It's all bullshit folks and it's bad for you.

A quote by the late great George Carlin.

One of the deepest things that motivates me is high-level big- picture understanding.

And at this point, I've spent so much time studying various kinds of models of how life works, how mankind works, how society works, how

consciousness works, and all of this,

that I have a lot of different maps and models,

and I've shared many of those with you,

like spiral dynamics, for example.

But sometimes it just gets a little bit too complicated

and you kind of get lost in the weeds,

in the minutia of it in all the details.

And sometimes what we need is we need to kind of zoom out

and just have a nutshell encapsulation of

what we're trying to understand. And in this case, I was really trying to crack this nut of

what is mankind about as a whole what's really going on with

mankind. How do we explain what mankind is doing what society is doing what most of human life is about. And so I sat down one day on my

living room floor just thinking about this and then suddenly it just popped

into my mind as if out of nowhere.

A little epiphany.

And it was very profound and very illuminating and very explanatory and what

struck me about this insight was that it was so simple just like so

simple but its explanatory power is enormous and so I want to share that

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