FAQ 2.1

 

Who is Jeremy Griffith?

 

Jeremy Griffith is an Australian biologist who has spent his life bringing fully accountable, biological understanding to the dilemma of the human condition — the underlying issue in all human life of our species’ extraordinary capacity for what has been called ‘good’ and ‘evil’.

 

Raised on a sheep station in rural New South Wales, Australia, biologist Jeremy Griffith was educated at Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, one of the most highly regarded schools in the world, King Charles III having been sent there for part of his education. Jeremy gained first class honours in biology in the state matriculation exams, and in 1965 began a science degree at the University of New England in northern New South Wales. While there, Jeremy played representative rugby union football, making the 1966 trials for Australia’s national team, the Wallabies (see Jeremy Griffith’s Rugby Résumé).

Deferring his studies in 1967, Jeremy hitchhiked to Tasmania, determined to save the remarkable dog-like marsupial, the Thylacine, or ‘Tasmanian Tiger’, from extinction. The search was to last more than six years—the most thorough investigation ever into the plight of the Tasmanian Tiger—but sadly concluded it was extinct. The quest generated articles in the American Museum of Natural History’s journal, Natural History, and Australian Geographic, and featured in an episode of the Australian television series A Big Country. (To read the magazine articles and a more detailed account of the search, visit Jeremy Griffith’s Remarkable Search for the Tasmanian Tiger.)

In 1971 Jeremy completed his BSc in zoology at the University of Sydney and the following year, in the same self-sufficient spirit with which he had undertaken the ‘Tiger’ search, he established Griffith Tablecraft, a highly successful business manufacturing furniture based on his own simple and natural designs. (Read more about Jeremy Griffith’s Tablecraft furniture.) It was during this time that, at age 27, Jeremy realised that trying to save animals from extinction or trying to build ideal furniture wasn’t addressing the real issue behind the extraordinary imperfection in human life, which is our species’ ‘good and evil’-conflicted behaviour, and that what was really needed in the world was a deeper understanding of ourselves—so it was to this issue of the human condition that Jeremy turned his attention, a study that has remained his life’s focus for the last 40 years.

Jeremy started writing about the human condition in 1975, established FIX THE WORLD in 1983 (which is dedicated to the study and amelioration of the human condition—see our FIX THE WORLD homepage at www.humancondition.com), and is the author of numerous books on the subject, including the 2004 bestseller A Species In Denial, and in 2016, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, his “summa masterpiece”.

For more detailed information read Jeremy Griffith’s biography.