Comments on THE Interview

Yes Samuel, as THE Interview explains, 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 or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! What THE Interview presents fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race and allows us to forgive ourselves and others and finally end our psychologically troubled human condition—it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough.

Hi Chris, thank you for your very appreciative response to THE Interview and for staying up until 2.30am to watch it!! We wanted to let you know, should it be helpful, that on our Translations page you can find a Greek translation of Transform Your Life and Save The World (Μεταμορφωστε τη ζωη σας και σωστε τον κοσμο), and we are working on more of Jeremy’s publications. We also encourage you to join our Facebook Community Group, where over 40,000 members from all over the world are discussing the life-transforming impact of this critical new science.

Hi Ken, Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. In terms of Christianity and Christ, Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from that pre-science view, and he has written about Christ’s life and its phenomenal importance in humanity’s journey in Freedom Essay 39. Our FAQs about religion are also helpful.

Hi Greg. Jeremy Griffith writes about what the new human-condition-resolved world will be like in chapter 9:9 of FREEDOM titled ‘How the Transformed Way of Living will quickly repair the world’. It is all clearly described there, where he refers to Australia’s greatest educator Sir James Darling, his headmaster at Geelong Grammar School, talking about humanity’s great ‘change of heart’. Jeremy writes, “while it will take time, in fact, a few generations, for humans to sufficiently absorb the understanding of the human condition to the degree needed for our underlying insecurity to be fully ameliorated—and thus the need for some artificial reinforcement from materialism, and some artificial relief through escapism, self-distraction and sexual adventure, etc, etc, to completely disappear—once you adopt the Transformed State, while you haven’t eliminated the insecure state of the human condition within yourself, you have completely changed your mind’s focus from living an ego-embattled, selfish life to living selflessly; you have had the ‘change of heart’, the fundamental change of direction, that is so urgently needed to fix the world.”

    We’re very happy THE Interview caught your interest, Patricia, as it is the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s work. As an example of the explanatory power of this knowledge you might like to read our FAQ 1.6 which explains, all the problems we’re experiencing on this planet, aside from natural phenomenon, are caused by us humans and it’s that underlying issue — our destructively behaved, so-called human condition — that really has to be addressed and fixed if we are to find a peaceful solution and this is precisely what Jeremy has delivered with his first principle-based biological understanding of the human condition!     Also, if you go to the top of our homepage — HumanCondition.com — you’ll find a guide to pursue your interest, including registering for our free, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others — and joining our popular Facebook Group, as we think you will find the discussions happening there about this life-changing understanding fascinating.

All human aggression and anger, in our individual lives right through to international conflicts, is ultimately an expression of our psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated human condition. We suggest that as you digest Jeremy Griffith’s understanding of the human condition presented in THE Interview, you will see that the only way we could end destructive behaviour, and legitimately return to the cooperative and loving state humanity once lived in and we all long for, was through removing the insecurity that was driving that divisive behaviour, which is what Jeremy’s explanation makes possible. Obviously there will be situations where short term pragmatic decisions have to be made, but understanding the human condition puts everyone in a far better position to make good decisions compared to when we were all being driven by insecurity over our self-worth. For a deeper analysis of the Ukraine crisis (and the wider assault on Western civilisation), we recommend our FAQ 7.6. You may also be interested in 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?’ and FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world? / Won’t the greedy and power hungry simply ignore this?’

What is so significant about Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that it defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And 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 return to that loving state!

Very interesting

Thank you for your wonderful feedback Jackie. The first piece of advice is to take your time! This represents a massive paradigm shift in our thinking, but what people discover is Jeremy Griffith’s work actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. In fact it presents the fulfillment of a time that all religions looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves, see FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’ and FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’. It represents the end of faith and dogma and the beginning of knowing.

Elisabeth, our main website is available in German at https://www.humancondition.com/de/ and it provides written translations and voice-overs for THE Interview and the key Video/Freedom Essays 1-11 & 14. (You also might like to visit the WTM Austrian Centre, the WTM Bregenz Centre, the WTM Graz Centre and the WTM Switzerland Centre, as all of their Centre websites are provided in German.) So there is a feast of material freely available! Also, you can see all the other publications including THE Interview that are available in Afrikaans, Dutch, French, Greek, Polish and Spanish here.

Hi Pia, we appreciate the difficulty accessing these understandings in languages other than English, so we have created a translations page on our website where you can find key publications in Dutch, French, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Afrikaans. We hope to expand into further languages very soon. Also people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window).

Great to have your interest Larry and psychologist Julian Jaynes certainly did identify the elements of instinct and intellect involved in creating the human condition. As you say Jeremy Griffith’s work presents a new breakthrough and that is because it finally provides the clarifying explanation of the nature of the conflict between these two elements, and without that explanation the conflict could not be resolved, see FAQ 1.13. You may also like to read Jeremy’s Freedom Essay 53 as it discusses Julian Jaynes, and other great thinkers, whose work evidences the elements of instinct and intellect produced our condition.

Thanks.

Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition is free right HERE on our homepage Richard! You will also see Jeremy’s other key books including the book version of THE Interview and its companion presentation The Great Guilt. As well you can download the free Kindle versions from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores. Also our homepage—HumanCondition.com—provides the perfect guide to pursue your interest!

Yes, Jeremy Griffith’s work at last reconciles the duality of our instinct and intellect that causes our unbalanced or upset state of mind and, as Part 2 of THE Interview stresses, finding this answer actually reconciles all the polarities of human life. To quote Jeremy’s book FREEDOM chapter 4: “Yes, the instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition makes sense of and reconciles all the unresolved manifestations of the polarities of the human situation—‘good’ vs ‘evil’, idealism or ‘God’ vs human’s non-ideal existence, religion vs science, holism vs mechanism, altruism vs egotism, communism vs capitalism, conscience vs conscious, and so on—thus ameliorating or healing, and finally ending, the psychologically upset, divisive way we have been living!”

Welcome Gail and it is wonderful you are eager to learn more! We make all our information freely available on our website so just go to our homepage—HumanCondition.com—where it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ as it guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes registering for our free, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others and joining our popular Facebook Group. You will also see our series of 16 Main Videos with the next one to watch, after THE Interview, being The Great Guilt where Jeremy Griffith gives an astonishingly interesting and important description of The Great Burden Of Guilt that has finally been lifted from the human race! Click here to start watching!

Thank you for your response Nozar. Since what Jeremy Griffith is presenting is a huge paradigm shift in how we’ve thought about humans, it does take time to digest. For example, what is suggested is that there was a clash between our instincts and emerging conscious mind, not ‘instinct and conscience’ – in fact, we can now explain that our instincts are totally loving and cooperative, the voice of which is our conscience, and so did not harbour any pre-consciousness primal fear. No, we suggest what becomes clear as you start to digest this understanding is that our underlying fear is a by-product of the clash between our instincts and intellect. As Jeremy explains in THE Interview, and its companion presentation The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect which is dedicated to comprehensively explaining our fear of the human condition, this fear is a result of the shame and guilt we feel for having corrupted our all-loving and sensitive soul. You can watch or read The Great Guilt here on our website.

    Thanks for your feedback and questions Deacon. We thought it worth mentioning even though THE Interview is a summary presentation it does provide references to more comprehensive material where answers to questions like you have asked are presented. Also, to assist enquirers we have an extensive FAQ facility which can be easily searched electronically at HumanCondition.com along with all our books and essays.     Re question 1: in Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains how we became fully conscious which developed as a result of nurturing or the love-indoctrination process. He refers the viewer to chapter 7 of his definitive book FREEDOM which provides a comprehensive explanation — a summary of which is in FAQ 5.4.     Re question 2: in Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy refers the viewer to chapter 5 of FREEDOM, where it is explained that bonobos found themselves in the food-rich, relatively predator-and-competitor-free, ideal nursery conditions of the rainforests south of the Congo River.     Re question 3: with regard to bonobos representing a better model of our ancestors than chimpanzees, 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).     Re question 4: THE Interview explains our psychosis is caused by humanity’s heroic, but corrupting, search for knowledge and, most significantly, a psychosis can be healed with understanding. Certainly, this upset state has a profound impact on our ability to nurture, and therefore is compounded in each new generation through its effect on children, but fundamentally, our psychologically angry, egocentric and alienated state is a psychosis, and apart from a tiny proportion of people who are born with a biomechanical or chemical flaws in their brain, it can be healed with understanding. It is worth including highly respected psychiatrist Professor Prosen’s words about how powerful our psychology is in causing our behaviour. He wrote: “While we can expect instances of neurochemical/neurobiological based conditions, in my experience we can’t underestimate how much our psychology affects our biology. 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” (see FAQ 1.34 ‘How does this help with an individual’s depression and psychosis?’). So one of things Professor Prosen makes clear is that we all suffer from the human condition, not just those with wealth and power. We also suggest 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?’

Thank you for your appreciative comment and yes the world desperately needs this understanding. Having this understanding taught in schools may appear a long way off but take heart, Luke, as every day more people are discovering it’s astonishing explanatory power! While this necessarily has a slow start, humanity’s uptake of the explanation of the human condition has a fast finish as the selflessness it liberates in people 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 (see FAQ 1.5)! And so even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point we are well on our way as you can see from the excitement and relief in our daily ecstatic responses to THE Interview! Also, on our homepage, you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy Griffith’s work with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres opening all over the world!

You can access the transcript of THE Interview here on our homepage Cheryl, and our homepage also provides the perfect guide to pursue your interest. We provide transcripts of our many videos so they are all made freely available to read as well as watch.

Thank you for your comment Nathan. We maintain that explanation of the clash between our instincts and intellect is key to understanding humans spirituality, but we greatly appreciate your consideration of Jeremy Griffith’s work and certainly respect people’s religious views. It is important to mention for readers of these comments that Jeremy’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity, or the Bible’s content. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts, see FAQ 6.3 ‘Does understanding of the human condition undermine a faith in religion or God?’. Also in terms of understanding our spiritual aspect see FAQ 6.7 ‘How can a scientific explanation ever hope to account for and encompass the great ‘spiritual’ dimension we know exists in life? / Isn’t ‘spirituality’ beyond a purely rational explanation?’

Thank you for your encouragement Julia. 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 is what Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the breakthrough that can save the world. We recommend FAQ 6.5, which explains the difference between Jeremy’s explanation and new age spirituality, and FAQ 1.13, which explains the originality of his work.

Great to have your interest Michael and congratulations on the wonderful work you are doing. Despite our competitive and selfish behaviour, we humans have always intuitively believed we were fundamentally good, but we have never been able to explain this contradictory, conflicted condition. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why we are fundamentally good—answer the age-old question of why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here. In summary, the eternal battle for humans has been to validate ourselves, establish once and for all that we are fundamentally good and not bad, and it’s that deepest and most important of all battles that has finally been won. Solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source, see FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is this important to my life’.

Don’t feel bad. Most of the general population won’t understand this. Especially majority of the younger generations. Public schools don’t teach this nor have they for it feels like eons. I think if you get the authors ‘s book and read thru it multiple times and research their references contained, you may most likely come to understand it. I have been exposed to much in my life that has given me the ability to understand the content. I don’t have a bachelors or masters nor PhD but I definitely get this.

Thank you for your candour Dianne. THE Interview explains, the human condition is the most fearful of subjects because it’s the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad and our fear of this interface can make it hard to understand all that is explained in one viewing (FAQ 1.16 explains this initial ‘deaf effect’). We suggest you watch the new companion presentation to THE Interview titled The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect (here on our website) as it provides astonishing clarification of why lifting The Great Burden Of Guilt from the human race causes most people to initially experience such difficulty. We hope you persevere Dianne because if you watch The Great Guilt it includes examples of people overcoming the deaf effect and shows why being patient through this obstacle is well worth the time!

That’s great news Samantha. Our WTM Community page shows all the ways to join our all-exciting, heals-ourselves-and-the-world WTM Community. This includes registering for our free, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others and joining our popular Facebook Group. We look forward to meeting you there!

    Being rational creatures, we respond to logical, accountable information, which is what is presented in THE Interview, which is why your mind is responding the way it is. However talking about the human condition has been off-limits, so you will find it hard to take in initially (you can learn more about this ‘deaf effect’ in Jeremy’s presentation, The Great Guilt). In a nutshell, what is being explained is that 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 suggest you listen to THE Interview again, and you will find it very quickly becomes clear.

    Thank you for your comment Tim. We certainly respect people’s religious views however we felt it was important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict the Bible. 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. The real issue is if people prefer a more literal fundamentalist interpretation of scripture rather than our more biological, science-based interpretation.     For those interested in exploring this further we suggest FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’. FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’. Also Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 38 – 41, which decipher religion, are absolutely fascinating.

Great to have your interest, Steve. Yes, explanation of the human condition does produce a huge paradigm shift in our thinking, so this critical new science does take time to digest so we recommend people re-watch THE Interview and also explore our homepage which provides all our key material to consider.

While this biological understanding of the human condition really is the universal solution to all the problems we face, it does have a slow start-up phase. It will take some time to break through fixed patterns of thought, as well as the bastions of power in the world, but once this information gets a foothold through enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it, the selfless love and energy that will generated will solve our problems very quickly because instead of being preoccupied with seeking power, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world. The essential point is that all the dysfunction and destruction in the world, including war, is a reflection of the conflict within us. What is so important about what Jeremy Griffith presents with the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition, is that it actually solves that discord by reconciling instinct and intellect. 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 behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation), are now redundant. You might be interested in reading more in FAQ 1.6: ‘Why this solves everything’.

Thank you very much for your appreciative comment, Helen. You may find FAQ 1.40 helpful as it addresses the questions of ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world?'. We also encourage you to join our Facebook Group, which is a wonderful platform for participating in interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science.

Hi Jan, as Jeremy explains in Part 1 of THE Interview, “If we think about it, if an animal was to become fully conscious, like we humans became, then that animal’s new self-managing, understanding-based conscious mind would surely have to challenge its pre-existing instinctive orientations to the world, wouldn’t it? A battle would have to break out between the emerging conscious mind that operates from a basis of understanding cause and effect and the non-understanding instincts that have always controlled and dictated how that animal behaves.”

    Hi Lee-Gayle, it does all take some time to digest, so be patient. For example, living in denial of the human condition meant that it as invaluable to be able to ‘poke fun’ at our absurdity from time to time. See Freedom Essay 47. This is certainly the origin of some “mischief” or “naughtiness". Alternatively, there is a stage in children’s development known as the ‘naughty nines’, where the intellect naively lashes out at the increasing unjust criticism it is encountering as a result of its first tentative experiments in self-adjustment (see chapter 8:7 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM).     With regard to “Good and bad” being “extremely subjective”, we suggest that it is very clear that loving and cooperative behaviour is recognised as ‘good’, and divisive, selfish behaviour as ‘evil’. What is so significant about the explanation of the human condition is that rather than condemning humans as ‘evil’, this understanding explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, that apparently ‘evil’ behaviour has been ‘good’! We had to suffer self-corruption in order to continue the search for knowledge in order to one day find this redeeming understanding of ourselves. Finally, with this understanding, we no longer have to continue with our ‘evil’ behaviour in the future, because it was all born out of insecurity over our self-worth. Knowing why our intellect had to defy our instincts makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to return to a loving, selfless state!

Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition, brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition, which means we can at last reconcile science and religion. You might be interested in our FAQs about religion, especially 6.2 ‘What is God’ and 6.3 ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

Thanks Les, for your appreciative comment! Yes, what is so astonishing about Jeremy Griffith’s work is it provides the long-sought-after, biological answer to the riddle of human nature – why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless, we are so angry, competitive and selfish? Our FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 may be helpful as they talk about the rapidly transforming effects of this new, world-changing knowledge.

Hi Cherie, thank you for your interest. A common reaction when people hear the explanation of the human condition for the first time, is that the explanation resonates with them — that despite our competitive and selfish behaviour, we have always intuitively believed we were fundamentally good, but we have never been able to explain this contradictory, conflicted condition. That is the great breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents here. We encourage you to keep exploring our website; you’ll see at the top of the homepage — HumanCondition.com — that it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes registering for our free, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others and joining our popular Facebook Group.

Hi David, thank you for your comment. Jeremy Griffith explains in paragraph 1049 of FREEDOM, that “Even [though] the upset [within humans] that is now instinctive, in our genes” it manifests individually around the time of adolescence when young people start facing and wrestling deeply with the issue of not only the imperfection of the non-ideal human-condition-stricken world around us, but also of the imperfection of our own behaviour — that they too suffer from anger, selfishness, meanness and indifference to others. But having no understanding of the human condition, and thus no answer to this confronting self-realisation, meant that the more we each grappled with the issue as adolescents, the more depressing our thinking became until we realised that we had no choice but to ‘resign’ to living in denial of it. As Jeremy explains in Part 2 of THE Interview, “we’ve had to live in denial of our corrupted, psychologically upset condition while we couldn’t explain it”. Please read more on this most significant psychological event in human life that is not spoken of in Freedom Essay 30, titled ‘Resignation’.

Jeremy Griffith’s work opens up a new way of thinking so it takes a little time to fully absorb this new paradigm – and our 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.

What THE Interview presents fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race. It establishes that we humans are good and not bad after all. With this understanding we can finally end our psychologically troubled human condition — it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough.

Yes! As is explained in THE Interview, the reason that men are currently selfish and aggressive is not selfish instincts or testosterone, but a state of psychological upset resulting from the instinct vs intellect clash. And by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant, they can stop!

The idea that our morality and loving instincts are for survival is really just a variant of the idea that our competitive behaviour is genetic – you might be interested in chapter 2.11 of FREEDOM where so-called ‘multi-level selection’ is debunked. In this interview Jeremy Griffith explains the key biological distinction between humans and other animal species is that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. So humans behaviour isn’t driven by survival instincts. It is driven by a psychosis that was caused by the clash between their instinct and intellect and, significantly, a psychosis IS changeable as it can be healed through understanding. And this transformation is happening so we don’t have to give up, as explained in FAQ 1.40 ‘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?’

Your comment is uninformed Martin. Jeremy Griffith doesn’t say that the left wing gave us ‘the wrong reasons for our behaviour’, but that the left wing’s philosophy of needing to impose ideal behaviour is based on a biologically incorrect understanding of human nature. Jeremy explains that while we couldn’t admit that our selfish, aggressive behaviour was psychological in origin we have had to come up with all sorts of theories to account for our good and evil stricken condition, and the idea that we are selfish because we have savage animals instincts is the main an excuse we have had to use until we had the real defence for our condition. The left wing uses this excuse as the basis of its political philosophy (although Marx went a step further and claimed that we have no real instinctive orientation – that we are a ‘blank slate’) of imposing ideal behaviour. And so in terms of politics, this explanation of the human condition allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. The right-wing supported the all-important search for knowledge, but it was corrupting; while the left’s insistence on ideal behaviour had the effect of oppressing the search for knowledge. Most importantly, in explaining the human condition, Jeremy’s work 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.