The Next Big Evolutionary Step

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The next big evolutionary step i think is actually going to be an evolutionary step and what i mean by that is like you have things like crisper and like genetic engineering. There's a lot of weird dystopian type rabbit holes that i think that we could go down where it's just like now you know the 1% or the 1% that can genetically engineer their kids to be like fucking adonis, he says. "There is also a hope that we would be able to have a new kind of enlightenment where we can move past this kind of monkey mind tribalistic bullshit"

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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