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Jiang argues that humanity could be peaceful if it created narratives that bind all peoples into one species-level community oriented toward meaning and creativity.
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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"...come up with stories and narratives that bind us as a species, then we'll be peaceful. I mean, like, you know, if if if..."
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"...that we that we are confronted with. Can we as a species construct a narrative that gives people meaning and which unites and unifies..."
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"...just from a peer resource perspective, we are clearly, as a species, clearly over -leveraged. And we are running on borrowed time, right? So..."
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"...I think that if we are to develop further as a species, if the world has become better, then we need to think of..."
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"...make certain predictions. We used to be a people, a human species, that was very focused on truth seeking. And that's why religion was..."
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"...future if we are just to survive and thrive as a species we humans need to abandon these neoliberal values that have made us..."
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"...reconnect spiritually as a community um then we're doomed as a species and and that's the reality that we we live in if if..."
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"...we need um as a society as a world as a species to come together and talk about what gives us meaning and happiness..."
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"And unfortunately, we as a species, we're not having a serious discussion about the possibility and we're not making preparations for this possibility. Now,..."
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"...Darwin. Okay. Charles Darwin. Right? When his book, The Origin of Species, came out, it was an instant bestseller. And within 20 years, it..."
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"...because Jews right now in history, in Britain, they're an exotic species. Okay? And it's also to establish how Jews think. Now, what's amazing..."
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"...would have been for you the mediator between you and the species, and thus between—and thus been felt by you and acknowledged as a..."
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