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Unf*cking the World — Radical Hope for the Future | Jamie Wheal

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

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The Story of How We Begin to Remember

Next book will almost certainly be called t the story of how we begin to remember. And it's going to be a crack at what i just sign posted to and recapture the rapture, which was meaning three point. That's a coor way to think abouttbalanced nutrition. Ok, what are you nterested what's keeping your atention for next?

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the thing, i mean, fundamentally, i didn't realize this until i started writing more of it, but my next book will almost certainly be called t the story of how we begin to remember. And it's going to be a crack at what i just sign posted to and recapture the rapture, which was meaning three point. Now, so what might that look like? What's ta decentralized, almost block chain version of consciousness and culture? And how does everybody build their own? And for me, it's, i feel like we are in need of a unifying, big history story of how, you know, where do we come from? What's going on and what do we do? No. And for me, some of this was almost thing, it was almost like conversations in my head to my son, you know, because he's been following al these things. He gets exposed to a number of our friends and colleagues, like the whole existential risk space and these other things, has been in his world since high school. And it'd, it's been hod sometimes. So i'm always thinking, a, i have to come up with a place of hope. I have to see a way through it, because i have to beable to come back and tell him there's a reason to keep on keeping on, wr to try. And so for me, the first big pain point is, how the hell did we get so screwed up? Like, how were we at this place where we've overcooked on so many levels, and why? And there's seeming such greed and distraction and superficiality and inhumanity and all these things, right? And to me, that's why the like, so this book was fundamentally a sense of, we know, how do you solve the problem of evil? And how do we explain bad things happening in an otherwise good world? And what i realize is that in recapture, the rapture, i took really a whole chapter i called it, evolution is a moral like without morality. And it was fundamentally a discussion of evolutionary sexual behaviour and just how incented we are for so many things that actually harm us, from rape and incest to infident and infidelity to this wide range of things, right? And the case i was making in it, was buttressed by jerry diamond and jeff miller and a a lot of other ananthropologist and thinkers, was was just that, you know, evolution does not care for our promises, or our predilections, or our romances, or our feelings. It only wants the most robust jean pool possible. And that is the overarching insentive. We can steer against it, but it's a massive gravitational pull, and most of us end up in that, in that ditch overtime over repeat yor decisions and actions. And it was just that sense of like, oh my gosh, like you cauld make a case that our sexuality and our lack of control of it, or other people's attempt to control are ours, ain't all end up bundled into, no, well over half of the world's trama, war, suffering, conflicts, hum and even excess, you're like, holy ship. So how do we reclaim that? And how do we learn to use those evolutionary impulses in a judo way, right? To then actually enhance our own expansion, flourishing growth and development? So that was, i realized, an subset example of actually a bigger question, which is, what is the purpose or role of consciousness on this earth, and maybe even beyond it? And can we live into a story that is more durable than the collapse of our own civilization, right? Because that's, to me, is what i'm not banking on. I'm not reading for it. I don't think it's its its majority odds. But say it's non zero of the centuries to come a and what would a story be that still gives it us radical hope, that still accessis courage, that still accesses belief in doing things on our generations next?

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