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<i>♪ All around me
are familiar faces ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Worn out places ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Bright and early
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<i>♪ Going nowhere, going nowhere ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Their tears are filling up
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<i>♪ Hide my head
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<i>♪ No tomorrow, no tomorrow ♪</i>

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<i>♪ And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad ♪</i>

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<i>♪ The dreams in which I'm dying
are the best I've ever had ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take ♪</i>

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<i>♪ When people run in circles
it's a very, very... ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Mad world ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Mad world ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Children waiting for the day
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<i>♪ Happy birthday ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Made to feel the way
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<i>♪ Sit and listen ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Sit and listen ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Went to school
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<i>♪ No one knew me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ No one knew me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Hello teacher
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<i>♪ Look right through me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Look right through me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ And I find it kind of funny
and I find it kind of sad ♪</i>

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<i>♪ The dreams in which I'm dying
are the best I've ever had ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I find it hard to tell you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I find it hard to take ♪</i>

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<i>♪ When people run in circles
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<i>♪ Mad world ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Mad world ♪</i>

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[increasing
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[propeller
increasingly rumbling]

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[muffled helicopter rumbling]

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What I call the World Game
now is an exercise

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that I have been following
through for a great many years.

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Can you hear me
in the back alright?

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And it started with my being
in the United States Navy.

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The time of World War One.
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the Navy's represented
investment of all the science,

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all the chemistry, all the
physics, all the mathematics

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known about our universe.

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And I was shocked
that it was only going

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in this negative thing
of killing.

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[Buckminster] We have this
extraordinary technology.

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Men would not doing anything
with that kind of accuracy

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on the land in relation to try
to make man a success.

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It became very quickly
apparent that the fundamental

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raison d'etre in all
of our state craft

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was based on Thomas Malthus.

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Now Thomas Malthus
was the scientific servant

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of the masters
of the earth of the time.

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He the first economist in
the history of man to receive

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the total Vital Statistics
from around the spherical earth

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and in 1800,
he wrote his first book,

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which he said apparently man
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much more rapidly than producing
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Therefore, very sad, but man
is supposed to be a failure.

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Shall we inform the whole world,

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the whole world
of that time being

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more than 90% illiterate
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any information
if it was sent to them.

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Should we try to inform the
whole world? There is nowhere

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nearly enough to go around.
If we divide up evenly

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all die slowly together.

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And that, that, that,
that didn't seem logical to them at all.

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They said, "What we can do
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all these people out here are
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and because they're ignorant,
they think they have some hope.

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And we know they don't
have hope most of them.

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Why, why eliminate their hope?
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and might as well
let them die in ignorance."

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Ignorance and hope.

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This is the kindest thing to do.

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And that's exactly
what they did do.

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[computer beeping]

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How's it going?

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Everything seems to be on pace.
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there's only so much we can be
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- Think it's going to work?
- I have no idea.

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- Hey, any word about John yet?
- Glad you asked,

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actually, yes,
John just made the evening news.

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[computer beeping]

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And it appears Simon

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wants to gloat about it.

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[headline hisses]

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They call themselves Concordia,
after the ancient Roman

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goddess of harmony.
The pro-revolution hacktivist

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group world famous after
a decade of subversion

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suffered a major blow this week.

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With the capture
of leader John Taylor.

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Once a high-ranking
military engineer,

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Taylor is being held
in an undisclosed location

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by the UN's
Global Security Agency.

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And with us to discuss
is GSA director,

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General Simon Devoe.

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- Simon, thanks for being here.
- My pleasure.

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So let's step back
if you don't mind.

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Who are these people

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and how have they operated
with such impunity

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after all these years?

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Concordia was formed
by a group of cyber warfare

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experts that defected
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around 2050.

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And in the process,
a great deal

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of classified information

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and advanced technologies
were stolen.

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What kind of technologies?

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Mostly communications,

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cloaking, encryption,
surveillance.

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Hence why they remain
so elusive.

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But the GSA's core concern
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experimental warfare technology.

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Advancements in biochemistry

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and molecular science
that have dramatic potential

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- for large-scale harm.
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leaks and other things
that have made them so famous.

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[Simon] Yes,
they certainly enjoy being disruptive.

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Disruptive indeed. Just last
year they breached the accounts

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of the world's richest
CEOs extracting almost

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two trillion dollars,
moving that money

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into virtually traceless
charity donations worldwide.

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Hmm! I tell you
the warm fuzzy feeling I got

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from that one
has yet to go away.

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Delicious.

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Before that were
the notorious email leaks

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revealing major Wall Street
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MI9 and Mossad to help
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of rare earth metals in Asia.

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Yeah, too bad I didn't
do a damn thing.

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Corporate terrorism
just gets worse.

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Exposure media does
very little these days.

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It just sets a tone.

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And in 2054
they jammed both Chinese

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and American defense systems
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disabling thousands of warheads.

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A move Concordian
sympathizers claim

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might have stopped
World War III.

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And speaking of sympathizers,

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what do you make of the support?

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Legions of followers worldwide.

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Troubling, but I get it.

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Lots of problems out there.

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The food, water crisis.
Refugee migration.

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Automation-driven unemployment,
serious ecological decline.

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I get it
and it's natural to be angry,

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but anger doesn't solve problems
or justify unlawful acts.

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This Robin Hood savior appeal
of Concordia

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- is just an immature fad.
- A passing trend?

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I think so. As cinematic
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the radical
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fighting for their
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against the evil establishment,

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last I checked this is
reality not a movie.

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Seems that way.

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So I encourage people to regain
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institutions
and democratic process.

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Not tear it all down
as Concordia

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would like to see.

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Now, in regards to John Taylor.

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I understand
you once worked together.

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Starting in Special Forces, yes.

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I even considered him
a good friend at one time.

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Have you had contact with him
since his capture?

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Not yet.

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But I must say I am very much
looking forward

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to speaking
with my old associate.

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So are we, Simon.

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Well, I wish I could be
a fly on the wall for that.

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Thanks for being here, Simon,
always a pleasure.

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[dramatic news music]

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[director] So, can I get you
anything before we get started?

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[Malikan]
I think I'm good.

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[director] Alright,
feel free to take a seat.

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How we doing on tech?

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- [tech] Almost there?
- [director] All right.

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Well, let's, let's go ahead
and roll for basic info

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and we'll, uh, we'll just,
we'll tweak it as we go.

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- Sound.
- [man] Speed.

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[tech]
And rolling.

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[director] All right,
so, please go ahead

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and introduce yourself
and state your work.

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My name is Malikan Soyenka
and I'm a professor of history

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at Columbia University.

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My specialty of interest
surrounds what most historians

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call today the Great Transition.

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That period of time
between the 21st

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and early 22nd century
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underwent a rather spectacular
social revolution.

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[chuckles] That's a good question.
I guess time will tell.

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[director] All right.
Let's, let's inch into this.

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Please state your name,
vocation and how you found

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interest in economics.

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I'm Cynthia Floris
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an interdisciplinary degree
in systems ecology and economics

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from the University of Cape
Town, where I also now teach.

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I guess I would start by saying

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that I can't think of anything
more relevant to the character

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of society
than its economic foundation.

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Hello, I'm Aleniya Demir

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and I teach epidemiology
at the University of Istanbul.

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Epidemiology is the study
of public well-being

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or what one could call
population level phenomena,

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specifically the distribution
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and mental health
across society.

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With respect your documentary
I would say

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the period before
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likely marked the most unhealthy

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and unstable period
in human history.

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- So am I looking at you or the camera?
- [director] At me.

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- Got it.
- [director] Whenever you're ready.

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I'm Vivian Marcella and I'm
a socio-cultural biologists.

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Which simply means I try
to better understand

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the synergies
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and by extension culture.

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I joined the Center
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in Oslo in 2115,
and I continue to try

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to make sense of this lovable
mess we call humanity.

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[somber music]

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There's an exercise that I often
do with my first-year students.

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I have them research mainstream
economic publications

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from the 16th
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trying to find any mention of
basic sustainability principles.

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And each year the students
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by how this period
gave no priority

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to even the most obvious
regenerative science.

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Let alone anything
related to public health.

248
00:16:56,664 --> 00:16:58,867
Such things were
considered external

249
00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:00,602
to this contrived,
competitive game

250
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they called business.

251
00:17:02,670 --> 00:17:05,740
Here you had
an entire global civilization

252
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powering itself through
the mechanism of consuming.

253
00:17:08,909 --> 00:17:11,612
That's literally what drove
their economy as absurd

254
00:17:11,646 --> 00:17:14,249
as that sounds.
And the more people bought

255
00:17:14,281 --> 00:17:16,417
and consumed,
the more demand for jobs.

256
00:17:16,451 --> 00:17:18,886
Hence more circulating
purchasing power

257
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to again be spent on consuming.

258
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Endlessly and viciously
repeating.

259
00:17:24,224 --> 00:17:26,427
That was the economic
system back then.

260
00:17:26,461 --> 00:17:28,663
And to think any part
of that would be workable

261
00:17:28,695 --> 00:17:33,201
in the long run, on a finite
planet, is pure lunacy.

262
00:17:33,233 --> 00:17:35,203
To make matters worse,
the system was rooted

263
00:17:35,235 --> 00:17:38,639
in strategic human exploitation,
which structurally ensured

264
00:17:38,673 --> 00:17:41,510
large wealth and power
differences between groups,

265
00:17:41,542 --> 00:17:45,446
and the long term cultural result
was very poor social integrity.

266
00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:49,451
Racism, xenophobia, sexism
and other forms of bigotry

267
00:17:49,483 --> 00:17:52,587
were an inevitable side effect
of this kind of social system

268
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ultimately rooted
in class stratification,

269
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otherwise known
as socio-economic inequality.

270
00:17:58,626 --> 00:18:00,295
And when you put
it all together,

271
00:18:00,328 --> 00:18:02,396
you realize a deep
social pathology.

272
00:18:02,430 --> 00:18:05,667
A pathology that not only
severely limited human potential,

273
00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:09,237
actually bringing out the worst of
our biological and social nature,

274
00:18:09,270 --> 00:18:12,473
but one that was blindly pushing
civilization toward oblivion,

275
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due to accelerating
ecological decline

276
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and systemic human conflict.

277
00:18:17,678 --> 00:18:19,613
[Aleniya] By the time we
reached the 21st century

278
00:18:19,646 --> 00:18:22,317
the consequences
of all this weren't subtle.

279
00:18:22,349 --> 00:18:25,386
We're talking massive global
inequity and poverty,

280
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relentless worldwide conflict,
endless power abuses

281
00:18:28,655 --> 00:18:30,325
and systematic oppression,

282
00:18:30,357 --> 00:18:32,560
not to mention
the near irreversible

283
00:18:32,594 --> 00:18:35,197
decline of all life
support systems.

284
00:18:35,230 --> 00:18:37,531
And while it seems
obvious to us today,

285
00:18:37,565 --> 00:18:39,868
you have to understand
the kind of indoctrination

286
00:18:39,901 --> 00:18:41,403
that occurred back then.

287
00:18:41,435 --> 00:18:42,937
The culture was so conditioned

288
00:18:42,971 --> 00:18:44,638
by the dominant worldview,

289
00:18:44,672 --> 00:18:46,942
they just couldn't recognize
the flaws inherent

290
00:18:46,974 --> 00:18:49,477
to the structure
of their society.

291
00:18:50,377 --> 00:18:53,915
So by force of this,
they engaged in very superficial activism

292
00:18:53,947 --> 00:18:56,984
centered around political
institutions that really were

293
00:18:57,018 --> 00:18:58,953
just a parody of themselves.

294
00:19:00,288 --> 00:19:01,723
[Malikan]
Attempts at social change

295
00:19:01,755 --> 00:19:03,557
were deeply fragmented in focus

296
00:19:03,590 --> 00:19:05,260
because people's understanding

297
00:19:05,292 --> 00:19:06,962
of cause and effect
was so shallow.

298
00:19:06,994 --> 00:19:08,963
So the whole thing
just became a spectacle.

299
00:19:08,996 --> 00:19:11,498
And endless blame game
between groups.

300
00:19:11,531 --> 00:19:13,534
Their so-called
democratic process

301
00:19:13,568 --> 00:19:16,637
centered not on actual policy,
but around these political

302
00:19:16,671 --> 00:19:20,242
institutions that seemed to
vaguely represent such policy.

303
00:19:20,274 --> 00:19:23,944
A true democracy as we now know
allows for public consensus

304
00:19:23,978 --> 00:19:25,947
on actual issues
not the appointment

305
00:19:25,980 --> 00:19:28,650
of representatives to make
those decisions for them.

306
00:19:28,683 --> 00:19:30,751
That's not
really democracy at all.

307
00:19:30,784 --> 00:19:33,921
That's simply a watered-down
version of authoritarianism,

308
00:19:33,954 --> 00:19:35,691
voting for kings and queens.

309
00:19:36,624 --> 00:19:38,425
[Cynthia]
And to add insult to injury,

310
00:19:38,459 --> 00:19:40,828
because society was rooted
in this business system

311
00:19:40,861 --> 00:19:44,365
of property and trade
everything was for sale.

312
00:19:44,398 --> 00:19:47,434
People loved to argue
about moral lines and ethics,

313
00:19:47,467 --> 00:19:50,471
but the fact was politicians,
and hence policy,

314
00:19:50,504 --> 00:19:53,474
was just another commodity
to be bought and sold.

315
00:19:53,508 --> 00:19:56,877
So inevitably those who did
end up with true social power

316
00:19:56,911 --> 00:19:58,813
were the ones
with the most wealth.

317
00:19:58,846 --> 00:20:00,749
That wasn't a corruption,

318
00:20:00,781 --> 00:20:03,018
that was simply
the nature of the system.

319
00:20:04,049 --> 00:20:06,521
And needless to say this
business power subculture

320
00:20:06,553 --> 00:20:09,623
was certainly the least likely
to want to change the very system

321
00:20:09,656 --> 00:20:12,293
that had so disproportionately
rewarded them.

322
00:20:13,528 --> 00:20:16,564
And as science and technology
increased efficiency

323
00:20:16,597 --> 00:20:19,867
creating higher material
standards of living in general

324
00:20:19,901 --> 00:20:23,471
the lack of human rights
progress and the anti-democratic

325
00:20:23,503 --> 00:20:27,074
nature of society
became increasingly masked.

326
00:20:27,107 --> 00:20:29,944
People's dignity
and integrity were bought off

327
00:20:29,976 --> 00:20:32,880
by gadgets and toys
and addictions.

328
00:20:32,914 --> 00:20:35,450
Feeding a materialist fetish

329
00:20:35,482 --> 00:20:37,618
that so distracted
the minds of many.

330
00:20:38,653 --> 00:20:40,689
[Vivian] <i>And you know,
I often ponder all this,</i>

331
00:20:40,722 --> 00:20:42,089
<i>trying to put myself
in the shoes</i>

332
00:20:42,123 --> 00:20:44,025
<i>of the average person back then,</i>

333
00:20:44,058 --> 00:20:47,028
<i>especially in the more affluent
and highly unequal regions,</i>

334
00:20:47,060 --> 00:20:49,630
<i>such as
the United States of America,</i>

335
00:20:49,664 --> 00:20:51,633
<i>and it really makes me shudder.</i>

336
00:20:51,665 --> 00:20:54,903
<i>People stuck in traffic,
piling into these office prisons</i>

337
00:20:54,935 --> 00:20:58,740
<i>to push paper around,
engaging meaningless occupations</i>

338
00:20:58,772 --> 00:21:01,675
<i>that wasted far more energy
and wealth than they created</i>

339
00:21:01,709 --> 00:21:04,546
<i>so they can continue buying
these things they don't need,</i>

340
00:21:04,578 --> 00:21:07,514
<i>elevating their artificial
status and so on.</i>

341
00:21:07,548 --> 00:21:09,550
<i>It's like a bad horror movie.</i>

342
00:21:14,655 --> 00:21:17,626
[somber music]

343
00:21:22,963 --> 00:21:25,867
[high speed steps humming]

344
00:21:33,573 --> 00:21:35,643
[muffled phone ringing]

345
00:21:40,615 --> 00:21:42,818
[muffled phone ringing]

346
00:21:46,521 --> 00:21:48,557
[phone ringing]

347
00:22:05,173 --> 00:22:07,642
[white noise]

348
00:22:15,950 --> 00:22:17,085
[clock ticking]

349
00:22:17,117 --> 00:22:18,819
[phone continues ringing]

350
00:22:29,129 --> 00:22:31,732
[high speed steps
continue humming]

351
00:22:43,778 --> 00:22:45,614
[music stops]

352
00:22:50,984 --> 00:22:53,921
[rain puttering]

353
00:22:59,961 --> 00:23:04,065
[ominous musical sting]

354
00:23:04,098 --> 00:23:06,967
[muffled footsteps]

355
00:23:16,944 --> 00:23:19,580
[chains rattling]

356
00:23:36,963 --> 00:23:38,566
[gun clicks and fires]

357
00:23:38,598 --> 00:23:39,867
[body thuds]

358
00:23:39,901 --> 00:23:43,038
[ominous music]

359
00:24:02,589 --> 00:24:03,992
[gun clicks and fires]

360
00:24:04,024 --> 00:24:05,226
[body thuds]

361
00:24:28,316 --> 00:24:29,818
- [gun fires]
- [body thuds]

362
00:24:49,369 --> 00:24:50,737
[ominous music stops]

363
00:24:50,771 --> 00:24:52,907
[muffled robotic voice]

364
00:24:56,344 --> 00:24:58,780
[people chattering]

365
00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:09,723
[Malikan] If there's any historical
through-line that reveals

366
00:25:09,757 --> 00:25:12,626
how important a system-based
worldview is,

367
00:25:12,659 --> 00:25:15,963
both in understanding society
and knowing how to change it,

368
00:25:15,996 --> 00:25:18,999
it's a long history of slavery
and human exploitation.

369
00:25:19,032 --> 00:25:22,203
You can't have a society that's
based upon hierarchical power

370
00:25:22,235 --> 00:25:24,705
and specialized labor,
where people are seen

371
00:25:24,739 --> 00:25:26,841
as economic tools to be used

372
00:25:26,874 --> 00:25:29,210
strategically
for another's differential gain,

373
00:25:29,242 --> 00:25:32,746
and ever expect
high moral integrity.

374
00:25:32,780 --> 00:25:35,849
[Cynthia] Consider the
function of cost efficiency.

375
00:25:35,883 --> 00:25:39,053
Cost efficiency is about trying
to save money on production

376
00:25:39,086 --> 00:25:42,056
in order to maximize profit
upon final sale.

377
00:25:42,088 --> 00:25:44,626
It's at the core
of the basic gaming strategy

378
00:25:44,658 --> 00:25:46,793
that's required
in market economics.

379
00:25:46,827 --> 00:25:50,397
And that simple incentive, the
principle of seeking to reduce

380
00:25:50,431 --> 00:25:54,402
input costs to maximize
output gains is at the root

381
00:25:54,434 --> 00:25:58,705
of thousands of years of human
slavery in one form or another.

382
00:25:58,739 --> 00:26:01,876
Whether indentured servitude,
bonded labor,

383
00:26:01,908 --> 00:26:05,146
chattel slavery in earlier
times to human trafficking

384
00:26:05,178 --> 00:26:08,215
and debt driven wage slavery
in more modern times.

385
00:26:09,149 --> 00:26:12,052
And the point to make here
is that this kind of framework

386
00:26:12,086 --> 00:26:15,189
was so normalized
by the turn of the 21st century,

387
00:26:15,222 --> 00:26:18,792
a period, by the way, that had
more slaves in absolute numbers

388
00:26:18,826 --> 00:26:20,662
than any time in human history.

389
00:26:20,694 --> 00:26:23,330
The average person still
didn't see the connection.

390
00:26:23,364 --> 00:26:27,135
They had been conditioned by
these mythical free market ideas

391
00:26:27,167 --> 00:26:29,670
arguing that because
people could now choose

392
00:26:29,703 --> 00:26:32,139
which area of the economy
to submit their labor to,

393
00:26:32,173 --> 00:26:35,777
choose which company to be
subordinated, or perhaps get the capital

394
00:26:35,809 --> 00:26:38,745
and start their own company
and then choose who to exploit

395
00:26:38,779 --> 00:26:40,381
for their own personal
advantage.

396
00:26:40,414 --> 00:26:43,017
Somehow coercion
just no longer existed.

397
00:26:43,050 --> 00:26:44,819
That was the illusion.

398
00:26:44,851 --> 00:26:48,321
And any advanced technological
society that evolves

399
00:26:48,355 --> 00:26:52,326
not to organize an effort
to provide basic life support

400
00:26:52,358 --> 00:26:55,228
to its citizens allowing them
to pursue their own interest

401
00:26:55,261 --> 00:26:58,832
on their own terms,
instead structurally forcing

402
00:26:58,866 --> 00:27:02,436
everyone to fight with
each other for basic survival,

403
00:27:02,470 --> 00:27:04,838
for not defendable
reason mind you,

404
00:27:04,871 --> 00:27:07,240
is not a free society at all.

405
00:27:07,273 --> 00:27:09,710
It's a system
of violence and oppression

406
00:27:09,743 --> 00:27:13,348
regardless of how materially
wealthy that society may appear.

407
00:27:14,248 --> 00:27:17,419
[fading] Now, all that said,
it's important to consider...

408
00:27:23,290 --> 00:27:26,927
[gentle piano music]

409
00:27:28,061 --> 00:27:30,264
[audience applauding]

410
00:27:55,889 --> 00:27:57,324
[knocking on door]

411
00:28:03,364 --> 00:28:04,732
[doorbell buzzing]

412
00:28:10,136 --> 00:28:12,040
[chains rattling]

413
00:28:50,444 --> 00:28:51,512
[handcuffs clicking]

414
00:29:07,994 --> 00:29:09,164
[glass thuds]

415
00:29:27,181 --> 00:29:29,450
You have meddled
with the primal forces

416
00:29:29,482 --> 00:29:31,251
of nature, Mr. Beale.

417
00:29:34,221 --> 00:29:38,126
And you will atone.

418
00:29:41,595 --> 00:29:43,064
It's been a long time, Simon.

419
00:29:43,097 --> 00:29:44,598
So, the reason
you're here with me

420
00:29:44,632 --> 00:29:47,435
and not in some vassal
state being tortured

421
00:29:47,467 --> 00:29:50,337
is because the GSA
needs your help.

422
00:29:50,370 --> 00:29:53,340
We're being overrun by a group
of hackers and they appear to be

423
00:29:53,374 --> 00:29:56,277
advancing their abilities
faster than we can counter.

424
00:29:56,309 --> 00:29:57,412
[John]
Orion.

425
00:29:59,012 --> 00:30:01,014
That's right. Orion.

426
00:30:01,048 --> 00:30:02,884
We have been tracking them
for years.

427
00:30:02,916 --> 00:30:04,184
Luddite anarchists.

428
00:30:04,217 --> 00:30:05,452
They want to return civilization

429
00:30:05,485 --> 00:30:07,354
to the Stone Age.

430
00:30:07,387 --> 00:30:09,624
We figure if they continue
their rate of progress,

431
00:30:09,656 --> 00:30:12,460
we only have a few weeks
before they breach.

432
00:30:12,492 --> 00:30:15,128
- Taking control of our systems.
- That'd be bad.

433
00:30:15,162 --> 00:30:18,266
Hence our priorities.
As aggravating as your little

434
00:30:18,299 --> 00:30:22,237
Concordia project has been,
you were never this distasteful.

435
00:30:23,303 --> 00:30:26,206
You do realize
that even if Orion is stopped,

436
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,209
another insurgency,
likely more malicious,

437
00:30:28,242 --> 00:30:29,911
is just around the corner,
right?

438
00:30:31,444 --> 00:30:33,179
- Your point?
- My point

439
00:30:33,213 --> 00:30:35,383
is one way to measure
the integrity of a society

440
00:30:35,415 --> 00:30:37,451
is by how many outliers
it creates.

441
00:30:37,483 --> 00:30:40,521
Violent criminals, inner-city
gangs, serial killers,

442
00:30:40,553 --> 00:30:42,355
mass murderers, terrorists,

443
00:30:42,388 --> 00:30:45,959
to now this lovely hacker
dystopia you've inspired.

444
00:30:45,992 --> 00:30:47,928
You have a systemic problem,
Simon,

445
00:30:47,962 --> 00:30:49,430
and it's only going to grow.

446
00:30:50,630 --> 00:30:52,666
You're looking
through the wrong lens, John.

447
00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:54,936
And unlike the past,
the outliers now

448
00:30:54,969 --> 00:30:56,971
have exponentially
advancing technology.

449
00:30:57,003 --> 00:31:00,340
Some disgruntled kid fashioning
a Molotov cocktail years ago,

450
00:31:00,374 --> 00:31:03,511
can now create weapons of mass
destruction, or in this case weapons

451
00:31:03,543 --> 00:31:05,612
of mass disturbance
with little more effort.

452
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,418
Again, you're looking
through the wrong lens.

453
00:31:10,451 --> 00:31:13,087
No one ever said
the natural course of humanity

454
00:31:13,119 --> 00:31:14,454
was going to be pretty.

455
00:31:14,488 --> 00:31:16,090
So it's natural
for humanity to flirt

456
00:31:16,123 --> 00:31:19,093
with its own destruction?
And increasingly so?

457
00:31:19,126 --> 00:31:20,929
Because that's
where all this leads.

458
00:31:21,761 --> 00:31:25,465
Since the dawn of civilization,
those with the most advanced

459
00:31:25,499 --> 00:31:28,269
tools are the ones
who set the stage.

460
00:31:28,301 --> 00:31:31,638
From the rock, to the sword,
to the gun, to the bomb,

461
00:31:31,672 --> 00:31:35,343
to AI,
a sociological law of nature

462
00:31:35,376 --> 00:31:38,445
rooted in our evolutionary
psychology.

463
00:31:38,479 --> 00:31:41,682
And if this race happens
to lead to destruction,

464
00:31:41,714 --> 00:31:45,419
well,
such is the natural course.

465
00:31:46,453 --> 00:31:49,557
Only human conceit
assumes otherwise.

466
00:31:54,060 --> 00:31:56,230
I see you haven't lost
that charming nihilism.

467
00:31:57,196 --> 00:31:58,632
- Drink?
- No.

468
00:32:00,334 --> 00:32:04,105
And it's not nihilism, John,
it's realism.

469
00:32:05,239 --> 00:32:08,242
Conflict is what makes
the world go round.

470
00:32:09,475 --> 00:32:12,981
And whomever wins
defines the course.

471
00:32:23,257 --> 00:32:24,692
- So what's the deal?
- The deal is

472
00:32:24,724 --> 00:32:27,293
you help us tame the barbarians
at the gate

473
00:32:27,327 --> 00:32:30,297
along with anything else we ask.

474
00:32:30,329 --> 00:32:32,133
In return,

475
00:32:32,165 --> 00:32:35,101
you'll be granted
a decent life here.

476
00:32:35,135 --> 00:32:36,771
This ship might be
a place of work,

477
00:32:36,803 --> 00:32:39,607
but it's also
a self-contained city.

478
00:32:40,674 --> 00:32:45,078
We go back a long way, John,
and despite our differences,

479
00:32:45,111 --> 00:32:47,747
I would hate to see
that genius go to waste.

480
00:32:47,780 --> 00:32:48,782
And if I don't?

481
00:32:50,283 --> 00:32:52,619
You know the answer to that.

482
00:32:52,653 --> 00:32:55,756
Aside from this possible
Orion catastrophe,

483
00:32:55,789 --> 00:32:58,526
which I doubt
your humanist ego would allow,

484
00:32:59,693 --> 00:33:02,530
you'll be turned over
to interrogation

485
00:33:02,562 --> 00:33:05,232
and it won't be cinematic.

486
00:33:06,332 --> 00:33:10,070
Either way,
you're not leaving this ship.

487
00:33:12,572 --> 00:33:15,475
Okay, Simon,
but I have one condition.

488
00:33:16,542 --> 00:33:19,079
I want you to put an end
to program UX83.

489
00:33:20,547 --> 00:33:22,650
Otherwise known
as the Malthusian Mandate.

490
00:33:28,355 --> 00:33:30,491
If you knew about the Mandate,

491
00:33:30,523 --> 00:33:32,525
why hasn't Concordia leaked it?

492
00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:34,528
Never had a complete picture.

493
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,598
- And what do you think you're missing?
- Good question.

494
00:33:37,630 --> 00:33:39,632
We find a cryptically
mentioned in documents

495
00:33:39,665 --> 00:33:41,769
related to the GSA's
control programs.

496
00:33:42,668 --> 00:33:44,571
It appears the Mandate
was employed in the death

497
00:33:44,605 --> 00:33:47,374
of at least 20 million
last year alone.

498
00:33:47,406 --> 00:33:49,676
How this is occurring
and why is not clear.

499
00:33:50,810 --> 00:33:52,346
So why don't you enlighten me?

500
00:33:54,580 --> 00:33:57,184
[soft music]

501
00:34:50,571 --> 00:34:53,241
[eerie music]

502
00:35:07,553 --> 00:35:10,490
[eerie music increasing]

503
00:35:12,758 --> 00:35:14,594
[robotic hissing]

504
00:35:18,497 --> 00:35:20,734
[robotic echoed crunching]

505
00:35:29,542 --> 00:35:31,412
[ominous music]

506
00:35:52,298 --> 00:35:54,201
[light hissing]

507
00:35:59,539 --> 00:36:00,841
[light loudly hissing]

508
00:36:00,874 --> 00:36:03,243
[dramatic cybernetic music]

509
00:36:05,745 --> 00:36:07,381
[music abruptly stops]

510
00:36:08,814 --> 00:36:11,318
[birds chirping]

511
00:36:19,526 --> 00:36:22,796
[director] So you wrote a book
called <i>The Neolithic Maladaptation</i>

512
00:36:22,828 --> 00:36:25,265
which focuses
on the nature of culture

513
00:36:25,298 --> 00:36:27,967
before the Great Transition.

514
00:36:28,001 --> 00:36:31,671
Can you clarify
what you meant by this title?

515
00:36:31,705 --> 00:36:35,776
Sure. So I think the defining
question of civilization

516
00:36:35,809 --> 00:36:39,479
is what characteristics
enable us to survive and prosper

517
00:36:39,513 --> 00:36:42,383
sustainably and peacefully
over generational time.

518
00:36:43,450 --> 00:36:46,419
Thousands of years ago,
upon the advent of agriculture,

519
00:36:46,452 --> 00:36:49,389
the Neolithic Revolution,
we found ourselves

520
00:36:49,423 --> 00:36:52,325
in a new social arrangement,
a new structure,

521
00:36:52,359 --> 00:36:55,529
one that would later prove
to be highly incompatible.

522
00:36:55,562 --> 00:36:57,731
Not only incompatible
with the habitat,

523
00:36:57,763 --> 00:36:59,767
inherently unsustainable
since the economy

524
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,303
literally required
consumption and growth,

525
00:37:02,336 --> 00:37:05,571
but also incompatible
with our very social nature.

526
00:37:05,604 --> 00:37:09,776
And, long story short, humans
are simply not meant to exist

527
00:37:09,810 --> 00:37:12,346
in an economically
stratified society

528
00:37:12,379 --> 00:37:15,582
if the expectation is high
levels of public health

529
00:37:15,615 --> 00:37:17,417
and peaceful coexistence.

530
00:37:17,450 --> 00:37:19,586
It's always interesting
to review the work

531
00:37:19,618 --> 00:37:22,655
of mainstream scientists
at the turn of the 21st century

532
00:37:22,689 --> 00:37:24,992
as they desperately try
to convince themselves

533
00:37:25,024 --> 00:37:26,926
that a competitive,
exploitative,

534
00:37:26,959 --> 00:37:30,463
vainly status seeking mindset
was an inalterable expression

535
00:37:30,497 --> 00:37:33,500
of human nature,
when the fact is our genes,

536
00:37:33,533 --> 00:37:36,002
our biology and how
the environment interacts

537
00:37:36,035 --> 00:37:40,540
with our evolved selves allows
for a vast range of orientations

538
00:37:40,573 --> 00:37:44,644
with narrow self-interest,
greed, merely part of that range.

539
00:37:44,678 --> 00:37:47,948
If we've proven to be anything,
it's adaptable.

540
00:37:47,981 --> 00:37:49,917
There's certainly
no blank slate.

541
00:37:49,950 --> 00:37:52,618
We're not infinitely malleable,

542
00:37:52,651 --> 00:37:55,054
but it has been grossly
underestimated historically

543
00:37:55,088 --> 00:37:57,591
just how wide
our range of adaptive

544
00:37:57,624 --> 00:38:00,694
potential really is.
And what most determines

545
00:38:00,727 --> 00:38:04,131
which behavioral traits
will define a society's culture

546
00:38:04,164 --> 00:38:06,100
is its social structure.

547
00:38:06,133 --> 00:38:10,136
Or more specifically,
that structure's economic basis.

548
00:38:10,169 --> 00:38:13,072
The method
by which we must survive.

549
00:38:13,106 --> 00:38:15,975
[Cynthia] <i>If that structure
rewards competition, dominance,</i>

550
00:38:16,008 --> 00:38:18,444
<i>and narrow self-interest,
then the culture</i>

551
00:38:18,477 --> 00:38:21,013
<i>will predominantly
express those values.</i>

552
00:38:21,046 --> 00:38:25,385
<i>If it rewards collaboration,
empathy and pro-social concern,</i>

553
00:38:25,419 --> 00:38:29,690
<i>the resulting culture will
predominantly express those values.</i>

554
00:38:29,722 --> 00:38:31,624
For the majority
of human history,

555
00:38:31,658 --> 00:38:33,827
before the advent
of agriculture,

556
00:38:33,859 --> 00:38:35,662
We lived in non-hierarchical,

557
00:38:35,694 --> 00:38:37,798
non-competitive
social arrangements.

558
00:38:37,830 --> 00:38:40,700
Why? Because the economic
basis of survival

559
00:38:40,734 --> 00:38:42,636
actually incentivized

560
00:38:42,669 --> 00:38:45,373
sharing and collaboration,
and not the opposite.

561
00:38:46,472 --> 00:38:49,575
So what I mean by maladaptation
is while humanity

562
00:38:49,609 --> 00:38:52,045
did successfully adapt
to the survival requisites

563
00:38:52,077 --> 00:38:53,880
born from
the Neolithic Revolution,

564
00:38:53,914 --> 00:38:55,649
the resulting social structure,

565
00:38:55,682 --> 00:38:58,819
the system that became codified,
proved maladapted.

566
00:38:58,852 --> 00:39:01,655
[Cynthia] <i>The economic system
was simply incompatible</i>

567
00:39:01,687 --> 00:39:05,758
<i>with what was required for humanity
to be sustainable in the long-term.</i>

568
00:39:05,792 --> 00:39:08,796
<i>Failing our need to integrate
properly with the ecosystem</i>

569
00:39:08,828 --> 00:39:12,999
<i>while limiting our ability to
coexist peacefully with each other.</i>

570
00:39:13,033 --> 00:39:15,669
[Vivian] And by the time of
the Industrial Revolution

571
00:39:15,702 --> 00:39:18,037
in the 19th century,
these flaws were rapidly

572
00:39:18,071 --> 00:39:19,873
coming to the surface.

573
00:39:19,906 --> 00:39:22,476
Conditions had changed and
if it wasn't for our dramatic

574
00:39:22,508 --> 00:39:24,744
transformation to break out
of that system,

575
00:39:24,778 --> 00:39:27,714
there is little question,
society would have seen total

576
00:39:27,747 --> 00:39:31,018
ecologically collapse combined
with catastrophic global war.

577
00:39:33,153 --> 00:39:35,656
[director] So it must be
difficult to look back

578
00:39:35,689 --> 00:39:37,790
at that time given
what we know now.

579
00:39:37,823 --> 00:39:40,493
It seems like things should have
changed much sooner, right?

580
00:39:40,526 --> 00:39:43,563
Sure, but it reveals
that as much as we'd like

581
00:39:43,597 --> 00:39:46,098
to believe we're rational,
objective beings,

582
00:39:46,131 --> 00:39:49,970
we're actually bound
by deep social vulnerability.

583
00:39:50,002 --> 00:39:53,540
We are social beings first
and intellectual beings second.

584
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:57,210
What you see back then
is a kind of mass hypnosis

585
00:39:57,243 --> 00:39:59,078
that paralyzed society,

586
00:39:59,111 --> 00:40:01,581
keeping people short-sighted
and fearful,

587
00:40:01,615 --> 00:40:04,051
prone to conform to the values
and practices of those

588
00:40:04,084 --> 00:40:07,553
who happen to be winning
in the contrived economic game.

589
00:40:07,586 --> 00:40:10,723
One glance at the media from
back then gives it all away.

590
00:40:10,756 --> 00:40:13,260
Status posturing,
people obsessed with appearing

591
00:40:13,292 --> 00:40:17,164
affluent, accomplished, loved,
famous, beautiful.

592
00:40:17,196 --> 00:40:20,767
All a kind of pathological
emulation of those of high

593
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:25,138
socioeconomic status,
billionaires, celebrities.

594
00:40:25,171 --> 00:40:27,675
As one notable philosopher
stated long ago,

595
00:40:34,247 --> 00:40:36,984
So once again
it all begs the question,

596
00:40:37,017 --> 00:40:40,053
what actually defines success
in the human condition?

597
00:40:40,086 --> 00:40:43,223
What kind of culture is most
optimized to sustain itself

598
00:40:43,256 --> 00:40:46,593
over time while, of course,
being happy and stable?

599
00:40:46,626 --> 00:40:48,194
And while there's
plenty to learn,

600
00:40:48,227 --> 00:40:50,630
we do know
what doesn't define it:

601
00:40:50,664 --> 00:40:54,001
the excessive materialistic
wealth and status driven neurosis

602
00:40:54,033 --> 00:40:57,236
so characteristic back then
has literally zero

603
00:40:57,269 --> 00:40:59,705
positive relationship
to long-term species

604
00:40:59,738 --> 00:41:02,943
sustainability and optimized
public health.

605
00:41:02,975 --> 00:41:05,845
In short,
the values were dead wrong.

606
00:41:05,879 --> 00:41:08,982
And not to sound mean, but
if I were to resort to derisive

607
00:41:09,015 --> 00:41:11,752
status labeling,
common to that period of time,

608
00:41:11,785 --> 00:41:14,721
there's no question
that the greatest failures

609
00:41:14,754 --> 00:41:18,025
were the ones who own mansions,
drove over priced cars,

610
00:41:18,057 --> 00:41:21,794
wore luxury jewelry,
maintained extremely lucrative

611
00:41:21,827 --> 00:41:24,063
yet completely
meaningless occupations

612
00:41:24,097 --> 00:41:26,232
while hoarding great wealth.

613
00:41:26,265 --> 00:41:28,001
What kind of sad,
insecure creature

614
00:41:28,033 --> 00:41:29,903
needs to flaunt such excess

615
00:41:29,935 --> 00:41:33,640
clearly signaling opposition
to other people's well-being?

616
00:41:33,673 --> 00:41:37,310
True success is reinforcing
harmony, balance.

617
00:41:37,343 --> 00:41:40,046
The goal is not necessarily
to become something,

618
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,150
but to find out who
and what you truly are.

619
00:41:43,182 --> 00:41:45,184
And how you fit
inside the ecosystem

620
00:41:45,218 --> 00:41:47,287
of nature
that gave birth to you.

621
00:41:47,319 --> 00:41:50,356
The most successful people,
the true winners,

622
00:41:50,390 --> 00:41:54,995
are never the ones striving for
celebrity and material excess,

623
00:41:55,028 --> 00:41:58,865
they are the humble minimalists
valuing how they can contribute

624
00:41:58,897 --> 00:42:01,934
to the well-being
and health of everything,

625
00:42:01,968 --> 00:42:04,905
realizing the world
is one system,

626
00:42:04,937 --> 00:42:07,374
and the more they optimize
that contribution,

627
00:42:07,406 --> 00:42:11,111
the more truly successful
they actually become.

628
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,982
[Cynthia]
When I look back on all this,

629
00:42:16,015 --> 00:42:18,082
I think what I find most tragic

630
00:42:18,084 --> 00:42:20,953
is the spiritual loss
of the individual.

631
00:42:20,986 --> 00:42:25,124
How people were fundamentally
alienated from themselves

632
00:42:25,158 --> 00:42:29,162
their identities hijacked
by competitive insecurity,

633
00:42:29,194 --> 00:42:32,198
trying to conform
to some acceptable profile

634
00:42:32,231 --> 00:42:34,734
that would serve
their advantage best,

635
00:42:34,767 --> 00:42:36,302
not who they actually are,

636
00:42:36,336 --> 00:42:38,939
but what the system
requires them to become.

637
00:43:07,133 --> 00:43:09,770
[traffic humming]

638
00:43:19,778 --> 00:43:22,281
[muffled people chattering]

639
00:43:25,084 --> 00:43:27,887
[fast speed hissing]

640
00:43:34,260 --> 00:43:36,229
[muffled beeping]

641
00:43:36,261 --> 00:43:38,966
[robotic humming]

642
00:44:07,359 --> 00:44:10,497
[with robotic voice] The
soul selects her own society.

643
00:44:10,530 --> 00:44:13,934
Then shuts the door
to her divine majority.

644
00:44:13,966 --> 00:44:17,269
Present no more. Unmoved.

645
00:44:17,303 --> 00:44:21,040
She notes the chariots
pausing at her low gate.

646
00:44:21,073 --> 00:44:24,343
Unmoved. An emperor
be kneeling upon her mat.

647
00:44:24,377 --> 00:44:29,316
I've known her from
an ample nation. Choose one.

648
00:44:29,348 --> 00:44:33,352
Then close the valves
of her attention. Like stone.

649
00:44:33,385 --> 00:44:35,421
[high-pitched whirring]

650
00:44:41,093 --> 00:44:43,796
[traffic humming]

651
00:45:25,037 --> 00:45:26,872
[humming stops]

652
00:45:26,906 --> 00:45:29,242
[humming resumes]

653
00:45:29,274 --> 00:45:31,243
[humming stops]

654
00:45:31,276 --> 00:45:33,179
[dramatic musical sting]

655
00:46:16,555 --> 00:46:18,925
- [robotic clicking]
- [humming resumes]

656
00:46:18,957 --> 00:46:21,194
[sirens wailing]

657
00:46:53,191 --> 00:46:54,560
[Simon]
Let me ask you, John.

658
00:46:55,495 --> 00:46:57,197
What do you think
the greatest form

659
00:46:57,229 --> 00:47:01,333
of social control is? Law? Debt?

660
00:47:01,367 --> 00:47:03,535
[scoffs] Religion.

661
00:47:03,568 --> 00:47:06,538
And this has what to do
with the Malthusian Mandate?

662
00:47:06,571 --> 00:47:09,943
- Humor me.
- I don't know.

663
00:47:09,975 --> 00:47:13,178
How about socialization?
People policing each other.

664
00:47:13,211 --> 00:47:16,949
A properly tuned culture
does regulate itself, yes.

665
00:47:16,982 --> 00:47:18,551
We've had the same training,
Simon.

666
00:47:18,584 --> 00:47:20,654
I'm just as aware of what
shapes psychology as you are.

667
00:47:20,687 --> 00:47:23,490
Yeah, see, I'm not so sure.

668
00:47:23,522 --> 00:47:25,392
I don't think we'd be
in this situation

669
00:47:25,425 --> 00:47:27,327
- if that was really the case.
- You mean because I actually

670
00:47:27,359 --> 00:47:28,461
believe the world can change?

671
00:47:33,098 --> 00:47:35,702
A child's born
biologically programmed

672
00:47:35,734 --> 00:47:38,070
to adapt to its environment.

673
00:47:38,104 --> 00:47:40,372
It grows,
inching through formative years,

674
00:47:40,406 --> 00:47:43,310
shaped by the traditions
and beliefs of culture.

675
00:47:43,343 --> 00:47:46,078
Institutional education
introduces structure

676
00:47:46,111 --> 00:47:50,149
creating comfort with authority,
regimentation, status.

677
00:47:50,182 --> 00:47:53,552
- Nurturing social schema.
- And a fundamental insecurity

678
00:47:53,586 --> 00:47:56,323
forged
by a deeply unequal world,

679
00:47:56,356 --> 00:47:58,191
a world of sanctioned
indifference,

680
00:47:58,223 --> 00:47:59,492
where compassion is weakness

681
00:47:59,524 --> 00:48:01,560
and domination is virtuous.

682
00:48:01,593 --> 00:48:04,030
What survival requires.

683
00:48:04,763 --> 00:48:07,200
In the current arrangement,
sure.

684
00:48:07,232 --> 00:48:09,970
And this early sense of
insecurity has a unique effect.

685
00:48:10,002 --> 00:48:13,305
Once childish tendencies we humans
are supposed to grow out of:

686
00:48:13,339 --> 00:48:16,977
attention-seeking, spoiled
self-interest, manipulativeness,

687
00:48:17,010 --> 00:48:20,046
bullying,
competition become ingrained.

688
00:48:20,078 --> 00:48:21,747
Maturity stunted.

689
00:48:21,781 --> 00:48:23,717
Setting the stage
for yet another disciple

690
00:48:23,749 --> 00:48:26,151
in the cult of narcissistic
individualism.

691
00:48:26,185 --> 00:48:28,655
[chuckles] Poetic.

692
00:48:29,789 --> 00:48:31,658
[John] By the time higher
education is reached,

693
00:48:31,691 --> 00:48:35,028
formalized academia,
the stronghold of the status quo,

694
00:48:35,060 --> 00:48:36,997
what natural curiosity
may remain

695
00:48:37,030 --> 00:48:39,598
is now further constrained
by socialization.

696
00:48:39,631 --> 00:48:43,470
Myopic focus, detached
from the pursuit of knowledge,

697
00:48:43,502 --> 00:48:46,606
existing only for the sake
of commercial utility.

698
00:48:46,638 --> 00:48:50,676
- To define their product.
- And ultimately their identity.

699
00:48:50,709 --> 00:48:53,146
Becoming little more than
yet another agent of trade.

700
00:48:53,178 --> 00:48:56,383
A civilization reduced to
the goal of endless striving.

701
00:48:56,415 --> 00:48:58,417
To sell something
to someone else.

702
00:49:00,752 --> 00:49:03,622
The world is a business,
Mr. Beale.

703
00:49:05,258 --> 00:49:06,359
[John]
<i>So the cog turns.</i>

704
00:49:07,727 --> 00:49:10,597
<i>While in those fleeting moments
economic stress does subside,</i>

705
00:49:10,629 --> 00:49:12,499
<i>when the shackles do come off,</i>

706
00:49:12,531 --> 00:49:14,667
<i>existential turbulence blooms,</i>

707
00:49:14,700 --> 00:49:17,169
<i>as they desperately search
for some kind of deeper meaning</i>

708
00:49:17,202 --> 00:49:20,072
<i>in the daily grind.
And this emotional void,</i>

709
00:49:20,106 --> 00:49:23,276
<i>this state of loss, leads
the pathological escapism.</i>

710
00:49:23,309 --> 00:49:25,611
<i>Distraction and self-medication
become the hobby.</i>

711
00:49:26,646 --> 00:49:28,781
[Simon]
<i>So they turn to their screens</i>

712
00:49:28,814 --> 00:49:32,251
<i>windows of projected normality
equating freedom</i>

713
00:49:32,285 --> 00:49:34,453
<i>with the unattainable delusions</i>

714
00:49:34,486 --> 00:49:36,488
<i>of wealth, fame, honor.</i>

715
00:49:36,522 --> 00:49:38,290
[John] <i>While constantly
being reminded that they are</i>

716
00:49:38,323 --> 00:49:40,193
<i>the authors of their own misery</i>

717
00:49:40,225 --> 00:49:43,363
<i>and success can only be a matter
of winning versus losing.</i>

718
00:49:43,396 --> 00:49:47,167
<i>Since the vast majority will no doubt
lose, they live vicariously.</i>

719
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,236
<i>If their sports team wins
the game, so do they.</i>

720
00:49:50,269 --> 00:49:51,805
<i>If their country goes to war,</i>

721
00:49:51,838 --> 00:49:54,339
<i>they wave their flags
as if they were at war.</i>

722
00:49:54,372 --> 00:49:56,508
<i>While following
their celebrity heroes,</i>

723
00:49:56,542 --> 00:50:00,080
<i>feeling as though somehow
that success mirrors their own.</i>

724
00:50:00,113 --> 00:50:02,682
[Simon] <i>And when that doesn't
work, they move inward,</i>

725
00:50:02,714 --> 00:50:07,287
<i>seeking self-help retreats,
therapy, medication, illicit drugs.</i>

726
00:50:07,319 --> 00:50:09,354
[John] Anything to avoid
the identity crisis.

727
00:50:09,388 --> 00:50:11,591
[gentle music]

728
00:50:11,624 --> 00:50:14,593
That the society they mirror
just might be deeply flawed.

729
00:50:15,794 --> 00:50:17,729
So the masses remain complacent,

730
00:50:17,763 --> 00:50:20,266
short-sighted, bigoted,

731
00:50:20,298 --> 00:50:22,301
primitive, delusional.

732
00:50:23,202 --> 00:50:24,104
Manageable.

733
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:30,476
No conspiracy required.

734
00:50:31,510 --> 00:50:34,446
Viable systems
regulate themselves.

735
00:50:34,479 --> 00:50:37,684
Viable? [scoffs]
You see all this as sustainable.

736
00:50:38,618 --> 00:50:41,287
[Simon]
<i>No conspiracy required.</i>

737
00:50:41,319 --> 00:50:44,423
- <i>Viable systems regulate them...</i>
- We just picked up the signal.

738
00:50:48,693 --> 00:50:52,798
Now there's one thing you missed
in your monologue there.

739
00:50:54,834 --> 00:50:58,571
Aside from primal provocation,
keeping people half-conscious,

740
00:50:58,604 --> 00:51:01,774
trapped in lower brain
fight or flight mode.

741
00:51:01,807 --> 00:51:04,711
Aside from the cultural hegemony
where people's values

742
00:51:04,743 --> 00:51:08,548
and envies mirror
those of wealth and power,

743
00:51:08,580 --> 00:51:10,550
reinforcing social order.

744
00:51:11,684 --> 00:51:14,553
And aside
from the climate of opinion

745
00:51:14,586 --> 00:51:17,723
fostered by the acclaimed
intelligentsia

746
00:51:17,756 --> 00:51:21,360
deciding the limits
by which truth must conform

747
00:51:21,394 --> 00:51:23,796
the most critical mechanism here

748
00:51:23,828 --> 00:51:26,533
is that of social inclusion.

749
00:51:26,566 --> 00:51:29,368
Nature wired us
with a strong tendency

750
00:51:29,401 --> 00:51:32,638
to override rational thought
in favor of group acceptance.

751
00:51:32,671 --> 00:51:35,307
Part of our evolutionary
fitness.

752
00:51:35,341 --> 00:51:37,911
And when people
violate consensus

753
00:51:37,943 --> 00:51:40,612
the nervous system seeks
to correct the behavior

754
00:51:40,646 --> 00:51:43,249
with pain and fear,
as there's little more

755
00:51:43,281 --> 00:51:47,254
psychologically damaging
than social exclusion.

756
00:51:49,222 --> 00:51:51,890
To be ostracized.
Ridicule, stigma,

757
00:51:51,923 --> 00:51:55,727
loss of reputation which could
also mean loss of employment,

758
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,297
income, lost and survival.

759
00:51:58,330 --> 00:52:01,200
Yet there's a long history of people
who have moved against that tendency.

760
00:52:01,234 --> 00:52:03,569
A long history
of very few people

761
00:52:03,602 --> 00:52:06,572
who inevitably turn
into mere righteous symbols

762
00:52:06,606 --> 00:52:09,508
put on T-shirts rather
than forces of revolution.

763
00:52:09,542 --> 00:52:12,511
So this Orion problem of yours
isn't indicative of anything?

764
00:52:12,544 --> 00:52:15,747
Orion appears to be
a fringe group of extremists

765
00:52:15,781 --> 00:52:18,318
with no public support.

766
00:52:18,350 --> 00:52:23,256
This is about normative culture,
and my point, John,

767
00:52:24,256 --> 00:52:26,892
is that given our social nature,

768
00:52:26,926 --> 00:52:30,597
the stronger force here
is not on the side of reason,

769
00:52:30,629 --> 00:52:34,566
it's on the side of inclusion
and conformity,

770
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:39,739
and that, my friend, is the
greatest form of social control

771
00:52:39,772 --> 00:52:42,575
and why the masses
will never break out

772
00:52:42,607 --> 00:52:45,412
of its self-perpetuated
oppression.

773
00:52:47,013 --> 00:52:48,415
[elevator rings]

774
00:53:14,439 --> 00:53:16,709
[gentle jazz music]

775
00:53:59,718 --> 00:54:01,354
[slow motion buzz]

776
00:54:01,386 --> 00:54:03,957
[clock ticking]

777
00:54:12,131 --> 00:54:14,634
[robotic squeaking]

778
00:54:21,673 --> 00:54:24,777
[circus music]

779
00:54:29,881 --> 00:54:32,918
[upbeat music]

780
00:55:20,499 --> 00:55:22,836
[dramatic musical sting]

781
00:55:23,868 --> 00:55:25,905
<i>♪ Twenty-three I see
come with me my dear ♪</i>

782
00:55:25,937 --> 00:55:28,474
<i>♪ It's time we re-examine
this reality ♪</i>

783
00:55:58,870 --> 00:56:00,573
[music stops]

784
00:56:36,175 --> 00:56:37,810
<i>♪ Be ready ♪</i>

785
00:56:37,843 --> 00:56:41,948
<i>♪ Welcome
to the Freakshow, baby ♪</i>

786
00:56:41,981 --> 00:56:45,118
<i>♪ This is what it is ♪</i>

787
00:57:12,211 --> 00:57:14,613
<i>♪ So you see, 23 ♪</i>

788
00:57:42,841 --> 00:57:44,777
<i>♪ And the cast
is currently stocked ♪</i>

789
00:57:44,810 --> 00:57:46,746
<i>♪ But we'll let you know
if we need another floor ♪</i>

790
00:57:46,778 --> 00:57:48,146
<i>♪ To be mopped ♪</i>

791
00:57:55,754 --> 00:57:58,190
[director] So earlier something
was said to the effect

792
00:57:58,222 --> 00:58:00,258
that humans
are not designed to exist

793
00:58:00,292 --> 00:58:03,896
in an economically
stratified society.

794
00:58:03,928 --> 00:58:05,764
So to speak, yes.

795
00:58:05,798 --> 00:58:09,001
A stratified society is far
more unhealthy and unstable

796
00:58:09,033 --> 00:58:11,136
when compared
to an egalitarian one.

797
00:58:11,169 --> 00:58:13,673
[director] That seems like
a pretty bold conclusion.

798
00:58:13,705 --> 00:58:16,341
- Can you elaborate?
- Sure.

799
00:58:16,374 --> 00:58:20,312
Consider our biology,
specifically the human brain.

800
00:58:20,345 --> 00:58:23,114
We're profoundly wired
for social response.

801
00:58:23,147 --> 00:58:25,885
For instance, the same
brain centers that react

802
00:58:25,917 --> 00:58:28,887
to physical pain also
react to emotional pain,

803
00:58:28,921 --> 00:58:32,692
such as feeling rejected,
excluded or shamed.

804
00:58:32,725 --> 00:58:35,328
In early life,
socially isolated infants,

805
00:58:35,361 --> 00:58:37,597
not receiving proper
affection will fail

806
00:58:37,629 --> 00:58:39,832
to produce critical
growth hormones,

807
00:58:39,865 --> 00:58:41,334
harming development.

808
00:58:41,367 --> 00:58:44,703
While in adulthood
similar effects occur.

809
00:58:44,736 --> 00:58:48,006
For example, there were
these dehumanizing institutions

810
00:58:48,039 --> 00:58:50,075
called prisons
and they practiced

811
00:58:50,109 --> 00:58:53,613
solitary confinement,
severe social isolation,

812
00:58:53,646 --> 00:58:56,281
and that practice literally
caused brain damage.

813
00:58:57,249 --> 00:58:59,919
Now, what do these
examples have in common?

814
00:58:59,952 --> 00:59:03,923
They are negative responses
to social related stress.

815
00:59:03,955 --> 00:59:06,057
And when you review
the past 200 years,

816
00:59:06,091 --> 00:59:08,694
of epidemiological study
on the issue,

817
00:59:08,727 --> 00:59:11,763
you realize that an economically
stratified society

818
00:59:11,796 --> 00:59:14,399
is one of the most toxically
stressful conditions

819
00:59:14,432 --> 00:59:17,135
you could ever impose
upon the human species.

820
00:59:18,037 --> 00:59:20,740
We've all learned about
the horrors of abject poverty.

821
00:59:20,772 --> 00:59:22,374
A condition that
affected a billion people

822
00:59:22,408 --> 00:59:24,377
at the turn of the 21st century,

823
00:59:24,410 --> 00:59:27,178
causing literally millions
of deaths each year.

824
00:59:27,211 --> 00:59:30,248
But the negative effects
of economic stratification

825
00:59:30,281 --> 00:59:32,251
aren't limited
to the distinctly poor.

826
00:59:32,283 --> 00:59:34,720
Inequality harms
just about everyone.

827
00:59:34,752 --> 00:59:38,124
A kind of social pollution and
the lower one finds themselves

828
00:59:38,156 --> 00:59:42,060
on the stratified ladder,
the worse their health becomes on average.

829
00:59:42,093 --> 00:59:43,963
[Cynthia]
Consider a lower class mother

830
00:59:43,995 --> 00:59:47,432
working two jobs, in debt,
can't afford a car,

831
00:59:47,466 --> 00:59:49,734
living paycheck to paycheck

832
00:59:49,767 --> 00:59:52,003
while trying to take care
of her young child.

833
00:59:52,037 --> 00:59:54,839
They may not be homeless,
starving or even poor

834
00:59:54,872 --> 00:59:56,274
by legal standards,

835
00:59:56,307 --> 00:59:57,842
but every day is still

836
00:59:57,876 --> 00:59:59,778
a battle to make ends meet.

837
00:59:59,812 --> 01:00:03,249
This is known as relative
poverty or more formally

838
01:00:03,281 --> 01:00:06,051
low socioeconomic status.

839
01:00:06,084 --> 01:00:09,054
And a defining characteristic
of this condition

840
01:00:09,088 --> 01:00:12,357
on average
is high psychosocial stress,

841
01:00:12,390 --> 01:00:15,026
meaning stress related
to social factors.

842
01:00:15,060 --> 01:00:18,764
This stress includes not only
feelings of general insecurity,

843
01:00:18,796 --> 01:00:20,800
such as worrying
about paying your bills,

844
01:00:20,832 --> 01:00:24,869
affording your child's next
doctor visit or losing your job,

845
01:00:24,903 --> 01:00:27,906
but also the stress
of social status itself.

846
01:00:27,939 --> 01:00:31,743
How one feels about themselves
compared to others.

847
01:00:31,776 --> 01:00:34,412
And while that particular
aspect may seem trivial,

848
01:00:34,446 --> 01:00:37,415
the fact is our brains
have evolved to react

849
01:00:37,448 --> 01:00:39,885
in profoundly specific
ways when it comes

850
01:00:39,917 --> 01:00:42,354
to how we think others see us.

851
01:00:42,386 --> 01:00:46,859
We have an acute sensitivity
to our perceived social status.

852
01:00:46,892 --> 01:00:48,894
In other words,
it's not just about the stress

853
01:00:48,926 --> 01:00:51,062
of endless worry
and the technical difficulty

854
01:00:51,095 --> 01:00:53,231
of being poor that's toxic.

855
01:00:53,265 --> 01:00:56,969
It's equally if not more about
the stress of feeling poor.

856
01:00:57,002 --> 01:01:00,272
For example, studies have shown
if you take people with the same

857
01:01:00,305 --> 01:01:01,874
equal access
to free health care,

858
01:01:01,906 --> 01:01:03,876
controlling
for lifestyle factors,

859
01:01:03,908 --> 01:01:05,877
you will still see,
as you inch down

860
01:01:05,910 --> 01:01:08,347
the ladder of income and wealth,
people's health getting

861
01:01:08,379 --> 01:01:10,816
progressively worse on average.

862
01:01:10,848 --> 01:01:13,051
The lower they are
in the class hierarchy

863
01:01:13,084 --> 01:01:15,220
the sicker they become.

864
01:01:15,254 --> 01:01:16,856
One mechanism for this

865
01:01:16,888 --> 01:01:18,890
is that high
psychological stress

866
01:01:18,923 --> 01:01:21,259
leads to a state
of chronic inflammation

867
01:01:21,292 --> 01:01:24,497
and what's called
an allostatic overload.

868
01:01:24,530 --> 01:01:27,932
Allostasis means your body's
trying to recover from something

869
01:01:27,966 --> 01:01:30,502
working to return
to a more balanced state.

870
01:01:30,535 --> 01:01:32,470
But it can't. And this causes

871
01:01:32,504 --> 01:01:35,473
the body and the mind
to wear down rapidly.

872
01:01:35,506 --> 01:01:39,278
Living in relative poverty
in all its day-to-day insecurity

873
01:01:39,310 --> 01:01:41,446
and feelings of low self-worth,

874
01:01:41,479 --> 01:01:45,150
keeps people psychologically
locked in a stressful state.

875
01:01:45,184 --> 01:01:48,120
Ravaging mental
and physical health.

876
01:01:48,153 --> 01:01:51,290
[Vivian] <i>Consider heart disease.
low socioeconomic status</i>

877
01:01:51,323 --> 01:01:54,460
<i>creates a 50% greater chance
of its development.</i>

878
01:01:54,493 --> 01:01:57,463
<i>and not just because people
may have poor lifestyle habits,</i>

879
01:01:57,495 --> 01:02:00,398
<i>but due to psychosocial
stress itself,</i>

880
01:02:00,432 --> 01:02:03,502
<i>which increases the hormone
cortisol, damaging arteries</i>

881
01:02:03,535 --> 01:02:06,172
<i>fostering strokes
and heart attacks.</i>

882
01:02:06,205 --> 01:02:09,408
<i>Low socioeconomic status
is a heart disease risk factor</i>

883
01:02:09,441 --> 01:02:12,977
<i>on its own,
similar for diabetes and cancer</i>

884
01:02:13,010 --> 01:02:16,080
<i>with far higher rates
for those relatively poor.</i>

885
01:02:16,113 --> 01:02:20,586
<i>As one study put it,
"Poverty itself is a carcinogen."</i>

886
01:02:20,618 --> 01:02:23,222
And given that heart disease
diabetes and cancer

887
01:02:23,254 --> 01:02:26,090
were some of the leading causes
of death in that highly unequal

888
01:02:26,124 --> 01:02:28,560
global society
of the early 21st century,

889
01:02:28,593 --> 01:02:31,563
these facts help explain
why life span gaps

890
01:02:31,597 --> 01:02:34,399
between the rich and the poor
were shockingly wide.

891
01:02:34,432 --> 01:02:38,203
Ranging from 15 to 40 years
depending on region.

892
01:02:38,236 --> 01:02:39,972
And then you have mental health.

893
01:02:40,004 --> 01:02:43,341
Low socioeconomic status
fuels much higher instances

894
01:02:43,374 --> 01:02:45,877
of depression,
anxiety disorders,

895
01:02:45,910 --> 01:02:48,146
schizophrenia, suicide,

896
01:02:48,180 --> 01:02:51,417
not to mention violence,
including child abuse.

897
01:02:51,450 --> 01:02:53,953
The condition of poverty
was found to be the leading

898
01:02:53,986 --> 01:02:57,256
predictor of child abuse,
which is particularly troubling

899
01:02:57,289 --> 01:03:00,292
since such abuse often
leads to adult disorders

900
01:03:00,325 --> 01:03:03,229
such as addictions,
antisocial behavior,

901
01:03:03,261 --> 01:03:07,066
immune system problems,
cognitive impairment.

902
01:03:07,098 --> 01:03:09,401
In fact, it was found
that children simply living

903
01:03:09,434 --> 01:03:12,504
in the condition of poverty
correlated to large decreases

904
01:03:12,537 --> 01:03:15,241
in IQ,
decreased brain development,

905
01:03:15,274 --> 01:03:17,877
and worst overall, health
throughout the life cycle.

906
01:03:17,910 --> 01:03:19,578
Personally, I would argue that

907
01:03:19,611 --> 01:03:22,314
if child abuse is
about negligence and harm,

908
01:03:22,347 --> 01:03:25,651
any society that tolerates
the existence of poverty

909
01:03:25,684 --> 01:03:27,886
when it has the means to end it,

910
01:03:27,919 --> 01:03:30,889
is a society that is
fundamentally abusive to children.

911
01:03:32,457 --> 01:03:37,328
Now, as far as behavioral violence
in general, it's no surprise.

912
01:03:37,361 --> 01:03:40,298
The pre-transition period
was saturated in it.

913
01:03:40,332 --> 01:03:44,103
The emotional pathogen behind
most acts of violence is shame

914
01:03:44,135 --> 01:03:48,106
and inequality produces shame
like a finely tuned machine.

915
01:03:48,140 --> 01:03:51,343
Shootings, gang violence,
terrorism,

916
01:03:51,376 --> 01:03:55,214
domestic violence, all highly
correlated to inequality,

917
01:03:55,247 --> 01:03:58,584
like a toxic cloud hovering
over civilization.

918
01:03:58,617 --> 01:04:01,153
The more economically
unequal a society,

919
01:04:01,185 --> 01:04:03,555
the more violent it tended
to be on average.

920
01:04:03,588 --> 01:04:07,926
And that goes for most everything in
terms of negative public health outcomes.

921
01:04:07,959 --> 01:04:11,463
With higher incidences
of disease, crime, obesity,

922
01:04:11,495 --> 01:04:15,233
infant mortality, homicides,
teen birth, mental illness,

923
01:04:15,267 --> 01:04:18,069
poor education, conflict,
domestic abuse,

924
01:04:18,102 --> 01:04:20,972
illiteracy, suicide,
premature mortality,

925
01:04:21,006 --> 01:04:24,310
overall mistrust and much more.

926
01:04:25,310 --> 01:04:29,615
There is no viable defense
of its existence on any level

927
01:04:29,647 --> 01:04:31,383
and it's certainly
not representative

928
01:04:31,415 --> 01:04:33,519
of a fixed human nature.

929
01:04:33,551 --> 01:04:37,622
Humans are basically allergic to
socio-economic stratification.

930
01:04:38,557 --> 01:04:40,660
[ominous music]

931
01:05:01,345 --> 01:05:02,314
[lights buzzing]

932
01:05:12,289 --> 01:05:13,692
[lights buzzing]

933
01:05:33,345 --> 01:05:35,513
[muffled steps]

934
01:06:05,676 --> 01:06:08,113
[muffled chattering]

935
01:06:14,852 --> 01:06:16,621
[door creaking and thudding]

936
01:06:41,580 --> 01:06:44,283
[ominous music increasing]

937
01:06:50,155 --> 01:06:52,091
[dramatic musical sting]

938
01:06:52,124 --> 01:06:54,158
What are you doing? Come on!

939
01:06:54,191 --> 01:06:56,227
[siren wailing]

940
01:06:56,260 --> 01:06:58,163
[gunshots in distance]

941
01:07:11,376 --> 01:07:12,377
[lock rattling]

942
01:07:12,410 --> 01:07:13,578
[door creaking]

943
01:07:19,850 --> 01:07:22,320
[ominous music]

944
01:08:01,493 --> 01:08:03,896
[muffled white noise]

945
01:09:35,986 --> 01:09:37,556
[ominous hissing]

946
01:09:37,588 --> 01:09:39,290
[gun clicks]

947
01:09:42,494 --> 01:09:43,896
[beeping]

948
01:09:53,738 --> 01:09:56,441
So how's this supposed
to happen exactly?

949
01:09:56,473 --> 01:09:57,943
I'm not sure.

950
01:09:57,976 --> 01:10:00,979
The satellite details
we need are very specific.

951
01:10:01,012 --> 01:10:04,383
How John pulls this off
is going to be interesting.

952
01:10:07,819 --> 01:10:10,022
Hey, where did
you get the popcorn?

953
01:10:10,055 --> 01:10:11,890
Oh, I don't know.
It was just here.

954
01:10:14,391 --> 01:10:15,560
Right.

955
01:10:17,329 --> 01:10:19,331
Are they still in debate mode?

956
01:10:19,364 --> 01:10:20,499
Listen for yourself.

957
01:10:24,002 --> 01:10:25,971
Hope you went to college.

958
01:10:26,003 --> 01:10:28,707
...and why the masses
will never break out

959
01:10:28,739 --> 01:10:31,876
of its self-perpetuated
oppression.

960
01:10:33,677 --> 01:10:37,481
Historically observable.
Biologically sound.

961
01:10:37,515 --> 01:10:39,618
And grossly exaggerated.

962
01:10:39,650 --> 01:10:43,020
While most may indeed be stuck in
lower brain, limbic system reflexes,

963
01:10:43,053 --> 01:10:45,824
you underestimate
the prefrontal cortex.

964
01:10:45,856 --> 01:10:48,493
Our ability to transcend
primitive reactions.

965
01:10:48,525 --> 01:10:50,461
Whether you believe it
or not, Simon,

966
01:10:50,494 --> 01:10:52,997
the activists of the world
are slowly becoming more aware,

967
01:10:53,030 --> 01:10:56,435
- more focused.
- Focused on what?

968
01:10:56,467 --> 01:10:57,868
The system?

969
01:10:57,901 --> 01:10:59,937
The origin of the social
psychology that keeps

970
01:10:59,971 --> 01:11:01,640
those feedback loops
of oppression going.

971
01:11:03,475 --> 01:11:06,544
Ah, so threat to the money God?

972
01:11:07,579 --> 01:11:09,381
If you want to be
spooky about it, sure.

973
01:11:10,147 --> 01:11:13,385
The money God is eventually
going to be overthrown.

974
01:11:13,418 --> 01:11:15,387
This age-old march
toward increased the quality

975
01:11:15,419 --> 01:11:17,989
and human rights is now
accelerating into new territory.

976
01:11:19,056 --> 01:11:21,525
And one way or another it's
eventually going to arrive

977
01:11:21,559 --> 01:11:23,729
at the doorstep of the economy.

978
01:11:23,762 --> 01:11:25,497
And then what?

979
01:11:25,529 --> 01:11:28,833
You seem to be suffering
from a kind of amnesia, John.

980
01:11:28,867 --> 01:11:30,901
That moment's long past.

981
01:11:30,935 --> 01:11:34,439
Immortalized by the failed
Soviet experiment,

982
01:11:34,471 --> 01:11:36,941
a memory that's fostered
an enduring boogeyman.

983
01:11:38,943 --> 01:11:43,382
Anyone today daring
to suggest economic equality,

984
01:11:43,414 --> 01:11:45,684
which is what I assume
you are getting at,

985
01:11:45,717 --> 01:11:48,820
as some final stage
of human rights progress,

986
01:11:48,852 --> 01:11:52,490
will quickly be condemned
as a freedom-hating socialist.

987
01:11:52,524 --> 01:11:56,528
Propaganda may be strong,
but so are the mounting problems,

988
01:11:56,561 --> 01:11:58,964
problems that have
no in system solution,

989
01:11:58,997 --> 01:12:02,401
- forcing people to think differently.
- Such as?

990
01:12:02,434 --> 01:12:04,569
How about the collective insult
that one percent of the world's

991
01:12:04,601 --> 01:12:07,138
population now owns
80% of the wealth?

992
01:12:07,172 --> 01:12:10,008
Or more importantly,
that every life support system

993
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:14,078
continues to be in decline
with now millions dislocated.

994
01:12:14,111 --> 01:12:16,914
Famines, wars, growing poverty.

995
01:12:16,948 --> 01:12:20,718
People will eventually realize the
economic mechanisms behind this.

996
01:12:20,752 --> 01:12:24,823
Further opening the gate.
Same for technological unemployment.

997
01:12:24,855 --> 01:12:27,591
Half of all jobs have
already been automated.

998
01:12:27,624 --> 01:12:30,694
And while nations have compensated
by giving basic income,

999
01:12:30,727 --> 01:12:32,730
the system contradiction
is still clear.

1000
01:12:32,763 --> 01:12:35,534
What happens when people realize
this welfare program is really

1001
01:12:35,566 --> 01:12:38,803
just an excuse to keep
the labor system in place?

1002
01:12:38,837 --> 01:12:41,406
Hence keeping
the ruling class in place.

1003
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:44,676
You assume too much, John.

1004
01:12:44,708 --> 01:12:46,944
Three-quarters of the people
on that planet,

1005
01:12:46,977 --> 01:12:50,214
believe in supernatural
beings that live in the sky

1006
01:12:50,248 --> 01:12:52,217
affecting their lives.

1007
01:12:52,249 --> 01:12:54,586
You're projecting
your rare intelligence

1008
01:12:54,619 --> 01:12:57,155
upon a sea of glorified savages.

1009
01:12:57,187 --> 01:13:00,191
And if you think the activist
community has anything

1010
01:13:00,225 --> 01:13:04,596
in their toolkit to even
approach system level change,

1011
01:13:04,628 --> 01:13:06,864
you're not paying attention
to their ignorance.

1012
01:13:06,897 --> 01:13:08,867
You mean the spectacle?

1013
01:13:08,900 --> 01:13:10,969
People piling
into free speech zones,

1014
01:13:11,002 --> 01:13:13,205
holding up signs,
yelling at buildings,

1015
01:13:13,238 --> 01:13:16,708
ranting on social media,
creating political art,

1016
01:13:16,740 --> 01:13:18,810
poetry, writing books...

1017
01:13:20,211 --> 01:13:22,079
making movies.

1018
01:13:22,113 --> 01:13:23,815
I agree it's mostly catharsis.

1019
01:13:23,847 --> 01:13:25,749
It's a pressure release valve,

1020
01:13:25,783 --> 01:13:27,718
easing periodic tension,

1021
01:13:27,752 --> 01:13:30,589
making people feel like they're
actually doing something.

1022
01:13:31,623 --> 01:13:34,559
Aside, of course,
from helping the economy,

1023
01:13:34,592 --> 01:13:35,994
the anti-establishment market

1024
01:13:36,026 --> 01:13:37,828
has been increasingly
profitable.

1025
01:13:37,861 --> 01:13:40,498
[chuckles] Yes.

1026
01:13:40,531 --> 01:13:42,934
The anger dollar.
If only such outrage

1027
01:13:42,967 --> 01:13:45,036
could be packaged and traded
on Wall Street, right?

1028
01:13:45,069 --> 01:13:49,607
[chuckles] And then social
change might have a chance.

1029
01:13:49,641 --> 01:13:51,243
[both laugh hysterically]

1030
01:13:59,150 --> 01:14:03,989
But catharsis aside, John,
the real issue is hope.

1031
01:14:04,021 --> 01:14:07,225
Activism today
is a hope industry.

1032
01:14:08,258 --> 01:14:10,928
Take Concordia.
It's been irritating

1033
01:14:10,962 --> 01:14:13,698
and I'm certainly bothered
by the technology you have,

1034
01:14:13,730 --> 01:14:16,834
but your actions have posed
no true threat.

1035
01:14:16,868 --> 01:14:21,006
What you do is give
your millions of fans hope.

1036
01:14:21,038 --> 01:14:24,575
And hope is a drug that subdues.

1037
01:14:24,609 --> 01:14:27,579
So the long history of rights
progress is meaningless?

1038
01:14:27,611 --> 01:14:30,915
The abolition of slavery,
women's liberation,

1039
01:14:30,949 --> 01:14:35,053
child labor laws, unions,
indigenous restitution,

1040
01:14:35,086 --> 01:14:39,925
global decrees, LGBTQ equality,
disability acts?

1041
01:14:39,958 --> 01:14:42,727
All adaptations
and accommodations.

1042
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:45,129
No threat to the system itself.

1043
01:14:45,163 --> 01:14:47,098
Take abject slavery:

1044
01:14:47,131 --> 01:14:48,800
the origins are clear.

1045
01:14:48,833 --> 01:14:50,869
It was never about racism.

1046
01:14:50,901 --> 01:14:52,570
It was about economic
exploitation.

1047
01:14:52,604 --> 01:14:54,806
Hence business as usual.

1048
01:14:54,838 --> 01:14:57,274
And yet racism took the heat.

1049
01:14:57,307 --> 01:15:00,078
The system connection
goes unrecognized.

1050
01:15:00,110 --> 01:15:02,279
Limits of debate.
People have been conditioned

1051
01:15:02,312 --> 01:15:04,882
to seek moral causes
rather than structural ones.

1052
01:15:04,915 --> 01:15:08,820
Which is exactly my point,
they don't have the vocabulary.

1053
01:15:08,852 --> 01:15:10,955
Nothing
in their experience offers it.

1054
01:15:10,989 --> 01:15:14,125
The average person engages
six hours of media a day

1055
01:15:14,158 --> 01:15:17,227
much of that news constantly
reinforcing the status quo.

1056
01:15:17,261 --> 01:15:21,098
I'm glad you brought that up.
News is a business.

1057
01:15:21,132 --> 01:15:24,269
And do you think that any
for-profit institution is ever

1058
01:15:24,302 --> 01:15:28,106
going to tolerate ideas that
move against how it survives?

1059
01:15:29,806 --> 01:15:31,876
The odds are stacked, John.

1060
01:15:31,909 --> 01:15:34,779
The system protects
itself on every level

1061
01:15:34,811 --> 01:15:37,582
almost as if it were
a living organism.

1062
01:15:39,249 --> 01:15:42,119
But for argument's sake,

1063
01:15:42,153 --> 01:15:45,690
let's assume a formidable
movement existed.

1064
01:15:45,722 --> 01:15:48,859
A united front to change
the social structure.

1065
01:15:48,892 --> 01:15:50,160
Then what?

1066
01:15:50,194 --> 01:15:51,930
Does it play out on the stage

1067
01:15:51,962 --> 01:15:53,397
of political theater?

1068
01:15:53,431 --> 01:15:56,868
A stage owned and operated
by business power?

1069
01:15:56,900 --> 01:16:00,037
Part of the awakening. People are
realizing their elected officials

1070
01:16:00,070 --> 01:16:02,239
are structurally
corrupted by default,

1071
01:16:02,272 --> 01:16:03,941
regardless of intent.

1072
01:16:03,975 --> 01:16:06,311
- Approaches will shift.
- To what?

1073
01:16:06,343 --> 01:16:09,279
Insurrection, violence,
overthrow?

1074
01:16:09,312 --> 01:16:11,048
A French Revolution?

1075
01:16:11,082 --> 01:16:13,017
Possible,
but certainly not inevitable.

1076
01:16:13,051 --> 01:16:14,919
A critical mass large
enough to stop

1077
01:16:14,952 --> 01:16:16,855
the machine in its tracks is
really all that it's needed.

1078
01:16:16,887 --> 01:16:18,390
You remember George Orwell?

1079
01:16:18,422 --> 01:16:20,791
- Of course.
- He observed something

1080
01:16:20,824 --> 01:16:22,860
interesting
in this endless battle

1081
01:16:22,894 --> 01:16:26,131
between the haves
and the have nots.

1082
01:16:26,163 --> 01:16:27,965
If it's true as you say,

1083
01:16:27,998 --> 01:16:30,801
the masses are beginning
to understand the system.

1084
01:16:30,834 --> 01:16:32,203
Building force against it.

1085
01:16:32,235 --> 01:16:34,439
You should also recognize

1086
01:16:34,471 --> 01:16:36,874
that there's a natural
counter-movement.

1087
01:16:36,908 --> 01:16:39,778
The system defending
itself once again.

1088
01:16:40,477 --> 01:16:42,913
And every threat
to its integrity,

1089
01:16:42,946 --> 01:16:45,115
what you see as progress,

1090
01:16:45,149 --> 01:16:47,986
will be twisted around
and presented to the public

1091
01:16:48,019 --> 01:16:50,388
as an attack
on their way of life.

1092
01:16:51,722 --> 01:16:54,158
Those outliers
that you spoke of,

1093
01:16:54,191 --> 01:16:57,428
the terrorists, gangs,
criminals, mass murderers,

1094
01:16:57,462 --> 01:17:00,932
insurgencies, hackers,
the Orions.

1095
01:17:00,964 --> 01:17:02,934
The Concordias.

1096
01:17:02,967 --> 01:17:05,970
All empower
the system in the end

1097
01:17:06,003 --> 01:17:09,374
providing excuses
to further tighten things down.

1098
01:17:09,406 --> 01:17:11,943
More police, more prisons,

1099
01:17:11,976 --> 01:17:15,080
more laws, more bombs,
more surveillance.

1100
01:17:16,180 --> 01:17:17,883
More control.

1101
01:17:19,249 --> 01:17:23,954
Again, no conspiracy required.

1102
01:17:24,855 --> 01:17:28,126
It's the masses themselves
that push for this,

1103
01:17:28,159 --> 01:17:31,263
willfully exchanging
their freedom for security.

1104
01:17:32,195 --> 01:17:37,034
So they can comfortably
return to their workstations

1105
01:17:37,068 --> 01:17:41,172
and continue pulling
levers on the machine

1106
01:17:41,204 --> 01:17:44,742
just as a money God ordained.

1107
01:17:49,547 --> 01:17:51,982
[train honking]

1108
01:18:10,133 --> 01:18:12,971
[dramatic music]

1109
01:18:16,440 --> 01:18:19,144
[steam hissing]

1110
01:18:33,925 --> 01:18:36,461
[upbeat music]

1111
01:18:45,302 --> 01:18:47,471
[levers rattling]

1112
01:19:09,260 --> 01:19:10,861
[light blaring]

1113
01:19:10,895 --> 01:19:12,030
[coin clinking]

1114
01:19:20,637 --> 01:19:22,073
[machine rattling and dinging]

1115
01:19:45,930 --> 01:19:48,133
[wheels rattling]

1116
01:19:49,934 --> 01:19:51,468
[lights blaring]

1117
01:19:51,502 --> 01:19:53,605
[coins clinking]

1118
01:19:59,944 --> 01:20:02,214
[machine dinging]

1119
01:20:45,655 --> 01:20:47,958
[wheels rattling]

1120
01:20:59,971 --> 01:21:02,307
[spray hissing]

1121
01:21:13,484 --> 01:21:16,087
[slow motion buzzing]

1122
01:21:16,119 --> 01:21:17,655
[music resumes]

1123
01:21:22,726 --> 01:21:25,195
[toy rattling]

1124
01:21:27,498 --> 01:21:30,135
[seagulls cawing]

1125
01:21:36,039 --> 01:21:38,342
[Malikan] In the end,
it wasn't the so-called communist,

1126
01:21:38,376 --> 01:21:41,412
socialists, anarchists or
whatever counterculture group

1127
01:21:41,445 --> 01:21:45,049
that posed the most serious
argument for the Great Transition.

1128
01:21:45,082 --> 01:21:47,084
It was the environmental
scientist.

1129
01:21:47,118 --> 01:21:49,454
One could debate
the ins and outs of morality,

1130
01:21:49,486 --> 01:21:51,388
public health and human rights,

1131
01:21:51,422 --> 01:21:54,726
but if the habitat goes
all that becomes moot.

1132
01:21:54,758 --> 01:21:56,627
And at the turn
of the 21st century

1133
01:21:56,659 --> 01:22:00,464
our ecological negligence
was pretty embarrassing.

1134
01:22:00,498 --> 01:22:02,266
With great inefficiency
we were using

1135
01:22:02,298 --> 01:22:04,435
far more resources each year

1136
01:22:04,467 --> 01:22:06,269
than the planet produced.

1137
01:22:06,302 --> 01:22:08,739
Had destroyed vast realms
of biodiversity,

1138
01:22:08,772 --> 01:22:11,743
polluted the air, the soil,
the water,

1139
01:22:11,775 --> 01:22:14,745
not only destabilizing
the entire global ecosystem

1140
01:22:14,779 --> 01:22:18,016
but by extension society itself.

1141
01:22:18,048 --> 01:22:22,352
The most common question I get
when teaching this history is,

1142
01:22:22,386 --> 01:22:25,656
"How is it even possible
things could get so bad?

1143
01:22:25,689 --> 01:22:28,226
How could everyone just keep
blindly pulling levers

1144
01:22:28,258 --> 01:22:30,328
on that destructive
economic machine

1145
01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:32,296
and not see what was happening?"

1146
01:22:32,329 --> 01:22:36,100
And it comes down to a kind
of faith-based conditioning,

1147
01:22:36,132 --> 01:22:38,101
a religious pathology
taking the form

1148
01:22:38,135 --> 01:22:40,104
of mass economic behavior.

1149
01:22:40,137 --> 01:22:43,674
The doctrine was
that of universal scarcity.

1150
01:22:43,707 --> 01:22:46,276
People had been taught
to believe that at no time,

1151
01:22:46,310 --> 01:22:49,614
under no circumstance,
can economic balance exist.

1152
01:22:49,646 --> 01:22:52,816
[Aleniya] The very idea an
economy could be organized

1153
01:22:52,850 --> 01:22:56,287
to efficiently provide
for everyone while also being

1154
01:22:56,320 --> 01:23:00,058
in balance with the habitat
was a sacrilegious taboo.

1155
01:23:00,091 --> 01:23:03,127
The cult of scarcity and
consumption wasn't having it.

1156
01:23:03,159 --> 01:23:05,229
They considered it
utopian thinking.

1157
01:23:05,262 --> 01:23:08,166
Supporting the myth
that people had infinite wants

1158
01:23:08,199 --> 01:23:11,102
and were accusatively
insatiable.

1159
01:23:11,135 --> 01:23:14,439
Hence, the poor had to exist
and if anything was the problem,

1160
01:23:14,471 --> 01:23:17,307
it must be population
not the system.

1161
01:23:18,275 --> 01:23:22,580
That was the prevailing dogma.
There must be too many people.

1162
01:23:22,613 --> 01:23:25,182
You can't have ecological
balance in a system

1163
01:23:25,216 --> 01:23:28,285
that requires constant
consumer activity to work.

1164
01:23:28,319 --> 01:23:30,521
It's one thing to consume
based on need.

1165
01:23:30,553 --> 01:23:33,790
It's another to consume
because the system demands it.

1166
01:23:33,824 --> 01:23:35,860
And the market system
of economics needed

1167
01:23:35,892 --> 01:23:39,129
constant turnover of goods
to keep and create jobs,

1168
01:23:39,163 --> 01:23:42,100
providing workers, which
of course were also consumers,

1169
01:23:42,132 --> 01:23:44,668
with income to spend back
into the system,

1170
01:23:44,702 --> 01:23:48,106
endlessly repeating the cycle
of cyclical consumption.

1171
01:23:48,138 --> 01:23:50,240
If it didn't repeat
fast enough or slowed,

1172
01:23:50,274 --> 01:23:51,776
the economy contracted.

1173
01:23:51,809 --> 01:23:53,845
Purchasing power
wasn't circulating

1174
01:23:53,878 --> 01:23:56,681
and the society
proceeded to shut down.

1175
01:23:56,713 --> 01:24:00,618
[Cynthia] A very unique historical
moment occurred in the early 20th century

1176
01:24:00,650 --> 01:24:05,288
when it was realized that technology
was now creating a good surplus

1177
01:24:05,321 --> 01:24:07,658
and great confusion ensued.

1178
01:24:07,690 --> 01:24:10,794
The problem was this newfound
productive efficiency

1179
01:24:10,828 --> 01:24:13,698
was not being met by people
buying more stuff.

1180
01:24:13,730 --> 01:24:16,133
So two competing
perspectives emerged:

1181
01:24:16,167 --> 01:24:19,770
on one side you had idealists,
envisioning a new era.

1182
01:24:19,802 --> 01:24:22,573
If we can produce
an overall good surplus,

1183
01:24:22,605 --> 01:24:25,575
why not lower the cost
of goods respectively

1184
01:24:25,609 --> 01:24:28,412
reducing work hours and
increased pay in proportion?

1185
01:24:28,445 --> 01:24:31,883
So you can now have say a person
working only two days a week

1186
01:24:31,915 --> 01:24:33,751
without losing
their standard of living

1187
01:24:33,784 --> 01:24:36,454
since the market value
of labor and goods adjusted

1188
01:24:36,486 --> 01:24:38,655
to compensate
for the increased efficiency.

1189
01:24:38,689 --> 01:24:40,857
This logic makes perfect
sense when it comes

1190
01:24:40,891 --> 01:24:43,628
to the basic principle
of supply and demand.

1191
01:24:43,660 --> 01:24:46,864
Suddenly people have more
free time, not buried in debt.

1192
01:24:46,896 --> 01:24:49,633
They can enrich their social
life, family life,

1193
01:24:49,667 --> 01:24:51,703
and pursue the things
that have true meaning.

1194
01:24:52,703 --> 01:24:55,740
Well, that's not
the way it played out

1195
01:24:55,772 --> 01:24:57,542
nor would it ever.

1196
01:24:57,574 --> 01:25:00,544
Which brings us to
the system level perspective

1197
01:25:00,578 --> 01:25:03,614
since the system itself simply
isn't designed inherently

1198
01:25:03,646 --> 01:25:05,783
for steady state equilibrium.

1199
01:25:05,815 --> 01:25:09,519
Market economics is predicated
on a more is better ethic.

1200
01:25:09,552 --> 01:25:11,588
To be competitive in the quest
for market share.

1201
01:25:11,622 --> 01:25:13,658
That's what's incentivized.

1202
01:25:13,690 --> 01:25:16,394
More growth, more sales,
more employees,

1203
01:25:16,427 --> 01:25:21,299
more capital accumulation,
more profit, constant expansion.

1204
01:25:21,332 --> 01:25:23,434
So what happened
was to be expected,

1205
01:25:23,467 --> 01:25:24,969
fortifying a new industry,

1206
01:25:25,002 --> 01:25:26,803
commercial advertising.

1207
01:25:26,837 --> 01:25:28,573
What was once
a simple media service,

1208
01:25:28,605 --> 01:25:31,309
notifying people
of new goods they may need,

1209
01:25:31,342 --> 01:25:34,679
turned into a powerful form
of manipulative propaganda.

1210
01:25:34,712 --> 01:25:38,281
In the later stages, companies
spent more money on advertising

1211
01:25:38,315 --> 01:25:40,751
than they did on research
and development.

1212
01:25:40,784 --> 01:25:44,355
What advertising does is
abuse our social nature

1213
01:25:44,387 --> 01:25:46,790
by making people feel
like they're missing out.

1214
01:25:46,824 --> 01:25:48,726
They're not good
enough without this,

1215
01:25:48,758 --> 01:25:50,962
they're lower in status
without that.

1216
01:25:50,994 --> 01:25:54,731
They feel excluded from others
if they don't own something.

1217
01:25:54,765 --> 01:25:57,235
And as pathetic as
all that sounds it had

1218
01:25:57,267 --> 01:26:00,704
a profound effect on society
with everyone keeping up

1219
01:26:00,738 --> 01:26:04,609
with the Joneses
in a hideous feedback loop.

1220
01:26:04,641 --> 01:26:07,310
And the result
as industrial productivity

1221
01:26:07,343 --> 01:26:10,748
still continued to rise,
people worked more than ever,

1222
01:26:10,780 --> 01:26:13,984
had less free time, were
in staggering amounts of debt,

1223
01:26:14,017 --> 01:26:16,753
and arguably had a lower
standard of living

1224
01:26:16,787 --> 01:26:18,923
when you actually account
for human happiness

1225
01:26:18,955 --> 01:26:21,359
and the level
of stress people endured.

1226
01:26:21,391 --> 01:26:23,660
All to keep
the economic machine moving.

1227
01:26:24,595 --> 01:26:26,998
[Vivian] One thing that's
really interesting in all this,

1228
01:26:27,030 --> 01:26:28,765
is that the economic
system back then

1229
01:26:28,798 --> 01:26:31,968
embraced a fantastic paradox.

1230
01:26:32,002 --> 01:26:33,604
So here you had a model

1231
01:26:33,637 --> 01:26:35,406
that defended itself
by the assumption

1232
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:38,575
of universal scarcity.
Forcing competition,

1233
01:26:38,609 --> 01:26:40,845
oppression, exploitation,

1234
01:26:40,878 --> 01:26:43,781
poverty and so on,
while at the same time

1235
01:26:43,814 --> 01:26:47,851
the entire machine needed
infinite consumption to work.

1236
01:26:47,885 --> 01:26:49,820
Think about that for a moment.

1237
01:26:49,852 --> 01:26:53,423
How do you justify these harsh
outcomes of assumed scarcity

1238
01:26:53,457 --> 01:26:56,526
when the system itself
disregards the idea entirely

1239
01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:59,297
when it comes to the very
mechanics that make it work?

1240
01:26:59,329 --> 01:27:02,365
And the bottom line is
this wasn't an economy at all

1241
01:27:02,399 --> 01:27:05,569
by definition,
it was an anti-economy,

1242
01:27:05,601 --> 01:27:08,638
with human beings functioning
like cancer cells

1243
01:27:08,672 --> 01:27:10,607
eating the Earth alive.

1244
01:27:10,641 --> 01:27:14,412
In systems theory this is known
as a positive feedback loop.

1245
01:27:14,445 --> 01:27:16,480
Don't let that word, positive,
confuse you

1246
01:27:16,512 --> 01:27:18,682
as there's nothing
positive about it.

1247
01:27:18,716 --> 01:27:21,919
It means there's nothing working
to balance system behavior

1248
01:27:21,952 --> 01:27:23,988
to its regulatory environment.

1249
01:27:24,020 --> 01:27:26,423
That environment
in the case of Economics

1250
01:27:26,457 --> 01:27:29,827
is a finite planet
with a delicate ecosystem.

1251
01:27:29,860 --> 01:27:32,897
If respect for scarcity
was taken seriously,

1252
01:27:32,930 --> 01:27:35,499
the goal would be
to focus on efficiency,

1253
01:27:35,531 --> 01:27:37,901
working to reduce resource use,
reduce waste

1254
01:27:37,935 --> 01:27:40,071
in the process
of meeting human needs.

1255
01:27:40,104 --> 01:27:43,039
Manifesting of course a culture
that's mature enough

1256
01:27:43,073 --> 01:27:45,810
to understand the boundaries
of its own existence.

1257
01:27:46,744 --> 01:27:48,713
[Malikan]
Truly positive economic metrics

1258
01:27:48,745 --> 01:27:51,082
are the opposite of what
was sought back then.

1259
01:27:51,114 --> 01:27:53,650
Degrowth, so to speak,
would be the goal.

1260
01:27:53,684 --> 01:27:56,419
Doing more with less
and needing less.

1261
01:27:56,453 --> 01:27:59,123
People would go on TV
to give an economic report

1262
01:27:59,155 --> 01:28:02,525
and say something like,
"Great metrics for the economy this month.

1263
01:28:02,559 --> 01:28:05,995
We reduced our use of energy and raw
materials by another three percent.

1264
01:28:06,029 --> 01:28:09,700
Lowering sales once again with
less need for human employment,

1265
01:28:09,732 --> 01:28:12,602
Increasing overall efficiency
by a factor of two.

1266
01:28:12,636 --> 01:28:15,439
We continue to be in homeostatic
balance with the planet

1267
01:28:15,471 --> 01:28:19,008
for yet another year and humanity
has more free time than ever."

1268
01:28:19,042 --> 01:28:20,544
Here's Tom with the weather.

1269
01:28:20,577 --> 01:28:21,712
"Well, it's clear skies

1270
01:28:21,744 --> 01:28:23,079
across the hemispheres.

1271
01:28:23,113 --> 01:28:24,949
The Amazon rainforest
isn't on fire.

1272
01:28:24,981 --> 01:28:27,551
We aren't clogging
the atmosphere with CO2,

1273
01:28:27,583 --> 01:28:29,787
and we haven't seen swarms
of refugees cascading

1274
01:28:29,820 --> 01:28:32,857
across continents in search
of food for some time.

1275
01:28:32,890 --> 01:28:34,792
And the fog of billionaire
douchebaggery

1276
01:28:34,824 --> 01:28:37,761
seems to have cleared a bit.
We do expect some precipitation

1277
01:28:37,794 --> 01:28:40,698
adding to our already
abundant fresh water supply

1278
01:28:40,730 --> 01:28:43,900
further improving topsoil
while global abundance measures

1279
01:28:43,934 --> 01:28:46,937
has everyone sitting pretty
for the foreseeable future."

1280
01:28:48,905 --> 01:28:53,810
Yeah, you would never hear anything
like that, instead the opposite.

1281
01:28:53,843 --> 01:28:57,047
Some dickhead PhD ivy league
market economist

1282
01:28:57,079 --> 01:28:59,149
religious fanatic who literally

1283
01:28:59,182 --> 01:29:02,185
has no clue what the word
economy even means,

1284
01:29:02,218 --> 01:29:04,754
would come on and say,
"Quarterly earnings

1285
01:29:04,788 --> 01:29:07,925
were down last month
in most sectors as GDP slows.

1286
01:29:07,958 --> 01:29:09,927
We're seeing an increasing
in unemployment

1287
01:29:09,959 --> 01:29:11,928
due to the contraction,
but hopefully

1288
01:29:11,962 --> 01:29:14,765
the coming Christmas season
will spark new consumer demand

1289
01:29:14,797 --> 01:29:16,966
while it's anticipated
that the central bank

1290
01:29:16,999 --> 01:29:19,770
will lower interest
rates and buy more bonds

1291
01:29:19,802 --> 01:29:22,739
to increase liquidity
to ease the credit crunch.

1292
01:29:22,772 --> 01:29:25,743
Hopefully this will
improve consumer confidence

1293
01:29:25,775 --> 01:29:28,745
inspiring investors
to reallocate capital

1294
01:29:28,779 --> 01:29:31,080
into da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da."

1295
01:29:31,114 --> 01:29:35,619
Translated this means,
"We need you people to take on more loans,

1296
01:29:35,651 --> 01:29:39,556
go into more debt to buy more
things to create more jobs

1297
01:29:39,589 --> 01:29:42,560
so we can sell more things
and use more of the Earth's

1298
01:29:42,592 --> 01:29:45,662
resources. If we're lucky
industry will improve

1299
01:29:45,695 --> 01:29:48,698
on shortening good life spans
through planned obsolescence.

1300
01:29:48,731 --> 01:29:50,667
Make things impossible
to repair.

1301
01:29:50,700 --> 01:29:53,236
Hopefully more single-use
goods will become the norm

1302
01:29:53,270 --> 01:29:56,674
so people can buy and throw away
at an ever increasing rate

1303
01:29:56,707 --> 01:29:58,142
keeping this shit show going."

1304
01:29:58,175 --> 01:29:59,209
[clicking]

1305
01:29:59,243 --> 01:30:01,946
[gentle music]

1306
01:30:13,022 --> 01:30:15,059
[director] So I want to
shift gears here a bit

1307
01:30:15,092 --> 01:30:18,262
and ask you about your
work in group identity.

1308
01:30:18,294 --> 01:30:21,164
Specifically how it relates
to economic conditions.

1309
01:30:22,598 --> 01:30:25,802
Well, like everything
is complex.

1310
01:30:25,836 --> 01:30:28,204
As we talked about earlier
our social nature

1311
01:30:28,238 --> 01:30:30,975
can get the best of us
and we have some

1312
01:30:31,007 --> 01:30:34,611
interesting evolutionary
wiring when it comes to groups.

1313
01:30:34,645 --> 01:30:37,047
Us and them,
in groups and out groups,

1314
01:30:37,079 --> 01:30:39,883
and perhaps what's
most unique is

1315
01:30:39,917 --> 01:30:42,986
what defines an us
and what defines a them

1316
01:30:43,020 --> 01:30:46,022
is subjective
and culturally dependent.

1317
01:30:46,056 --> 01:30:48,058
If you grow up only being
exposed to people who look

1318
01:30:48,091 --> 01:30:51,095
like you and then you're exposed
to those that don't,

1319
01:30:51,128 --> 01:30:54,098
your brain tends
to fire with apprehension.

1320
01:30:54,131 --> 01:30:57,635
But the same thing also occurs
with something even more trivial

1321
01:30:57,668 --> 01:31:00,271
like baseball caps.
You show people who like

1322
01:31:00,303 --> 01:31:03,806
a certain team photos of that
team and then throw in a photo

1323
01:31:03,839 --> 01:31:07,110
of an opposing team member,
the same thing occurs.

1324
01:31:07,144 --> 01:31:09,113
So for whatever
evolutionary reason,

1325
01:31:09,145 --> 01:31:13,650
we have a propensity to divide
society up and make judgments.

1326
01:31:13,684 --> 01:31:15,886
And there is no value
in it whatsoever.

1327
01:31:15,918 --> 01:31:19,055
It's just dangerous baggage.

1328
01:31:19,088 --> 01:31:20,823
And before the Great Transition,

1329
01:31:20,856 --> 01:31:23,293
because the economy
was fundamentally divisive

1330
01:31:23,327 --> 01:31:25,229
due to its competitive nature,

1331
01:31:25,262 --> 01:31:28,699
bigotry and group oppression
was a huge problem.

1332
01:31:28,731 --> 01:31:31,068
So you have the human species
developing in pockets

1333
01:31:31,101 --> 01:31:34,305
around the world with different
environmental exposures.

1334
01:31:34,337 --> 01:31:36,973
Not only shaping appearance
such as color of skin,

1335
01:31:37,007 --> 01:31:39,977
but also setting in motion
cultural differences

1336
01:31:40,010 --> 01:31:43,213
and as these groups began
to mix it got very messy,

1337
01:31:43,245 --> 01:31:46,083
which is why you see,
especially by the 20th century,

1338
01:31:46,115 --> 01:31:48,918
strong social movements
by people trying to stop

1339
01:31:48,952 --> 01:31:51,922
group oppression,
at least on the legal and political level.

1340
01:31:51,954 --> 01:31:55,059
The demand for gender, ethnic,
sexual orientation,

1341
01:31:55,092 --> 01:31:57,194
and creed equality was constant

1342
01:31:57,226 --> 01:32:00,330
with modest success given
the fact society was still stuck

1343
01:32:00,364 --> 01:32:03,834
in an economic mode
based upon mutual exploitation

1344
01:32:03,867 --> 01:32:06,770
amplifying the tendency
for group antagonism.

1345
01:32:06,802 --> 01:32:09,038
But there was a side
effect to all of this:

1346
01:32:09,071 --> 01:32:11,208
rather than seeking
equality to neutralize

1347
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:14,778
the group identity problem,
many chose to embrace it.

1348
01:32:14,811 --> 01:32:18,248
They took what was an artificial
construct imposed upon them

1349
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:19,984
and defined themselves by it.

1350
01:32:20,883 --> 01:32:23,052
For example, someone descended

1351
01:32:23,086 --> 01:32:25,321
from the African slave
trade in America

1352
01:32:25,355 --> 01:32:29,360
is only a black person via the
construct of being called so.

1353
01:32:29,392 --> 01:32:31,895
There is no such thing
as a black person

1354
01:32:31,927 --> 01:32:34,097
just as there's no
such thing as a grey person,

1355
01:32:34,131 --> 01:32:37,200
just as there is no
such thing as a white person.

1356
01:32:37,234 --> 01:32:39,169
These are all social constructs

1357
01:32:39,202 --> 01:32:42,205
that have invented to
artificially categorize people.

1358
01:32:43,205 --> 01:32:44,807
And the same applies to culture,

1359
01:32:44,841 --> 01:32:47,111
just as there is no such
thing as a white person,

1360
01:32:47,144 --> 01:32:49,646
there is no such thing
as an Italian person

1361
01:32:49,680 --> 01:32:53,050
or a Buddhist person or an Irish
person or a Jewish person.

1362
01:32:53,083 --> 01:32:56,787
[Cynthia] It is one thing to have
a valued practice, meditation,

1363
01:32:56,820 --> 01:33:00,790
or sense of philosophy that
inspires you and educates you.

1364
01:33:00,824 --> 01:33:05,294
History is rich with beautiful
traditions across many belief systems.

1365
01:33:05,328 --> 01:33:08,899
Dogma aside religion itself
helps to serve as a kind

1366
01:33:08,931 --> 01:33:12,836
of gateway into our spiritual
and intellectual evolution.

1367
01:33:12,869 --> 01:33:15,005
[Malikan]
Finding meaning in meditation,

1368
01:33:15,038 --> 01:33:17,841
or putting up a Christmas tree
or lighting the menorah

1369
01:33:17,873 --> 01:33:22,078
creates ritualistic connection that
can have great personal meeting.

1370
01:33:22,111 --> 01:33:25,214
But engaging Buddhist practice
doesn't make you Buddhist.

1371
01:33:25,248 --> 01:33:28,152
Being born from a bloodline in
Italy doesn't mean you're an Italian

1372
01:33:28,185 --> 01:33:31,088
and going to church
doesn't mean you're Christian.

1373
01:33:31,120 --> 01:33:33,257
The moment you go
from a person that enjoys

1374
01:33:33,289 --> 01:33:35,693
the practice
of something to saying,

1375
01:33:35,726 --> 01:33:37,695
"I am this or that,"

1376
01:33:37,727 --> 01:33:41,230
is the moment you draw dangerous
lines through the species.

1377
01:33:41,263 --> 01:33:43,132
Taking such pride
in your ethnic,

1378
01:33:43,165 --> 01:33:45,002
religious,
or regional background

1379
01:33:45,034 --> 01:33:47,904
creates an identity
with the group by label

1380
01:33:47,937 --> 01:33:51,208
and it is fundamentally
elitist and bigoted by nature.

1381
01:33:52,175 --> 01:33:54,912
There is only one race,
the human race.

1382
01:33:54,945 --> 01:33:56,980
And within the confines
of that fact

1383
01:33:57,012 --> 01:33:59,082
to separate yourself any further

1384
01:33:59,115 --> 01:34:01,452
leads to absolutely
nothing positive.

1385
01:34:01,485 --> 01:34:04,722
[gentle music fading]

1386
01:34:06,455 --> 01:34:09,360
[slow motion buzzing]

1387
01:34:18,435 --> 01:34:19,736
[notification beeps]

1388
01:34:29,812 --> 01:34:31,281
[ominous music]

1389
01:35:12,087 --> 01:35:14,524
[ominous music increasing]

1390
01:35:29,471 --> 01:35:30,373
[with robotic voice]
Kike.

1391
01:35:31,842 --> 01:35:33,877
No, looks more like a wop.

1392
01:35:33,909 --> 01:35:36,245
Yeah greaseball dago to be sure.

1393
01:35:36,279 --> 01:35:38,115
Just another Eurotrash wetback.

1394
01:35:38,147 --> 01:35:40,050
Cracker guinea freeloader.

1395
01:35:40,083 --> 01:35:42,119
[chuckles]
And look at those clothes.

1396
01:35:42,151 --> 01:35:44,488
A Nancy Drew Becky
wanna be Stacy.

1397
01:35:44,520 --> 01:35:46,956
Looking for her chad
that never comes.

1398
01:35:46,989 --> 01:35:49,926
No doubt, a tree hugging,
dirt worshipping feminazi.

1399
01:35:49,959 --> 01:35:52,261
Soy boy beta cuck magnet.

1400
01:35:52,294 --> 01:35:56,600
A card-carrying purple haired,
muff diving, spook loving.

1401
01:35:56,632 --> 01:35:58,868
Self-righteous socialist pinko.

1402
01:35:58,901 --> 01:36:01,471
Coloring in her little
book with her junglebunny.

1403
01:36:01,503 --> 01:36:03,841
Towelhead libtard comrades.

1404
01:36:03,873 --> 01:36:07,977
Just a sea of bleeding-heart social
justice warrior welfare queens.

1405
01:36:08,011 --> 01:36:13,115
Bootlicking, anti-freedom
globalist, vegan red zombie.

1406
01:36:13,149 --> 01:36:15,319
A communist snowflake
cumdumpster.

1407
01:36:15,351 --> 01:36:18,921
So just move back to Cuba
with all the other crybaby.

1408
01:36:18,954 --> 01:36:20,390
Regressive, leftist.

1409
01:36:20,422 --> 01:36:22,158
Marxist, Antifa.

1410
01:36:22,191 --> 01:36:23,459
Utopianists.

1411
01:36:23,493 --> 01:36:26,330
[audience booing]

1412
01:36:34,370 --> 01:36:37,208
[muffled booing]

1413
01:36:53,189 --> 01:36:54,391
[muffled thudding]

1414
01:37:10,239 --> 01:37:12,876
[ominous music]

1415
01:37:50,613 --> 01:37:52,283
[music stops]

1416
01:38:20,409 --> 01:38:25,481
- [man] Break time.
- Yeah, I need to zone out for a bit.

1417
01:38:26,548 --> 01:38:29,519
This final programming
is melting my brain.

1418
01:38:32,055 --> 01:38:35,492
- What's this?
- Good question.

1419
01:38:35,525 --> 01:38:38,428
Some old film
by this guy, Joseph.

1420
01:38:38,461 --> 01:38:41,231
It's like an abstract
social commentary.

1421
01:38:41,263 --> 01:38:42,699
I haven't quite figured it out.

1422
01:38:45,034 --> 01:38:46,235
Looks pretentious.

1423
01:38:48,570 --> 01:38:50,039
How's the great debate?

1424
01:38:50,073 --> 01:38:51,709
That's what I'm going
to find out.

1425
01:38:54,377 --> 01:38:56,146
I'm sorry.

1426
01:38:56,178 --> 01:38:58,781
I thought we were
trying to save the world.

1427
01:38:58,815 --> 01:39:00,617
Everything's ahead of schedule.

1428
01:39:00,650 --> 01:39:03,387
And I can't do much more without
the satellite coordinates.

1429
01:39:03,419 --> 01:39:05,654
- Plus this is getting good.
- Hm-mm.

1430
01:39:05,687 --> 01:39:07,790
According to the script, looks
like John's about to school

1431
01:39:07,824 --> 01:39:09,593
Simon on the nature
of hierarchy.

1432
01:39:11,761 --> 01:39:14,765
[woman 1] Wait, how is it we're
seeing both in the shot at once.

1433
01:39:14,797 --> 01:39:16,732
The camera links to his eye.

1434
01:39:16,766 --> 01:39:20,337
[women 2] Shh. Audiences don't
usually notice things like that.

1435
01:39:20,369 --> 01:39:24,673
And besides where do you see
equality in the animal kingdom?

1436
01:39:24,707 --> 01:39:26,376
No one's equal, John.

1437
01:39:26,409 --> 01:39:29,046
And it would be painfully
boring if they were.

1438
01:39:29,079 --> 01:39:30,647
Humans are diverse.

1439
01:39:30,680 --> 01:39:32,548
Everyone has
different capabilities,

1440
01:39:32,582 --> 01:39:35,485
strengths, weaknesses, talents.

1441
01:39:35,517 --> 01:39:37,486
The push for social equality
and human rights

1442
01:39:37,520 --> 01:39:39,623
is about how that diversity
is understood.

1443
01:39:40,556 --> 01:39:42,291
And you've seemed to think
people should only be valued

1444
01:39:42,324 --> 01:39:44,327
by how well they compete
in the business game

1445
01:39:44,360 --> 01:39:46,696
as if the violence spread
between the rich and the poor

1446
01:39:46,729 --> 01:39:48,632
reflects objective human worth.

1447
01:39:48,664 --> 01:39:52,202
John,
I amuse myself with the notion

1448
01:39:52,235 --> 01:39:55,305
of the money God because
it isn't far from the truth.

1449
01:39:55,337 --> 01:39:59,341
Some system has to exist
to divide up a scarce world

1450
01:39:59,374 --> 01:40:03,345
and nature has spoken as
to what that system must be.

1451
01:40:03,378 --> 01:40:06,515
Those who reach the top
of the pyramid deserve it,

1452
01:40:06,548 --> 01:40:09,185
not because you
or I think it's right,

1453
01:40:09,218 --> 01:40:12,489
but because that's
what nature is selecting for.

1454
01:40:12,521 --> 01:40:14,658
So nature prefers sociopaths
and psychopaths

1455
01:40:14,690 --> 01:40:17,126
to guide the species?
Because those are the dominating

1456
01:40:17,159 --> 01:40:18,761
traits
of the ruling class today.

1457
01:40:18,794 --> 01:40:21,832
The system is
as the system does.

1458
01:40:21,864 --> 01:40:24,233
Is that what the Malthusian
Mandate is about?

1459
01:40:24,266 --> 01:40:26,336
To then select out
the poor and weak.

1460
01:40:27,403 --> 01:40:29,272
We'll get to the mandate
in a moment.

1461
01:40:30,739 --> 01:40:33,409
I'm still bothered
by your denial of the fact

1462
01:40:33,443 --> 01:40:37,314
our social system reflects
our true biological nature.

1463
01:40:37,346 --> 01:40:41,150
And if this revolution you
speak of did magically occur,

1464
01:40:41,184 --> 01:40:43,520
it would just be a matter
of time before the innate

1465
01:40:43,552 --> 01:40:48,190
compulsion towards social
dominance prevailed yet again.

1466
01:40:48,223 --> 01:40:52,261
Deep down, John, the slaves
don't want to be free.

1467
01:40:52,294 --> 01:40:54,565
They want to be slave owners.

1468
01:40:55,899 --> 01:40:56,767
Nice one.

1469
01:40:58,333 --> 01:41:00,203
Too bad history paints
a different picture.

1470
01:41:01,303 --> 01:41:02,838
Our hierarchies have remained

1471
01:41:02,872 --> 01:41:05,609
constant throughout
recorded civilization.

1472
01:41:05,641 --> 01:41:08,544
For perhaps the last
12,000 years, sure.

1473
01:41:08,578 --> 01:41:10,347
But you know as well as I do,
before the discovery

1474
01:41:10,379 --> 01:41:12,781
of agriculture,
there was no such thing.

1475
01:41:12,815 --> 01:41:15,352
Ninety-nine percent of human
history has been egalitarian.

1476
01:41:15,385 --> 01:41:18,187
I said civilization, John.

1477
01:41:18,221 --> 01:41:20,656
Meandering
hunter-gatherer tribes

1478
01:41:20,690 --> 01:41:24,895
chucking spears and eating
grubs isn't civilization.

1479
01:41:24,927 --> 01:41:26,596
How contemporacist of you.

1480
01:41:27,596 --> 01:41:31,233
Yet 20th century study of
numerous hunter-gatherer tribes,

1481
01:41:31,266 --> 01:41:34,236
those still surviving in
remote areas just as they did

1482
01:41:34,270 --> 01:41:36,806
thousands of years prior,
actually show socially

1483
01:41:36,838 --> 01:41:40,943
rich cultures. Adult life
spans not far from ours.

1484
01:41:40,976 --> 01:41:43,613
Relatively peaceful
in balance with nature.

1485
01:41:43,645 --> 01:41:48,250
No leaders, no group hierarchy,
no inequality.

1486
01:41:48,284 --> 01:41:52,422
To argue today's society is somehow
more civilized is dubious at best.

1487
01:41:52,454 --> 01:41:54,658
Well, then perhaps
you can encourage

1488
01:41:54,690 --> 01:41:56,559
all your enlightened followers

1489
01:41:56,592 --> 01:41:58,861
to come together
and live out their utopian

1490
01:41:58,895 --> 01:42:00,797
fantasy in the Amazon jungle.

1491
01:42:00,829 --> 01:42:03,533
You mean what's left of it?
What hasn't been destroyed

1492
01:42:03,565 --> 01:42:05,769
by the supposedly advanced
culture that's ravaged

1493
01:42:05,802 --> 01:42:07,938
the natural world
into total decline

1494
01:42:07,971 --> 01:42:11,908
in the name of infinite
consumption and economic growth?

1495
01:42:11,940 --> 01:42:14,743
And the point here, Simon,
is hunter-gatherer cultures

1496
01:42:14,776 --> 01:42:16,879
are evidence of human
variability.

1497
01:42:16,913 --> 01:42:19,982
variability which contradicts
your vague biological determinism.

1498
01:42:20,016 --> 01:42:22,519
John, just because history shows

1499
01:42:22,552 --> 01:42:25,922
a range of behaviors across
time doesn't prove anything.

1500
01:42:25,954 --> 01:42:29,225
The introduction
of agriculture indeed changed

1501
01:42:29,258 --> 01:42:33,462
the human condition because
it triggered a dormant trait

1502
01:42:33,495 --> 01:42:35,899
in our evolutionary psychology.

1503
01:42:35,931 --> 01:42:38,667
A trait that wasn't
expressed before.

1504
01:42:38,700 --> 01:42:39,735
How?

1505
01:42:39,769 --> 01:42:41,370
By the advent

1506
01:42:41,404 --> 01:42:43,339
of economic surplus.

1507
01:42:43,373 --> 01:42:44,941
[scoffs] Economic surplus.

1508
01:42:44,973 --> 01:42:48,477
Resources and goods
that could be stored,

1509
01:42:48,511 --> 01:42:50,946
hoarded, stockpiled, owned,

1510
01:42:50,980 --> 01:42:54,618
traded, controlled,
leveraged for personal gain.

1511
01:42:54,650 --> 01:42:58,988
A phenomenon that was impossible
in a hunter-gatherer reality.

1512
01:42:59,021 --> 01:43:02,591
And it was that realization
that sparked our now

1513
01:43:02,624 --> 01:43:05,995
omnipresent drive toward
dominance and hierarchy.

1514
01:43:09,399 --> 01:43:10,367
I didn't know that.

1515
01:43:11,368 --> 01:43:14,971
Genetic dormancy
of an evolutionary expression.

1516
01:43:15,003 --> 01:43:17,406
Needed an environmental trigger,

1517
01:43:17,440 --> 01:43:20,477
psychological drive,
but then morphs into complex

1518
01:43:20,510 --> 01:43:22,878
oppressive institutions
and structures.

1519
01:43:23,812 --> 01:43:27,484
Compelling. Intuitive.
Plausible.

1520
01:43:28,918 --> 01:43:30,587
Too bad it's total bullshit.

1521
01:43:30,619 --> 01:43:32,821
All simpleton, pedestrian,
bio-deterministic

1522
01:43:32,855 --> 01:43:35,558
conclusions that are nothing
more than elitist projections.

1523
01:43:35,591 --> 01:43:39,529
You think it's wise to insult me
given this circumstance, John.

1524
01:43:40,596 --> 01:43:41,498
And listen.

1525
01:43:41,530 --> 01:43:44,533
[phone ringing]

1526
01:44:00,048 --> 01:44:01,051
[phone ringing stops]

1527
01:44:12,494 --> 01:44:14,698
Agriculture did change
everything.

1528
01:44:14,730 --> 01:44:16,899
But not because of someone's
dormant psychological

1529
01:44:16,932 --> 01:44:19,836
drive magically triggered
by economic surplus.

1530
01:44:19,869 --> 01:44:22,772
It was about what such a society
technically required,

1531
01:44:22,805 --> 01:44:26,976
dramatically shifting incentives and
very nature of human relationships.

1532
01:44:27,008 --> 01:44:30,346
Think about it.
First you need the proper land,

1533
01:44:30,379 --> 01:44:32,548
water,
the right conditions to farm,

1534
01:44:32,582 --> 01:44:34,651
then creating settlements
around those fruitful areas

1535
01:44:34,684 --> 01:44:36,619
as opposed to foraging.

1536
01:44:36,651 --> 01:44:39,588
And since land quality varies
some settlements will prosper

1537
01:44:39,622 --> 01:44:42,459
due to their geography
and some will falter.

1538
01:44:42,492 --> 01:44:44,961
So what happens when a group
finds itself with failed crops

1539
01:44:44,994 --> 01:44:46,996
and no way
to survive the winter?

1540
01:44:47,029 --> 01:44:48,598
They may trade
with other groups,

1541
01:44:48,631 --> 01:44:50,600
building out
what we call a market today,

1542
01:44:50,632 --> 01:44:53,669
giving way to the idea
of property and so on.

1543
01:44:53,703 --> 01:44:55,839
Or if they have
nothing to trade, desperate,

1544
01:44:55,872 --> 01:44:59,743
they may invade, they may steal,
compete,

1545
01:44:59,775 --> 01:45:03,145
establishing the need
for protection, laws, armies,

1546
01:45:03,178 --> 01:45:04,914
the state institution itself.

1547
01:45:05,882 --> 01:45:08,518
At the same time people
begin to notice the imbalance

1548
01:45:08,551 --> 01:45:10,887
and power
of this new propertied reality,

1549
01:45:10,919 --> 01:45:14,524
rationalizing the hoarding of wealth
for the sake of future security.

1550
01:45:15,425 --> 01:45:19,895
Hence the birth of inequity,
poverty, socio-economic class.

1551
01:45:20,829 --> 01:45:24,900
Simon, every major structural
aspect of society today,

1552
01:45:24,934 --> 01:45:27,971
from ownership to trade,
to nation states

1553
01:45:28,003 --> 01:45:31,039
to institutional warfare
at the competitive ethic

1554
01:45:31,073 --> 01:45:36,178
to vast economic inequality and
power hierarchy was predictable.

1555
01:45:36,212 --> 01:45:37,647
Snowballing ever since.

1556
01:45:38,814 --> 01:45:43,787
So your theory is if you change
the structure of society

1557
01:45:43,820 --> 01:45:45,789
you change the human condition?

1558
01:45:47,190 --> 01:45:50,693
- There's no going back, John.
- No one's going back.

1559
01:45:50,726 --> 01:45:52,162
We're going forward.

1560
01:45:52,195 --> 01:45:54,497
Humanity has been trapped
in this immature stage

1561
01:45:54,529 --> 01:45:56,899
for too long, not to mention
the sickness manifest

1562
01:45:56,932 --> 01:46:00,602
by this endless striving towards
social status is palpable.

1563
01:46:00,636 --> 01:46:02,472
Children,
when who asked what they want

1564
01:46:02,504 --> 01:46:06,074
to be when they grow up say,
"Rich and famous."

1565
01:46:06,107 --> 01:46:08,977
How the most wealthy nations,
those beacons of supposed

1566
01:46:09,011 --> 01:46:12,649
success are by far
the most mentally ill.

1567
01:46:12,681 --> 01:46:16,218
People don't know who they are,
where they're going

1568
01:46:16,252 --> 01:46:17,720
and what they're doing.

1569
01:46:17,753 --> 01:46:19,990
Lost in a perversion
of social image.

1570
01:46:20,890 --> 01:46:24,127
A spectacle that no longer
has any relationship

1571
01:46:24,159 --> 01:46:25,595
to anything real.

1572
01:46:28,230 --> 01:46:30,166
[door creaking]

1573
01:46:37,707 --> 01:46:38,909
[door thuds]

1574
01:46:43,279 --> 01:46:44,981
[white noise]

1575
01:46:46,748 --> 01:46:49,151
[gentle rock music]

1576
01:47:22,952 --> 01:47:24,154
[dinging]

1577
01:47:25,186 --> 01:47:27,056
[high-pitched whirring]

1578
01:47:55,051 --> 01:47:56,886
[dinging]

1579
01:47:56,918 --> 01:47:58,988
[high-pitched whirring]

1580
01:48:21,610 --> 01:48:23,512
[rock music continues]

1581
01:48:27,382 --> 01:48:28,350
[dinging]

1582
01:48:28,383 --> 01:48:29,985
[high-pitched whirring]

1583
01:48:44,266 --> 01:48:45,635
[dinging]

1584
01:48:45,668 --> 01:48:47,304
[high-pitched whirring]

1585
01:49:17,432 --> 01:49:18,801
[dinging]

1586
01:49:18,833 --> 01:49:21,337
[rock music intensifies]

1587
01:49:48,998 --> 01:49:51,101
[rock music continues
increasing]

1588
01:50:05,914 --> 01:50:07,417
[rock music abruptly stops]

1589
01:50:11,787 --> 01:50:13,990
[white noise]

1590
01:50:25,868 --> 01:50:28,138
[gentle music]

1591
01:50:39,914 --> 01:50:42,284
[director] So I'd like to go back
to the subject of inequality.

1592
01:50:42,318 --> 01:50:44,454
But this time
to understand the mechanics

1593
01:50:44,486 --> 01:50:47,723
of the oppression how the
hierarchy was kept in place?

1594
01:50:47,757 --> 01:50:49,726
Okay, let's start with money.

1595
01:50:49,758 --> 01:50:51,961
[gentle music]

1596
01:50:51,994 --> 01:50:54,831
Money was the infrastructure
of the market economy

1597
01:50:54,864 --> 01:50:56,899
and how it was created
and moved around

1598
01:50:56,931 --> 01:50:59,836
was instrumental
to lower class oppression.

1599
01:50:59,869 --> 01:51:03,206
[Malikan] So you had these
things called banks and they had

1600
01:51:03,239 --> 01:51:07,043
the ungodly power to make
abstract value out of nothing.

1601
01:51:07,075 --> 01:51:11,046
If a person needed money
for a home or car or business,

1602
01:51:11,079 --> 01:51:14,216
they went to their local bank
and applied for a loan,

1603
01:51:14,249 --> 01:51:16,819
and if approved
the person signed a contract

1604
01:51:16,851 --> 01:51:20,822
binding them to return that
loaned money at a future date.

1605
01:51:20,855 --> 01:51:23,024
Though, it's not really a lone

1606
01:51:23,057 --> 01:51:26,294
in the sense of somebody lending
out what they already owned.

1607
01:51:26,328 --> 01:51:28,964
Contrary to what most assumed
banks didn't loan out money

1608
01:51:28,998 --> 01:51:32,268
they actually had,
they instead created new money

1609
01:51:32,301 --> 01:51:35,471
in the form of credit
backed by debt.

1610
01:51:35,503 --> 01:51:37,973
So on one side money represented

1611
01:51:38,007 --> 01:51:40,276
a store of value
people could spend,

1612
01:51:40,309 --> 01:51:43,945
while on the other it was
a liability made out of debt.

1613
01:51:43,979 --> 01:51:46,348
In other words,
for every dollar that existed,

1614
01:51:46,382 --> 01:51:48,484
there was also
a debt of a dollar

1615
01:51:48,516 --> 01:51:50,919
owed to some bank somewhere.

1616
01:51:50,953 --> 01:51:53,289
That was how money was
brought into existence

1617
01:51:53,321 --> 01:51:57,827
and when someone repaid the loan
debt the money then disappeared.

1618
01:51:57,860 --> 01:52:01,030
That understood any
kind of service in that economy

1619
01:52:01,062 --> 01:52:03,800
sought a profit,
and in the case of a loan,

1620
01:52:03,833 --> 01:52:06,869
that came in the form
of a fee called interest.

1621
01:52:06,901 --> 01:52:10,205
So the borrower not only had
to eventually repay the loan

1622
01:52:10,239 --> 01:52:13,009
but also the interest
charged as well.

1623
01:52:14,043 --> 01:52:16,312
[Aleniya] Imagine an
island of a hundred people,

1624
01:52:16,345 --> 01:52:19,882
they decide to organize
themselves through market economy.

1625
01:52:19,914 --> 01:52:22,385
They plop a bank down
and each of them take a loan

1626
01:52:22,418 --> 01:52:25,922
for 100 credits of money
at ten percent interest.

1627
01:52:25,954 --> 01:52:28,557
So they all now have
10,000 credits total

1628
01:52:28,591 --> 01:52:31,227
in their money supply
and they begin to work

1629
01:52:31,260 --> 01:52:34,196
in exchange creating
economic activity.

1630
01:52:34,230 --> 01:52:36,432
When the time comes
to pay back the loan,

1631
01:52:36,464 --> 01:52:40,101
they realized they owe
not only the 100 credits,

1632
01:52:40,135 --> 01:52:43,972
but the ten percent interest,
so 110 credits.

1633
01:52:44,006 --> 01:52:46,042
Same for the whole society,

1634
01:52:46,074 --> 01:52:49,077
in total everyone on
the island now owes the bank

1635
01:52:49,110 --> 01:52:51,079
11,000 credits.

1636
01:52:51,113 --> 01:52:55,318
But yet, only 10,000 actually
exist in the money supply.

1637
01:52:55,351 --> 01:53:00,156
There is now more depth
owed than money in existence

1638
01:53:00,189 --> 01:53:02,024
due to the interest charged.

1639
01:53:02,056 --> 01:53:04,961
So three things can happen:
one, those short

1640
01:53:04,994 --> 01:53:07,230
can take on more loans
to temporarily cover

1641
01:53:07,262 --> 01:53:09,397
the old ones postponing
the problem.

1642
01:53:09,431 --> 01:53:12,268
Two, people could ramp up
competitive trade

1643
01:53:12,301 --> 01:53:14,337
increasing economic activity

1644
01:53:14,369 --> 01:53:17,038
to try to get enough
from others to cover the debt,

1645
01:53:17,071 --> 01:53:20,877
displacing the debt responsibility
like a game of musical chairs.

1646
01:53:20,909 --> 01:53:24,279
Or three, the bank comes in
and takes real property

1647
01:53:24,312 --> 01:53:26,414
to compensate
for the outstanding debt,

1648
01:53:26,448 --> 01:53:30,218
which is inevitably what happens
somewhere down the line anyway.

1649
01:53:30,252 --> 01:53:31,954
[director] Wait, that,
that can't be right.

1650
01:53:31,986 --> 01:53:34,356
That would just be a system
of organized theft.

1651
01:53:34,390 --> 01:53:38,895
Yes, banks were vehicles
of creation on one side,

1652
01:53:38,927 --> 01:53:40,229
and a system of organized theft

1653
01:53:40,262 --> 01:53:42,131
and class oppression
on the other.

1654
01:53:42,163 --> 01:53:45,200
But in a large complex
global society, one based

1655
01:53:45,234 --> 01:53:48,169
on economic growth,
money moves so rapidly

1656
01:53:48,203 --> 01:53:51,007
it was very hard for the mechanics
of this to be recognized.

1657
01:53:51,039 --> 01:53:53,642
Obscured by things
like the boom-and-bust cycle,

1658
01:53:53,676 --> 01:53:56,145
monetary expansion
and contraction.

1659
01:53:57,046 --> 01:54:00,048
- [director] Mm, please continue.
- So back to our island again.

1660
01:54:01,350 --> 01:54:03,686
But this time
for the sake of simplicity,

1661
01:54:03,718 --> 01:54:06,521
let's remove the interest
fee from the equation,

1662
01:54:06,555 --> 01:54:10,559
and focus only on the outcomes
of competitive trade itself.

1663
01:54:10,592 --> 01:54:13,663
[Aleniya] <i>So the 10,000 credits
of money has been moving around</i>

1664
01:54:13,695 --> 01:54:15,997
<i>through trade, labor investment,</i>

1665
01:54:16,030 --> 01:54:18,434
<i>starting businesses,
hiring employees,</i>

1666
01:54:18,467 --> 01:54:21,003
<i>and as is inevitable
to the game,</i>

1667
01:54:21,035 --> 01:54:24,506
<i>some businesses will outperform
winning disproportion income,</i>

1668
01:54:24,539 --> 01:54:27,510
<i>while others will fall
behind losing income.</i>

1669
01:54:27,543 --> 01:54:29,979
<i>And naturally
those with more money</i>

1670
01:54:30,012 --> 01:54:32,982
<i>can then increase
their gaming advantage becoming</i>

1671
01:54:33,015 --> 01:54:37,419
<i>ever more competitive and of
course more prone to keep winning.</i>

1672
01:54:37,453 --> 01:54:40,056
As the old adage went,
the rich get richer

1673
01:54:40,088 --> 01:54:41,723
and the poor get poorer.

1674
01:54:41,757 --> 01:54:44,393
A small business with limited
means simply can't compete

1675
01:54:44,426 --> 01:54:47,730
with a larger one that can
outperform them in the same service

1676
01:54:47,762 --> 01:54:50,699
due to having more
resources to work with.

1677
01:54:50,732 --> 01:54:53,468
[Cynthia] So on our Island,
we see an inevitable

1678
01:54:53,502 --> 01:54:56,571
point in time where say ten
percent of that population

1679
01:54:56,605 --> 01:54:59,542
managed to acquire
90% of the island's wealth

1680
01:54:59,574 --> 01:55:01,443
while the other
90% of the population

1681
01:55:01,476 --> 01:55:03,578
now has only ten percent.

1682
01:55:03,611 --> 01:55:06,716
By the way, this isn't
some arbitrary assumption,

1683
01:55:06,748 --> 01:55:08,984
this can be modeled
mathematically.

1684
01:55:09,017 --> 01:55:12,087
The dynamics of mass
competitive trade in any society

1685
01:55:12,120 --> 01:55:15,024
always moves toward
disequilibrium.

1686
01:55:15,056 --> 01:55:17,726
So back to my point,
when you put this together

1687
01:55:17,760 --> 01:55:21,564
a displaced debt burden
and the application of interest,

1688
01:55:21,596 --> 01:55:24,432
you can begin to see
the insidiousness.

1689
01:55:24,466 --> 01:55:27,570
An economic process based upon
competitive advantage and trade

1690
01:55:27,602 --> 01:55:31,239
that inevitably consolidates
wealth increasing that advantage.

1691
01:55:31,272 --> 01:55:33,542
Coupled with a financial
system that is charging

1692
01:55:33,574 --> 01:55:36,778
interest on loans that can
never be fully repaid.

1693
01:55:36,811 --> 01:55:39,748
So it's no surprise
that in the early 21st century

1694
01:55:39,781 --> 01:55:43,119
the global economy had
about 200 trillion in debt

1695
01:55:43,151 --> 01:55:45,654
and only 80 trillion
in outstanding currency.

1696
01:55:45,686 --> 01:55:47,589
While in the United States,
then considered

1697
01:55:47,623 --> 01:55:49,558
the richest nation
on the planet,

1698
01:55:49,591 --> 01:55:53,396
half of the population had less
than 1,000 dollars in savings

1699
01:55:53,428 --> 01:55:56,731
while also spending more each
year than they actually earned.

1700
01:55:56,765 --> 01:55:58,434
Just trying to keep up.

1701
01:55:59,601 --> 01:56:02,071
While on the global level
in nearly 50 percent

1702
01:56:02,104 --> 01:56:04,406
of the population lived
in poverty on less

1703
01:56:04,440 --> 01:56:08,544
than $5.50 a day
as roughly 30 individuals.

1704
01:56:08,577 --> 01:56:14,249
Yes, 30, owned more wealth than
the bottom half, 3.6 billion.

1705
01:56:15,284 --> 01:56:17,787
Now, there are plenty
of other intermitted things

1706
01:56:17,820 --> 01:56:19,555
that contribute
to this disparity.

1707
01:56:20,455 --> 01:56:22,624
Offshore tax havens
for the rich.

1708
01:56:22,658 --> 01:56:26,095
The mythology of trickle-down
economics were government favors

1709
01:56:26,128 --> 01:56:29,532
business over the public's
well-being, gaming strategies

1710
01:56:29,565 --> 01:56:32,835
to restrict the power
of unions and keep wages low,

1711
01:56:32,868 --> 01:56:35,104
various shenanigans
related to this thing

1712
01:56:35,137 --> 01:56:37,339
called the stock market,

1713
01:56:37,372 --> 01:56:41,077
but the financial system
and its use of depth is really

1714
01:56:41,110 --> 01:56:42,578
the foundation of it all.

1715
01:56:42,610 --> 01:56:44,312
[director]
Wow, you, you,

1716
01:56:44,346 --> 01:56:46,315
you would expect riots
in the streets if people

1717
01:56:46,347 --> 01:56:49,185
- really understood that.
- Well, there eventually were.

1718
01:56:49,217 --> 01:56:51,586
But again, at the time,
people just couldn't see it.

1719
01:56:51,619 --> 01:56:55,256
But, no, it wasn't until
the complete abolition of debt

1720
01:56:55,289 --> 01:56:58,694
on all levels that human slavery
finally ended on this planet.

1721
01:56:59,861 --> 01:57:02,565
[director] Speaking of
awareness I'd like to talk

1722
01:57:02,597 --> 01:57:05,234
a little about
how the awakening started.

1723
01:57:05,266 --> 01:57:07,202
I know Concordia
was instrumental

1724
01:57:07,235 --> 01:57:10,238
to technical change later on,
but what about before that

1725
01:57:10,271 --> 01:57:12,841
perhaps starting
in 20th century?

1726
01:57:12,874 --> 01:57:14,877
Well, it's sporadic.

1727
01:57:14,909 --> 01:57:16,678
The largest move
against this system was

1728
01:57:16,712 --> 01:57:19,615
the Bolshevik Revolution
in Russia inspired by a man

1729
01:57:19,647 --> 01:57:22,618
named Karl Marx, that brought
about the Soviet Union

1730
01:57:22,650 --> 01:57:24,787
which existed
for a couple decades.

1731
01:57:24,820 --> 01:57:27,289
And it employed a top-down
regulation system

1732
01:57:27,321 --> 01:57:29,458
they called communism
but it proved to be

1733
01:57:29,490 --> 01:57:31,392
inefficient and oppressive.

1734
01:57:31,426 --> 01:57:34,396
It was also wildly opposed
by Western capitalist powers,

1735
01:57:34,428 --> 01:57:38,300
which sought to destroy it
by any means necessary.

1736
01:57:38,333 --> 01:57:41,837
Criticism was generally infused
with civil rights movements.

1737
01:57:41,869 --> 01:57:44,873
For example, Mahatma Gandhi,
who helped liberate India

1738
01:57:44,906 --> 01:57:48,244
from Colonial rule,
was notably against the system

1739
01:57:48,276 --> 01:57:50,678
recognizing
its creation of poverty.

1740
01:57:50,712 --> 01:57:54,917
Once saying that "poverty was
the worst form of violence."

1741
01:57:54,949 --> 01:57:56,618
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

1742
01:57:56,651 --> 01:57:59,187
was also steadfast
against capitalism,

1743
01:57:59,221 --> 01:58:01,824
seeing it as a part
of a system of oppression

1744
01:58:01,856 --> 01:58:05,461
fueling racism.
Same for the Black Panther Party

1745
01:58:05,494 --> 01:58:08,564
that had chapters all over
the world in the 1960s.

1746
01:58:08,596 --> 01:58:11,432
You also had more academic
minded organizations

1747
01:58:11,466 --> 01:58:13,334
like the technocracy movement

1748
01:58:13,368 --> 01:58:16,504
largely inspired by famous
economist, Thorstein Veblen,

1749
01:58:16,538 --> 01:58:18,274
who recognize that a society

1750
01:58:18,306 --> 01:58:21,176
run by business people
was a very bad idea.

1751
01:58:21,944 --> 01:58:26,315
[Aleniya] <i>And by the 21st century
when economic inequality was reaching</i>

1752
01:58:26,347 --> 01:58:30,519
<i>unprecedented extremes coupled
with a growing ecological crisis</i>

1753
01:58:30,552 --> 01:58:33,322
<i>many more were realizing
something had to be done.</i>

1754
01:58:34,789 --> 01:58:38,493
But there is one that sticks
out to me in the context

1755
01:58:38,526 --> 01:58:41,430
of the value system disorder
present at the time.

1756
01:58:41,462 --> 01:58:44,232
An iconic speech given
by a man named Omar Padillo.

1757
01:58:44,999 --> 01:58:48,236
Omar was born in poverty
in Los Angeles, California.

1758
01:58:48,270 --> 01:58:50,239
And as a young man,
he just happened to win

1759
01:58:50,271 --> 01:58:54,376
the largest state lottery
ever in 2037 and he decided

1760
01:58:54,409 --> 01:58:58,480
to use that money to solve the vast
homeless crisis in his hometown.

1761
01:58:58,512 --> 01:59:02,251
He funded non-profits,
established housing treatment centers.

1762
01:59:02,284 --> 01:59:03,886
Not only getting people
off the streets,

1763
01:59:03,918 --> 01:59:06,488
but really helping them
recover and acclimate.

1764
01:59:06,520 --> 01:59:08,656
Something that hadn't
been done before.

1765
01:59:08,690 --> 01:59:11,427
And they gave him
a Nobel Peace Prize for it.

1766
01:59:11,459 --> 01:59:13,895
But what he had
to say during his speech

1767
01:59:13,928 --> 01:59:15,864
wasn't exactly
what they expected.

1768
01:59:23,739 --> 01:59:26,508
[audience applauding]

1769
01:59:26,540 --> 01:59:28,778
[solemn music]

1770
01:59:39,020 --> 01:59:40,455
Thank you.

1771
01:59:40,489 --> 01:59:41,757
And while I'm happy for those

1772
01:59:41,789 --> 01:59:43,758
we have helped
over the past few years,

1773
01:59:43,792 --> 01:59:47,762
taking about 75,000 homeless
off the Los Angeles streets,

1774
01:59:47,796 --> 01:59:50,432
I must say that the problem

1775
01:59:50,464 --> 01:59:52,900
at hand runs much deeper
than the poverty

1776
01:59:52,934 --> 01:59:56,437
we see around us.
When I created this program,

1777
01:59:56,471 --> 01:59:59,875
focusing on just
this one regional crises,

1778
01:59:59,908 --> 02:00:02,678
my long-term hope was that
it would set a new precedent.

1779
02:00:02,711 --> 02:00:04,713
That those
who disproportionately benefit

1780
02:00:04,745 --> 02:00:08,350
in this world would be inspired,
step up

1781
02:00:08,382 --> 02:00:11,319
and help take responsibility
for the plight

1782
02:00:11,352 --> 02:00:12,887
of the less fortunate.

1783
02:00:12,921 --> 02:00:15,290
After all, what I have done here

1784
02:00:15,324 --> 02:00:17,793
is merely a patch
that can only help a few.

1785
02:00:17,825 --> 02:00:20,428
For the true source of poverty,

1786
02:00:20,462 --> 02:00:23,665
our social system,
continues to go unaddressed.

1787
02:00:24,665 --> 02:00:27,436
We live in a world
of stories and myths.

1788
02:00:27,468 --> 02:00:30,338
And we've been told that
the vast inequities that we see

1789
02:00:30,372 --> 02:00:33,909
is the price we must pay
for innovation and progress.

1790
02:00:33,941 --> 02:00:35,810
Well, innovation to what end

1791
02:00:35,843 --> 02:00:38,946
and how do we define
this notion of progress?

1792
02:00:38,980 --> 02:00:43,319
For if progress is about how much
one can own, the availability of jobs

1793
02:00:43,351 --> 02:00:46,921
the state of a nation's GDP,
the rise of the stock market,

1794
02:00:46,954 --> 02:00:50,425
or the development of some gadget
to entertain and distract you,

1795
02:00:50,458 --> 02:00:53,695
then we face a serious
existential crisis.

1796
02:00:53,729 --> 02:00:57,598
I submit that true progress can
only be measured in the health,

1797
02:00:57,632 --> 02:01:02,338
stability, integrity and responsible
freedom of a civilization.

1798
02:01:02,370 --> 02:01:05,940
Responsible to ourselves,
responsible to each other

1799
02:01:05,973 --> 02:01:09,544
and responsible to their earthly
habitat we all share.

1800
02:01:09,578 --> 02:01:11,847
And by those measures,
my friends,

1801
02:01:11,879 --> 02:01:14,415
there is now little
progress to be found.

1802
02:01:14,449 --> 02:01:16,852
As we all sit idly by,
presupposing

1803
02:01:16,885 --> 02:01:19,789
that the way society works
is the only way it ever could.

1804
02:01:20,721 --> 02:01:23,891
That said, if it's true
that we must persist

1805
02:01:23,925 --> 02:01:26,528
in this inhumane economic order,

1806
02:01:26,561 --> 02:01:29,531
an order that has proven
it can only create affluence

1807
02:01:29,564 --> 02:01:33,436
for a minority at the cost
of destitution for the majority,

1808
02:01:34,735 --> 02:01:37,939
then our only choice
is to seek a new level

1809
02:01:37,972 --> 02:01:40,542
of humanitarian effort.

1810
02:01:40,574 --> 02:01:42,778
Today, three people
have more wealth

1811
02:01:42,811 --> 02:01:46,482
than the bottom 75%
of the world's population,

1812
02:01:46,515 --> 02:01:48,417
six billion people,

1813
02:01:48,449 --> 02:01:51,753
the total wealth of the 4,000
billionaires out there

1814
02:01:51,787 --> 02:01:55,691
have the means to end global
poverty a hundred times over,

1815
02:01:55,723 --> 02:01:59,395
and yet if you study
their philanthropy,

1816
02:01:59,427 --> 02:02:02,131
it is clear that they are
far more concerned

1817
02:02:02,163 --> 02:02:04,867
with their own interests,
their own comforts,

1818
02:02:04,900 --> 02:02:07,870
than working to counter this
ongoing structural violence.

1819
02:02:09,937 --> 02:02:13,141
You see there's a deeper
kind of poverty here.

1820
02:02:14,575 --> 02:02:18,579
A spiritual poverty,
a poverty that grows a culture

1821
02:02:18,613 --> 02:02:22,450
of sociopaths and the more
they have, the more they want,

1822
02:02:22,484 --> 02:02:24,153
and the less they seem
to care otherwise.

1823
02:02:24,186 --> 02:02:28,490
Moral bankruptcy hiding
behind this age-old story

1824
02:02:28,522 --> 02:02:31,793
that one can have a billion dollars
in the bank while others starve

1825
02:02:31,827 --> 02:02:34,864
is somehow natural
to the human condition.

1826
02:02:38,199 --> 02:02:40,668
In a number of months
my program will end

1827
02:02:41,570 --> 02:02:44,106
as the funds will be gone.

1828
02:02:44,138 --> 02:02:48,944
And to date not one wealthy,
so-called philanthropist

1829
02:02:48,976 --> 02:02:51,146
has offered to help keep
the program running.

1830
02:02:54,048 --> 02:02:57,185
Now I know this event
is about peace,

1831
02:02:57,218 --> 02:03:00,655
but it must be understood
that the wealthy of this world,

1832
02:03:00,689 --> 02:03:05,694
those at the root of true
political power are sick.

1833
02:03:05,726 --> 02:03:09,464
Their priorities have nothing
to do with true progress.

1834
02:03:09,498 --> 02:03:12,101
And the time
for tolerance is over.

1835
02:03:13,735 --> 02:03:17,639
The billionaire's of this world
are not symbols of success.

1836
02:03:17,672 --> 02:03:20,676
They are symbols of violence.

1837
02:03:25,113 --> 02:03:27,016
And until that violence ends,

1838
02:03:29,717 --> 02:03:32,253
there will be no peace
on this planet.

1839
02:03:32,287 --> 02:03:34,957
[somber music]

1840
02:03:56,744 --> 02:03:57,712
[sighs]

1841
02:04:06,754 --> 02:04:08,990
I am sorry, Peter. Can we cut?

1842
02:04:09,958 --> 02:04:11,026
[Peter]
Cut!

1843
02:04:13,194 --> 02:04:15,263
Well, it's, you know,
it's this opening section.

1844
02:04:15,297 --> 02:04:19,635
I'm... I'm still not getting it.
I know we've been through it but, uh,

1845
02:04:19,668 --> 02:04:21,870
- it's just not landing for me.
- [Peter] I'm just going to keep rolling here.

1846
02:04:21,903 --> 02:04:23,805
Can you grab that
color swatch for me?

1847
02:04:23,837 --> 02:04:25,940
You have to think about
the interpretation in reference

1848
02:04:25,973 --> 02:04:27,976
- to the...
- [Simon] All right. Thank you.

1849
02:04:30,145 --> 02:04:32,580
This tripod head is toilet.

1850
02:04:35,583 --> 02:04:37,685
You know,
my latte was cold this morning.

1851
02:04:37,718 --> 02:04:39,620
And that's my problem because?

1852
02:04:39,654 --> 02:04:42,723
Okay, okay, I, I think I got it.

1853
02:04:42,757 --> 02:04:44,626
- Thanks.
- [Peter] No problem. All right

1854
02:04:44,659 --> 02:04:46,161
- everybody, let's move.
- [sighs]

1855
02:04:46,194 --> 02:04:49,330
Jesus, take a screenwriting
class for Christ's sake.

1856
02:04:49,364 --> 02:04:52,301
No one's going to understand
any of this shit.

1857
02:04:52,333 --> 02:04:53,801
- [Peter] Camera?
- [man] Rolling.

1858
02:04:53,834 --> 02:04:55,770
- [Peter] Audio?
- [woman] Speeding.

1859
02:04:55,803 --> 02:04:57,071
[man 2]
Slate.

1860
02:04:57,105 --> 02:04:59,341
[man 3]
Scene 37, take 23.

1861
02:04:59,373 --> 02:05:00,642
[clicks]

1862
02:05:01,775 --> 02:05:03,311
[playful music]

1863
02:05:03,345 --> 02:05:06,048
[audience applauding]

1864
02:05:08,115 --> 02:05:10,886
What if I told you, John,
what many see

1865
02:05:10,918 --> 02:05:15,289
as problems in the world are
actually solutions in transition.

1866
02:05:15,323 --> 02:05:16,825
Is that some kind
of Taoist riddle?

1867
02:05:16,857 --> 02:05:18,694
[audience laughing]

1868
02:05:20,160 --> 02:05:23,332
Poverty, crime, war, disease,
even the ongoing

1869
02:05:23,364 --> 02:05:25,333
destruction of the habitat.

1870
02:05:25,367 --> 02:05:28,102
What if they were
actually productive forces

1871
02:05:28,136 --> 02:05:29,939
assisting a larger end?

1872
02:05:31,038 --> 02:05:33,007
I'd suggest you lighten up
on the Nietzsche.

1873
02:05:33,040 --> 02:05:34,877
[audience laughing]

1874
02:05:37,345 --> 02:05:40,649
What separate us from
the rest of the animal kingdom

1875
02:05:40,681 --> 02:05:44,118
is that we have
no natural predators.

1876
02:05:44,151 --> 02:05:47,989
Nothing out there to snatch us
up for an afternoon snack.

1877
02:05:48,022 --> 02:05:52,727
We're also uniquely aware of
our own mortality and fight it

1878
02:05:52,761 --> 02:05:56,765
with hospitals, medicine,
inoculations.

1879
02:05:56,797 --> 02:05:59,800
Little stopping us
from reproducing

1880
02:05:59,833 --> 02:06:02,336
to the very limit of our host,

1881
02:06:02,369 --> 02:06:04,305
at least not externally.

1882
02:06:04,338 --> 02:06:08,243
Evolution had to do something
a bit different with us.

1883
02:06:09,310 --> 02:06:14,016
So, instead,
<i>we</i> are our own predators.

1884
02:06:15,115 --> 02:06:17,352
Predator and prey in one.

1885
02:06:19,354 --> 02:06:20,388
How convenient.

1886
02:06:20,422 --> 02:06:23,158
[audience laughing]

1887
02:06:23,190 --> 02:06:26,360
Which explains not only
why humans murder each other

1888
02:06:26,394 --> 02:06:30,132
at a rate unparalleled
by any other species,

1889
02:06:30,164 --> 02:06:34,235
but also why we've generated
a social structure

1890
02:06:34,269 --> 02:06:39,908
that by systemic force further
ensures a consistent rate

1891
02:06:39,940 --> 02:06:41,843
of premature mortality.

1892
02:06:43,177 --> 02:06:47,082
- You mean structural violence.
- Embedded into the very design

1893
02:06:47,114 --> 02:06:48,983
of civilization itself.

1894
02:06:50,318 --> 02:06:52,988
So that is what
the Malthusian Mandate does,

1895
02:06:53,020 --> 02:06:54,889
regulate
how to kill off the week.

1896
02:06:55,890 --> 02:06:59,461
No, the Mandate
isn't a policy of action.

1897
02:06:59,494 --> 02:07:02,764
It's a policy of inaction,
a commitment

1898
02:07:02,797 --> 02:07:05,901
not to interfere with the
natural course of the system.

1899
02:07:07,202 --> 02:07:09,870
So the invisible hand
of the market has a machete.

1900
02:07:09,904 --> 02:07:11,940
[audience laughing]

1901
02:07:16,377 --> 02:07:18,245
I don't expect
to win you over, John.

1902
02:07:18,279 --> 02:07:20,214
I'm just telling you
the way it is.

1903
02:07:20,248 --> 02:07:21,817
I agree it's ugly.

1904
02:07:21,850 --> 02:07:23,718
But without the premature death

1905
02:07:23,752 --> 02:07:26,788
that capitalism brings
in the form of inequality

1906
02:07:26,820 --> 02:07:30,091
that planet would have flown
off its access long ago.

1907
02:07:32,894 --> 02:07:33,962
As you know,

1908
02:07:34,962 --> 02:07:37,298
the Industrial Revolution
set in motion

1909
02:07:37,332 --> 02:07:40,736
population growth
that was hyperbolic.

1910
02:07:40,769 --> 02:07:43,805
And out of the 70 million
who now die each year

1911
02:07:43,837 --> 02:07:46,774
30 million do so
because of unequal conditions.

1912
02:07:47,542 --> 02:07:49,211
So 40 percent
of all global deaths

1913
02:07:49,244 --> 02:07:50,779
are structurally inflicted,

1914
02:07:50,811 --> 02:07:52,446
you know,
there's a word for that, Simon.

1915
02:07:52,480 --> 02:07:54,149
Oh, don't be dramatic.

1916
02:07:54,181 --> 02:07:57,251
Again, this is system-level
behavior, John.

1917
02:07:57,284 --> 02:08:00,187
Not some nefarious conspiracy.

1918
02:08:00,221 --> 02:08:02,357
You want to know
what the population would be

1919
02:08:02,390 --> 02:08:03,925
if this wasn't the case?

1920
02:08:03,958 --> 02:08:06,895
If we removed inequality
driven mortality

1921
02:08:06,927 --> 02:08:10,231
for the last 100 years
accounting for fertility,

1922
02:08:10,265 --> 02:08:12,434
about 16 billion
would be sucking up

1923
02:08:12,467 --> 02:08:14,836
resources on that planet today

1924
02:08:14,869 --> 02:08:18,906
with a carrying capacity
still at only ten billion.

1925
02:08:18,940 --> 02:08:21,009
And you think
things are messing now.

1926
02:08:22,342 --> 02:08:24,311
First of all, Simon.

1927
02:08:24,345 --> 02:08:26,981
When the great Reverend
Thomas Malthus decided

1928
02:08:27,015 --> 02:08:29,851
population would forever
outpace resources,

1929
02:08:29,883 --> 02:08:31,520
only one billion existed.

1930
02:08:31,552 --> 02:08:34,890
We're almost ten times that
now despite his projections.

1931
02:08:34,922 --> 02:08:36,223
Second, in the modern era,

1932
02:08:36,257 --> 02:08:37,559
the greatest predictor
of regional

1933
02:08:37,592 --> 02:08:40,028
overpopulation
is poverty itself.

1934
02:08:40,061 --> 02:08:42,898
If the world ever did abolish
it, increasing education,

1935
02:08:42,931 --> 02:08:45,200
population growth
would dramatically slow

1936
02:08:45,232 --> 02:08:47,936
likely approaching equilibrium.

1937
02:08:47,968 --> 02:08:50,404
Your 16 billion number
doesn't account for that.

1938
02:08:50,437 --> 02:08:52,440
And third,
you're completely disregarding

1939
02:08:52,472 --> 02:08:54,475
what the Fullerian study
proved long ago,

1940
02:08:54,508 --> 02:08:56,578
a study sanctioned
by your own department.

1941
02:08:56,610 --> 02:08:59,980
The Fullerian study
was purely theoretical, John.

1942
02:09:00,013 --> 02:09:03,185
A model only possible
if humans magically conform

1943
02:09:03,217 --> 02:09:06,854
to strict sustainability
and efficiency principles.

1944
02:09:06,887 --> 02:09:09,557
It required
a completely egalitarian

1945
02:09:09,591 --> 02:09:12,260
structure
without money and markets.

1946
02:09:12,293 --> 02:09:16,565
A fantasy given once again
the reality of human nature.

1947
02:09:16,597 --> 02:09:19,133
Fantasy or not,
the study was clear.

1948
02:09:19,167 --> 02:09:21,837
Not only can the Earth
hold upwards of 30 billion,

1949
02:09:21,869 --> 02:09:24,271
it can do so with each having
a standard of living equivalent

1950
02:09:24,305 --> 02:09:26,074
to today's upper-middle-class.

1951
02:09:26,106 --> 02:09:29,043
Yeah, again,
assuming equal distribution,

1952
02:09:29,077 --> 02:09:30,544
which is absurd.

1953
02:09:30,578 --> 02:09:32,547
Humans have infinite wants.

1954
02:09:32,579 --> 02:09:35,182
No... they don't.

1955
02:09:35,216 --> 02:09:37,986
Infinite wants
is a value disorder,

1956
02:09:38,019 --> 02:09:41,056
inspired by an economy that needs
infinite consumption to work.

1957
02:09:41,088 --> 02:09:44,158
People are just as prone to be
minimalist as they are materialist.

1958
02:09:44,191 --> 02:09:46,293
Comes down
to the social condition.

1959
02:09:46,327 --> 02:09:49,030
Today, if people didn't have
highly acquisitive values,

1960
02:09:50,030 --> 02:09:51,632
the entire economy
would collapse.

1961
02:09:51,665 --> 02:09:53,968
Fine, believe what you want,
John.

1962
02:09:54,002 --> 02:09:56,037
It's all moot anyway.

1963
02:09:56,070 --> 02:09:58,073
You asked me
what the Malthusian Mandate

1964
02:09:58,105 --> 02:10:00,007
was and I'm telling you.

1965
02:10:00,040 --> 02:10:01,275
Whether you like it or not,

1966
02:10:01,309 --> 02:10:04,245
this is the reality
of things today.

1967
02:10:05,279 --> 02:10:06,414
[buzzing]

1968
02:10:09,383 --> 02:10:10,985
We got Mandate metadata,

1969
02:10:11,019 --> 02:10:12,287
please tell me
this is recording.

1970
02:10:12,320 --> 02:10:13,288
It certainly is.

1971
02:10:14,555 --> 02:10:16,458
Looks like John
got his subterfuge.

1972
02:10:17,557 --> 02:10:19,426
So how's this organized then?

1973
02:10:19,459 --> 02:10:22,963
- Tracking demographics and mechanisms?
- [Simon] We are.

1974
02:10:22,997 --> 02:10:25,200
As you'll notice conditions
related to absolute

1975
02:10:25,232 --> 02:10:27,468
poverty in the third world
countries account

1976
02:10:27,502 --> 02:10:30,305
for about 40 percent
of all premature deaths.

1977
02:10:30,337 --> 02:10:32,339
And I see you're also tracking
poverty related illness

1978
02:10:32,373 --> 02:10:34,476
and violence
in the industrialized nations.

1979
02:10:34,508 --> 02:10:37,578
With heart diseases,
cancer and diabetes

1980
02:10:37,611 --> 02:10:39,180
remaining at the top,

1981
02:10:39,212 --> 02:10:41,348
while suicide,
inner-city gang warfare

1982
02:10:41,382 --> 02:10:44,286
and drug overdoses
coming a close second.

1983
02:10:44,319 --> 02:10:46,421
What about deep
stomach relationships?

1984
02:10:46,454 --> 02:10:48,023
Lack of education,
childhood stress?

1985
02:10:48,056 --> 02:10:50,091
Correlated as well.

1986
02:10:50,123 --> 02:10:52,327
Actually, very consistent.

1987
02:10:52,360 --> 02:10:56,330
Regional cycles of deprivation
are like clockwork.

1988
02:10:56,364 --> 02:11:00,101
Poor families continue
to produce more poor families,

1989
02:11:00,133 --> 02:11:03,238
- even in the richest states.
- And the mechanisms?

1990
02:11:03,270 --> 02:11:06,340
Standard class war stuff.
Only difference now

1991
02:11:06,373 --> 02:11:09,010
is ecological
and climate crisis,

1992
02:11:09,043 --> 02:11:11,179
which has rapidly
increased mortality

1993
02:11:11,212 --> 02:11:14,449
in poverty-stricken desert
and coastal regions.

1994
02:11:14,481 --> 02:11:16,484
But the same story otherwise.

1995
02:11:16,516 --> 02:11:19,053
The rich get richer
with disproportional

1996
02:11:19,087 --> 02:11:20,689
opportunity in capital.

1997
02:11:20,721 --> 02:11:22,256
The political establishment

1998
02:11:22,289 --> 02:11:24,525
favors business
and wealthy interests

1999
02:11:24,559 --> 02:11:26,994
over social support programs,

2000
02:11:27,028 --> 02:11:31,065
and the banking system keeps
a solid stranglehold on social

2001
02:11:31,098 --> 02:11:36,203
mobility by saturating the lower
class in insurmountable debt.

2002
02:11:36,236 --> 02:11:38,138
Same on the global level

2003
02:11:38,172 --> 02:11:40,508
through international
finance institutions,

2004
02:11:40,540 --> 02:11:44,511
structural adjustments,
austerity sanctions.

2005
02:11:44,544 --> 02:11:47,382
In fact,
the financial system is really

2006
02:11:47,414 --> 02:11:50,284
the glue that holds
all this together

2007
02:11:50,318 --> 02:11:52,686
keeping constant
downward pressure

2008
02:11:52,720 --> 02:11:55,289
on the impecunious masses.

2009
02:11:58,693 --> 02:12:01,296
[loud rumbling]

2010
02:12:06,066 --> 02:12:07,636
[robotic buzzing]

2011
02:12:09,537 --> 02:12:11,973
[traffic noises]

2012
02:12:40,767 --> 02:12:44,071
[ominous music]

2013
02:13:11,298 --> 02:13:14,403
[eerie music]

2014
02:13:56,577 --> 02:13:58,280
[ominous music increasing]

2015
02:14:02,883 --> 02:14:07,855
[announcement] <i>Final warning.
Please evacuate proximal region.</i>

2016
02:14:09,156 --> 02:14:12,860
<i>Program will commence in ten,</i>

2017
02:14:12,894 --> 02:14:19,501
<i>nine, eight, seven, six,</i>

2018
02:14:19,534 --> 02:14:22,637
<i>five, four...</i>

2019
02:14:30,378 --> 02:14:32,781
[building rumbles]

2020
02:14:36,551 --> 02:14:39,120
[muffled rumbling]

2021
02:14:44,792 --> 02:14:46,861
[glass shattering]

2022
02:14:57,238 --> 02:14:59,508
[gentle music]

2023
02:15:01,242 --> 02:15:04,512
[Malikan] Centuries ago humans
discovered hydrocarbon energy,

2024
02:15:04,544 --> 02:15:06,881
fossil fuels,
and for a good chunk of time,

2025
02:15:06,913 --> 02:15:10,350
it was a critical mechanism
advancing civilization,

2026
02:15:10,383 --> 02:15:12,386
but after a while
it became obvious that

2027
02:15:12,419 --> 02:15:15,923
its continued use posed
insurmountable repercussions,

2028
02:15:15,957 --> 02:15:17,892
damaging the environment.

2029
02:15:17,925 --> 02:15:20,328
So we eventually had
to stop using it completely,

2030
02:15:20,360 --> 02:15:23,430
figuring out other means.
And this is a good analogy

2031
02:15:23,463 --> 02:15:27,668
as to why we also needed
to transcend that social system.

2032
02:15:27,702 --> 02:15:29,537
I look at capitalism

2033
02:15:29,570 --> 02:15:32,874
as an adolescent stage
in the growth of civilization.

2034
02:15:32,906 --> 02:15:36,543
Let's let loose and have people
be selfish building and creating

2035
02:15:36,577 --> 02:15:40,614
in a belligerent manner
with no regard for consequences.

2036
02:15:40,647 --> 02:15:43,618
And we learned a lot.
I think without this phase,

2037
02:15:43,650 --> 02:15:46,687
we wouldn't have been able
to recognize and amplify

2038
02:15:46,721 --> 02:15:49,624
what really makes us
unique as a species.

2039
02:15:49,656 --> 02:15:52,493
We started as DNA
moving from simplicity

2040
02:15:52,525 --> 02:15:55,796
to complexity evolving
a brain with consciousness,

2041
02:15:55,829 --> 02:15:58,365
while blessed
with a profound social nature,

2042
02:15:58,399 --> 02:16:00,968
merging us into a truly
global consciousness

2043
02:16:01,002 --> 02:16:03,571
continuing this expansion.

2044
02:16:03,604 --> 02:16:06,374
Not through our biology
but through the sharing

2045
02:16:06,406 --> 02:16:09,276
of knowledge,
cultural evolution.

2046
02:16:10,444 --> 02:16:13,615
There was a great library
in a city called Alexandria

2047
02:16:13,647 --> 02:16:16,484
long, long ago, and
it contained some of the most

2048
02:16:16,516 --> 02:16:19,553
foundational texts
of human civilization.

2049
02:16:19,587 --> 02:16:22,323
And sadly
it was destroyed in war.

2050
02:16:22,355 --> 02:16:24,591
Many centuries later,
a famous astronomer named

2051
02:16:24,624 --> 02:16:26,927
Carl Sagan,
commented on the subject,

2052
02:16:38,472 --> 02:16:41,042
So the great question
of scientific and hence,

2053
02:16:41,074 --> 02:16:44,545
economic progress,
inevitably becomes,

2054
02:16:50,518 --> 02:16:53,354
How do we harness
our different talents and skills

2055
02:16:53,386 --> 02:16:55,890
to bring out our best potential,

2056
02:16:55,922 --> 02:16:59,060
not only as individuals,
but as a civilization?

2057
02:16:59,092 --> 02:17:01,329
We know the hardware,
so to speak.

2058
02:17:01,361 --> 02:17:04,298
A finite yet profoundly
regenerative planet

2059
02:17:04,331 --> 02:17:05,999
bound by laws of nature

2060
02:17:06,033 --> 02:17:08,836
with our species part
of a delicate ecosystem

2061
02:17:08,868 --> 02:17:11,038
sharing common ground.

2062
02:17:11,072 --> 02:17:13,675
[Aleniya] The true measure
of economic progress

2063
02:17:13,707 --> 02:17:15,943
is simply doing more with less.

2064
02:17:15,975 --> 02:17:19,780
Efficiency, the ability to build
something for a given purpose

2065
02:17:19,813 --> 02:17:23,417
that is not only better than
what came before it in utility,

2066
02:17:23,450 --> 02:17:26,753
but also better in terms
of reducing the amount of labor,

2067
02:17:26,786 --> 02:17:30,057
energy and resources
required to make it work.

2068
02:17:30,090 --> 02:17:33,827
Which means it all
comes down to design.

2069
02:17:34,795 --> 02:17:36,698
And back to my point
about markets,

2070
02:17:36,731 --> 02:17:39,066
the infrastructure
it created set the groundwork

2071
02:17:39,099 --> 02:17:42,869
for powerful new means
to merge human talent and skill.

2072
02:17:42,902 --> 02:17:46,006
We just needed to remove
the counter-productive aspects.

2073
02:17:46,039 --> 02:17:48,842
And, needless to say,
wasteful human competition,

2074
02:17:48,875 --> 02:17:52,946
proprietary knowledge, and people
motivated to sell things over and over

2075
02:17:52,980 --> 02:17:57,018
to feed a system of infinite
growth wasn't going to work.

2076
02:17:57,051 --> 02:18:00,822
There had to be a way to bridge
minds and solve problems directly,

2077
02:18:00,855 --> 02:18:04,559
not by proxy of market
competition and profit.

2078
02:18:04,591 --> 02:18:06,993
I think the smartest thing
we ever did as a society

2079
02:18:07,027 --> 02:18:11,132
was the adoption of an open
source, shared resource commons.

2080
02:18:11,164 --> 02:18:14,702
It exponentially catapulted
our problem solving creativity.

2081
02:18:14,734 --> 02:18:17,571
We ended corporations,
localized communities,

2082
02:18:17,605 --> 02:18:19,573
and shared all knowledge.

2083
02:18:19,607 --> 02:18:21,409
In fact,
if it wasn't for that move,

2084
02:18:21,441 --> 02:18:23,744
I really don't think we would've
solved the climate crisis

2085
02:18:23,777 --> 02:18:26,446
and all the other ecological
and social problems

2086
02:18:26,480 --> 02:18:28,116
we faced
before the Great Transition.

2087
02:18:29,082 --> 02:18:32,720
I still stand in awe today
at the stunningly productive

2088
02:18:32,752 --> 02:18:35,489
collective design
processes we created,

2089
02:18:35,522 --> 02:18:39,726
where status is driven not by
differential competition for gain,

2090
02:18:39,759 --> 02:18:42,129
but by the degree
of your contribution:

2091
02:18:42,162 --> 02:18:45,031
how dedicated you are
to problem solving and creation,

2092
02:18:45,064 --> 02:18:48,970
working to improve
the fabric of society itself.

2093
02:18:49,002 --> 02:18:52,706
We also realized the true
purpose of a means of production

2094
02:18:52,740 --> 02:18:55,176
based upon automated technology.

2095
02:18:55,208 --> 02:18:57,578
Not as some brute
industrial mechanism

2096
02:18:57,610 --> 02:19:00,481
to produce an endless
stream of arbitrary goods,

2097
02:19:00,513 --> 02:19:04,018
but as a way to free ourselves
from uncreative labor,

2098
02:19:04,051 --> 02:19:07,588
not to mention improving
efficiency and safety.

2099
02:19:07,620 --> 02:19:09,857
And one final
evolution worth noting

2100
02:19:09,890 --> 02:19:12,693
was the removal
of the price system.

2101
02:19:12,725 --> 02:19:15,128
People stuck these numbers
on everything

2102
02:19:15,161 --> 02:19:18,899
that suggested
some kind of earthly value.

2103
02:19:18,932 --> 02:19:22,937
The numbers were a result
of a particularly crude equation

2104
02:19:22,970 --> 02:19:25,473
dealing with the supply
and demand.

2105
02:19:25,506 --> 02:19:27,775
And while the high priests
of the market religion

2106
02:19:27,807 --> 02:19:30,845
saw those price decrees
as the word of God,

2107
02:19:30,877 --> 02:19:34,815
the truth was any price value
determined by market dynamics alone

2108
02:19:34,849 --> 02:19:36,918
was woefully incomplete.

2109
02:19:36,950 --> 02:19:38,852
And the only term to know
in regard to that

2110
02:19:38,885 --> 02:19:41,721
is negative market externality.

2111
02:19:41,754 --> 02:19:45,827
These are cost values unaccounted
for by the market price equation

2112
02:19:45,859 --> 02:19:48,028
related to damage
done by industry.

2113
02:19:48,062 --> 02:19:50,465
For example,
in the early 21st century,

2114
02:19:50,498 --> 02:19:54,836
the running price of hydrocarbon
energy was in a particular range.

2115
02:19:54,868 --> 02:19:57,003
But yet,
there was actually an additional

2116
02:19:57,036 --> 02:20:00,675
5.3 trillion dollars
in cost every year

2117
02:20:00,707 --> 02:20:02,843
as people worked
to clean up the damage

2118
02:20:02,876 --> 02:20:06,012
the use of hydrocarbons
was doing to the planet.

2119
02:20:06,045 --> 02:20:09,950
[Aleniya] Same for the plastics
industry, a serious problem back then.

2120
02:20:09,983 --> 02:20:15,555
It had an externalized cost
of 2.5 trillion dollars a year

2121
02:20:15,589 --> 02:20:17,792
just to clean up the oceans.

2122
02:20:17,824 --> 02:20:19,759
[Malikan]
In fact, if you went back

2123
02:20:19,793 --> 02:20:22,762
and did the accounting
for global industry as a whole

2124
02:20:22,795 --> 02:20:25,499
factoring in these negative
market externalities,

2125
02:20:25,533 --> 02:20:28,569
again, these costs not reflected
in the set prices,

2126
02:20:28,601 --> 02:20:31,571
you would find that
no company on the planet

2127
02:20:31,605 --> 02:20:33,173
was actually even profitable.

2128
02:20:34,073 --> 02:20:37,777
So, of course today we have a very
different system of accounting.

2129
02:20:37,811 --> 02:20:42,182
We know almost exactly what's happening
or could happen in downstream effects

2130
02:20:42,215 --> 02:20:46,686
and we improve our total system efficiency
every single year because of it.

2131
02:20:46,720 --> 02:20:49,189
It's a true economy,
in other words.

2132
02:20:50,257 --> 02:20:53,727
[Vivian] And all of this creates a
very different social atmosphere.

2133
02:20:53,760 --> 02:20:56,296
Today our incentives
are aligned.

2134
02:20:56,330 --> 02:20:58,866
No one cuts corners,
there's no reason to.

2135
02:20:58,899 --> 02:21:01,068
No one is trying
to improve some bottom line

2136
02:21:01,100 --> 02:21:03,637
by disregarding
our ecological stewardship

2137
02:21:03,670 --> 02:21:05,772
or the well-being of others.

2138
02:21:05,805 --> 02:21:07,908
We finally got it right.

2139
02:21:07,941 --> 02:21:09,743
[Aleniya] And I compare
the footage of the way

2140
02:21:09,777 --> 02:21:13,080
people behaved back then
to the way they do now.

2141
02:21:13,113 --> 02:21:17,885
It's an astounding amount of pride
and community, meaning and purpose.

2142
02:21:17,918 --> 02:21:20,654
They don't feel alone.

2143
02:21:20,688 --> 02:21:24,058
They know they have support,
not just from their friends and family,

2144
02:21:24,090 --> 02:21:27,294
but from the very design
of the social system itself,

2145
02:21:28,261 --> 02:21:30,731
a system designed
to actually care.

2146
02:21:33,233 --> 02:21:34,135
Imagine that.

2147
02:21:37,136 --> 02:21:39,172
[loud traffic]

2148
02:21:47,013 --> 02:21:48,048
[horn faintly honks]

2149
02:21:54,221 --> 02:21:56,223
[horn honking loudly]

2150
02:21:56,256 --> 02:21:58,293
[train softly rattling]

2151
02:22:37,998 --> 02:22:40,034
[train rattles loudly]

2152
02:22:45,171 --> 02:22:46,707
[rattling stops]

2153
02:22:50,077 --> 02:22:52,813
[soft gentle music]

2154
02:23:05,091 --> 02:23:07,127
[men speaking indistinctively]

2155
02:23:45,365 --> 02:23:47,869
[man speaking
with distorted voice]

2156
02:23:56,876 --> 02:23:59,379
[man speaking
with distorted voice]

2157
02:24:19,900 --> 02:24:21,334
[softly scoffs]

2158
02:24:21,367 --> 02:24:23,303
The low polygon people are here.

2159
02:24:27,807 --> 02:24:28,875
[sighs]

2160
02:24:30,243 --> 02:24:33,114
- I wish they'd go back to their own resolution.
- [softly chuckles]

2161
02:24:45,793 --> 02:24:47,829
[distorted chat continues]

2162
02:25:09,182 --> 02:25:11,218
[gentle music]

2163
02:25:58,531 --> 02:25:59,432
[loud whoosh]

2164
02:25:59,465 --> 02:26:01,501
[ominous music]

2165
02:26:10,577 --> 02:26:13,413
How are you still standing?
What is that your tenth drink?

2166
02:26:19,319 --> 02:26:20,221
[joyful sigh]

2167
02:26:21,654 --> 02:26:22,856
Apple juice.

2168
02:26:22,890 --> 02:26:25,059
[loud beeps]

2169
02:26:25,091 --> 02:26:26,126
What's that?

2170
02:26:27,627 --> 02:26:30,497
That is a breach alarm.

2171
02:26:30,529 --> 02:26:33,400
[clicks tongue] Looks like Orion
is continuing through our security.

2172
02:26:34,367 --> 02:26:37,437
And on that note, John,
I need to know your intent.

2173
02:26:37,471 --> 02:26:41,307
I've explained the Mandate and how
it's far bigger than both of us.

2174
02:26:41,340 --> 02:26:44,043
Policy of inaction is still
a policy of action, Simon.

2175
02:26:44,077 --> 02:26:46,347
Well, if you'd like,
we could continue

2176
02:26:46,379 --> 02:26:48,414
this colorful debate
another time.

2177
02:26:48,447 --> 02:26:50,851
Assuming you're willing
to assist us here now.

2178
02:26:53,420 --> 02:26:56,190
Signal source,
what are the regional markers?

2179
02:26:58,926 --> 02:27:01,127
- Well...
- [high beeps]

2180
02:27:01,161 --> 02:27:02,596
...that's part of the problem.

2181
02:27:02,628 --> 02:27:04,464
The best we have
is a desert region

2182
02:27:04,498 --> 02:27:05,932
on the west side
of North America

2183
02:27:05,965 --> 02:27:08,068
about 10,000 square miles.

2184
02:27:08,100 --> 02:27:10,403
It's not too horrible.
I assume your satellites

2185
02:27:10,437 --> 02:27:12,206
have been scanning
more remote terrain.

2186
02:27:12,239 --> 02:27:15,242
Of course, nothing out
of the ordinary has been seen.

2187
02:27:15,275 --> 02:27:18,279
What about surveillance gaps?
Are the satellite passes seamless?

2188
02:27:18,312 --> 02:27:21,448
For the most part,
there are some periodic latitudinal gaps,

2189
02:27:21,481 --> 02:27:23,517
but they only last a few hours.

2190
02:27:23,550 --> 02:27:26,587
Is it possible Orion is aware
of them? Exploiting them?

2191
02:27:28,622 --> 02:27:31,224
- That's what I'd do.
- I suppose,

2192
02:27:31,258 --> 02:27:32,693
but highly unlikely.

2193
02:27:32,725 --> 02:27:34,627
They would have
to already be in our system

2194
02:27:34,661 --> 02:27:36,297
to know the trajectories.

2195
02:27:37,263 --> 02:27:38,331
Show me the gaps.

2196
02:27:41,600 --> 02:27:42,636
You want my help or not?

2197
02:27:45,438 --> 02:27:46,539
[high pitched whirring]

2198
02:27:46,572 --> 02:27:47,474
[sharp beep]

2199
02:27:50,743 --> 02:27:52,212
Zoom into the area in question.

2200
02:27:52,244 --> 02:27:53,179
[high pitched whirring]

2201
02:27:54,348 --> 02:27:55,582
Perfect.

2202
02:27:55,615 --> 02:27:57,184
Hold it right there, John.

2203
02:27:58,685 --> 02:28:01,221
We've already conducted
sub sonar scans.

2204
02:28:01,253 --> 02:28:04,490
If they're underground, they're
using some kind of reflective shield.

2205
02:28:04,524 --> 02:28:06,293
But what I think
would be best for you

2206
02:28:06,325 --> 02:28:08,428
is to analyze
the signal code itself,

2207
02:28:08,462 --> 02:28:10,364
see if you can find a signature.

2208
02:28:14,434 --> 02:28:15,436
[Simon]
John?

2209
02:28:16,570 --> 02:28:19,172
Yeah, sorry,
I was just thinking.

2210
02:28:20,406 --> 02:28:24,178
Hey, remember that Aqua Terraformation
project we worked on years ago?

2211
02:28:24,211 --> 02:28:25,645
[soft tense music]

2212
02:28:25,679 --> 02:28:27,715
Sounds like you need
to get some sleep.

2213
02:28:27,748 --> 02:28:30,083
Your attention span is going.

2214
02:28:30,116 --> 02:28:32,118
- And of course...
- [high beeps]

2215
02:28:32,152 --> 02:28:36,457
...how can I forget?
Ionized nanotech pop-up islands

2216
02:28:36,490 --> 02:28:37,524
from seawater.

2217
02:28:37,556 --> 02:28:39,759
Too bad it never worked.

2218
02:28:39,793 --> 02:28:41,595
We could've extended populations

2219
02:28:41,627 --> 02:28:44,063
into the ocean,
free up some space.

2220
02:28:44,097 --> 02:28:44,999
Yeah.

2221
02:28:45,965 --> 02:28:48,334
What other ambitious
stuff did we work on?

2222
02:28:48,367 --> 02:28:49,703
Those were some exciting times.

2223
02:28:51,037 --> 02:28:52,305
Remember TRD Hollow Cloak?

2224
02:28:52,339 --> 02:28:54,074
Huh!

2225
02:28:54,107 --> 02:28:55,509
A sci-fi classic.

2226
02:28:55,542 --> 02:28:58,079
Tactile remote drone hologram.

2227
02:28:59,111 --> 02:29:01,482
We played with that
for a while here,

2228
02:29:01,515 --> 02:29:03,017
but proved impossible,

2229
02:29:03,050 --> 02:29:05,351
light just can't
merge like that.

2230
02:29:05,384 --> 02:29:07,320
Yeah. Too bad.

2231
02:29:08,455 --> 02:29:12,026
Lots of uses for a fully controlled
remote tactile human hologram.

2232
02:29:13,225 --> 02:29:15,261
[upbeat tense music]

2233
02:29:20,167 --> 02:29:22,203
[high pitched whirring]

2234
02:29:23,235 --> 02:29:25,506
[sharp thuds]

2235
02:29:35,348 --> 02:29:37,385
[high pitched whirring]

2236
02:29:39,218 --> 02:29:40,120
Cool, huh?

2237
02:29:46,526 --> 02:29:48,361
And it's at this juncture,
Simon,

2238
02:29:48,394 --> 02:29:49,729
I'm afraid I have
to deliver some kind

2239
02:29:49,762 --> 02:29:51,597
of protagonistical declaration

2240
02:29:51,631 --> 02:29:53,500
of moral superiority

2241
02:29:53,533 --> 02:29:56,337
to indicate the philosophical
error of your ways.

2242
02:29:57,471 --> 02:29:58,305
So here it goes.

2243
02:30:00,140 --> 02:30:02,742
Those that seek
to create in this world,

2244
02:30:02,776 --> 02:30:06,113
those who embrace change
as a natural force,

2245
02:30:06,145 --> 02:30:09,449
helping to unify
humankind as one entity

2246
02:30:09,483 --> 02:30:11,418
in one shared direction,

2247
02:30:11,450 --> 02:30:13,753
realizing
that injustice anywhere

2248
02:30:13,786 --> 02:30:15,388
is injustice everywhere,

2249
02:30:16,456 --> 02:30:20,160
will always be one step ahead
of the traditionalists,

2250
02:30:20,193 --> 02:30:22,662
the preservers, the elitists,

2251
02:30:22,696 --> 02:30:26,733
who, in defense of their separatist
identities and egoist fears,

2252
02:30:26,766 --> 02:30:32,138
seek to divide, conquer,
oppress and destroy.

2253
02:30:33,206 --> 02:30:36,176
The pursuit of livingry
will always be one step ahead

2254
02:30:36,208 --> 02:30:37,410
of the pursuit of weaponry.

2255
02:30:40,614 --> 02:30:43,617
Orion doesn't exist, does it?

2256
02:30:43,650 --> 02:30:45,385
Nope.

2257
02:30:45,418 --> 02:30:47,221
We just put a virus
in your firewall.

2258
02:30:48,420 --> 02:30:50,756
Why?
What's the point of all of this?

2259
02:30:50,789 --> 02:30:52,526
To expose the Mandate,
of course,

2260
02:30:52,559 --> 02:30:53,593
which will be leaked shortly

2261
02:30:53,626 --> 02:30:54,660
to every major news network.

2262
02:30:54,694 --> 02:30:55,829
[chuckles]

2263
02:30:55,861 --> 02:30:58,899
Oh, seriously, that's it?

2264
02:30:58,931 --> 02:31:01,901
You think we can't absorb that?

2265
02:31:01,935 --> 02:31:04,537
That we haven't perfected
endless ways

2266
02:31:04,571 --> 02:31:07,708
to deflate and confuse
public perception when needed?

2267
02:31:07,741 --> 02:31:10,511
Well, then I guess
you have nothing to worry about.

2268
02:31:11,477 --> 02:31:12,545
See you around, Simon.

2269
02:31:13,480 --> 02:31:14,413
[loud whoosh]

2270
02:31:14,447 --> 02:31:16,484
[high pitched beeps]

2271
02:31:28,428 --> 02:31:32,199
- Hey, token white guy is back!
- [chuckles] Shut up.

2272
02:31:32,232 --> 02:31:33,934
All right, folks.
We don't have much time.

2273
02:31:33,966 --> 02:31:35,902
I don't think he's going
to buy that story for long.

2274
02:31:35,936 --> 02:31:37,671
How're we doing?

2275
02:31:37,704 --> 02:31:40,306
Satellite coordinates locked,
everything's ready.

2276
02:31:40,340 --> 02:31:42,876
But keep in mind,
even with bypassing your surveillance,

2277
02:31:42,909 --> 02:31:45,511
once this thing hits, the heat
signature is going to be out of control.

2278
02:31:45,545 --> 02:31:47,681
That's what
the subterfuge is for.

2279
02:31:47,714 --> 02:31:50,217
- Mandate leak on the blockchain yet?
- [woman 2] Packaging now.

2280
02:31:50,250 --> 02:31:52,586
Should be in the hands of every major
media outlet in about 20 minutes.

2281
02:31:52,618 --> 02:31:54,488
Good.

2282
02:31:54,520 --> 02:31:56,890
Don't forget to show
Simon's stupid face.

2283
02:31:56,922 --> 02:32:00,427
So this is it folks. We have a clear
path avoiding GSA surveillance.

2284
02:32:00,459 --> 02:32:02,428
Once the Mandate exposure
hits the press,

2285
02:32:02,462 --> 02:32:04,698
Simon and company
will be in damage control,

2286
02:32:04,731 --> 02:32:06,634
hopefully long enough
so we can pull this off.

2287
02:32:07,833 --> 02:32:08,868
Anybody need anything?

2288
02:32:08,902 --> 02:32:10,337
- Music.
- Music.

2289
02:32:10,369 --> 02:32:11,739
- Music.
- Music.

2290
02:32:13,240 --> 02:32:13,940
You got it.

2291
02:32:13,974 --> 02:32:16,210
[drum beats]

2292
02:32:20,512 --> 02:32:22,548
[mechanical whirring starts]

2293
02:32:22,581 --> 02:32:24,617
[helicopter blades buzz]

2294
02:32:25,718 --> 02:32:28,254
[cheerful instrumental music]

2295
02:32:31,391 --> 02:32:33,427
[helicopter blades buzz loudly]

2296
02:32:55,015 --> 02:32:57,251
[singing opera]

2297
02:33:41,493 --> 02:33:44,030
- [loud whirring]
- [loud laughs]

2298
02:33:44,063 --> 02:33:46,332
- [claps] -[director] All
right, everybody, come on.

2299
02:33:46,366 --> 02:33:48,802
We got... we got to finish
this goddamn movie already.

2300
02:33:48,834 --> 02:33:51,738
Left. Right. Left.

2301
02:33:51,770 --> 02:33:52,972
[loud whirring]

2302
02:33:53,006 --> 02:33:55,042
[singing opera]

2303
02:34:06,352 --> 02:34:07,887
[muffled explosion]

2304
02:34:07,920 --> 02:34:09,822
[sharp whoosh]

2305
02:34:24,536 --> 02:34:26,539
Responding
to this new leak by Concordia,

2306
02:34:26,572 --> 02:34:28,708
purporting to reveal
a policy of neglect,

2307
02:34:28,741 --> 02:34:30,409
where the death
of millions in poverty

2308
02:34:30,443 --> 02:34:31,945
was deliberately accentuated

2309
02:34:31,977 --> 02:34:34,348
by International Trade policy.

2310
02:34:34,381 --> 02:34:36,415
Leaked documents even include
what appears to be

2311
02:34:36,448 --> 02:34:38,985
a video of GSA's current head,
Simon Devoe.

2312
02:34:47,393 --> 02:34:48,728
Don't look at me like that.

2313
02:34:48,761 --> 02:34:51,364
Standard operating procedure,
folks.

2314
02:34:51,397 --> 02:34:54,500
Get your media agents out there
and start changing the narrative.

2315
02:34:54,534 --> 02:34:56,570
[instrumental music continues]

2316
02:34:56,602 --> 02:34:57,937
[water splashes]

2317
02:35:04,476 --> 02:35:05,979
Sir.

2318
02:35:06,011 --> 02:35:07,881
[radar beeps]

2319
02:35:07,913 --> 02:35:09,649
- What is it?
- I don't know.

2320
02:35:09,681 --> 02:35:12,485
We don't have visual coverage
in that region yet.

2321
02:35:12,518 --> 02:35:13,453
Send the drones.

2322
02:35:14,420 --> 02:35:16,655
[high pitched whoosh]

2323
02:35:16,688 --> 02:35:18,725
[water splashes]

2324
02:35:29,068 --> 02:35:30,770
Holy shit, it worked.

2325
02:35:30,804 --> 02:35:32,406
Shall we alert the base?

2326
02:35:32,438 --> 02:35:33,139
Indeed.

2327
02:35:34,072 --> 02:35:35,574
The migration begins.

2328
02:35:35,608 --> 02:35:37,644
[hologram buzzes]

2329
02:35:38,777 --> 02:35:40,880
[man 1]
It's an artificial island, Sir,

2330
02:35:40,913 --> 02:35:44,750
in the Pacific, about 700 miles
off the coast of North America.

2331
02:35:44,784 --> 02:35:45,686
[Simon sighs]

2332
02:35:46,786 --> 02:35:49,456
Holy shit, it worked.

2333
02:35:50,723 --> 02:35:52,592
[man 2]
Scramble fighters to destroy it?

2334
02:35:52,625 --> 02:35:55,796
No. See this?

2335
02:35:55,829 --> 02:35:59,466
It's a plasma congealed
electromagnetic field,

2336
02:35:59,499 --> 02:36:01,735
- impenetrable.
- [man 1] How do you know that?

2337
02:36:02,734 --> 02:36:04,504
Because I know the creator.

2338
02:36:07,539 --> 02:36:09,008
And sing.

2339
02:36:09,042 --> 02:36:10,644
[music ends]

2340
02:36:19,185 --> 02:36:21,421
[water splashing]

2341
02:36:36,768 --> 02:36:39,238
[reporter] So, we've just arrived
at the colony of Concordia,

2342
02:36:39,271 --> 02:36:41,040
where almost
a million people have migrated

2343
02:36:41,073 --> 02:36:43,876
to basically get away
from the rest of the world.

2344
02:36:43,910 --> 02:36:46,546
We are the first press
allowed in,

2345
02:36:46,579 --> 02:36:48,515
waiting to meet our guide.

2346
02:36:50,682 --> 02:36:53,186
- Hi, I'm Elnoria.
- Nice to meet you.

2347
02:36:53,218 --> 02:36:54,753
Thank you for having us.

2348
02:36:54,786 --> 02:36:56,188
I suggest we move
to the city center,

2349
02:36:56,222 --> 02:36:57,958
start our tour from there.

2350
02:36:57,991 --> 02:37:00,127
- [softly] You can cut.
- [soft electronical buzz]

2351
02:37:06,099 --> 02:37:08,235
So, there's been a lot
of speculation on the mainland

2352
02:37:08,268 --> 02:37:10,102
about what goes on here.

2353
02:37:10,135 --> 02:37:12,905
You're depicted
as some kind of a cult.

2354
02:37:12,938 --> 02:37:14,740
Claims of human right abuses,

2355
02:37:14,774 --> 02:37:17,843
and your media is being
censored pretty aggressively.

2356
02:37:17,876 --> 02:37:20,045
Well, that's why you're here.

2357
02:37:20,079 --> 02:37:22,616
This island wasn't created
to escape the world,

2358
02:37:22,649 --> 02:37:26,086
it was created to set
an example to change the world,

2359
02:37:26,118 --> 02:37:29,822
show what's actually possible if
humankind decided to work together.

2360
02:37:29,856 --> 02:37:32,057
So,
where would you like to start?

2361
02:37:32,090 --> 02:37:33,959
I guess technicals.

2362
02:37:33,992 --> 02:37:35,528
How are you powering this place?

2363
02:37:36,596 --> 02:37:38,865
[Elnoria]
Mixed renewable integration.

2364
02:37:38,897 --> 02:37:42,802
The island's core baseload
systems are solar, wind and ocean,

2365
02:37:42,834 --> 02:37:44,937
while localized
kinetic energy capture,

2366
02:37:44,971 --> 02:37:46,706
mixed use, reuse mechanisms,

2367
02:37:46,739 --> 02:37:48,775
are designed
into most everything.

2368
02:37:48,807 --> 02:37:50,109
[reporter]
Like footsteps?

2369
02:37:50,143 --> 02:37:52,045
[Elnoria]
Footsteps, vehicle motion,

2370
02:37:52,078 --> 02:37:55,982
pipe flows, anything that moves,
we recapture.

2371
02:37:56,015 --> 02:37:58,217
We're at about 5,000
percent efficiency,

2372
02:37:58,250 --> 02:38:00,719
more energy than we know
what to do with.

2373
02:38:00,752 --> 02:38:02,221
That's insane.

2374
02:38:02,254 --> 02:38:03,789
Not really.

2375
02:38:03,822 --> 02:38:04,990
The earth is, in effect,

2376
02:38:05,024 --> 02:38:06,893
a perpetual motion machine.

2377
02:38:06,926 --> 02:38:09,796
You people on the mainland
could easily do the same thing,

2378
02:38:09,829 --> 02:38:13,833
but your economic system simply isn't
conducive to integrative design.

2379
02:38:13,866 --> 02:38:17,070
Speaking of which, let's head to the
development center around the corner.

2380
02:38:17,102 --> 02:38:18,037
Okay.

2381
02:38:24,043 --> 02:38:26,113
This is one
of our design facilities.

2382
02:38:27,245 --> 02:38:29,949
Okay. Like an office.

2383
02:38:31,216 --> 02:38:32,752
So these people are employed.

2384
02:38:34,386 --> 02:38:37,891
[Elnoria] Employed. Um, I suppose in the
most technical sense of the word, sure.

2385
02:38:37,923 --> 02:38:39,992
But we have
no systemic slavery here.

2386
02:38:40,026 --> 02:38:43,096
No one is coerced to submit
for their basic survival,

2387
02:38:43,128 --> 02:38:45,632
something I suspect might be
very foreign to you.

2388
02:38:46,866 --> 02:38:49,269
But everyone needs
to do something, right?

2389
02:38:49,302 --> 02:38:53,106
So how do you network skills,
organized trade, markets?

2390
02:38:53,138 --> 02:38:54,807
[Elnoria]
There is no trade.

2391
02:38:54,840 --> 02:38:57,810
There are no markets.
There is no currency.

2392
02:38:57,843 --> 02:39:00,714
Those who wish to contribute do
so through collaborative design

2393
02:39:00,747 --> 02:39:02,915
in an open source environment.

2394
02:39:02,948 --> 02:39:05,618
What you think of as industries
of production on the mainland

2395
02:39:05,652 --> 02:39:06,920
is unified here.

2396
02:39:06,953 --> 02:39:08,120
Wait, I don't understand.

2397
02:39:09,322 --> 02:39:11,124
These people are
not paid to be here?

2398
02:39:12,925 --> 02:39:14,327
How are they motivated?

2399
02:39:14,359 --> 02:39:16,629
Well, how is anyone motivated?

2400
02:39:16,662 --> 02:39:19,298
Do you need to get paid to get
out of bed in the morning?

2401
02:39:19,331 --> 02:39:21,667
Do you need to be paid
to ensure your own health,

2402
02:39:21,700 --> 02:39:24,003
the health of your family
and friends?

2403
02:39:24,036 --> 02:39:27,906
Paid to show stewardship for the
habitat and society that supports you?

2404
02:39:27,939 --> 02:39:31,243
- How about innovation?
- Innovation to what end?

2405
02:39:31,277 --> 02:39:35,048
To create something to improve
life and experience?

2406
02:39:35,081 --> 02:39:36,750
Or to create something to sell?

2407
02:39:38,318 --> 02:39:42,088
If you think about it, it has been the
blind economic drive toward innovation,

2408
02:39:42,120 --> 02:39:44,423
as you know it, that continues
to lead your society

2409
02:39:44,456 --> 02:39:46,925
- to destruction
- Okay, then. [sighs]

2410
02:39:46,958 --> 02:39:49,161
Once these people have
designed something, then what?

2411
02:39:50,128 --> 02:39:51,897
[Elnoria] If a design
meets proper criteria

2412
02:39:51,930 --> 02:39:54,767
in terms of efficiency
and sustainability protocols,

2413
02:39:54,801 --> 02:39:58,838
it is then accessible by our mostly
additive manufacturing system.

2414
02:39:58,870 --> 02:40:01,173
[reporter]
Additive? 3D printers?

2415
02:40:01,206 --> 02:40:03,976
[Elnoria] Which have been perfected
to a degree where modular arrays

2416
02:40:04,009 --> 02:40:07,680
can produce most anything conceived
of with traditional material.

2417
02:40:07,714 --> 02:40:09,750
[gentle whimsical music]

2418
02:40:11,116 --> 02:40:13,285
And by the way,
there's no waste here.

2419
02:40:13,319 --> 02:40:16,021
Our AI designed filters won't
allow production of any item

2420
02:40:16,054 --> 02:40:18,157
that isn't 100% regenerative.

2421
02:40:20,159 --> 02:40:21,961
Sorry, I'm speechless.

2422
02:40:21,993 --> 02:40:23,230
If what you say is true,

2423
02:40:24,162 --> 02:40:25,731
you've actually done it.

2424
02:40:25,765 --> 02:40:26,800
Done what?

2425
02:40:26,832 --> 02:40:28,233
You've created Utopia.

2426
02:40:28,267 --> 02:40:29,836
[Elnoria chuckles]

2427
02:40:29,868 --> 02:40:31,904
If you want to sound
like an idiot, sure.

2428
02:40:32,904 --> 02:40:37,009
This isn't Utopia, friend.
It's simply pragmatic design.

2429
02:40:37,043 --> 02:40:39,813
Come, let me now show you
our democratic system,

2430
02:40:39,846 --> 02:40:42,015
how we use direct democracy
to eliminate politicians

2431
02:40:42,047 --> 02:40:43,382
and control problems.

2432
02:40:43,415 --> 02:40:45,418
[reporter]
What? No elections?

2433
02:40:45,450 --> 02:40:48,053
- No goons?
- [Elnoria] God, no.

2434
02:40:48,087 --> 02:40:51,257
[reporter] Whoa. So...
so where do I sign up?

2435
02:40:51,289 --> 02:40:53,325
I want to join your cult
as soon as possible.

2436
02:40:53,358 --> 02:40:55,928
- [Elnoria chuckles] I'll see what I can do.
- Please.

2437
02:40:55,962 --> 02:40:57,796
I don't know
if I can take much more.

2438
02:40:57,830 --> 02:40:58,999
[soft chuckles]

2439
02:41:00,432 --> 02:41:02,334
[director] So, I'm afraid we're going
to have to wrap this up for now,

2440
02:41:02,367 --> 02:41:04,269
but a... as we discussed,
I will be back

2441
02:41:04,303 --> 02:41:06,306
for the second part
of this interview fairly soon,

2442
02:41:06,339 --> 02:41:09,242
uh, specifically to discuss
the colony of Concordia

2443
02:41:09,275 --> 02:41:11,411
and their historical influence.

2444
02:41:11,444 --> 02:41:14,513
Sure. So what's the name
of the documentary?

2445
02:41:14,546 --> 02:41:16,348
[director]
InterReflections.

2446
02:41:16,382 --> 02:41:18,350
- Interesting.
- But before we end,

2447
02:41:18,384 --> 02:41:20,053
I have a rather strange request.

2448
02:41:21,821 --> 02:41:26,126
If you could address those
vulnerable, confused souls,

2449
02:41:26,159 --> 02:41:27,761
you know,
before the Great Transition,

2450
02:41:27,794 --> 02:41:28,895
given, as you put it earlier,

2451
02:41:28,928 --> 02:41:30,464
we barely made it at all,

2452
02:41:32,030 --> 02:41:33,199
what would you say to them?

2453
02:41:34,332 --> 02:41:36,837
Wow, that is a strange request.

2454
02:41:37,837 --> 02:41:38,805
Hm.

2455
02:41:39,671 --> 02:41:41,840
I think I would
paraphrase the words

2456
02:41:41,874 --> 02:41:43,543
of a notable
civil rights activist

2457
02:41:43,575 --> 02:41:46,980
from the mid-20th century
named Bayard Rustin.

2458
02:41:50,917 --> 02:41:51,885
And he said,

2459
02:41:54,286 --> 02:41:55,387
"You are all one.

2460
02:41:56,654 --> 02:42:00,927
And if you don't know it, you're
going to find out the hard way."

2461
02:42:00,959 --> 02:42:03,330
[upbeat music]

2462
02:42:06,365 --> 02:42:08,935
<i>♪ It's a bacchanalia ♪</i>

2463
02:42:08,967 --> 02:42:11,303
<i>♪ It's a cornucopia ♪</i>

2464
02:42:11,337 --> 02:42:13,272
<i>♪ Champagne and a caviar ♪</i>

2465
02:42:13,305 --> 02:42:16,208
<i>♪ What else is there? ♪</i>

2466
02:42:16,241 --> 02:42:18,544
<i>♪ Swimming pool
and fancy yacht ♪</i>

2467
02:42:18,578 --> 02:42:21,247
<i>♪ Vacation
in the south of France ♪</i>

2468
02:42:21,279 --> 02:42:23,182
<i>♪ You got anything you want ♪</i>

2469
02:42:23,215 --> 02:42:25,584
<i>♪ What else is there? ♪</i>

2470
02:42:25,617 --> 02:42:28,153
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2471
02:42:28,187 --> 02:42:30,557
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2472
02:42:30,590 --> 02:42:33,293
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2473
02:42:33,325 --> 02:42:35,461
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2474
02:42:35,493 --> 02:42:38,063
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2475
02:42:38,097 --> 02:42:40,432
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2476
02:42:40,465 --> 02:42:43,268
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2477
02:42:43,302 --> 02:42:45,404
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2478
02:42:51,009 --> 02:42:53,178
<i>♪ Your company
has rising stock ♪</i>

2479
02:42:53,212 --> 02:42:55,582
<i>♪ Cheaper labor
in the eastern block ♪</i>

2480
02:42:55,615 --> 02:42:57,917
<i>♪ No complaining
in the sweat shop ♪</i>

2481
02:42:57,949 --> 02:43:00,552
<i>♪ What else is there? ♪</i>

2482
02:43:00,586 --> 02:43:03,089
<i>♪ Making deals
in the back room ♪</i>

2483
02:43:03,122 --> 02:43:05,457
<i>♪ If you don't like it
you can change the rules ♪</i>

2484
02:43:05,491 --> 02:43:07,560
<i>♪ Thank your friends
in the Legislature ♪</i>

2485
02:43:07,592 --> 02:43:10,195
<i>♪ What else is there? ♪</i>

2486
02:43:10,229 --> 02:43:12,632
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2487
02:43:12,664 --> 02:43:15,100
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2488
02:43:15,134 --> 02:43:17,971
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2489
02:43:18,003 --> 02:43:20,106
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2490
02:43:20,138 --> 02:43:22,474
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2491
02:43:22,508 --> 02:43:25,044
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2492
02:43:25,077 --> 02:43:27,881
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2493
02:43:27,913 --> 02:43:29,982
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2494
02:43:49,334 --> 02:43:51,370
[crowd claps and cheers]

2495
02:43:57,475 --> 02:44:00,012
<i>♪ Never felt
like we had enough ♪</i>

2496
02:44:00,045 --> 02:44:02,347
<i>♪ Welfare check
don't buy much ♪</i>

2497
02:44:02,381 --> 02:44:04,583
<i>♪ I started working
from eight on up ♪</i>

2498
02:44:04,616 --> 02:44:07,452
<i>♪ What else is there? ♪</i>

2499
02:44:07,485 --> 02:44:09,922
<i>♪ I know when I look at you ♪</i>

2500
02:44:09,956 --> 02:44:12,325
<i>♪ You got feelings like I do ♪</i>

2501
02:44:12,358 --> 02:44:14,460
<i>♪ Can we go
by the golden rule? ♪</i>

2502
02:44:14,492 --> 02:44:17,062
<i>♪ What else is there? ♪</i>

2503
02:44:17,096 --> 02:44:19,431
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2504
02:44:19,465 --> 02:44:22,035
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2505
02:44:22,068 --> 02:44:24,670
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2506
02:44:24,704 --> 02:44:27,006
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2507
02:44:27,038 --> 02:44:29,374
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2508
02:44:29,408 --> 02:44:31,945
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2509
02:44:31,977 --> 02:44:34,580
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2510
02:44:34,613 --> 02:44:36,682
<i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>

2511
02:44:36,715 --> 02:44:39,251
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2512
02:44:39,285 --> 02:44:41,620
- <i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>
- <i>♪ Help somebody ♪</i>

2513
02:44:41,653 --> 02:44:44,489
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2514
02:44:44,522 --> 02:44:46,559
- <i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>
- <i>♪ Help somebody ♪</i>

2515
02:44:46,591 --> 02:44:49,194
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2516
02:44:49,227 --> 02:44:51,563
- <i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>
- <i>♪ Help somebody ♪</i>

2517
02:44:51,597 --> 02:44:54,434
<i>♪ Did your mama
teach you how to ♪</i>

2518
02:44:54,466 --> 02:44:57,703
- <i>♪ Teach you how to share? ♪</i>
- <i>♪ Help somebody ♪</i>

2519
02:44:57,736 --> 02:44:58,938
[music faints]

2520
02:44:58,974 --> 02:45:03,974
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