History project starts june 4th. These. All ringback busy. All i had a strange dream. I was walking through old. Beneath the dome of glass. And 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 if they were searching for something. d all. Such strange creatures. The world is in a big mess the more they get more they want. President bush after 9 or one of them served our urge all americans to go sharpen this but it would still make no money if the thing is me i grew up in the way that ill still make money even if i was never going to go. There is some money which is to say. There arent enough people who think that. Thats what the Marketing Strategy is is that it always turns you shouldnt begin to. Mention this one and all humans are lending shagreen. Evolution as soon as times and as long as its mechanism doesnt become too dominant and he will miss it sounds the goals of the individual a perfectly as individual. The whole way to survive today id go so far as to say its a symptom of an awful nice. I wonder. If were a viable form of life. May be were just another motion Ari Fleischer in the pan and it will be set right next to the dinosaurs in the garden roach museum. I kept asking myself. Why are we like this. Were caring and compassionate. But were also eco centric and reckless. We give. We hoard. We create. And destroy. What is our problem. What drives us. I went in search of answers. I. Was a man of a set the crossroads i think a historical moment the physical environment is undermined to the point where we need to attend to it war is something we ought to think about what why does that happen. People are pervasive way on happy on top of all of that we keep building walmarts. I see insatiable greed. As an extra 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 well if youre asked to talk about there are one it has to be about evolution evolution is an idea the darwinists 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 recognize we exist. Then 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 what the f. Are apologists today call culture and all cultures offer some recipe for immortality. Either literally through the heavens an afterlife some 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 a lot of money. Human beings are motivated. True i 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 was offical perspective are all or result in states of a person consistently trying to look at what is not true. We talk about 3 fundamental truths that things are impossible 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. 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 that struggle consistently had been some all of these neurosis and the prominent one of them becomes the. Death is a very real physical phenomenon and it doesnt matter how good your some balls are your religion your politics your money theyre still symbols and none of them will be sufficient to minimize the things i do you are rather to a woman a thing you can reduce it but you cant get rid of it. And then finally just really to make matters worse we also dont quite the idea of the work. From a starkly biological point of view were not all that much more significant or enduring than lima beans sure armadillos. Animal takes on. The human and the. More than 7000000000 of us populate the planet. Designers some designers are. The secret 6. Masons comment we have now developed instruments to measure greed is a personality trait missed and also to elicit a state of grief in people mentioned in ai and so. Your services. Thats a said ste along this is the balloon task we use it to measure our test subjects willingness to take risks of the subject how to try to keep inflating the loom was a large of the balloons of the more its worth via gave. In each round the subject play for real money every time they inflate the balloon that theyre risking that it might burst and then their money would be gone. Its i could list weve been able to demonstrate that people who tend to be greedy and i are more likely to take risks when performing this task so they inflate the balloon further the new normal test subjects oliphant i suppose. Is a no and we see that people who tend towards green also demonstrate an altered brain response. Induce a coffee say in this graphic and we see how our brain responds to rewards of and punishment. So far weve been able to demonstrate that the more greedy the test subject is the weaker other punishment signals associations and acknowledge. Is the interest and thats what is interesting is that these people also tend to want to maintain my state of the classic experiments of old and on their brains doesnt mean system its very interesting that respect is the pub meaning system. If electrodes are implanted in exactly this region of irans brain. And the rush is then put into a situation where it can stimulate that open mean system directly by pressing a lever like. The rats will continue pressing the lever until they die is it tested. And this is presumably one of the biological mechanisms that helps explain excessive greed. I dont read. There you go. Very clearly but you connect to ok. Very quickly though you are to have to. Do your. 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 who can see 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 take 2 monkeys or 2 apes sit there next to one another and you interact with them sequentially and what they have to do is a very simple task so we give them a token they return it give them the food reward for having completed it. But then the critical component is how does this individual respond to that medium preferred food like a cucumber a piece of bell pepper in their partner get something much better. Not. See this. That could be due to inequity. 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 at the margin than modern western humans do so not acquiring as many resources for them is a real risk of death. In Human Society so my perspective is that greed has taken on not just acquiring as much as possible but acquiring 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. We collect relationships photos and likes s. U. V. S show records. And we like narcissists. Addicted to our own ego. Being successful in business and not. And when you have it you can be about to take things to a level that people will be surprised how much sense the price this will probably international priceless to the all price of 700 square meters be flown blame 8 flows all played by one local press one. Above those. It will cause you just 5600000 but this is. A do those that video with us as it was going to be exist. And. I would tell you my philosophy is and simple theres a thin line separating a business man and a criminal wife because anything i do somewhat is bone deception of the. So all of us has business been throughout the world whether its bill gates. Is the criminals but its because we think beyond that people think president mugabe is my brother for the european perspective out be a nephew from awful can be a brother. But they dont have the will of critics the ones that im by the. Burdens of the ugly critics more do was sadly the World Economy will be nice to live. In. I will come to my house i want to show you around as well as the childrens 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 you money tare and reasons so. They give me this i walk with this i want from past on its main focus is to recognise those who have done a lot of work in human rights affirmative action and empowerment issues. Internationally thats me. In here is my main long. Play here. If you come in. Friends and family. We would do mitch and toss around and you know 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 to do pushed they hate us so it really has you know heaters over here. In this room its called them but the dining room if i am reception this house this is gone the room i dont visit because it gives me that sentiment relationship with the president and. The man that money can buy. And this is it. I know i come from i come from being a vegetable vendor my bad was that the ground or the thick flow thats why i used to sleep with a very poor linen blanket that goes the newest me and one on top and that. Is why i want to you know be able to show. I go to leave well tom. You know. 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 crime. We love heroes and 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 or. How could this be what you have to do is lay. Look at Cultural Values to see if theyre realistically attainable by the average individual. Youre a male youre basically 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 that in order to be beautiful you have to be ridiculously stand your breasts excluded of course if i cant 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 wont you gotta get rid of all the old i. And i say oh im so im talking about im this and i need 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 items its egos. Theres a lot of people in clubs that. Both black and white who carry the eagle badge on them and they carry it high as a flake you see and those other people who we would see as the future bureaucrats of the country i was. If you are driving into a poor neighborhood where you know people are starving to death and you driving down with your maceda spent all your all civilized that is the worst thing you could ever do. Driving with this eagle to shay im better than you you know youll never be where i am those people are not just. Mine on if i have to leave i have to assert my cue go the only way i can do that is through greed im forced to constantly break something to myself that lends stability to my ego reality as 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 while is based on us. Here for the match green destroys peoples why because it isolates obviously for them 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 this is as only so its not what i actually possess that satisfies me its the constant striving for more religion has known for centuries and this drive lies within us humans but this drive is also our ruinous of those offered up the just. Since time immemorial there have been stories of people who could never do enough people like king midas. Diana sr grandma which made everything he touched turned to go. Even his room and his drink turned to gold. It seemed he might starve or die of thirst. Cold in the region have always been cast under the spell of on the moon and it was my turn to. Do what i ask myself do some money such a powerful allure. Help people whove come in else bank of as i chose banking as my career avenue for im a trained accountant and i worked with the air is bad because og a bad fast in 0 time on the Cayman Islands which is a tax haven gallop i was promoted to Compliance Officer running i was the legal conscience of the company because that is all the name and. I make music e up the a certain amount of greed is instilled into you that was true for me too and i have to imagine thank a lot you start to think only in monitoring you know all cyclical dollar signs that have before your eyes and in your heart all will say then there that and that the only thing that matters. By lot of profits and making sure you dont get cost the odds are way i operate how to go. In my novel to all else in my function as Compliance Officer i determined that we had criminal law and also means that i am like in. Large in mexico i was a mexican drugs it became clear to me that i was working for a criminal organization and that the bank was a participant in tax evasion and from Health Industry into your poke i ended up feeling morally and united given a sense of the matter up with management me down in a twinkling. Of all before we were threatened the entire family ended up leaving the Cayman Islands very suddenly. Writes a bank that mean swiss bankers in the Cayman Islands who have been killed. To an extent my decision to leave the system was a moral issue of the share but what was more important i think 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 the dog was. All put up to bonk but im sending private detectives after us. Money so i was followed on my way to work b. I had to change the route i took to work to change my workout a small job on the 1st sign of a blank car would upset me i was completely submerged and my even considered suicide to get out i want to drive me crazy wanting. To stop them out of the state prosecutors had all the information but they did nothing with it but the stuff for the its a political problem it would make the criminal clients uneasiness they felt they would realize theyre no longer safe and protected either so with that in mind the old fart is dont go out to the banks with out the phone call was again after the man who made the truth probably forced to give all of your 3. I spent 217 days in prison the 1st 30 days were in 2005 the rest in 2011. By nurse times i was in solitary confinement spending 23 hours a day alone and myself there were prisoners who flipped asked startled banging against the doors screaming. Tried sort of switzerland and basically every country all day protects their golden calf School Coffee in switzerland is banking secrecy of the arts why no one ever investigated the unions bad bank even though the state prosecutors know that unity is bad it helped to c. M. E. Us tax system so forth and for political reasons the state prosecutors really never investigated what any of that make us who. We are following question was how could we create test conditions that would approximate the behavior of a stockbroker for example our laws and hes going to. Make their fontanel not make us and we use functional Magnetic Resonance imaging to investigate brain activity in our tests up there is a disk we can look deep into the brain of the hour including into the structures responsible for the reward response and saw. A full face on our subjects play a stock trading game would miss and have to decide whether they want to invest a large amount of money or a small amount and. Then they get feedback during the game as to whether the share price is rising or falling. And 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 mention this mostly i do not intend. To just. I want to they want to nominate based on assumption that ordinary and average people would be risk averse its 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 with targeted hiring practices and efficient and also not always find. Help it doesnt snow i believe its just a matter of time before the next finance crisis will hit. The 1st place yes but what youre looking at is what you say ok to this bill. When i started hearing a bug what in buffett and bill gates will goes on about the 3040. 00 billions but not all of the 7 to bill you you know in life if you have only a 1000000000 dollars you can be able to leave for 2 under its in 7 to 30 years. And eat well spend 10000. 00 a day. Know how many of us do for doing this or that he is. So do feel good a 1000000000 that music can even spend 30000 a day because you know going to last that long and other people make much more. You know nobody can say i dont want more. People like me dont make money theres no taxes they never goes government to function. So therefore people make money in their book 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 that reduce death anxiety but theres always going to be a rumble of panic but nice the surface of consciousness were going to take this that franks id and weve got to do something with it and one thing that we can do is buy 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 the sublime already. Our children are growing up in a world that is radically different from the ones that you and i grew up but their brands have been modified accordingly 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 a me us we are attracted to anything that fosters life and pleasure and were repulsed on afraid of anything that threatens that state of affairs shoes shoes and shoes every wish. Sometimes you dont want to let go of something you 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 something with this one still brand new this one so when this is a design issue i dont want to be limited because in the bible genesis says 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. And im hoping that the Something Like this. Is going to do it no longer oh look im going to work. Lets go to the pub and various places for most of. That but. 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 good 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. I would save our lives are defined minutes. From sorry i think. Youre missing something and by some sort i mean. You think. Some sites. Have a card about how. Hard did this. But you dont quite think of all that. Being someone. Being capable by doing your identity. That theres this contentment youre all theres no conform or 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 in 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 back and get a cup of coffee warm coffee on a cold rainy day its completely another thing when you buy you know 75th pair of shoes you 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 sell in the u. S. It up with the joneses. In our wealthy set on park avenue everybodys 16th Birthday Party last year everybody handed out i pods will this year were going to hand out i pads well 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 literally surrounded our self with stuff to the point where weve become imprisoned in a gilded cage. We became consumed with consumption. Were going to keep buying stuff and told no one has drop of petroleum has been burned so its very ominous i would argue. Out of the comfort zone. And into the crisis zone theatre director neil round doesnt shy away from human suffering he demands an incredible amount from both. Actors audiences artists activist prices for your milorad on meet the artists marks 21. 00. And 30 minutes on t. W. What do they dream of at night. As cleaners they see the face of. Their job since room for the social media industry. In manila there are thousands of socalled content monitors. Before today they scrub terrifying images from Online Platforms so her recent job for starvation wage. The streaming is enormous. And when. I need to stop there something was up in. The cleaners social media shadow industry starts tonight on d w. 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