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Humanity is not a parasite.

But the systems we collectively uphold today are certainly parasitic.

They maintain their hold on us due to our interdependence as we rely on

each other to survive and these systems, as destructive as they are, are how we know how to cooperate.

And they also maintain their whole, of course, through ideology. The sets of ideas about the

world carried through religion, philosophy, politics,

education, culture, etc. And to some extent, they maintain their whole through violence.

And so we can, and I believe we must, break free from this parasitism. I believe there are other

ways of relating with each other, with nature, and I'll talk about those ways at the end.

By the way, hello, and welcome to It Could Happen here. I'm Andrew Sage, Andrewism on YouTube, and I'm joined today by...

Mia Wong. Also here.

Yeah, we're doing great intros.

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So I want to talk about paracism, the development of paracism over time, as discussed in Samuel Miller McDonald's book, Progress, which I highly recommend, quite an enjoyable read.

So I actually really first heard about that book years ago before it was even out,

and I had reached out and I was like, oh, I would love to, you know, get a copy as soon as it's

available and talk about it and stuff.

And, you know, I was at that point in my life.

I was really voraciously consuming these kind of grand narratives of history.

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