72: A Self-Help Book for Societies, with Tim Urban
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Modern Humans Are Like Modern Moths
In a lot of ways, modern humans are like modern moths running on a well-intentioned primitive mind that's constantly misinterpreting the weird world we built for ourselves. And I don't think humans are worse than we used to be. I think probably we're probably better people overall than humans of the past. But it's as if a bunch of street lights have turned on at night and we're all running towards them now by mistake.
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