The. All. All d. All i had a strange dream. I was walking through a lot of. Beneath the dome of going. Through chambers of splendor. Filled with so many objects that are. I saw miracles of human skin. Flawless beings seeming who. Better to be here they were all searching for something. Strange creatures. The world is in a big mess the more they get the more they want. President bush after 9 or one of our urge all americans to go sharpen this bread to make new money its the thing in me i grew up in the way that our store made money even if i was never in the desert. There is some money heister say you need this there arent enough people think that. Thats what the Marketing Strategy is is that it always turns you should begin to. Mention is one of the humans of my nature and. Evolution as soon as times and as long as this mechanism doesnt become too dominant it will miss the goals of the individual a perfectly as individual. The schmitter hard to survive today id go so far as to say its a symptom of an all nice. I wonder if world viable form of life. May be for just another ocean or a flash in the pan and it will be set right next to the dinosaurs and the cartridge museum. I kept asking myself. Why are we like this. Caring and compassionate. But were also eco centric can correctly. We give. We hoard. We create. And destroy. What is our problem. What drives us. I went in search of answers. I demanded they set the crossroads i think a historical moment the physical environment is on their mind to the point where we need to attend to it war is something we ought to think about why does that happen. People are pervasive way on happy on top of all of us we keep building walmarts. I see insatiable greed. As an extra kabui connected to all of these other difficulties that if we dont recognize and come to terms with were literally putting our species at risk. You know you might us to talk about darwin if youre asked to talk about there are one it has to be about evolution evolution is an idea the darwinist trying to understand and whats his strikingly original proposal. Natural selection so. Humans or on the one hand very similar to all other forms of life and that we share a basic biological predisposition toward survival but on the other hand were so smart that we actually were at because we accept us. And the point here is that being alive and knowing it is grounds for great joy. On the other hand it also carries a very terrible existential bird if you know that youre here you know that someday like all living things you wont be here if thats all we thought about im going to die i may walk outside and get hit by a meteor we would literally be paralyzed by abject terror. What human beings did is to construct and maintain the after paul just today call culture and all cultures offer some recipe for immortality. Either literally through the heavens and after wives or reincarnations of all the worlds great religions or symbolically through the belief that some fasted show of our identity will persist over time nevertheless. Thats why you want to have children thats why you want to build pyramids thats why we want to write great books and symphonies thats why we want to have out of money. Human beings are motivated. Were to have a lot of stuff because psychologically speaking of yourself. They may be able to live forever. Desire greed and the struggle that brings about anger and aggression from the philosophical but this for us offical perspective are all a result in states of a person consistently trying to look at what is not true. We talk about 3 fundamental truths that things are important and. Secondly the fundamental principle of everything is said to be and to thats. The but now what happens is we try to build something that makes us forget about we try to make things. And that struggle creates. This suffering. We begin to hang on to think. Ill give you an example you know if i have a shirt. And every time i go out to do some shopping you buy and at the shop you may have 12 in your closet but youre by the 13th just so that you have a sense of you live long enough to wear altered in shorts or perhaps even more than that so theres a sense of every day consistently doing something because of which we may be able to more solidify. Our sense of immortality our sense of living continuous need not changing and thats trial the consistent it builds up all these neurosis and the prominent one of them becomes that. Death is a very real physical phenomenon and it doesnt matter how good your symbols are your religion your politics your money theyre still symbols and none of them will be sufficient to minimize death anxiety or rather to a woman aging you can reduce it but you cant get rid of it. And then finally just really to make matters worse we also dont like the idea of the work its. From a starkly biological point of view were not all that much more significant or enduring than lima being in syria armadillos. Takes on. The human and the. More than 7000000000 of us populate the planet. Designers designers and. The secret 6. Masons comment we have now developed instruments to measure greed is a personality trait ms and also to elicit a state of greed in people mention in ireland so. Done to clear the surface its. Thats a said ste this is the balloon task we use it to measure our test subjects willingness to take risks of the subject to try to keep inflating a balloon because a large of the balloons of the more its worth via a beer in it and in each round the subjects play for real money every time they inflate the balloon that theyre risking that it might burst and then their money would be gone. As bits i could list weve been able to demonstrate that people who tend to be greedy are more likely to take risks when performing this task so they inflate the balloon further the new normal test subjects of my life and i suppose. If they are off and we see the people who tend towards green i also demonstrate an altered brain response. In decent coffee say in this graphic we see how our brain responds to rewards and the punishment. So far weve been able to demonstrate that the more greedy the tests are correct so the weaker our the punishment signals are associations and. The interest and thats what is interesting is that these people also tend to want to maintain nice state of the classic experiments of olds and on their brains doublemeat system its very interesting in this respect is the pub meaning society and. Its electrodes are implanted in exactly this region of irans brain. And the rest is then put into a situation where it can stimulate that open mean system directly by pressing a lever i can and. That is the rats will continue pressing the lever until they die if it passed. And this is presumably one of the biological mechanisms that helps explain excessive greed. I dont run. There you go. You can have to ok. Were going to go you are the up to. The. Most primates are highly social but these guys are a typical in that theyre also highly tolerant. There is a hierarchy and everyone knows whos on top and the individuals at the top get more. Males get more meetings females get more access to resources but you dont have this really steep hierarchy where there is one individual at the top it means everything and you also see some things that you dont necessarily see across the primates like respect for possessions. So we can look for instance at how do you respond when you get more and i get less how do you respond when you get less and i get more and thats tractable to study experimentally. Guys. So the experiment itself is very simple you take 2 monkeys or 2 weights so the next to one another and you interact with them sequentially and what they have to do is a very simple task so you give them a token they return it give them the food reward for having completed. It then the critical component is how does this individual over spawn to that medium preferred food like a cucumber a piece of bell pepper when their partner get something much better. Not. Say this. That could be due to an equity. Be due to hey look my partner got Something Better than me or it could just be due to general sort of greed for lack of a better term hey theres a better food out there and i want to. From an evolutionary perspective the behavior that we consider greed which is acquiring as many resources as possible is important. Most animals live more of the margin than modern western humans do so not acquiring as many resources for them as a real risk of death. In human societies though my perspective is that greed has taken on not just acquiring as much as possible but of firing as much as possible explicitly the expense of other individuals. And i dont think that thats something that you can apply to animals. One day narcissus came upon a spring that was so clear that he could see himself in it as if in a mirror. When he saw his own reflection he fell in love with its beauty. We too like to see ourselves as the center of the world. The individual is now the measure of all things. And so we yearn for recognition and self esteem. Recollect relationships photos and likes s. U. V. S show records. We like narcissists. Addicted to our own ego. Being successful in business is a not. And when you have it you can be about to take things to a level that people will be surprised a month since the price this will probably international priceless to the point of price a 700 square meters be flown to blame 8 flows more played by local press one. Above those that it will cause you just 5600000 but this is. A to those that will be with us as edwards is going to be listed. And. I would tell you my for most of his and simple theres a thin lame stupid thing a businessman and a criminal wife because anything i do somewhat is bonus after the. So all of us has business been throughout the world whether its bill gates theres a bunch of. Criminals but its because we think beyond other people think president mugabe is my brother for the european perspective out be a nephew from awful can be a brother. Who did not have the will of critics we once dead and by the. Brothers of the ugly critics more do was sadly the World Economy will be nice to live. In i wont come to my house i want to show you around as well as the chief ms ive had full force on many as. You know. It to school which is near my old offices they give me an i want for building a school block and then an organization help us help ourselves or not me for my work for humanitarian reasons so. They give me decide what with this i want from best on its main focus is to recognise those who have done a lot of work in human rights affirmative action and empowerment issues you know International Aid thats me. In here is my main lounge. Where here. If you come in. Friends and family. We would do mitch and toss around and they dont have conversations over its all its political economy and simon. The property has a heavy bed on top so when its cold here we get we do put the heaters so it really has no heaters over here. In this room its called them but the dining room inside reception this house this is gone the room i dont visit just gives me that sentiment of relationship with the president and yeah. The man that money can buy. And this is it. I know it came from i came from being a vegetable vendor my bad was that the ground or the thick flow thats where i used to sleep with a very poor linen blanket that goes but missed me and one on top and that. Is why i want to you know be able to show. I go to leave well tom. With. Things like the racetrack and all other forms of public spectacle are of interest to folks so for so many reasons one aspect of the racetrack is gambling and. Another part of it is to highlight one status relative to one so a fellow human beings somebody is quote better not by how big or strong he or she is but rather how one dresses how you conduct yourself and how you a stablish you are richer than more worthy than and therefore more amusing from than all of the other folks who surround you. In some ways this is no different than dominance hierarchy and pride its. Your us then therefore become preoccupied with being the best at something even if its how many hot dogs i can eat and 10 minutes. In america where number one not in science or literacy or anything important we are number one in depression however. How could this be what you have to do is lie. Look at Cultural Values to see if theyre realistically attainable by the average individual. If youre a male youre basically valued by how much you have. And this is the socalled American Dream if you work hard enough you can have as much money as well bron james or Warren Buffett or bill gates. But realistically for every millionaire theres got to be hundreds of thousands of people working part time a walmart without benefits. The same for women but they have a different cultural burden. We teach women in order to be beautiful you have to be ridiculously stand your breasts excluded of course so if i can floss my teeth with you youre too fat. And you have to remain perpetually young which of course is biologically impossible. Wow we cherished values are simply not possible to attain. If you say i want to be true to the love you got to get rid of all the oh i see and i say oh im so im talking about im this and im that i can do this and i can do this oh yeah i did this last year oh i can do that oh im better than so all those imes its egos. Theres a lot of people in thought that he can. Both black and white who carry the eagle badge on them and they carry it high as a flake you see and those are the people who we would see as the future bureaucrats of the country. If you are driving into a poor neighborhood where you know people are starving to death and you driving down with your mistake these vans or your all surprised that is the worst thing you could ever do. Driving with his ego to say im better than you you know youll never be where i am those people are not just. Mine and if i believe i have to assert my ego the only way i can do that is through greedy oh im forced to constantly break something into myself that lends stability to my ego those can be material things but they can also be spiritual things for example ideas like im important for example or somebody due to money or fame or my title or Something Like that our entire modern world is based on. For the image green destroys peoples lives because it isolates obvious and because greed is Something Like a drug you know i have a more i want to have because whatever i have no longer satisfies me as such as im so its not what i actually possess that satisfies me its the constant striving for more something religion has known for centuries and this drive lies within us humans but this drive is also our really in the midst of those of that place just. Since time immemorial there have been stories of people who could never do enough. People like king midas. The as diana says to grandma which made everything he touched turned to go. But even his food and his drink turned to go. It seemed he might starve or die of thirst. Golden images have always been cast under the spell a moment. And it was my turn to. Do what i ask myself do this money such a powerful alone. Ringback help people overcome a else bank it read i chose banking as my career avenue for im a trained accountant and i worked with the air is bad because og a bag 1st in zurich and on the Cayman Islands which is a tax haven gallop i was promoted to Compliance Officer planning i was the legal conscience of the company because these open amundsen. I make me sick e up the a certain amount of greed is instilled into you that was true for me too and i have to imagine thank you start to think only in monitoring you know all cyclical dollar signs that have before your eyes and in your heart all day then theyre there and theyre the only thing that matters. A lot of profits and mikey show you dont get caught the odds are way i operate how to cope. In my new phone to all else in my function mass Compliance Officer i determined that we had a criminal by also the been let my names like in. In mexico it was a mexican drug known as it became clear to me that i was working for a criminal organization and the bank was a participant in tax evasion and from Health Industry into your talk i ended up feeling morally and united given a sense of the matter up with management me down and explained on click. On because we were threatened with the entire family and without leaving the Cayman Islands very suddenly. The bank they were in swiss bankers in the Cayman Islands who had been killed. To an extent my decision to leave the system was a moral issue but what was more important i faced was that i realized all the system had turned against me from the league in which they for example the threats that were made against me in the Cayman Islands and the way i was fired and then threatened the gamble of the bank would destroy me if i tried to file charges against them and get all quick to go off. All that up to bonk providing sente private detectives after us. Money so i was followed on my way to work the i had to change the route i took to world changed my work out as a stronger signs of a blank car would upset me i was completely spun off from them which my even considered suicide or to get out they wanted to drive me crazy they wanted. To stop them out of the whole the state prosecutors had all the information but they did nothing with it but the same for me its a political problem it would make the criminal clients are uneasy and they felt they would realize theyre not over safe and protected either so with that in mind the old fart is dont go out to the bank from without the phone call was again either the man who made the truth public mom roles to evolve on the earth guy played. I spent 217 days in prison the 1st 30 days were in 2005 the rest in 2011. By next time so i was in solitary confinement spending 23 hours a day alone and myself there were prisoners who flipped asked to stop banging against the doors screaming. Tried sort of switzerland to basically every country all day protects their golden calf school because in coffee in switzerland is banking secrecy of the arts why no one ever investigate the union spam bank even though the state prosecutors know that unity is bad it helped to c. M. E. Us tax which goes so far through college and for political reasons the state prosecutors will never investigate and if that makes going to. Be a valid question was how can we create test conditions that would approximate the behavior of a stockbroker for example our laws in these. Forms and theyre not made we use functional Magnetic Resonance imaging to investigate brain activity in our tests up there is if it is. We can look deep into the brain of the hour including into the structures responsible for the reward response and its your own saw. Me for full focus on our subjects play a stock trading Game Missions and have to decide whether they want to invest a large amount of money or a small amount. Then they get feedback during the game as to whether the share price is rising or falling the finest. Weve been able to determine that people who are especially greedy display a more muted response in regions responsible for punishment and loss of money if this mechanism enables a kind of disinhibition i mentioned this most i did not intend. They want to nominate based on assumption that ordinary and average people will be risk averse is not going to make sense for the finance industry which is optimized for outcome to hire people who are more inclined toward risk. They achieve that with bonuses and when talking to hiring practices and emission cuts and ill supply. My believe its just a matter of time before the next finance crisis will hit. Or the 1st place to go but what you should look at and what i want you to pick ok for this book. When i started hearing a bug what in buffetts and bill gates will go sit on the board the 3040. 00 billions but not all of the vinta 1000000000 you know in life if you have only a 1000000000 dollars you can be able to leave for 207 to 30 years. And eat or spend 10000. 00 a day. Not many of us knew for doing that or the vias. So if youve got a 1000000000 that music can even spend 30000 again because you know going to last that long but still other people make much more. You know nobody can say i dont one more. People like me dont make money theres no taxes that there never was government to function. So therefore people make money enable things to happen. And im one of those people. More growth. More affluence more content. This is the promise of those who mean well with us. Were only too happy to believe that. We do our part. Well be able to buy ourselves happiness. Many western europeans and americans they no longer really have a farm belief in god. But you have to believe in something. You know we have these Belief Systems reduce the thanks id but theres always going to be a rumble of panic but nice the surface of consciousness were going to take this death anxiety and weve got to do something with it and one thing that we can do is by a lot of. The. By the time you can talk you have already been pelted with commercial images like the nike shack and the golden arches we know them subliminally. Our children are growing up in a world that is radically different from the ones that you and i grew up and their brands have been modified accordingly the manufacturers of consumer goods they are spending literally billions of dollars to ensure that no child is left behind in the commercial rat race. Or basically in a sense im no different than im me because when you are attracted to anything that fosters life and pleasure and were repulsed and afraid of anything that threatens that state of affairs. Shoes and shoes. Sometimes you dont want to let go of something youll keep it for years and this will have never won it but i think its been sitting here for like. Still bring you. And this is im done with this one still brand new this one still going. This is a design issue i dont want to be limited because in the bible genesis say you must have dominion over everything that gives me that strength. Nobody in the bible i can open it for you nobody is poor. Moses ever hes a rich man in the bible bible does not talk about poverty the bible is the biggest money machine. Every best. Talks about money thats something that people need to realize. Im hoping that Something Like this. Is going to do its going to. Go up and its worked out well for the present day responses from because. I think the key issue for the Material Society is that it will always tell you that theres something missing you need Something Else theyre all contributing i dont think its all did you know youre conscious blame someone who is trying to sell you something so demand and supply you know were all sort of supporting each other and i have all gotten into this cycle that we are unable to find ourselves free from. You know what but you. Know i would say. Hours a day 5 minutes. From start i think. Youre missing something and by some sorrow i mean. You think. Sometimes but i think i need to go in there have a card about how. Hard this neurotic. Thing but you dont call it that think of all that. Being someone. Being capable binding your identity. Theres this contentment youre all that is looking for what youre always looking for that struggle brings about so much insecurity and. One of the reasons why people acquire so much is because it feels good theyre both your chemical and psychological feedback loops that causes you to continue doing it well beyond what you actually need. Its one thing when you go out and get a cup of coffee or warm coffee on a cold rainy day its completely another thing when you buy you know 75th pair of shoes he really really dont in any stretch of the imagination need those shoes but theyre still going to make you feel good. There is this drive to 6000000 of us sit up with the genesis. In our wealthy set on park avenue everybody 16th Birthday Party last year everybody handed out i pods well this year were going to hand out i pads for this year were going to do this and so theres also this sort of ratchet effect. Theres nothing wrong with being a consumer i mean to stay alive we have to consume things. But then we were always around our self with stuff to the point where we become imprisoned in a gilded cage. We became consume with consumption. Were going to keep buying stuff and told no one has a drop of petroleum has been burned so its very ominous i would argue. Willing to buy is a savior of the forest. Because 210 acres of land in central gonna his own hes weak cultivating and conserving what is in teaching how to practice Sustainable Forestry is all. About training or give them power and people can also go on the bad and do it themselves self got to have their ladies come fall in the cooler for you go to work out in 30 minutes on t w. The global corona crisis you can find more Information Online that e. W. Dot com and don t w social media channels. Rises some. Cities will sink into the sea the big time stretches of land will be abandoned. And the water. Is. Massive mortars are supposed to prevent flooding but they only delay the inevitable. The future 66 meters rising sea levels starts june 5th on g. W. 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