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   Thank you for your question Delroy. The new scientific paradigm that biologist Jeremy Griffith is introducing does take some digestion time to see that while it can seem like some animals have the same selfless, loving, cooperative instincts that we humans have, they are in fact still stuck in, as Jeremy explains in THE Interview, the ‘animal condition’ where their lives are fundamentally dictated by selfish, competitive instincts. Even though other animals display various levels of socialness, and respond to it, they are driven by gene-based natural selection and the essential fact or rule of natural selection is that genes are unavoidably selfish, so there is a fundamental limit to the amount of selfless, loving behaviour they can develop. The brilliance of Jeremy’s work is he explains how humans biologically overcame this genetic limitation through what he identifies as the ‘love-indoctrination’ process, which produced our all-loving, altruistic instincts. In Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy stresses and illustrates just how extraordinarily social and loving the bonobo chimpanzees are and how they have developed this ‘love-indoctrination’ process to a lesser degree. To quote: “...in fact, bonobos, the ape species who live south of the Congo River in Africa, are extraordinarily matriarchal, or female role focused, and extraordinarily nurturing. You can find photos online—and I’ll include some in the transcript booklet and video of this interview—that illustrate just how nurturing bonobos are; they show bonobo mothers giving their infant their devoted and undivided attention! And as a result of all this nurturing, bonobos are the most cooperative and loving of all primates, which is evidenced by these absolutely amazing quotes that I just have to read to you...”. So we recommend you watch or re-watch Part 3 and also read FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?’. 

   In terms of social animals Jeremy also explains in his definitive book FREEDOM (chapter 6:5) that every species would try to develop as much love-indoctrinated integration as their circumstances permit, which can be seen in very social animals like dolphins and elephants who are extremely sensitive, but how their physical and environmental situations have limited them from achieving that, meaning they still remain in the ‘animal condition’. Also, in chapter 6:10, Jeremy explains that while we have domesticated dogs and selected for tamer and more social juvenile characteristics in them, they are still limited by their selfish genetic orientation to aggressively compete for food, territory and mating opportunities. So there is much to consider and digest with this critical new science and we recommend starting with THE Interview followed by its extremely helpful 2026 addition, Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, where Jeremy warns of — and presents the solution to — the initial ‘Deaf Effect’ difficulty of taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the human condition. Together, these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation.

Hi David, the human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for so-called ‘good and evil’ and is therefore the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is demystified and explained. Jeremy Griffith’s treatise actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. With regard to the fear religious doctrine can instill in people, with understanding of the human condition we can now appreciate that in order to encourage people to adhere to the integrative, ‘Godly’, cooperative ideals of life, religions sought to restrain ‘upset’ behaviour by making people fearful of behaving in an overly angry, egocentric and alienated way. Obviously what was desperately missing was reconciling understanding of our upset behaviour and the Godly ideals; reconciling understanding of the human condition in fact—which is exactly what Jeremy presents us with. So no longer does anybody have to be terrorised by religious dogma. They can understand what such religious doctrine was providing (even though it could be fearful) and the great role religions played in humanity’s journey. This is fully explained in FAQ 6.3 about understanding religion.

Hi Donna, this interview presents biologist Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ explanation of the human condition. To quickly summarise, Jeremy explains when we humans developed a conscious mind some 2 million years ago, a battle unavoidably developed between it and our already established instincts. The result of this conflict between our instinct and intellect was that we became psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric — the upset state we refer to as the human condition. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition. We hope you will watch THE Interview at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com. Part 1 presents this key concept in more detail and then critical questions are answered in Parts 2, 3 & 4. Also you can read our FAQ 1.3 for a very brief summary.

Thanks for your comment Gordon. We suggest the question screaming to be answered is WHY do we no longer love our neighbours — why, when the universal ideals are to be cooperative, loving and selfless are we so competitive, unloving and selfish? It is this crux question that Jeremy Griffith confronts and answers through first principle biology because only through understanding the dark side of ourselves — why we departed from our all-loving instincts and became selfish — can we free ourselves from the human condition and legitimately love ourselves and each other again. ‘Legitimately’ because at last we have the first principle-based science which actually resolves our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. To quote our FAQ 6.5 which explains the critical difference between Jeremy’s work and pseudo idealism or the new age movement: “There has been much talk of the need to love each other and the environment, but the real need on Earth has been to love the dark side of ourselves, to find reconciling and redeeming understanding of our species’ extraordinary capacity for brutality, selfish indifference to others, hate, anger, oppression, meanness, cruelty, devastation and destruction—to explain the psychological origins of our deeply distressed so-called human condition and by so doing heal our troubled souls and set ourselves free from our 2-million-years corrupted condition. And it is precisely that all-important explaining, redeeming, reconciling and liberating understanding of ourselves that is presented in biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work.”

Yes Manny and there couldn’t be anything more exciting and meaningful than learning about the human condition! The best place to start is to watch THE Interview, in which biologist Jeremy Griffith presents his breakthrough ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ explanation of the human condition. From there, don’t miss its extremely helpful 2026 addition, Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, where Jeremy warns of — and presents the solution to — the initial ‘Deaf Effect’ difficulty of taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the human condition. Together, these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation and our homepage HumanCondition.com guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. We are a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print! 

Great to hear! We certainly encourage everyone to research and investigate Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition for themselves. First, we recommend that you watch THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition. From there, at top of our FIX THE WORLD homepage at HumanCondition.com, it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes. We also encourage people to join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world.

   The central tenet of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that humans have a cooperative, loving instinctive heritage, not a brutish, savage and aggressive one, and therefore it follows that he recognises that the more ‘primitive’ a race of people is, such as in indigenous cultures, the more cooperative and loving they will be. You might be interested in chapter 8:12 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM, which discusses the relatively innocent Bushmen of the Kalahari at some length. However, what needs to be answered and what is of unique significance about Jeremy’s treatise is he has answered the essential question of why we departed from that innocent state. Why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish, so much so that we are destroying ourselves and our world? Ultimately we needed the rational, biological, accountable explanation for our ‘fall’ from grace, which is what is provided here.

Hi Melissa, it’s great you’ve watched THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition. From there, at top of our FIX THE WORLD homepage at HumanCondition.com, it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes. We also encourage people to join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. We are a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print!

   Yes, as is explained in our FAQ 1.1, ‘What is the human condition?’, “while it’s undeniable that humans are capable of great love, we also have an unspeakable history of brutality, rape, torture, murder and war. Despite all our marvellous accomplishments, we humans have been the most ferocious and destructive force that has ever lived on Earth—and the eternal question has been ‘why?’ Even in our everyday behaviour, why have we humans been so competitive, selfish and aggressive when clearly the ideals of life are to be the complete opposite, namely cooperative, selfless and loving? In fact, why are we so ruthlessly competitive, selfish and brutal that human life has become all but unbearable and we have nearly destroyed our own planet?! The agony of being unable to truthfully answer this fundamental question of why we are the way we are—divisively instead of cooperatively behaved—has been the particular burden of human life. It has been our species’ particular affliction or condition—our ‘human condition’.”

   And you can know that Jeremy Griffith has at last got to the bottom of the human condition and found the redeeming explanation of it, because as he explains in paragraph 73 of FREEDOM the ultimate test of any hypothesis is how accountable it is of our own lives – as the greatest of all physicists, Albert Einstein, once said that ‘truth is what stands the test of experience’. And so you can know that this is the breakthrough explanation of the human condition because once you understand the explanation and begin to apply it, you will discover it is so able to make sense of human behaviour it makes it transparent. This transparency of ourselves and our world—for example, the exposure of all our falseness—that this understanding of the human condition brings, is the ultimate ‘test of experience’ that confirms that the understanding being presented here is the long-sought explanation of the human condition. In this particular scientific study—the biological analysis of the human condition—we humans are the subjects, which means we can experience, feel and know the truthfulness or otherwise of the explanations being put forward. And so, fantastic a claim as it may seem, you will find that what is being presented here is the long-sought-after, desperately needed, psychosis-addressing-and-resolving, human race-transforming explanation of the human condition.

No Scott, what Jeremy Griffith explains is now the human condition is solved, through the success of the philosophy of the right-wing, we all basically become left-wing!! The fundamental explanation of the left and right wings, that is presented in THE Interview, is that freedom of thought and individualism, sustained by the incentives of materialism and capitalism which right-wing constitutions uphold, are what maintained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge, ultimately for self-knowledge. And so paradoxically it was the right-wing that actually held the moral high ground and the left-wing that posed the real threat to humanity due to the fact that its dogmatically imposed pseudo-idealism gravely endangers freedom of thought and the search for understanding. Now the core mystery and problem about human behaviour of our so-called ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition has at last been solved we can understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wings of politics and bring the whole necessary but ugly business of politics to an end. To quote FAQ 7.1 ‘How does this end the polarised politics?’: “the final irony of the saga of humanity’s great journey from ignorance to enlightenment is that the ideal world that the left-wing was dogmatically demanding is actually brought about by the right-wing winning its reality-defending, freedom-from-idealism, corrupting-search-for-knowledge battle against the freedom-oppressing pseudo idealistic dogma of the left-wing. With the freedom-from-dogma right-wing’s search for understanding of the human condition completed, the justification for the egocentric power-fame-fortune-and-glory-seeking way of life espoused by the right-wing ends, replaced by the ideal-behaviour-obeying attitude that the left-wing sought. In this sense, when the right-wing wins we all become left-wing; through the success of the philosophy of the right-wing, we all adopt the philosophy of the left-wing—but, most significantly, this time we are not abandoning an ongoing battle, we are leaving it won”.

In THE Interview biologist Jeremy Griffith explains becoming alienated from nature an our soul’s world was in fact the journey humans had to make and that our unnatural way of living was an unavoidable consequence of our necessary and heroic search for self-knowledge. We had to lose ourselves to find ourselves; we had to suffer becoming angry, alienated and egocentric until we found sufficient knowledge to explain ourselves. We have had to smother ourselves with material glory while we lacked the spiritual glory of compassionate understanding of ourselves. In Part 4 Jeremy explains returning to our soul’s world before we solved the human condition was actually leading us to terminal alienation, to quote “We 2-million-year psychologically upset humans needed to be able to think our way to sanity. Suppressing freedom of thought turned humans into brainless robots destined to march off the edge of hope into the chasm of terminal psychosis and extinction” (see FAQ 6.5 ‘Is this just another self help, New Age movement?’). And with that solution now found, we can know we are good, we can reconcile with our cooperative and loving instincts, our divisive behaviour can come to an end. As the poet T.S. Eliot wrote, “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time” (Little Gidding, 1942). So, with understanding of the human condition found, we can finally be upset-free, secure, sound, effective managers of our world and, as a result, the peace and happiness that humans throughout history have hardly dared to dream of can come into being. We also suggest FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’.

It’s wonderful to have your feedback Tom! We suggest the more you explore this explanation the more you will realise it is the long-awaited scientific breakthrough in understanding ourselves that will stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look. A whole new world, free of the agony of the human condition, is already opening up — just read the daily ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving on our homepage HumanCondition.com and scroll down to see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for FIX THE WORLD with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centres all over the world!

Hi Bob, biologist Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. For example, in Part 2 of THE Interview, he explains how the story of Adam and Eve is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulting in humans becoming psychologically upset. However as Jeremy stresses, we can now understand from scientific first principles that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’. And with that redeeming answer to the human condition now found, our psychological upset (so called ‘sinful’ or ‘fallen’ state) can actually subside. We suggest our FAQ 1.15 ‘ If this is biology, why the religious references?'. To quote the first paragraph: “The study of the human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for acts of both so-called ‘good and evil’—of why, when the ideals are to be cooperative loving and selfless are we capable of incredible aggression and selfishness. This realm of inquiry is where science and religion overlap, so naturally in explaining the human condition the terms ‘good and evil’ and religious references will be used, and through scientific explanation, finally demystified and reconciled.”

Solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source. As Part 4 of THE Interview explains we can now understand that our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness, so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. This is the rapidly transforming effect of being able to understand the human condition, however because it presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking it does take a little time to fully grasp. Our FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 are helpful as they talk about the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding and FAQ 1.40 addresses the questions ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’. Also for the most detailed explanation of the transformation that is now possible we recommend Jeremy’s two seminal presentations on the topic: The Great Transformation and Sermon On The Beach. It is also worth mentioning FAQ 6.5 also clarifies that this understanding is not another new age-type false start to a new world for humans that can’t and doesn’t last. 

Hi Mark, you’ll see on our homepage HumanCondition.com when you click on the image of FREEDOM that as well as being able to purchase a hardcopy on Amazon or through good bookstores, it is available for free in many different formats including that you can read it immediately online or you can print yourself a copy. So the wonderful news is that no one has to wait to read or acquire a copy of FREEDOM. The instructions for printing and even binding your own copy are given there as well when you click on the picture of FREEDOM — all these options are there on the homepage for all of Jeremy Griffith’s key books.

   Hi Abbait, we welcome your interest and if you haven’t already the best place to begin is with THE Interview, in which biologist Jeremy Griffith presents his breakthrough ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ explanation of the human condition. From there, don’t miss its extremely helpful 2026 addition, Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, where Jeremy warns of — and presents the solution to — the initial ‘Deaf Effect’ difficulty of taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the human condition. Together, these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation and can be found at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com 

   What Jeremy explains is all humans are born with all-loving, moral instincts (not savage animal instincts) but we now suffer from a universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. We became psychologically upset and alienated from our original selfless peaceful state because of our conscious mind’s necessary, and indeed heroic, search for knowledge. Most significantly we can finally understand the real reason for why humans’ competitive and selfish behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life! Jeremy also explains the human condition is a psychological condition derived from our biology, see FAQ 1.29 ‘Is the human condition a biological or a psychological problem?'. Thankfully with our goodness and worth now biologically established, all our defensive, competitive and destructive behaviours (essentially our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are made redundant; we can actually stop the destruction of ourselves and fix the world. How we change and more forward is explained in Part 4 of THE Interview and also FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’.

   Also Jeremy has brought this understanding of the human condition to the much discussed question of the danger of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and also given his thoughts on the possibility of alien life visiting Earth in the booklet AI, Aliens & Conspiracies: the truthful analysis which we feel you will find incredibly enlightening and interesting. 

Hi David, thank you for your thoughts and it is wonderful Jeremy Griffith’s work is resonating with you so strongly. What is so significant about explanation of the human conditon is that it defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, our “distortion of one’s morals” and our “false quests, purpose and direction in life”, all humans are ‘good’. And paradoxically, by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our moral and loving instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to end the perpetuation of our destructive behaviour and to “live purposely grounded in truth and fact”! We suggest our FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 which talk about the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding. 

Hi Thad, thank you, we very much appreciate your interest. We suggest that the more you digest Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation, the more you will realise how accountable it is in getting to the source of all humanity’s psychological upset, which in the extreme, produces people who are capable of remorseless violence. Of course this breakthrough explanation doesn’t condone or sanction the horrendous atrocities humans can commit rather, through bringing compassionate understanding to the source of humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it; see FAQ 1.38 ‘Aren’t some people just born psychopathic, or even ‘evil’? / How does this explanation rehabilitate people capable of ‘evil’ behaviour? / Does this condone ‘evil’ behaviour?’. As the late Professor Harry Prosen, psychiatrist and former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, said: ‘I have no doubt Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race.’

   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.

   THE Interview provides the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s work, so please share the FIX THE WORLD homepage (the homepage is the best place to send people for them to watch or read THE Interview, because that way they get the full context of the website).

   With regard to bonobos representing a better model of our ancestors than other primates, while it is true that humans share approximately 98.7% of our DNA with both chimpanzees and bonobos, the evidence reveals that on the basis of physiology, bipedality, environment, intelligence and reduced canine size, that the cooperative and gentle bonobo clearly represents a better model of our human ancestors than the chimpanzee (the evidence is presented in detail in chapter 5 of FREEDOM).

   It is certainly true, Gil, that our encounters with the human condition, particular in our formative years, “dictates how we live”. However, as the distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the Introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM) 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”. So Jeremy’s work couldn’t represent a more significant breakthrough in psychotherapy because it presents the psychosis-addressing-and-solving real explanation of the human condition that can finally relieve and heal our deeply conflicted and troubled upset state.

   We recommend you read Jeremy’s book Therapy for the human condition. Amongst other things, the extraordinary sensitivity of the human’s instinctive self is explained in the context of how children instinctively expect love, and that when they encounter the upset state of the human condition, this has a profoundly traumatic effect on them that we have not been able to properly resolve until now. For example, Arthur Janov’s work is discussed in depth, which is relevant to your comment, because Janov’s work is all about getting back to the original source of trauma. What is explained is that, “Janov was certainly remarkably honest about the devastating effects of lack of love during our formative years, and he also pioneered his brilliant PRIMAL THERAPY techniques that help ‘patients go back and relive the original overwhelming scene, feeling or need [such as being rejected by their mother, or ignored by their father], bit by bit over time until it is finally resolved and out of the system’ — which is an excruciating connection that can cause a ‘primal scream’ in the patient, as he titled his first book. But, again, as helpful as his therapeutic insights are, Janov didn’t confront and explain our corrupted human condition, and thus he wasn’t able to provide the all-important, redeeming, therapising explanation of our psychologically distressed human condition that allows us to understand the origin and good reason for all the pain he was witnessing every day in his therapy rooms — nor did he know why we are born with ‘a pervasive need to be loved’; he didn’t know how nurturing created our species’ loving instinctive soul.”

Hi Chauna, thanks for your interest. You will need to ask your local library if they stock any of Jeremy Griffith’s books, however, you can immediately access free copies of all of his works, including THE Interview, The Human Condition and his main book FREEDOM (to read, listen to, download and even print) on the FIX THE WORLD website on the Publications page. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. If you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores. FIX THE WORLD is a not-for-profit, so all information and materials are provided free of charge, so we hope you find the format you are after, and pursue your interest by visiting our website.

Thank you for your comment, Tamibeth. The human condition has caused such unthinkable pain and suffering it is almost unimaginable. We are in critical need of a deeper understanding of ourselves so we can put an end to all that suffering and horror that our condition creates. And we suggest that the more you digest Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation, the more you will realise how accountable it is in getting to the source of all humanity’s psychological upset, which in the extreme, produces people who are capable of cruelty. Of course this breakthrough explanation doesn’t condone or sanction the horrendous atrocities humans can commit rather, through bringing compassionate understanding to the source of humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it. As the late Professor Harry Prosen, psychiatrist and former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, said: “I have no doubt Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race.”

Darwin’s idea of natural selection was a critically important breakthrough, not only because it allowed us to understand how the great variety of life on Earth emerged, but because it finally enabled us to explain the human condition. After we could understand the process of natural selection we were finally in a position to explain that our instincts were only orientations to and not understandings of the world around us, which, as has now been revealed, is the key to explaining the human condition.

We will! Jeremy Griffith’s work explains that all the crises that the world faces, such as war, environmental destruction, drug and mental-health epidemics etc are merely symptoms of a deeper problem and will not fundamentally change until we end the underlying insecurity that is driving it all, which is exactly what Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition in THE Interview does. With our goodness biologically established all our insecurity and subsequent anger, egocentricity and alienation, is made redundant; we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a cooperative, peaceful way of living, and all the terrible problems besetting the world will be able to be fixed, almost overnight!

Hi Gary, it’s great you’ve watched THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition. From there, at top of our FIX THE WORLD homepage at HumanCondition.com, it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM (which is available to freely read online, watch, listen to and even download and print), and subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes.

Hi Gustave, you can watch all the videos on our website using the closed captions or subtitles function in any language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window). And on our Translations page you can freely access all the publications that have been translated into French! FREEDOM is still in development but THE Interview, Transform Your Life And Save The World, Death by Dogma, and numerous Freedom Essays are available. You might also be interested in visiting the websites of FIX THE WORLD Centres in Nice and Switzerland as their websites are also provided in French.

   Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition isn’t idealism or merely a hope that people will behave better. It provides the ultimate defence of reality: a biological understanding of why humans became psychologically insecure, angry, egocentric and alienated in the first place.

   All our institutions, including our governments and media, have been a manifestation of our insecure, psychologically upset condition. As the renowned playwright Eugène Ionesco wrote, “It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.” Only solving the human condition, addressing the source of our selfish psychological upset, could we achieve real and lasting change and stop the destruction of our world that is happening everywhere we look.

What is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are “Love, understanding and oneness” why are we so mean and selfish? 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.

Thanks Angela. You can immediately access free copies of THE Interview, Jeremy Griffith’s latest book The Human Condition and his main book FREEDOM (to read, listen to, download and even print) on the FIX THE WORLD homepage under the ‘WHAT NEXT’ section. Also you can freely access all Jeremy’s books here on our website. As well you can download free Kindle versions from Amazon. If you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores.

It’s complicated as it all seemed it first I’d like to hear more about what this is about so I get a chance to wrap my head around it and weigh it for myself…. Could it be that simple?

There is a huge amount to get your head around, which takes a little time, but now we can understand the human condition, we can see that everyone has suffered from it, and all our institutions, including our governments, have been a manifestation of our insecure, psychologically upset condition. As the renowned playwright Eugène Ionesco wrote, “It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.” And so only solving the human condition, addressing the source of our selfish psychological upset (what historically has been termed ‘evil’), could we achieve real and lasting change and stop the destruction of our world that is happening everywhere we look. You may find this FAQ helpful, FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding solve everything’.

Hi Frederick, it’s great you’ve watched THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition. From there, at top of our FIX THE WORLD homepage at HumanCondition.com, it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes. We also encourage people to join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. We are a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print!

   Thanks for your feedback Susan. Jeremy Griffith’s work opens up a new way of thinking so it takes a little time to fully absorb this new paradigm – and the human condition does present the ultimate paradox! The biological ‘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 identifies that the problem of the right-wing is its destructiveness, however, through its support of egocentricity and selfishness, it does encourage the search for knowledge to continue. However the left wing’s insistence on ideal behaviour had the effect of oppressing and thus regressing, not ‘progressing’, the all-important search for knowledge. Most importantly, this understanding brings a profound understanding to both sides which ultimately will bring an end to the whole ugly business of politics. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics.

   There is no blaming of “the lack of maternal nuturing as the crux of the human condition”. The crux of the human condition was the uavoidable clash between the emerging intellect and our pre-established instincts. And so the core premise of Jeremy Griffith’s biological treatise is that ALL HUMANS ARE EQUALLY GOOD and equally heroic! We no longer have to just believe men and women are equal we can understand they are! To quote molecular biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald from her commendation of Jeremy’s work: “because Griffith’s work establishes the equal worth or goodness of all humans we can now understand the different roles that men and women have traditionally played in the human journey and this is actually the unlocking point, this is what brings about deep empathy for each other, it heals the divide”, see Freedom Essay 9. And, as Jeremy says in concluding chapter 8:11B of his book FREEDOM, “With understanding of the human condition now found, men and women can at last stand side by side—the ‘war of the sexes’ can finally be resolved. Yes, the human journey can have the happy ending we always hoped it would.”

   Further, as Jeremy explains in chapter 8:16C of FREEDOM, “having found the compassionate biological understanding of the upsetting battle that humans have had to wage against the ignorance of our instinctive self as to the fundamental goodness of our conscious self, our species’ preoccupation with that battle can at last end and focus return to the nurturing of our children. Further, now that we have found that very good reason as to why parents have been unable to nurture their children with anything like the unconditional love children instinctively expect and need, it is no longer necessary to deny the importance of nurturing both in the maturation of our species and in our own lives. Yes, with the arrival of understanding the terrible guilt parents have felt for not being able to adequately nurture their offspring departs. Parents can now understand that their inability to adequately love their offspring is not their fault, but the product of the ever-accumulating levels of upset in the human race as a whole that resulted from our species’ heroic 2-million-year search for knowledge, specifically for self-knowledge, understanding of why we conscious humans are good and not bad.”

   Yes, as the greatest of all physicists, Albert Einstein, once said that ‘truth is what stands the test of experience’. And so you can know that this is the breakthrough explanation of the human condition because once you understand the explanation and begin to apply it, you will discover it is so able to make sense of human behaviour it makes it transparent. In this particular scientific study—the biological analysis of the human condition—we humans are the subjects, which means we can experience, feel and know the truthfulness or otherwise of the explanations being put forward.

   With regard to Jung, we recommend reading FAQ 1.47 ‘How does Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition differ from the theories of Freud or Jung?’, as it explains how Jeremy’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition varies with Jung’s work. But essentially, the only way humans could, as Jung said, ‘own our own shadow’ was to ameliorate the guilt we, our conscious thinking mind, feels for having corrupted our all-loving instinctive self or soul, and that could only be achieved by explaining why we had to endure becoming angry, egocentric and alienated—why our corrupted human condition was actually a heroic and loveable condition rather than a bad, ‘evil’, ‘sinful’ condition. Answering this question of questions, lifting the ‘great burden of guilt’ from the human race, required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents. Which is why Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, said, ‘I have no doubt this biological explanation of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race.’

   THE Interview explains that all the dysfunction and destruction in the world are manifestations of the ‘instinct vs intellect’ conflict within each of us that has produced the psychologically upset state of the human condition. But what is so powerful about the explanation of the human condition is that by solving the discord at its source, it brings an end to all the terrible, and seemingly overwhelmingly “complex” problems that you list – indeed it is the only way to bring an end to all those symptoms of our psychologically upset condition. By explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts (which is that genes can orientate but nerves need to understand) means all our defensive and apathetic behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant; they can “stop”. You might be interested in reading FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 as they explain the far-reaching “concrete” applications of this understanding.

   As Jeremy Griffith explains in chapter 9 of his definitive book FREEDOM, once people start having the legitimate ‘change of heart’ that this information allows, the selflessness that it liberates will not only quickly solve all the problems on the planet, but the excitement and joy it brings means everyone will want to get on board as quickly as they can! For example, Jeremy writes in chapter 9:9, “Although this new world for humans, which FIX THE WORLD has been established to facilitate, will have a slow beginning because humans initially find it difficult even taking in or ‘hearing’ discussion about the human condition, once FIX THE WORLD is discovered, word of it and what it offers every human and the world will spread like wildfire—as the exceptional denial-free thinking prophet Teilhard de Chardin wrote, ‘The Truth has to only appear once…for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze’” (par. 1236).

   On this point, we recommend FAQ 1.40 which addresses the questions of ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’

   As Jeremy Griffith points out in Part 2 of THE Interview, the issue of the human condition has been such a denied and off-limits subject that confronting it represents the “biggest of all blasphemies”, and how “science progresses funeral by funeral” when it comes to supporting big paradigm shifts like this. So it will take time to break through the road block of the fear and resulting deaf effect the subject of the human condition causes in most people. You might find the following link helpful: FAQ 1.14 ‘Why aren’t these ideas mainstream?’.

   Having said that, as Jeremy explains in chapter 9.9 of his book FREEDOM: “Although this new world for humans, which the World Transformation Movement has been established to facilitate, will, as has been stated, have a slow beginning because humans initially find it difficult even taking in or ‘hearing’ discussion about the human condition, once FIX THE WORLD is discovered, word of it and what it offers every human and the world will spread like wildfire.’” And so even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point in terms of awareness of this great breakthrough, you can see from the excitement and relief in our ecstatic responses to THE Interview, we are well on our way! Also, on our FIX THE WORLD homepage, you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy’s work with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and FIX THE WORLD Centres all over the world!

That’s absolutely wonderful Felicia and now you’ve watched THE Interview we recommend the extremely helpful 2026 addition to THE Interview, Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, where Jeremy warns of — and presents the solution to — the initial ‘Deaf Effect’ difficulty of taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the human condition. Together, these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation. After watching these videos, and/or reading THE Interview book that has both transcripts in it, ideally you would read the two expansions: Jeremy’s mid-length 2025 book The Human Condition, and his definitive book, FREEDOM. Along with watching or reading those 4 titles, it is very helpful to watch the 3 Introuctory Videos. Also, our original, pre-2020 introductory series of 16 videos are very instructive. All these presentations, along with all our books and videos, are available completely free of charge to watch, read or download on our homepage HumanCondition.com.

Hi Juanita, you’ll see at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com that THE Interview, and its extremely helpful 2026 must-watch addition Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! are available for free to watch, listen to, read, download and even print! From there go to the ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ on the homepage which guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes. We also encourage people to join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. We are a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print! 

Yes Samuel there is nothing more therapeutic than finally being able to understand the human condition! As our FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is this important to my life’ explains: “It does not matter who you are, having understanding of the human condition will completely transform your life into the most wonderful existence imaginable. This is because biologist Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition gives you the ability, for the first time ever, to understand every aspect of human behaviour in yourself and in everyone else with 100% clarity and confidence. The explanation will change how you view humans, and most importantly yourself, literally overnight—and your behaviour will change naturally as a result, and just as quickly.”

   Hi Mark, firstly we want to clarify that Jeremy Griffith is a biologist not a psychologist. Also, as is mentioned in THE Interview, elements of the human condition have been recognised by many thinkers throughout history but what is unique about Jeremy’s synthesis is that he actually solves the dilemma of human condition by answering the question of why, when the ideals are to be loving and cooperative, we are so selfish and competitive. This was ultimately a biological question as it required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work and that is the great breakthrough Jeremy’s work presents and why it is being praised, for example by Professor Harry Prosen who said, it “solves the human condition and saves the world”. This is further explained in our FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new?' and Video/Freedom Essay 4 on other thinkers who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

   In terms of you saying there is no answer to the human condition and ‘est quod est’ (Latin for ‘it is what it is’) as is explained in the new addition to THE Interview titled Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! the very nature of the human condition means discussion of it can be initially difficult to access. This is because historically the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad has been the most terrifying of all subjects to face, and so we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it, which means our minds can initially struggle to hear and absorb discussion about it. As well, the extraordinary claims made about Jeremy’s work naturally invite scepticism. Yet they stand up to scrutiny as what he presents is 100% logic. This is discussed in FAQ 1.9 ‘Why people can have confidence in these claims’. In our experience in time people come to appreciate the truth of these claims and their forthright honesty in indicating where the solution to our problems lies — as the ecstatic responses that flow in each week to THE Interview (see the top of our homepage) and all the commendations Jeremy’s work has received from eminent scientists and thinkers attest.

It’s fantastic to have your support Beledanyo as there couldn’t be anything more exciting and meaningful than helping bring this liberating knowledge to the world! We have a ‘How to Help’ page on our website which suggests lots of ways to get involved and help us spread this understanding so that is all there for you to explore.

It can be Jose just come and join us and help fix the world!! Become a member of our Facebook Group (with 120,000 members) where there is so much helpful, practical and inspired discussion taking place about how to live with and support this immensely relieving knowledge! You might also like to subscribe to our mailing list where you will receive one free email per week and occasional updates about exciting developments. We are a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print!

Thanks Christilov. 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?’

   Presumably you mean the Dunning–Kruger effect — where someone with limited knowledge overestimates their own understanding. However, Griffith’s explanation is highly accountable: it sets out a specific biological account of the human condition, identifies the evolutionary and psychological mechanisms involved, and can therefore be examined, challenged and tested against the evidence. His work has also been studied and strongly commended by a number of scientists and academics, including Professor Harry Prosen, a former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Professor Scott Churchill, former Chair of the Psychology Department at the University of Dallas, wrote that he had recommended Griffith’s work to his students for its “razor-sharp clarifications” of the positions of contemporary thinkers including E.O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins and Robert Wright, praising Griffith’s ability to summarise their differing perspectives “with clarity and brilliance.”

   If there is a specific part of the biological argument you disagree with, we’d be interested to hear what it is. For further indication of the scrutiny and accountability of the work, see the commendations and reviews here.

Hi Rabby, it’s great you’ve watched THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition. To get involved, at top of our FIX THE WORLD homepage at HumanCondition.com, it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes. We also encourage people to join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world.

There is a lot here to digest; in particular that our selfish, egocentric behaviour is a result of a psychologically upsetting clash between our intellect and preestablished instinctive self. It is this insight into the psychological origin of our divisive behaviour that is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work; and most significantly, this understanding means that that psychologically upset state can be ameliorated, because a psychosis can be healed through understanding.

   Thanks for your comment Marian. Yes, bonobos are extraordinarily loving and sensitive and provide an important insight into our own species distant past. When we can admit that our own past was actually loving and cooperative means that our selfish and destructive behaviour can’t be instinctive. As Jeremy Griffith has explained, that selfish and destructive behaviour is the result of a psychosis caused by the clash between our emerging conscious mind and those pre-established instincts that tragically, in-effect, crticised our experiments in self-management.

   Given your interest in bonobos, chapter 5 of Jeremy’s book FREEDOM further evidences what is explained in Part 3 of THE Interview about how cooperative and loving bonobos are and how bonobos demonstrate the nurturing based love-indoctrination process that created our cooperative instincts.