I didn't ever really plan on doing a podcast.

It was just a realization that there are certain people that are starved for the authentic

unpacking of the systemic game board.

That is the human predicament, how anthropology, neuroscience, energy,

economics, debt, finance, climate change, the system fits together. And to understand that

to better inform our individual choices and behaviors and hopefully to create a conversation, a broader

awareness of what we face.

So maybe some emergent responses could happen in the future.

And so what this podcast has attempted to do is grow the number of humans that are aware of, that

care about, that are fluent and conversant in the systemic challenge ahead of what I refer

to as the Great Simplification.

I named this podcast the Great Simplification for three reasons.

Firstly, because I'm trying to talk to scientists and leaders and cultural scout team

to simplify complex topics into bite-sized pieces that people can understand.

Secondly, there is a truism, especially in the wealthy, developed world in Europe and

North America, that for many people listening to this to simplify their own lives by accessing

less energy and material throughput to get the same amount or even a more robust,

holistic amount of neurotransmitters and emotional experiences will actually be great.

For a lot of people, simplifying, will be great, or at least good.

But the main reason that I called this the Great Simplification is anthropological,

archaeological, systemic reason, kind of linked to my upcoming conversation with archaeologist

Joseph Tainter, that because of our access to the

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