failing our need to integrate properly with the ecosystem while limiting our ability to coexist peacefully with each other and by the time of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century these flaws were rapidly coming to the surface conditions had changed and if it wasn&#39;t for our dramatic transformation to break out of that system there is little question society would have seen total ecological collapse combined with catastrophic global war so must be difficult to look back at that time given what we know now it seems like things should have changed much sooner right sure but it reveals that as much as we&#39;d like to believe we&#39;re rational objective beings we&#39;re actually Bound by Deep social vulnerability we are social beings first and intellectual beings second what you see back then is a kind of mass hypnosis that paralyzed Society keeping people shortsighted and fearful prone to conform to the values and practices of those who happen to be winning in the contrived economic game one glance at the media from back then gives it all away status posturing people obsessed with appearing affluent accomplished loved famous beautiful all a kind of pathological emulation of those those of high socioeconomic status billionaires celebrities as one notable philosopher stated long ago it is no measure of Health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick Society so once again it all begs the question what actually defines success in The Human Condition what Kind of culture is most optimized to sustain itself over time while of course being happy and stable and while there&#39;s plenty to learn we do know what doesn&#39;t Define it the excessive materialistic wealth and Status driven Neurosis so characteristic back then has literally zero positive relationship to long-term species sustainability and optimize Public Health in short the values were dead wrong and not to sound mean but if I were to resort to derisive status labeling common to that period of time there&#39;s no question that the greatest failures were the ones who owned Mansions drove overpriced cars or luxury jewelry maintain extremely lucrative yet completely meaningless occupations while hoarding great wealth what kind of sad insecure creature needs to flaunt such excess clearly signaling opposition to other people&#39;s well-being true success is reinforcing Harmony balance the goal is not necessarily to become something but to find out who and what you truly are and how you fit inside the ecosystem of nature that gave birth to you the most successful people the true winners are never the ones striving for celebrity and material excess they are the humble minimalists valuing how they can contribute to the well-being and health of everything realizing the world as one system and the more they optimize that contribution the more truly successful they actually become when I look back on all this I think what I find most tragic is the spiritual loss of the IND indidual how people were fundamentally alienated from themselves their identities hijacked by competitive insecurity trying to conform to some acceptable profile that would serve their advantage best not who they actually are but what the system requires them to become [Music] oh this [Music] [Music] the soul selects her own Society then shuts the door to her Divine majority present no more unmoved she notes the Chariots pausing at her gate unmoved an emperor beeing upon her M I&#39;ve known her from an ample Nation choose one then close the valves of her attention like Stone [Music] it&#39;s power oh let me ask you John what do you think the greatest form of social control is law debt religion and this is what to do with the malthusian Mandate humor me I don&#39;t know how about socialization people policing each other properly tuned culture does regulate itself yes we&#39;ve had the same training Simon I&#39;m just as aware of what shapes like pschology as you are yeah see I&#39;m not so sure I don&#39;t think we&#39;d be in this situation if that was really the case you mean because I actually believe the world can change child&#39;s born biologically programmed to adapt to its environment it grows inching through formative years shaped by the traditions and beliefs of culture institutional education introduces structure creating comfort with authority regimentation status nurturing social schema and a fundamental insecurity forged by a deeply unequal world a world of sanctioned indifference where compassion is weakness and domination is virtuous what survival requires in the current Arrangement sure and this early sense of insecurity has a unique effect once childish Tendencies we humans are supposed to grow out of attention seeking spoil self-interest manipulativeness bullying competition become ingrained maturity stunted setting the stage for yet another disciple in the cult of narcissistic individualism poetic by the time higher education is reached formalized Academia the stronghold of the status quo or Natural Curiosity May remain is now further constrained by specialization myopic Focus detached from the pursuit of knowledge existing only for the sake of commercial utility to Define their product and ultimately their identity becoming little more than yet another agent of trade a civilization reduced to the goal of endless striving to sell something to someone else the world is a business Mr Beal so the C turns while in those fleeting moments economic stress does subside when the shackles do come off existential turbulence blooms as they desperately search for some kind of deeper meaning in The Daily Grind in this emotional avoid this state of loss leads to pathological escapism distraction and self-medication become the hobby so they turn to their screens Windows of projected normality equating Freedom with the unattainable delusions of wealth Fame honor while constantly being reminded that they are the authors of their own misery and success can only be a matter of winning versus losing since the vast majority will no doubt lose they live vicariously if their sports team wins the game so do they if their country goes to war they wave their flags as if they were at War while following their celebrity Heroes feeling as though somehow that success mirrors their own and when that doesn&#39;t work they move inward seeking self-help Retreats therapy medication illicit drugs anything to avoid the identity crisis that the society they mirror just might be deeply flawed so the masses remain complacent shortsighted bigoted primitive delusional manageable no conspiracy required viable systems regulate themselves viable you see all this as sustainable no conspiracy required viable systems regulate themselves we just picked up the signal now there there&#39;s one thing you missed in your monologue there aside from Primal provocation keeping people half-conscious trapped in lower brain fight ORF flight mode aside from the cultural hegemony where people&#39;s values and envies mere those of wealth and power reinforcing the social order and aside from the climate of opinion fostered by the acclaimed intelligencia deciding the limits by which truth must conform the most critical mechanism here is that of social inclusion nature wired us with a strong tendency to override rational thought in favor of group acceptance part of our evolutionary Fitness and when people violate consensus the nervous system seeks to correct the behavior with pain and fear as there&#39;s little more psychologically damaging than social exclusion to be ostracized ridicule stigma loss of reputation which could also mean loss of employment income loss of survival yet there&#39;s a long history of people who have moved against that tendency a long history of very few people who inevitably turn into mere righteous symbols put on T-shirts rather than forces of Revolution so this Orion problem of yours isn&#39;t indicative of anything Orion appears to be a fringe group of extremists with no public support this is about normative culture and my point John is that given our social nature the stronger Force here is not on the side of reason it&#39;s on the side of inclusion and Conformity and that my friend is the greatest form of social control and why the masses will never break out of itself self perpetuated oppression [Music] that [Music] I w [Music] [Music] w [Music] [Music] [Music] 23 I see come with me my dear it&#39;s time we reexamine this reality so I understand there&#39;s been a fail and your back for sale to know a veil since we&#39;re bound locked over stocked an endless schem the industrial machine the unemployed destroyed and forever void this Earthly spear that we Commander now only is causing the machine of fear the human AB of aimless wants and vein up so we&#39;ll start with a consumer monstrosity this indiffer acquisition for a status position the wall toall mall now we see buil aord ify our culture of insecurity a neurotic appeal social exclusion confusion fueled by an elitist scense of mellan delusion Darwin misstic PL and endless fight to oppress the poor and reward those with more class war now that&#39;s what&#39;s in store so take a Pew and Bell to the altar of the money guide the success beside but rest assured if you&#39;re granting employment St in time it&#39;ll be automated anyway you [Music] ready what it is you are more than here de the machine here welcome to the freak Show industry is King This World Circus Built for the insincere to profiter off Humanity&#39;s most Primal Fear so you see 23 the world that we inhabits an atrocity a global condition of submission attrition and mission to destroy by whatever Ploy this democracy autocracy will not be stopped by the Public&#39;s idiocracy so pick a complacent face and submit yourself as an inferior race kicking it up to the higher class that has a massed Wealth Beyond the Brut V has a death talk mounts for all to see the slow motion genocide known as inequality so welcome to the freak show Honey Society posset by the capitalist threat and the cast is currently stoed but we&#39;ll let you know if we need another floor to be mopped so earlier something was said to the effect that humans are not designed to exist in an economically stratisfied Society so to speak yes a stratified Society is far more unhealthy and unstable when compared to an egalitarian one but seems like a pretty bold conclusion can you elaborate sure consider our biology specifically the human brain were profoundly wired for social response for instance the same brain centers that react to physical pain also react to emotional pain such as feeling rejected excluded or shamed in early life socially isolated infants not receiving proper affection will fail to produce critical growth hormones harming development while in adulthood similar effects occur for example there were these dehumanizing institutions called prisons and they practice solitary confinement severe social isolation and that practice literally caused brain damage now what do these examples have in common they are negative responses to social related stress and when you review the past 200 years of epidemiological study on the issue you realize that an economically stratified Society is one of the most toxically stressful conditions you could ever impose upon the human species we&#39;ve all learned about the horrors of abject poverty a condition that affected a billion people at the turn of the 21st century causing literally millions of deaths each year but the negative effects of economic stratification aren&#39;t limited to the distinctly poor inequality harms just about everyone a kind of social pollution and the lower one finds themselves on the stratified ladder the worse their health becomes on average consider a lower class mother working two jobs in debt can&#39;t afford a car living paycheck to paycheck while trying to take care of her young child they may not be homeless starving or even poor by legal standards but every day is still a battle to make ends meet this is known as relative poverty or more formally low socioeconomic status and a defining characteristic of this condition on average is high psychosocial stress meaning stress related to social factors this stress includes not only feelings of General insecurity such as worrying about paying your bills affording your child&#39;s next doctor visit or losing your job but also the stress of social status itself how one feels about themselves compared to others and while that particular aspect may seem trivial the fact is our brains have evolved to react in profoundly specific ways when it comes to how we think others see us we have an acute sensitivity to our perceived social status in other words it&#39;s not just about the stress endless worry and the technical difficulty of being poor that&#39;s toxic it&#39;s equally if not more about the stress of feeling poor for example Studies have shown if you take people with the same equal access to free health care controlling for lifestyle factors you will still see as you inch down the ladder of income and wealth People&#39;s Health getting progressively worse on average the lower they are in the class hierarchy the sicker they become one mechanism for this is that high psychological stress leads to a state of chronic inflammation and what&#39;s called an allostatic overload allostasis means your body&#39;s trying to recover from something working to return to a more balanced state but it can&#39;t and this causes the body and the mind to wear down rapidly living in relative poverty and all its day-to-day insecurity and feelings of low self-worth keeps people psychologically locked in a stressful state ravaging mental and physical health consider heart disease low socioeconomic status creates a 50% greater chance of its development and not just because people may have poor lifestyle habits but due to psychosocial stress itself which increases the hormone cortisol damaging arteries fostering strokes and heart attacks low socioeconomic status is a heart disease risk factor on its own similar for diabetes and cancer with far higher rates for those relatively poor as one study put it poverty itself is a carcinogen and given that heart disease diabetes and cancer were some of the leading causes of death in that highly unequal Global Society of the early 21st century these facts help explain why lifespan gaps between the rich and the poor were shockingly wide ranging from 15 to 40 years depending on region and then you have mental health low socioeconomic status fuels much higher instances of depression anxiety disorders schizophrenia suicide not to mention violence including child abuse the condition of poverty was found to be the leading predictor of child abuse which is particularly troubling since such abuse often leads to adult disorders such as addictions antisocial Behavior immune system problems cognitive impairment in fact it was found that children simply living in the condition of poverty correlated to large decreases in IQ decreased brain development and worse overall health throughout the life cycle personally I would argue that if child abuse is about negligence and harm any society that tolerates the existence of poverty when it has the means to end it is a society that is fundamentally abusive to children now as far as behavioral violence in general it&#39;s no surprise the pre-transition period was saturated in it the emotional pathogen behind most acts of violence is shame and inequality produces shame like a finely tuned machine shootings gang violence terrorism domestic violence all highly correlated to inequality like a toxic cloud hovering over civilization the more economically unequal a society the more violent it tended to be on average and that goes for most everything in terms of negative Public Health outcomes with higher incidences of disease crime obesity infant mortality homicides teen birth mental illness poor education conflict domestic abuse illiteracy suicide premature mortality overall mistrust and much more there is no viable defense of its existence on any level and it&#39;s certainly not representative of a fixed human nature humans are basically allergic to socioeconomic stratification in today yeah it&#39;ll probably I&#39;m sorry go home what are you doing come on [Music] [Music] [Music] is for so how&#39;s this supposed to happen exactly I&#39;m not sure the satellite details we need are very specific how John pulls us off is going to be interesting hey where did you get the popcorn oh I don&#39;t know it&#39;s just here right are they still in debate mode listen for yourself hope you went to college and why the masses will never break out of itself perpetuated oppression historically observable biologically sound and grossly exaggerated While most May indeed be stuck in lower brain lyic system reflexes you underestimate the prefrontal cortex our ability to transcend primitive reactions whether you believe it or not Simon the activists of the world are slowly becoming more aware more focused focused on what the system the origin of the social psychology that keeps those feedback loops of Oppression going ah so a threat to the money God if you want to be spooky about it sure the money God is eventually going to be overthrone this age-old March toward increased equality in human rights is now accelerating into new territory in one way or another it&#39;s eventually going to arrive at the doorstep of the economy and then what you seem to be suffering from a kind of Amnesia John that moment&#39;s long past immortalized by the failed Soviet experiment a memory that&#39;s fostered an enduring Boogeyman anyone today daring to suggest economic equality which is what I assume you&#39;re getting at as some final stage of human rights progress will quickly be condemned as a freedom hting socialist propaganda may be strong so are the mounting problems problems that have no ins system solution forcing people to think differently such as how about the collective insult that 1% of the world&#39;s population now owns 80% of the wealth or more importantly the every life support system continues to be in Decline with now Millions dislocated famines Wars growing poverty people will eventually realize the economic mechanisms behind this further opening the gate same for technological unemployment half of all jobs have already been automated and while Nations have compensated by giving basic income the system contradiction is still clear what happens when people realize this welfare program is really just an excuse to keep the labor system in place hence keeping the ruling class in place you assume too much John 3/4 of the people on that planet believe in super natural beings that live in the sky affecting their lives you&#39;re projecting your rare intelligence upon a sea of glorified Savages and if you think the activist Community has anything in their toolkit to even approach system level change you&#39;re not paying attention to their ignorance you mean the spectacle people piling into Free Speech zones holding up signs yelling at buildings ranting on social media creating political art poetry writing writing books making movies I agree it&#39;s mostly catharsis it&#39;s a pressure release valve easing periodic tension making people feel like they&#39;re actually doing something aside of course from helping the economy the anti-establishment market has been increasingly profitable yes the anger dollar if only such outrage could be packaged and traded on Wall Street right and then social change might have a [Laughter] [Music] chance but catharus aside John the real issue is Hope activism today is a hope industry take Concordia it&#39;s been irritating and I&#39;m certainly bothered by the technology you have but your actions have posed no true threat what you do is give your millions of fans hope and hope is a drug that subdues so the long history of Rights progress is meaningless the abolition of slavery women&#39;s Liberation child labor laws unions indigenous restitution Global decrees lgbtq equality disability acts all adaptations and accommodations no threat to the system itself take abject slavery the origins are clear it was never about racism it was about economic exploitation hence business as usual and yet racism took the heat the system connection goes unrecognized limits of debate people have been conditioned to seek moral causes rather than structural ones which is exactly my point they don&#39;t have the vocabulary nothing in their experience offers it the average person engages 6 hours of media a day much of that news constantly reinforcing the status quo I&#39;m glad you brought that up news is a business and do you think that any for-profit institution is ever going to tolerate ideas that move against how it survives the odds are stacked John the system protects itself on every level almost as if it were a living organism but for argument sake let&#39;s assume a formidable movement existed a united front to change the social structure structure then what does it play out on the stage of political theater a stage owned and operated by business power part of the Awakening people are realizing their elected officials are structurally corrupted by default regardless of intent approaches will shift to what Insurrection violence overthrow a French Revolution possible but certainly not inevitable a critical mass large enough to stop the machine in its tracks is really all that&#39;s needed you remember George Orwell of course he observes something interesting in this endless battle between the halves and the have knots if it&#39;s true as you say the masses are beginning to understand the system building Force against it you should also recognize that there&#39;s a natural counter movement the system defending itself once again and every threat to its Integrity what you see as progress will be twisted around and presented to the public as an attack on their way of life those outliers that you spoke of the terrorists gangs criminals Mass murderers insurgencies hackers the Orion the concordians all empower the system in the end providing excuses to further tighten things down more police more prisons more laws more bombs more surveillance more control again no conspiracy required it&#39;s the masses themselves that push for this willfully exchanging their freedom for security so they can comfortably return to their workstations and continue pulling levers on the machine just as a money God ordained for [Music] n [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh h [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] in the end it wasn&#39;t the so-called communist socialist Anarchist or whatever counterculture group that posed the most serious argument for the great transition it was the environmental scientists one could debate the ins and outs of morality public health and human rights but if the habitat goes all that becomes Moot and at the turn of the 21st century our ecological negligence was pretty embarrassing with great inefficiency we were using far more resources each year than the planet produced had destroyed vast Realms of biodiversity polluted the air the soil the water not only destabilizing the entire Global ecosystem but by extension Society itself the most common question I get when teaching this history is how is it even possible things could get so bad how could everyone just keep blindly pulling levers on that destructive economic machine and not see what was happening and it comes down to a kind of faith-based conditioning a religious pathology taking the form of mass economic behavior the doctrine was that of universal scarcity people had been taught to believe that at no time under no circumstance can economic balance exist the very idea an economy could be organized to efficiently provide for everyone while also being in balance with the habitat was a sacriligious taboo The Cult of scarcity and consumption wasn&#39;t having it they considered it utopian thinking supporting the myth that people had infinite wands and were [Music] [Music] that was a prevailing Dogma there must be too many people you can&#39;t have ecological balance in a system that requires constant consumer activity to work it&#39;s one thing to consume based on need it&#39;s another to consume because the system demands it and the market system of Economics needed constant turnover of goods to keep and create jobs providing workers which of course were also consumers with income to spend back into the system endlessly repeating the cycle of cyclical consumption if it didn&#39;t repeat fast enough or slowed the economy contracted purchasing power wasn&#39;t circulating and the society proceeded to shut down a very unique historical moment occurred in the early 20th century when it was realized that technology was now creating a good Surplus and great confusion ensued the problem was this new found productive efficiency was not being met by people buying more stuff so two competing perspectives emerged on one side you had idealists envisioning a new era if we can produce an overall good Surplus why not lower the costs of goods respectively reducing work hours and increased pay in proportion so you can now have say a person working only two days a week without losing their standard of living since the market value of Labor and goods adjusted to compensate for the increased efficiency this logic makes perfect sense when it comes to the basic principle of supply and demand suddenly people have more free time not buried in debt they can enrich their social life family life and pursue the things that have true meaning well that&#39;s not the way it played out nor would it ever which brings us to the system level perspective since the system itself simply isn&#39;t designed inherently for steady state equilibrium market economics is predicated on a more is better ethic to be competitive in the Quest for market share that&#39;s what&#39;s incentivized more growth more sales more employees more capital accumulation a more profit constant expansion so what happened was to be expected fortifying a new industry commercial advertising what was once a simple media service notifying people of new Goods they may need turned into a powerful form of manipulative propaganda in the later stages companies spent more money on Advertising than they did on research and development what advertising does is abuse our social Nature by making people feel like they&#39;re missing out they&#39;re not good enough without this they&#39;re lower in status without that they feel excluded from others if they don&#39;t own something and this pathetic as all that sounds it had a profound effect on society with everyone keeping up with the Joneses and a hideous feedback loop and the result as industrial productivity still continued to rise people worked more than ever had less free time were in staggering amounts of debt and arguably had a lower standard of living when you actually account for human happiness and the level of stress people endured all to keep the economic machine moving one thing that&#39;s really interesting in all this is that the economic system back then embraced a fantastic Paradox so here you had a model that defended Itself by the Assumption of universal scarcity forcing competition oppression exploitation poverty and so on while at the same time the entire machine needed infinite consumption to work think about that for a moment how do you justify these harsh outcomes of assumed scarcity when the system itself disregards the idea entirely when it comes to the very mechanics that make it work and the bottom line is this wasn&#39;t an economy At All by definition it was an anti-economy with human beings functioning like cancer cells eating the Earth alive in systems theory this is known as a positive feedback loop don&#39;t let that word positive confuse you as this nothing positive about it it means there&#39;s nothing working to balance system Behavior to its regulatory environment that environment in the case of Economics is a finite planet with a delicate ecosystem if respect for scarcity was taken seriously the goal would be to focus on efficiency working to reduce resource use reduce waste in the process of meeting human needs manifesting of course a culture that&#39;s mature enough to understand the boundaries of its own existence truly positive economic metrics are the opposite of what was s back then degrowth so to speak would be the goal doing more with less and needing less people would go on TV to give an economic report and say something like great metrics for the economy this month we reduced our use of energy and raw materials by another 3% lowering sales once again with less need for human employment increasing overall efficiency by a factor of two we continue to be in homeostatic balance with the planet for yet another year and Humanity has more free time than ever here&#39;s Tom with the weather well it&#39;s clear skies across the hemispheres the Amazon rainforest isn&#39;t on fire we aren&#39;t clogging the atmosphere of with CO2 and we haven&#39;t seen swarms of refugees cascading across continents in search of food for some time and the fog of billionaire douchebaggery seems to have cleared a bit we do expect some precipitation adding to our already abundant fresh water supply further improving top soil while Global abundance measures has everyone sitting pretty for the foreseeable future yeah you would never hear anything like that instead the opposite some [ __ ] PhD ivy league Market Economist religious fanatic who literally has no clue what the word economy even means would come on and say quarterly earnings were down last month in most sectors as GDP slows we&#39;re seeing an increase in unemployment due to the contraction but hopefully the coming Christmas season will spark new consumer demand while it&#39;s anticipated that the central bank will lower interest rates and buy more bonds to increase liquidity to ease the credit crunch hopefully this will improve consumer confidence inspiring investors to reallocate Capital into translated this means we need you people to take on more loans go into more debt to buy more things to create more jobs so we can sell more things and use more of the Earth&#39;s resources if we&#39;re lucky industry will improve on shortening good lifespans through planned obsolescence make things impossible to repair hopefully more single-use Goods will become the norm so people can buy and throw away at an ever increasing rate keeping the [ __ ] show [Music] going so I want to shift gears here a bit and ask you about your work in in group identity specifically how it relates to economic conditions well like everything is complex as we talked about earlier our social nature can get the best of us and we have some interesting evolutionary wiring when it comes to groups us and them in groups and out groups and perhaps what&#39;s most unique is what defines in us and what defines of them is subjective and culturally dependent if you grow up only being exposed to people who look like you and then you&#39;re exposed to those that don&#39;t your brain tends to fire with apprehension but the same thing also occurs with something even more trivial like baseball caps you show people who like a certain team photos of that team and then throw in a photo of an opposing team member the same thing occurs so for whatever evolutionary reason we have a propensity to divide Society up and make judgments and there is no value in it whatsoever it&#39;s just dangerous baggage and before the great transition because the economy was fundamentally divisive due to its competitive nature bigotry and group oppression was a huge problem so you have the human species developing In Pockets around the world with different environmental exposures not only shaping appearance such as color of skin but also setting in motion cultural differences and as these groups began to mix it got very messy which is why you see especially by the 20th century strong social movements by people trying to stop group oppression at least on the legal and political level the demand for gender ethnic sexual orientation and Creed equality was constant with modest success given the fact Society was still stuck in an economic mode based upon Mutual exploitation amplifying the tendency for group antagonism but there was a side effect to all of this rather than seeking equality to neutralize the group identity problem many chose to embrace it they took what was an artificial construct imposed upon them and Define themselves by it for example someone descended from the African slave trade in America is only a black person via the construct of being called so there is no such thing as a black person just as there&#39;s no such thing as a gray person just as there is no such thing as a white person these are all social constructs that have been invented to artificially categorized people and the same applies to culture just as there is no such thing as a white person person there is no such thing as an Italian person or a Buddhist person or an Irish person or a Jewish person it is one thing to have a valued practice meditation or sense of philosophy that inspires you and educates you history is Rich with beautiful Traditions across many belief systems Dogma aside religion itself helps to serve as a kind of Gateway into our spiritual and intellectual Evolution finding meaning in meditation or putting up a Christmas tree or liting am manora creates ritualistic connection that can have great personal meaning but engaging Buddhist practice doesn&#39;t make you Buddhist being born from a bloodline in Italy doesn&#39;t mean you&#39;re an Italian and going to church doesn&#39;t mean you&#39;re Christian the moment you go from a person that enjoys the practice of something to saying I am this or that is the moment you draw dangerous lines through the species taking such pride in your ethnic religious or Regional background creates an identity with the group by label and it is fundamentally elitist and bigoted by Nature there is only one race the human race and within the confines of that fact to separate yourself any further leads to absolutely nothing positive is [Music] [Music] [Music] no looks more like a w yeah grease ball Deo to be sure just another Euro trash wet back cracker Guinea freeloader and look at those clothes and Nancy Drew Becky want to be Stacy looking for her Chad that never CAU no doubt a tree hugging dirt worshiping femin soy boy beta [ __ ] magnet card carrying purple hair muff diving spook loov self-righteous socialist P coloring in her little book with her jungle bunny towel head Li hard comrades just a sea of bleeding heart social justice Warrior welfare Queens bootlicking anti-freedom globalist vegan red zombie a communist snowflake [ __ ] dumpster so just move back back to Cuba with all the other crybaby agressive leftist Marxist antifa you tanist [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] break time yeah I need to zone out for a bit this final programming is melting my brain what&#39;s this good question some old film by this guy Joseph it&#39;s like an abstract social commentary I haven&#39;t quite figured it out looks pretentious how&#39;s the great debate that&#39;s what I&#39;m going to find out I&#39;m sorry I thought we were trying to save the world everything&#39;s ahead of schedule and I can&#39;t do much more without the satellite coordinates plus this is getting good mhm according to the script looks like John&#39;s about to school Simon on the nature of hierarchy wait how is it we&#39;re seeing both in the shot at once the camera links to his eye sh audiences don&#39;t usually notice things like that and besides where do you see equality in the animal kingdom no one&#39;s equal John and it&#39;d be painfully boring if they were humans are diverse everyone has different capabilities strengths weaknesses talents the push for social equality in human rights is about how that diversity is understood and you seem to think people should only be valued by how well they compete in the business game as if the violence spread between the rich and the poor reflects objective human worth John I amus myself with the notion of the money God because it isn&#39;t far from the truth some system has to exist to divide up a scarce world and nature has spoken as to what that system must be those who reach the top of the pyramid deserve it not because you or I think it&#39;s right but because that&#39;s what Nature&#39;s selecting for so nature prefers sociopaths and Psychopaths to guide the species cuz those are the dominating traits of the ruling class today the system is as a system does is that what the malusia mandates about to then select out the poor and weak we&#39;ll get to the bandid in a moment I&#39;m still bothered by your denial of the fact our social system reflects our true biological nature and if this revolution you speak of did magically occur it would just be a matter of time before the innate compulsion toward social dominance PR failed yet again deep down John the slaves Don&#39;t Want to Be Free they want to be slave owners nice one too bad history paints a different picture power hierarchies have remained constant throughout recorded civilization for perhaps the last 12,000 years sure you know as well as I do before the discovery of Agriculture there was no such thing 99% of human history has been a galarian I said civilization John mandering hunter gatherer tribes chucking Spears and eating grubs isn&#39;t civilization how contemporist is the view yet 20th century study of numerous hunter gatherer tribes those still surviving in remote areas just as they did thousands of years prior actually show socially Rich cultures adult lifespan is not far from ours relatively peaceful in balanced with nature no leaders no group hierarchy no inequality to argue today&#39;s society is somehow more civilized as dubious at best well then perhaps you can encourage all your enlightened followers to come together and live out their utopian fantasy in the Amazon jungle you mean what&#39;s left of it what hasn&#39;t been destroyed by the supposedly Advanced culture that&#39;s ravaged the natural world into total decline in the name of infinite consumption and economic growth and the point here Simon this Hunter gather of cultures are evidence of human variability variability which contradicts your vague biological determinism John just because history shows a range of behaviors across time doesn&#39;t prove anything the introduction of Agriculture indeed changed the Human Condition because it triggered a dormant trait in our evolutionary psychology a trait that wasn&#39;t expressed before how by the Advent of economic surplus economic surplus resources and goods that could be stored hoarded stockpiled owned traded controlled leveraged for personal gain a phenomenon that was impossible in hunter gatherer reality and it was that realization that sparked our now omnipresent drive toward dominance and hierarchy I didn&#39;t know that genetic dormancy of an evolutionary expression needed an environmental trigger psychological drive that then morphs into complex oppressive institutions and structures compelling intuitive plausible too bad it&#39;s total [ __ ] old simpleton pedestrian biod deterministic conclusions that are nothing more than elitist projections you think it&#39;s wise to insult me given this circumstance John and listen agriculture did change everything but not because of some once and psychological Drive magically triggered by economic surplus it was about what such a society technically required dramatically shifting incentives and the Very nature of Human Relationships think about it first you need the proper land water the right conditions to farm then creating settlements around those fruitful areas as opposed to foraging and since land quality varies some settlements will prosper due to their geography and some will falter so what happens when a group finds itself with failed crops and no way to survive the winter they may trade with other groups building out what we call a market today giving way to the idea of property and so on or if they have nothing to trade desperate they may invade they may steal compete establishing the need for protection laws armies the state institution itself at the same time people begin to notice the imbalance and power of this new propertied reality rationalizing the hoarding of wealth for the sake of future security hence the birth of of inequity poverty socioeconomic class Simon every major structural aspect of society today from ownership to trade to nation states to institutional Warfare to the competitive ethic to vast economic inequality and power hierarchy was predictable snowballing ever since so your theory is if you change the structure of society you change the Human Condition There&#39;s No Going Back John no one&#39;s going back we&#39;re going forward Humanity has been trapped in this immature stage for too long not to mention the sickness manifest by this endless striving toward social status is palpable children when who ask what they want to be when they grow up say rich and famous how the most wealthy Nations those beacons of supposed success are by far the most mentally ill people don&#39;t know who they are where they&#39;re going or what they&#39;re doing lost in a perversion of social image a spectacle that no longer has any relationship anything real [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh e [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] he [Music] w [Music] [Music] so I&#39;d like to go back to the subject of inequality but this time to understand the mechanics of the oppression how the hierarchy was kept in place okay let&#39;s start with money money was the infrastructure of the market economy and how it was created and moved around was instrumental to lower class oppression so you had these things called Banks and they had the ungodly power to make abstract value out of nothing if a person needed money for a home or car or business they went to their local bank and applied for a loan and if approved the person signed a contract binding them to return that loaned money at a future date though it&#39;s not really a loan in the sense of somebody lending out what they already owned contrary to what most assumed Banks didn&#39;t loan out money they actually had they instead created new money in the form of credit backed by debt so on one side money represented a store of value people could spend while on the other it was a liability made out of debt in other words for every dollar that existed there was also a debt of a dollar owed to some bank somewhere that was how money was brought into existence and when someone repaid the loan debt the money then disappeared that understood any kind of service in that economy sought a profit and in the case of a loan that came in the form of a fee called interest so the borrower not only had to eventually repay the loan but also the interest charged as well imagine an island of 100 people people they decide to organize themselves through market economy they plop a bank down and each of them take a loan for 100 credits of money at 10% interest so they all now have 10,000 credits total in their money supply and they begin to work in exchange creating economic activity when the time comes to pay back the loan they realize they owe not only the hund credits but the 10% interest so 110 credits same for the whole society in total everyone on the island now owes the bank 11,000 credits but yet only 10,000 actually exists in the money supply there is now more debt owed than money in existence due to the interest charge so three things can happen one those short can take on more loans to temporarily cover the old ones postponing the problem two people could ramp up competitive trade increasing economic activity to try to get from others to cover the debt displacing the debt responsibility like a game of musical chairs or three the bank comes in and takes real property to compensate for the outstanding debt which is inevitably what happens somewhere down the line anyway wait that that can&#39;t be right that would just be a system of organized theft yes Banks were vehicles of creation on one side and a system of organized theft and class oppression on the other but in a large complex Global society when based on on economic growth money moves so rapidly it was very hard for the mechanics of this to be recognized obscured by things like the boom and bus cycle monetary expansion and contraction please continue so back to our Island again but this time for the sake of Simplicity let&#39;s remove the interest fee from the equation and focus only on the outcomes of competitive trade itself so the 10,000 credits of money has been moving around through trade labor investment starting businesses hiring employees and as is inevitable to the game some businesses will outperform winning disproportionate income While others will fall behind losing income and naturally those with more money can then increase their gaming Advantage becoming ever more competitive and of course more prone to keep winning as the old adage went the rich get richer and the poor get poorer a small business with limited means simply can&#39;t compete with a larger one that can outperform them in the same service due to having more resources to work with so on our Island we see an inevitable point in time where say 10% of that population managed to acquire 90% of the Island&#39;s wealth while the other 90% of the population now has only 10% by the way this isn&#39;t some arbitrary assumption this can be modeled mathematically the Dynamics of mass competitive trade in any society always moves toward disequilibrium so by back to my point when you put this together a displaced debt burden and the application of interest you can begin to see the insidiousness an economic process based upon competitive advantage in trade that inevitably consolidates wealth increasing that Advantage coupled with a financial system that is charging interest on loans that can never be fully repaid so it&#39;s no surprise that in the early 21st century the global economy had about 200 trillion in debt and only 80 trillion in outstanding currency while in the United States then considered the richest nation on the planet half of the population had less than $1,000 in savings while also spending more each year than they actually earned just trying to keep up while on the global level nearly 50% of the population lived in poverty on less than $5.50 a day as roughly 30 individuals yes 30 owned more wealth than the bottom half 3.6 billion now there are plenty of other intermittent things that contribute to this disparity offshore tax Havens for the rich the mythology of trickle down economics where government favors business over the Public&#39;s well-being gaming strategies to restrict the power of unions and keep wages low Vari Shenanigans related to this thing called the stock market but the financial system and its used of De is really the foundation of it all wow you would expect rides in the street if people really understood that well there eventually were but again at the time people just couldn&#39;t see it but note it wasn&#39;t until the complete abolition of debt on all levels that human slavery finally ended on this planet speaking of awareness I&#39;d like to talk a little about how the Awakening started I know Concordia was instrumental to technical change later on but what about before that perhaps starting in the 20th century well it&#39;s sporadic the largest move against this system was the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia inspired by a man named KL Marx that brought about the Soviet Union which existed for a couple decades and it employed a top- down regulation system they called communism but it proved to be inefficient and oppressive it was also wildly opposed by Western capitalist Powers which sought to destroy it by any means necessary criticism was generally infused with civil rights movements for example Mahatma Gandhi who helped liberate India from colonial rule was notably against the system recognizing its creation of poverty once saying that poverty was the worst form of violence Dr Martin Luther King Jr was also steadfast against capitalism seeing it as a part of a system of Oppression fueling racism same for the Black Panther Party that had chapters all over the world in the 1960s you also had more academic minded organizations like the technocracy movement largely inspired by famous economist Thorston beelin who recognized that a society run by business people was a very bad idea and by the 25st century when economic inequality was reaching unprecedented extremes coupled with a growing ecological crisis many more were realizing something had to be done but there is one that sticks out to me in the context of the value system disorder present at the time an iconic speech given by a man named Omar podo Omar was born in poverty in Los Angeles California and as a young man he just happened to win the largest state lottery ever in 2037 and he decided to use that money to solve the vast homeless crisis in his hometown he funded nonprofits established housing treatment centers not only getting people off the streets but really helping them recover and acclimate something that hadn&#39;t been done before and they gave him a Nobel Peace Prize for it but what he had to say during his speech wasn&#39;t exactly what they [Applause] [Music] [Applause] expected thank you while I&#39;m happy for those we have helped over the past few years taking about 75 5,000 homeless off the Los Angeles streets I must say that the problem at hand runs much deeper than the poverty we see around us when I created this program focusing on just this one Regional Crisis my long-term Hope was that it would set a new precedent that those who disproportionately benefit in this world would be inspired step up and help take responsibility for the plight of the less fortunate after all what I have done here is merely a patch that can only help a few for the true source of poverty our social system continues to go un addressed we live in a world of stories and myths and we&#39;ve been told that the vast inequities that we see is the price we must pay for Innovation and progress well Innovation to what end and how do we Define this notion of progress for progress is about how much one can own the availability of jobs the state of a nation&#39;s GDP the rise of the stock market or the development of some Gadget to entertain and distract you then we Face a serious existential crisis I submit that true progress can only be measured in the health stability integrity and responsible freedom of a civilization responsible to ourselves responsible to each other and responsible to the Earthly habitat we all share and by those measures my friends there is now little progress to be found as we all see it idly by presupposing that the way Society works is the only way it ever could that said if it&#39;s true that we must persist in this inhumane economic order an order that has proven it can only create affluence for a minority at the cost of destitution for the majority then our only choice is to seek a new level of humanitarian effort today three people have more wealth than the bottom 75% of the world&#39;s population 6 billion people the total wealth of the 4,000 billionaires out there have the means to end Global poverty a 100 times over and yet if you study their philanthropy it is clear that they are far more concerned with their own interests their own Comforts than working to counter this ongoing structural violence you see there&#39;s a deeper kind of poverty here a spiritual poverty a poverty that grows a culture of sociopaths and the more they have the more they want and the less they seem to care otherwise moral bankruptcy hiding behind this age-old story that one can have a billion dollars in the bank While others Starve is somehow natural to The Human [Music] Condition in a number of months my program will end as the funds will be gone and to date not one wealthy so-called philanthropist has offered to help keep the program running now I know this event is about peace but it must be understood that the wealthy of this world those at the root of true political power are sick their priorities have nothing to do with true progress and the time for tolerance is over the billionaires of this world are not symbols of success they are symbols of violence and until that violence [Music] ends there will be no peace on this planet [Music] I I&#39;m sorry Peter can we cut cut going on GRE well it&#39;s you know it&#39;s this opening section I&#39;m I&#39;m I&#39;m still not getting it uh I know we&#39;ve been through it but um it&#39;s just not Landing for me I&#39;m just going to keep rolling here can you grab that color swatch for me you have to think about the interpretation reference to all right thank you this trod head is toilet you know my latte was cold this morning and that&#39;s my problem because okay okay I I I think I got it thanks no problem all right every Jesus take a screenwriting class for Christ&#39;s sake no one&#39;s going to understand any of this [ __ ] camera rolling audio speeding [Applause] [Music] slate what if I told you John what many see as problems in the world are actually Solutions in transition is that some kind of DST riddle poverty crime War disease even the ongoing destruction of the habitat what if they were actually productive forces assisting a larger end i&#39; suggest you lighten up on the nche what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom is that we have no natural Predators nothing nothing out there to snatch us up for an afternoon snack we&#39;re also uniquely aware of our own mortality and fight it with hospitals medicine inoculations little stopping us from reproducing to the very limit of our host at least not externally Evolution had to do something a bit different with us so instead we are our own predators predator and prey in one how convenient which explains not only why humans murder each other at a rate unparalleled by any other species but also why we&#39;ve generated a social structure that by systemic Force further ensures a consistent rate of premature mortality you mean structural violence embedded into the very design of civilization itself so that is what the malthusian Mandate does regulate how to kill off the week no the Mandate isn&#39;t a policy of action it&#39;s a policy of inaction a commitment not to interfere with the natural course of the system so the Invisible Hand of the market has a machete I don&#39;t expect to win you over John I&#39;m just telling you the way it is I agree it&#39;s ugly but without the premature death that capitalism brings in the form of inequality that planet would have flown off its access long ago as you know the Industrial Revolution set in motion population growth that was hyperbolic and out of the 70 million who now die each year 30 million do so because of unequal conditions so 40% of all Global deaths are structurally inflicted you know there&#39;s a word for that son oh don&#39;t be dramatic again this is system level Behavior John not some nefarious conspiracy you want to know what the population would be if this wasn&#39;t the case if we removed inequality driven mortality for the last 100 years accounting for fertility about 16 billion would be sucking up resources on that planet today with a caring capacity still at only 10 billion and you think things are messy now first of all Simon when the Great Reverend Thomas malus decided population would forever outpace resources only one billion existed we&#39;re almost 10 times that now despite his projections second in the modern era the greatest predictor of regional overpopulation is poverty itself if the world ever did abolish it increasing education population growth would dramatically slow likely approaching equilibrium your 16 billion number doesn&#39;t account for that and third you&#39;re completely disregarding with the ferian study proved long ago a study sanctioned by your own Department the ferian study was purely theoretical John the model only possible if humans magically conformed to strict sustainability and efficiency principles it required a completely egalitarian structure without money and markets a fantasy given once again the reality of human nature fantasy you&#39;re not study was clear not only can the Earth hold upwards of 30 billion it can do so with each having a standard of living equivalent to today&#39;s upper middle class yeah again assuming equal distribution which is absurd humans have infinite wants no they don&#39;t infinite wants is a value disorder inspired by an economy that needs infinite consumption to work people are just as prone to be minimalists as they are materialists comes down to the social condition today if people didn&#39;t have highly inquisitive values the entire economy would collapse fine believe it you will John it&#39;s all mood anyway you asked me what the malthusian Mandate was and I&#39;m telling you whether you like it or not this is the reality of things [Music] today we got mandate metadata please tell me this is recording it certainly is looks like John got a subterfuge so how&#39;s this organized then tracking demographics and mechanisms we are as you&#39;ll notice conditions related to absolute poverty in the third world countries account for about 40% of all premature deaths and I see you&#39;re also tracking poverty related illness and violence in the industrialized nations with heart disease cancer and diabetes remaining at the top while suicide inner city gang Warfare and Drug overdoses coming a close second what about deep systemic relationships lack of Education Childhood stress correlated as well actually very consistent Regional cycles of deprivation are like clockwork poor families continue to produce more poor families even in the richest States and the mechanisms standard class war stuff only difference now is the ecological and climate crisis which has rapidly increased mortality in poverty stricken desert and coastal regions but the same story otherwise the rich get richer with disproportional opportunity in capital the political establishment favors business and Wealthy interests over social support programs and the banking system keeps a solid strangle hold on social Mobility by saturating the lower class in insurmountable debt same on the global level through international finance institutions structural adjustments austerity sanctions in fact the financial system is really the glue that holds all this together keeping constant downward pressure on the impecunious masses [Music] I [Music] [Music] final warning please evacuate proon region program commence in 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 centuries ago humans discovered hydrocarbon energy fossil fuels and for a good chunk of time it was a critical mechanism advancing civilization but after a while it became obvious that its continued use posed insurmountable repercussions damaging the environment so we eventually had to stop using it completely figuring out other means and this is a good analogy as to why we also needed to transcend that social system I look at capitalism as an adolescent stage in the growth of civilization let&#39;s let loose and have people be selfish building and creating in a belligerent manner with no regard for consequences and we learned a lot I think without this phase we wouldn&#39;t have been able to recognize and amplify what really makes us unique as a species we started as DNA moving from Simplicity to complexity evolving a brain with Consciousness while blessed with a profound social nature merging us into a truly Global Consciousness continuing this expansion not through our biology but through the sharing of knowledge cultural Evolution there was a great library in a city called Alexandria long long long ago and it contains some of the most foundational texts of human civilization and sadly it was destroyed in war many centuries later a famous astronomer named Carl Sean commented on the subject it was as if the entire civilization had undergone some self-inflicted brain surgery and most of its memories discoveries ideas and passions were extinguished irrevocably so the great question of scientific and hence economic progress inevitably becomes how do we optimize the power of our group mind to increase knowledge and solve problems how do we harness our different talents and skills to bring out our best potential not only as individuals but as a civilization we know the hardware so to speak a finite yet profoundly regenerative Planet Bound by laws of nature with our species part of a delicate ecosystem sharing Common Ground the true measure of economic progress is simply doing more with less efficiency the ability to build something for a given purpose that is not only better than what came before it in utility but also better in terms of reducing the amount of Labor energy and resources required to make it work which means it all comes down to design and back to my point about markets the infrastructure it created set the groundwork for powerful new means to merge human talent and skill we just needed to to remove the counterproductive aspects and needless to say wasteful human competition proprietary knowledge and people motivated to sell things over and over to feed a system of infinite growth wasn&#39;t going to work there had to be a way to bridge minds and solve problems directly not by proxy of Market competition and profit I think the smartest thing we ever did as a society was the adoption of an open- Source shared resource comments it exponentially catapulted our problem solving creativity we ended corporations localized communities and shared all knowledge in fact if it wasn&#39;t for that move I really don&#39;t think we would have solved the climate crisis and all the other ecological and social problems we fac before the great transition I Still Standing on today at the stunningly productive Collective design processes we created where a status is driven not by differential competition for gain but by the degree of your contribution how dedicated you are to problem solving and creation working to improve the fabric of society itself we also realized the true purpose of a means of production based upon automated technology not as some brute industrial mechanism to produce an endless stream of arbitrary Goods but as a way to free ourselves from uncreative labor not to mention improving efficiency and safety and one final evolution worth noting Was the removal of the price system people stuck these numbers on everything that suggested some kind of Earthly value the numbers were a result of a particularly crude equation dealing with supply and demand and while the high Priests of the market religion saw those price decrees as the word of God the truth was any price value determined by market dynamics alone was woefully incomplete and the only term to know in regard to that is negative Market externality these are cost values unaccountable for by the market price equation related to Damage Done by industry for example in the early 21st century the running price of hydrocarbon energy was in a particular range but yet there was actually an additional $5.3 trillion in cost every year as people worked to clean up the damage the use of hydrocarbons was doing to the planet same for the Plastics industry a serious problem back then it had an externalized cost of $2.5 trillion dollars a year just to clean up the oceans in fact if you went back and did the accounting for Global industry as a whole factoring in these negative Market externalities again these costs not reflected in the set prices you would find that no company on the planet was actually even profitable so of course today we have a very different system of accounting we know almost exactly what&#39;s happening or could happen in Downstream effects and we improve our total system system efficiency every single year because of it it&#39;s a true economy in other words and all of this creates a very different social atmosphere today our incentives are aligned no one Cuts Corners there&#39;s no reason to no one&#39;s trying to improve some bottom line by disregarding our ecological stewardship or the well-being of others we finally got it right and I compareed the footage of the way people behaved back then to the way they do now with an ding amount of pride and Community meaning and purpose they don&#39;t feel alone they know they have support not just from their friends and family but from the very design of the social system itself a system designed to actually care imagine that you [Music] [Music] la the low polygon people are [Music] here I wish they would go back to their own resolution [Music] la [Music] open [Music] [Music] how are you still standing what is that your 10th [Music] apple juice what&#39;s that that is a breach alarm looks like Orion is continuing through our security and on that note John I need to know your intent I&#39;ve explained the Mandate and how it&#39;s far bigger than both of us policy of inaction is still a policy of action Simon well if you&#39;d like we could continue this colorful debate another time assuming you&#39;re willing to assist us here now signal Source what are the regional markers well that&#39;s part of the problem the best we have is a desert region on the west side of North America about 10,000 square miles it&#39;s not too horrible I assume your satellites have been scanning more remote terrain of course nothing out of the ordinary has been seen what about surveillance gaps are the satellite passes seamless for the most part there are some periodic latitudinal gaps but they only last a few hours is it possible Orion&#39;s aware of them exploiting them that&#39;s what i&#39; do I suppose but highly unlikely they would have to already be in our system to know the trajectories show me the gaps you want my help or not zoom in to the area in question perfect hold it right there John we&#39;ve already conducted subar scans if they&#39;re underground they&#39;re using some kind of reflective Shield but what I think would be best for you is to analyze the signal code itself see if you can find a signature John yeah sorry I was just thinking hey you remember that Aqua terraformation project we worked on years ago sounds like you need to get some sleep your attention span&#39;s going and of course how could I forget ionized nanotech popup Islands from sea water too bad it never worked we could have extended populations into the ocean free up some space yeah what other ambitious stuff do we work on those are some exciting times remember TRD holoc Club huh a sci-fi classic tactile remote drone hologram we played with that for a while here but proved impossible light just can&#39;t merge like that yeah too bad lots of uses for a fully controlled remote tactile human hologram [Music] [Music] cool huh and it&#39;s at this juncture Simon I&#39;m afraid I have to deliver some kind of protagonistic Declaration of moral superiority to indicate the philosophical error of your ways so here it goes those that seek to create in this world those who Embrace change as a natural force helping to unify humankind as one entity in one shared Direction realizing that in Justice anywhere is Injustice everywhere will always be one step ahead of the traditionalists the preservers the elitists who in defense of their separatist identities and egoist fears seek to divide conquer oppress and destroy the pursuit of living R will always be one step ahead of the pursuit of Weaponry Orion doesn&#39;t exist doesn&#39;t it nope we just put a virus in your firewall why what&#39;s the point of all this to expose the Mandate of course which will be leaked shortly to every major News Network oh seriously that&#39;s it you think we can&#39;t absorb that that we haven&#39;t perfected endless ways to deflate and confuse public perception when needed well then I guess you have nothing to worry about see you around Simon hey token white guys back shut up all right folks we don&#39;t have much time I don&#39;t think he&#39;s going to buy that story for long how we doing the satellite coordinates locked everything&#39;s ready but keep in mind even with bypassing your surveillance once this thing hits the heat signature is going to be out of control that&#39;s what the sub fug is for mandate leak on the blockchain yet packaging now should be in the hands of every major media Outlet in about 20 minutes good don&#39;t forget to show Simon&#39;s stupid face so this is it folks we have a clear path avoiding GSA surveillance once the Mandate exposure hits the Press Simon and Company will be in damage control hopefully long enough so we can pull this off anybody need anything music music music music you got it [Music] the [Music] [Music] the [Music] [Music] all right everybody come on we got we got to finish this goddamn movie already left right left [Music] [Music] responding to this new leak by Concordia purporting to reveal a policy of neglect where the death of millions in poverty was deliberately accentuated by International Trade policy leaked documents even include what appears to be video of gsa&#39;s current head Simon dvo [Music] don&#39;t look at me like that standard operating procedure folks get your media agents out there and start changing the [Music] narrative sir what is it I don&#39;t know we don&#39;t have visual coverage in that region yet and the [Music] Dron holy [ __ ] it worked shall we alert the base indeed the migration begins it&#39;s an artificial Island sir in the Pacific about 700 miles off the coast of North America holy [ __ ] it worked scramble fighters to destroy no see this it&#39;s a plasma congealed electromagnetic field impenetrable how do you know that because I know the Creator and scene so we&#39;ve just arrived at the colony of Concordia where almost a million people have migrated to basically get away from the rest of the world we are the first press to Lad in waiting to meet our guide hi I&#39;m eloria nice to meet you thank you for having us I suggest we move to the city center start our tour from there good so there&#39;s been a lot of speculation on the mainland about what goes on here you&#39;re depicted as some kind of a cult claims of human right abuses and your media is being censored pretty aggressively well that&#39;s why you&#39;re here this island wasn&#39;t created to escape the world it was created to set an example to change the world show what&#39;s actually possible if humankind decided to work together so where would you like to start I guess technicals how are you powering this place mixed renewable integration the Island&#39;s core basad systems are solar wind and ocean while localized kinetic energy capture mix use reuse mechanisms are designed into most everything like footsteps footsteps vehicle motion pipe flows anything that moves we recapture we&#39;re at about 5,000% efficiency more energy than we know what to do with that&#39;s insane not really the Earth is in effect a perpetual motion machine you people on the mainland could easily do the same thing but your economic system simply isn&#39;t conducive to Creative Design speaking of which let&#39;s head to the development center around the corner okay this is one of our design facilities okay like an office so these people are employed employed I suppose in the most technical sense of the word sure but we have no systemic slavery here no one&#39;s coerced to submit for their basic survival something I suspect might be very foreign to you but everyone needs to do something right so I do you network skills organize trade markets there is no trade there are no markets there is no currency those who wish to contribute do so through collaborative design in an open- Source environment what you think of as industries of production on the mainland is Unified here wait I don&#39;t understand these people are not paid to be here how are they motivated well how is anyone motivated do you need to get paid to get out of bed in the morning do you need to be paid to ensure your own health the health of your family and friends paid to show stewardship for the habitat in society that supports you what about Innovation Innovation to what end to create something to improve life and experience or to create something to sell if you think about it it has been the blind economic drive toward Innovation as you know it that continues to lead your Society to destruction okay then so once these people have designed something then what if a design meets proper criteria in terms of efficiency and sustainability protocols it is then accessible by our mostly additive manufacturing system additive 3D printers which have been perfected to a degree where modular arrays can produce most anything conceived of with traditional materials and by the way there&#39;s no waste here our AI design filters won&#39;t allow production of any item that isn&#39;t 100% regenerative sorry I&#39;m speechless if what you say is true you&#39;ve actually done it done what you&#39;ve created Utopia if you want to sound like an idiot sure this isn&#39;t Utopia friend it&#39;s simply pragmatic design come let me now show you our democratic system how we use direct democracy to eliminate politicians and control problems what no elections no goons God no wow so so where do I sign up I want to join your cult as soon as possible I&#39;ll see what I can do please I don&#39;t know if I can think much more so I&#39;m afraid we&#39;re going to have to wrap this up for now but as as we discussed I will be back to the second part of this interview fairly soon specifically to discuss the colony of Concordia and their historical influence sure so what&#39;s the name of the documentary inter Reflections interesting but before we end I I had a rather strange request if you could address those vulnerable or confused Souls you know before the great transition given as you put it earlier we barely made it at all what would you say to them wow that is a strange request H I think I would paraphrase the words of a notable civil rights activist from the mid 20th century named Bayard Ron and he said you are all one and if you don&#39;t know it you&#39;re going to find out the hard way it&#39;s a Bia it&#39;s a kopia champ cavier what else is there swimming F vacation on the south of you got what else is [Music] your company is rising St cheap beli in the easn block no complaining in the sweat else is there making deals in the back you don&#39;t like it you can change the rules think you in the legisl what else is there house te heart sh your your your heart sh your [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] never felt like we had enough buy started working from up what else there I know when I look at you you got feelings like I do can go by the golden else [Music] don&#39;t don&#39;t [Music] [Applause] [Music]
Description: Interreflections | HD | Fantasy | Full movie in english

Director: Peter Joseph
Writer: Peter Joseph
Stars: Goldie Hoffman, Chris Silcox, Summer Perry
(2020) 

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