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Today on the month of college, we are asking human progress.

Was it a bad idea right from the start?

Did it all go wrong when a bacteria managed to find its way into an archaic

on and formed the first eukaryote,

laying the necessary, if not sufficient, foundations for the evolution

of all complex multicellular life on Earth?

You've been reading Richard Dawkins again.

Yes, I have, R2.

As Jacob Brinowski said,

we are nature's unique experiment to make rational intelligence prove itself

sounder than the reflex.

Now that experiment seems to have failed, what next for the human race?

Now, as many people realise that is greater evidence to suggest the Earth

only exists to actually be a public information film for all other sentient beings

in the universe. They turn on, watch us at midnight and go, we better not do that.

What's on this tonight? Remember, do not kiss a dog with rabies.

Never eat a lit firework.

And of course, the classic when reheating a bath,

don't do that by throwing in a two-bar fire.

And avoid democracy as much as you can.

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