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No, this is not overly optimistic. Upon digestion, what you will realise is that the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition is not just another idealistic plea for everyone to behave cooperatively, but that it is a defence of ‘reality’; it is a defence of our angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour! The deeper question that needed to be answered was why, when the universal ideals are to be cooperative and loving are we so selfish? Why are there “parasites”? Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here. And so this understanding defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And paradoxically, by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to end the perpetuation of our destructive behaviour!

Good on you Brian. If you haven’t seen yet, you can immediately access a copy at the top of our homepage just under THE Interview. You will see an image of FREEDOM with the text ‘Free Copy’ so click on that to access your free electronic copy to read, listen to or download. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. If you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy Griffith’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores.

    Thank you for your thoughts Drew. Jeremy Griffith’s work presents the breakthrough biological explanation of the underlying issue in all human affairs of the human condition, our species’ capacity for so-called ‘good’ and ‘evil’, or our ‘true’ and ‘false’ selves. While religious assurances such as ‘God loves you’ provided comfort, they failed to explain WHY we are lovable. Ultimately we needed to find the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work which THE Interview explains. We maintain that only by bringing reconciling understanding to our conflicted selves can we truly ameloriate and heal our psychological condition at its source. You may find our FAQs about how this reconciles science and religion and Jeremy’s Freedom Essay 39 ‘Christ explained’ of interest.     With regard to ‘Intelligent Design’, in THE Interview Jeremy Griffith refers to the Negative-Entropy-driven integrative meaning of existence, which he explains in depth in his definitive book FREEDOM, chapter 4 (see also FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the meaning of life? / What is the Integrative Meaning of existence? / What is God?’). In chapter 4:3 of FREEDOM, Jeremy also explains how the idea of Intelligent Design grew out of a need to counter mechanistic science’s denial of this integrative process, however, ultimately, through its reliance on divine intervention, Intelligent Design is unscientific. With the explanation of the human condition, however, it is now possible for science to recognise that integration drives the development of matter, including the advent of ‘life’.

Yes Sarki Professor Harry Prosen’s commendation is astonishing!! As he says “THE most important interview of all time” — no wonder this presentation is called ‘THE Interview’! You can see thousands more commendations for biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work from world leading scientists and thinkers, and the general public, on our homepage here!

Hi Jymo, we certainly do need a solution to mankind’s woes as you say and at last we do. To solve the human condition we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when these universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. As THE Interview explains, leaving or transcending our psychologically upset condition wasn’t the solution to that question. Ultimately we needed to confront and explain the source condition, which is what Jeremy Griffith has done with the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work. For a brief summary of this explanation see FAQ 1.3 ‘What is biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition?’ and FAQ 1.6 ‘How does understanding the human condition solve everything’.

Great to learn of our interest Zuki and we appreciate you asking for more information and to be updated! The WTM’s homepage — HumanCondition.com — has it all there for you with a guide to ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ which recommends the steps to progress your understanding — and it is all free! This includes joining our popular WTM Community Facebook Group and subscribing to our free mailing list, where you will recieve one email per week presenting the main topics of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM in easily digestible bite-sized blocks along with occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events.

Thank you for your comment Leo. Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ biological treatise explains the underlying cause for our psychological upset state (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) is the ‘instinct vs intellect’ clash, not ‘survival, must-reproduce-our-genes’ instincts within us. Rather than having “instincts to survive, replicate and nurture offspring” he explains that humans acquired selfess, all-loving and cooperative instincts. As we know unconditionally selfless genetic traits are self-eliminating, and therefore cannot normally develop in animals—which means animals are not normally able to cooperate beyond situations of reciprocity or kin selection. Part of the brilliance of Jeremy’s treatise is he explains how humans biologically overcame this genetic limitation through what he identifies as the ‘love-indoctrination’ process. This is summarised in our FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?’ which includes links to where Jeremy explains this in greater detail. Also, our FAQ 7.3 explains in more detail why the ‘group selection’ biology being used to supposedly explain humans’ cooperative instincts (actually ‘selfish’ instincts) is false. Disproving ‘group selection’ as flawed and dishonest biology also disproves the idea that it is the source of ‘tribalism’. No, the parsimonious, and if we think profoundly about our situation, obvious explanation for all our delusions, egomania, need to control others, and clashes betwween tribes/nations, is that we are psychologically upset sufferers of the human condition. If you haven’t watch THE Interview that is the best place to start and both these FAQs are absolutely fascinating so we hope you explore them.

Thanks Diane, yes we all need to share and celebrate this critical new science as much as we possibly can! Everything on the WTM website is freely available to share, including THE Interview where there is a ‘SHARE’ button underneath the video player at the top of the homepage HumanCondition.com. As well all our publications include a share button along with the other options for audio, downloading, printing, translations, commenting etc.

Thank you for your comment Charlotte and you might find our brief FAQ 1.3 ‘What is biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition?’ helpful. Also THE Interview has been translated into Danish here on our website. We are sorry to hear of your ADHA which must be very challenging especially when trying to explore new information. Basically the core breakthrough of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our core goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can know our psychological upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the human story presents the greatest, most heroic story ever told. So we can now look after ourselves and others with great compassion and kindness and we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us as our FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’ explains so that is important for you to read. Take care of yourself Charlotte and we send our very best wishes.

Hi Erwin, thank you for your heartfelt thoughts. Since what is being introduced is a new scientific paradigm, based on confronting rather than the historic practice of avoiding the issue of the human condition, it does require some digestion time to fully absorb so it is wonderful you are reading Jeremy Griffith’s main book FREEDOM. Yes as THE Interview explains all humans are born with unconditionally selfless or loving instincts but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis or a ‘shadow’ brought about by the conscious mind’s necessary yet corrupting search for knowledge. So our current ‘sick’ ‘corrupted’ state and inability to love unconditionally has been a result of our heroic but immensely upsetting search for knowledge and through that compassionate defence of our upset we can legimately and consciously return to our cooperative and loving origins! ‘Legitimately’ because at last we have the first principle-based science which liberates us to look ‘within’ or be honest or about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. This critical difference between Jeremy’s work and new age movements is explained in THE Interview and further deal with in FAQ 6.5 ‘Is this just another self-help, New Age, pseudo idealistic, superficial-treatment-of-psychosis type movement?’. Also, as you seem to be sensing, Jeremy’s work represents a reconciliation of science and religion. While religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. You may find FAQ 1.15 ‘If this is biology why are there religious references’ of interest as it explains the human condition is the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so naturally in explaining the human condition religious references will be used, and through scientific explanation, finally demystified and reconciled. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents and why it is so transformative. Thanks again Erwin and we are grateful you found THE Interview and are exploring this incredible new landscape of knowledge!

    We certainly respect people’s religious views SDub313 and Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition doesn’t actually contradict a belief in God or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact, Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth about human life albeit from that pre-scientific view.     For instance, as Jeremy explains in Part 2 of THE Interview, “the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden that Moses wrote so long ago in about 1,500 BC actually perfectly describes the psychologically upsetting battle that emerged between our instincts and conscious intellect. It says Adam and Eve/we humans took the ‘fruit’ (Genesis 3:3) ‘from the tree of knowledge’ (Gen. 2:9, 17) and were ‘disobedient’ (the term widely used in descriptions of Gen. 3). In other words, we developed a conscious mind and free will. But in that pre-scientific story it says Adam and Eve then became ‘evil’ (Gen. 3:22) perpetrators of ‘sin’ (Gen. 4:7) because they became angry, egocentric and alienated, and as a result Moses said they were ‘banished…from the Garden of Eden’ (Gen. 3:23) state of cooperative and loving innocence.” With the benefit of science, thankfully we can now explain that they, we humans, weren’t bad at all; in fact, we are the heroes of the story of life on Earth!     In dealing with such a historically difficult subject for us humans, these biological explanations of the human condition are, by nature, very confronting and although ultimately represent a fulfilment of religion (as explained in our FAQs about religion), they do demystify religious concepts which some people can find very challenging, so for those interested in exploring this further we encourage everyone to take their time investigating what’s being presented.     Although this is science, it is based on a Godly nature in the sense of recognising, like all the great religions do, that we humans once lived in a pre-human-condition-afflicted state of original innocence where we were perfectly instinctively orientated to the cooperative, selfless, loving, ‘Godly’ ideals of life, a state that we subsequently ‘corrupted’ with the emergence of free will; ‘God’ being explained as the integrative meaning of life, see FAQ 6.2 ‘What is the meaning of life? / What is the Integrative Meaning of existence? / What is God?’; we also recommend FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God?’. The difference being that we can now with the benefit of science, bring clarifying, first-principle biological explanation to our so-called ‘good and evil’-afflicted human condition and why we had to depart from our original innocence, whilst religion had to rely on metaphor and a more literal interpretation. Jeremy has written about Christ’s life and its phenomenal importance in humanity’s journey in Freedom Essay 39.     Also what is so significant and powerful about this breakthrough explanation is it is completely reconciling of all the dualities that the human condition has caused including believers and non-believers. Having been unable, until now, to explain the human condition—understand our species’ capacity for what has been called ‘good and evil’—the human race has been left with a deep, subconscious sense of insecurity and even guilt about our fundamental worth, leaving us no choice but to live in near total denial of the issue and take up a strategy to prove our self-worth. Until we could scientifically explain why we are good after all some people relied on dogmatic and religious assurances about their fundamental goodness and for others complete denial of God became the only acceptable option.

Hi Alberto, great to have your interest and we wanted to mention we have translations of THE Interview and many other WTM publications in Afrikaans, Amharic, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Xhosa available on our homepage HumanCondition.com or see FAQ 3.9 ‘What translations are available’. Also we have 80 WTM Centres around the world (see FAQ 3.3 ‘How do I contact my nearest WTM Centre’), with some presented in their native language, so hopefully there is one near you!

Hi Bill, thanks for your comment. Jeremy Griffith explains in this interview explains all humans are born with loving, cooperative instincts but now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition caused by the conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge. So we can at last understand WHY as a species we have become so psychologically upset—angry, egocentric and alienated—as to nearly destroy our own planet. As WTM FAQ 1.6 ‘How does understanding the human condition solve everything?’ explains, all the problems in the world like overpopulation, environmental devastation, genocide, terrorism, mass displacement of peoples, starvation, runaway diseases, gross inequality, ‘racial’ and gender oppression, polarised politics, rampant corruption and other crimes, drug abuse, family breakdown, and epidemic levels of obesity, chronic anxiety, depression, unhappiness and loneliness etc etc, are all symptoms of a deeper problem. So to truly solve the world’s problems we need to address and fix the underlying issue responsible for these problems, the human condition —our corrupted, psychologically upset state. Only the psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real explanation of the human condition can stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look, and this is precisely what biologist Jeremy Griffith has delivered with his first principle-based biological understanding of the human condition. As well as Part 1 of THE Interview, a brief summary of this understanding can be found in Video/Freedom Essay 3.

Thank you for your thoughts Dr Benelli and it is wonderful Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition brings you hope. It is immensely relieving as it allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. His work certainly recognises the destructive brutality of the right-wing; indeed he brings understanding to the whole extremely destructive angry, egocentric and alienated human condition. He also recognises the failing of the Left, which is that its dogmatic insistence on cooperative, selfless and loving behaviour stifled and oppressed the freedom of expression and individualism needed to find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, the redeeming understanding of our seemingly destructive human condition that thankfully he has now found and presents in his book FREEDOM. Basically his work brings profound understanding to both sides, which ultimately brings to an end the whole ugly business of politics. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics on our website.

Excellent recommendation George to take time watching or reading explanation of the human condition. The fundamental explanation is very simple, and eye-opening as you say, but it does open up the historically off-limits subject of the human condition so it does take time to fully absorb. Wonderful to have your interest George!

Hi Rupeni, what is so extraordinary about this breakthrough is that we can now understand the fundamental reason why people want more than they need and don’t “share and care”; we can now understand the source of our greed and selfishness, and more generally, materialism. When the conscious mind went in search of knowledge a conflict between our instinct and intellect broke out, leading to an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric — the upset state we refer to as the human condition, a state we sought to alleviate through a competitive, selfish and aggressive bid for the reinforcement we could gain from winning power, fame, fortune and glory. This is the underlying source of our greed. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt and insecurity it produced, all those defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition, see our FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding the human condition solve everything?’.

That’s great news Willy! You can read the transcript of THE Interview here on our website where you can also watch, listen to or download it too! To learn more please see our reply to Senny just below. Happy exploring Willy!

That’s fantastic Senny!! Our homepage provides the ultimate course or guide to how best learn more — and it is all completely free! This includes, after THE Interview, the other three Introductory Videos, our Main Videos and Jeremy Griffith’s Key Books. Also you can subscribe to our mailing list to recieve our weekly ‘Freedom Essay’ emails, a course that guides you through much of the content of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM in beautifully illustrated bite-size pieces. We also encourage you to join our over 70,000 members in our WTM Community Facebook Group as it’s proving to be such an effective platform to maximise interaction amongst our global supporters, for everyone to benefit from each others’ questions and responses, and from our guidance, and it’s where thought-provoking cutting edge discussions about this biological explanation are taking place!

    Thank you, Rachel. Yes, as Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview, all humans suffer from the universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. We became angry, egocentric and alienated or in a word ‘upset’, so all humans, to varying degrees, suffer from the human condition and therefore have mental health issues. Our psychological upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge, so it is not ‘bad’ or to be looked down upon, it is just a sign that we have been through the all-important battle, and so it does completely remove the “stigma of mental health”.     And, as psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, wrote: “the beauty of Griffith’s treatise is that the healing starts at the macro level of the universal human condition; the healing of the shame and blame that the whole human race has suffered from…It brings the greater context and love to all human psychosis and suffering, and then, from under the umbrella of that safe position, everyone can gradually work inwards to their particular experience of all the imperfections in human life that have now, finally, been made sense of” — see FAQ 1.34 ‘How does understanding the human race’s condition help with an individual’s depression and psychosis?’ and also FAQ 1.35 on ‘Does this heal anxiety?’.

That is great Ginger. You can immediately access a copy at the top of our homepage just under THE Interview. You will see an image of FREEDOM with the text ‘Free Copy’ so click on that to access your free electronic copy to read, listen to or download. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. If you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy Griffith’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores.

Biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. His work certainly recognises the destructive brutality of the right-wing; indeed he brings understanding to the whole extremely destructive angry, egocentric and alienated human condition. He also recognises the failing of the Left, which is that its dogmatic insistence on cooperative, selfless and loving behaviour stifled and oppressed the freedom of expression and individualism needed to find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, the redeeming understanding of our seemingly destructive human condition that thankfully he has now found and presents in his book FREEDOM. Basically his work brings profound understanding to both sides, which ultimately brings to an end the whole ugly business of politics. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics.

While it takes some time to digest, we suggest that what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ and Video/Freedom Essay 4 which expands further on other thinkers (both ancient and contemporary) who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

Yes! As the distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association) said: “What Griffith is presenting is understanding of the source insecurity that the whole human race suffers from for having destroyed our species’ innocent soul. It is a universal self-blame that his understanding at last provides healing insight into. All human behavior is saturated with that universal insecure, depressing state and resulting anger, egocentricity and alienation that has developed from it, but we finally have the compassionate foundation insight needed to dismantle all that ‘upset’/psychosis. So the real psychotherapy of our collective and individual psychoses can begin”.

We aren’t entirely sure what you mean about the ‘same arugments arising’, however, we suggest that while there have been many ‘arguments’ put forward about human behaviour throughout history, ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work.

Yes, being given the power of free will was “a very difficult responsibility”! Using the Adam Stork story, we can now understand that in order to master or champion our free will the conscious mind had to defy or ignore our all-loving instincts, perfectly aligned as they were with the ‘Godly’ ideals of life, and it was this defiance of our instincts that resulted in humans becoming angry, egocentric and alienated — the psychological upset state of our human condition.

Thanks Ronda. Yes, Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t exclude or contradict a belief in God, or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact, Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-science view. Although this is science, it is based on a ‘Godly’ nature in the sense of recognising, like all the great religions do, that we humans once lived in a pre-human-condition-afflicted state of original innocence where we were perfectly instinctively orientated to the cooperative, selfless, loving, ‘Godly’ ideals of life; ‘God’ being explained as being the personification of integrative meaning of life; see Freedom Essay 23. People might find our FAQs about religion of interest, especially FAQs ‘What is God’ and ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

Thanks for your thoughts LeoG. Certainly it will take generations to completely heal the human race, but as Jeremy says in Freedom Essay 15, “...it is not a revolution that involves warfare and bloodshed like so many revolutions in the past, but a peaceful revolution that is driven by irrefutable knowledge/understanding. We humans are conscious beings and what consciousness needs is understanding, and now we have it. Ultimately, we humans respond to knowledge—anything less was bound to be ineffective. This is the real and lasting transformation that the human race has lived in hope, faith and trust would one day occur. It is the revolution of our minds.” Regarding Marx and left wing constructs such as communism, as Jeremy points out in his definitive book FREEDOM, “Karl Marx, the political theorist whose mid-nineteenth century ideas gave rise to socialism and communism, argued that ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is [not to understand the world but] to change it.’ By ‘change it’ Marx meant just make it cooperative or social or communal, but he was wrong—the whole ‘point’ and responsibility of being a conscious being is to understand our world and place in it, ultimately to find understanding of the human condition. The attraction—and inherent lie—of socialism/communism was that you could support and live the ideals without acknowledging the reality of the human condition and its struggle.” We recommend our FAQs about politics.

That’s great to hear Kelly - please see our reply below to Karia about how to stay in contact and participate in the incredible discussion about how this critical new science frees us from the human condition!

    Hi Karia, we would love you to get involved! The WTM’s homepage—HumanCondition.com—provides a guide to ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ which recommends the steps to learn more and get involved—and it is all free! This includes joining and starting to get involved on the WTM Community Facebook Group that you have already discovered, and subscribing for free weekly emails that guides you through much of the content of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM in beautifully illustrated bite-size pieces.     In terms of helping the WTM we recommend reading our How To Help page.

    Thanks for your thoughts Roger. Jeremy Griffith’s treatise is very different to the work of Yuval Noah Harari (author of Sapiens) who, among other huge dissimilarities, doesn’t recognise our instinctive heritage as being all-loving and cooperative but rather promotes the savage instincts excuse for our psychological upset that Jeremy discusses in THE Interview. And as Jeremy explains in Part 1, “it is actually really good news that our behaviour is due to a conscious-mind-based psychologically troubled condition because psychoses can be healed with understanding”.     And relevantly, because Jeremy has finally explained that our instinctive heritage is all-loving and cooperative, we can finally see that it and soul are one and the same! So, we suggest, if people take time to explore our work they will realise just how comprehensive and all-encompassing Jeremy’s explanation is of our soul! For instance FAQ 1.26 ‘What is soul, have we all got one, has it been repressed, and if so, how do we rehabilitate it?’ reveals exactly what our soul is and it’s significance.

Take heart Victor because as you can see from the daily ecstatic responses on our homepage, the relief and excitement of finally be able to make sense of human life is turning into a tidal wave of world-saving support!! As Part 4 of THE Interview and FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world?’ explain, while the world is fast approaching a point of no return, this understanding will turn things around incredibly quickly, because it explains and solves our psychological upset which is the underlying cause of all our suffering, anger, selfishness and inequality. We also recommend reading Freedom Essay 15: ‘How your life can immediately be transformed’. You can also see our growing network of 80 WTM Centres all around the world here — to contact the WTM Centre nearest to you see FAQ 3.3. Also come and join the over 70,000 members on our WTM Facebook Group and discuss and celebrate this astonishing new understanding of ourselves!!!!!

Hi Milton and thank you for your comment. Being able to understand the human condition is priceless as you say but it introduces an entirely new framework of knowledge, a massive paradigm shift in how we view humans, which takes time to absorb some aspects of the explanation. For instance, regarding Socialism, Jeremy explains that while it is of course important to look after the less fortunate in our society, the limitation of Socialism is that it seeks to bring about a just, cooperative society by simply and dogmatically demanding an idealistic social or communal world without acknowledging the reality of the human condition and the unjust but necessary struggle it created. As Jeremy points out in his definition book FREEDOM, “Karl Marx, the political theorist whose mid-nineteenth century ideas gave rise to socialism and communism, argued that ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is [not to understand the world but] to change it.’ By ‘change it’ Marx meant just make it cooperative or social or communal, but he was wrong—the whole ‘point’ and responsibility of being a conscious being is to understand our world and place in it, ultimately to find understanding of the human condition. The attraction — and inherent lie — of socialism/communism was that you could support and live the ideals without acknowledging the reality of the human condition and its struggle” (chapter 8:16K). We recommend our FAQs about politics, which we think you will find most helpful as they explain how this all-reconciling understanding of human behaviour brings an end to the necessary but ugly world of politics.

Hi Francis, great wisdom can be found in some spiritual teaching, but ultimately our thinking mind needed understanding — specifically, scientific understanding of why when the ideals are to be loving and selfless are we so competitive and selfish? This age old question has never been answered and that is what Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the breakthrough that can save the world. We recommend FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? / How does biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’ which explains the originality of his work and also FAQ 6.5 which explains the difference between Jeremy’s explanation and new age spirituality.