Good morning. I have learned a lot these past few weeks, especially from the podcast from

Luke Kemp this week and Reed Malloy and Nancy McWilliams on psychopathy. And I want to kind

to integrate that into something that I didn't understand about what I

refer to as the global human economic superorganism.

If you're like me and if you follow this channel, many of you probably are, you often or

constantly experience some cognitive dissonance, looking at your friends and your

own values and your community and your feelings and the things you care about. And contrast

that with the headlines of our pal-mell crazy, polarized, dystopian, functional, dysfunctional world headed for all the things

that we imagine.

There is a delta between who we are as individual humans and who we're expressing ourselves are as a global species.

So today I want to talk about the median human, the mean human, and the predators.

And my thesis on its surface is depressing, but just underneath the surface is actually quite hopeful.

At least I find it.

So I'm going to start with some definitions, give a little background and setup to my thesis

and offer some brief conclusions on the logic underpinning the economic

superorganism.

Okay, first with definitions from the podcast last week, psychopathy on Wikipedia is defined by a personality construct characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, persistent antisocial behavior, along with bold, disinhibited,

and egocentric traits. These traits are often masked by superficial charm and immunity to stress,

which create outward appearance of apparent normalcy. Another definition is predator, an organism that

preys on and eats other animals. And a big old asterisk there, this channel is known

for wide boundary perspective. We think of predators as a bad thing with respect to human-on-human predation, which I'm

going to talk about.

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