 In the last couple videos I looked at the idea of human domestication, the idea that modern humans can be considered somehow tame and domesticated compared to our wild ancestors. Now it's quite a different way of looking at things than the typical, more positive and congratulatory view of evolution that mainly we became smarter and you know the main feature of human evolution the most interesting thing is that we became smarter and clearly that has to be part of it because you know we are doing things as modern humans that no other animal that we know of can even come close to so you know we're definitely applying some brain power but then you think that domesticated creatures have smaller brains they tend to be more docile and passive and all these features that in some ways you know it's it's not so self congratulatory it's not so pleasant to imagine I mean if I think that comparing myself to a Neanderthal is like comparing a Chihuahua to a wild grey wolf and you know of course I just picked Chihuahua it could be any one of the dog breeds Chihuahua isn't especially small and seemingly you know very makes a bigger contrast with the wild wolf but any of these modern pet dog breeds I mean I guess the best thing what makes them good as pets is you know they're they're friendly and cute they're docile tame they follow orders they do what they're told they most of them don't freak out and start biting most of the time so you know that's what makes a good pet dog it's not what makes a good wolf good wolf has those skills of aggression and the ability to hunt and survive in the wild so the entire paradigm the entire system the situation of what makes a good domestic animal is totally different greatly changed from a wild animal and you know when I look at it that way I don't really like it because you know who would want to be a pet I mean like what is a domesticated animal you're either going to be a pet so you're kept around because you're cute and friendly or you're going to be livestock and you're kept around because you or something you produce is somehow tasty or useful for your owners and so the idea of being that kind of creature there's something that feels unsettling about that I mean there's some part of us I think that and I know I'm not the only one that that there's something attractive about being a wild and free creature there's something that is good about that the sense of freedom self-reliance the idea that I can be the master of my own destiny of course we're all at the mercy of fate and the one we're a small part of the wide universe but at least not directly serving a master at least not directly being owned you know and used as a pet or a livestock creature and so the idea that we have become and we have evolved along lines that in many ways have a lot of similarities with domestic pets and livestock leaves me a little bit uncomfortable so I mean I wonder about this and I would like to hear your feedback about this what do you think about this do you think there's any truth to it at all and what do you think about this idea is it okay to go with that and kind of be tame celebrate the advantages of being tame or do we need to somehow fight back and rewild ourselves I think maybe it might be a mix because you know being tame is not entirely bad being able to be more cooperative and the reduced aggression helps us to be able to actually do things other than club each other over the skull and so we can actually get a lot of things done and also not have our skulls clubbed as frequently so that's great and you know but on the other hand there's so many conditions and neuroses that that develop when an animal is domesticated like there's something off about it like I talked about in the first video with the zoo and you see those creatures in the zoo that there's just something off about them they're not they're something's not right that they're not able to really be themselves but then that would be a wild animal in the zoo and you could say well you know after generations maybe the neanderthals and maybe our far away ape ancestors they were wild so they were like the wild wolf but maybe we are more like a chihuahua are we more like a domestic animal and so we should just live like that so I would love to hear your thoughts on this bottomless topic