 Yeah, all right, it's a little long. Johann Noberg states that the Homo sapiens have been around for 300,000 years, living as a tribal, emotional society. And it's only been during the last 200 years that we have lived in a widespread system of world of law, widespread economic growth that has lifted most people at the same time. And that we've had rapid technological innovation. During those last 200 years is when we've gotten all of our health, wealth and lifespan, pretty much. But that's not where we're getting our attitudes and belief systems and instincts. Those are coming from previous 299,800 years. Most of Homo sapiens existence has been a zero sum game. And that is why the majority of people are still tribalist and emotionalist. Since Man is free will, is his statement valid in that our species has lived so long as emotional tribalist that it will take a long time for us to evolve into a full rational potential. I mean, yes and no. It's not right in a sense of biology. It's not right that the tribalism, emotionalism and collectivism are coded into our genes. They are things that we must do. It is true though that we live in a society that is to a large extent conditioned by the 299,800 years in its stories, in its belief systems, in its religions. And those have a profound impact on all of us whether we like it or not, whether we try to resist it or not. They have an impact. You have to really fight it. Most of us read, I ran at whatever age we read it, my case 16, and we spend the rest of our lives fighting it, fighting it inside ourselves, not just out there. It's hard to get rid of all the crap that our culture and our society embed in us, both when we're children and when we're grown up. It's all around us. So, Lenin Pekov once said, and he, which is very much echoes this in some sense, which, you know, I didn't understand at the time, and I still don't know that I understand. I mean, he basically said the human, you know, human race is not ready yet for I ran. We're too immature for I ran, right? Now, what does that mean? Right? We've got free will. Anybody can choose it, but the effort to engage your free will not just engage your free will, to engage in free will in questioning everything that society and the people around you are telling you, everything, from the role of governing politics, to marriage, to the role of sex in human life, to morality, to the role of religion, to reason, to, I mean, most of us manage to do some of that, maybe most of it, but it takes enormous efforts, and most people can't. This is why real cultural change is slow. It evolves, not in the evolutionary sense of biology, but in the sense of slow cultural changes. I mean, you get this a little bit in DIMM, in Lenin-Pikov's DIMM hypothesis. Let's make up numbers right now. Imagine there are 100,000 objectivists right now in the world. I don't know if they are, but that's my working number. I don't think all 100,000 completely have the philosophy integrated, but so the 100,000, let's say. How do we get to dominance? We get the dominance when some of those 100,000 become artists and start conveying these ideas through not mediocre art, not what do you call it, hitting over your head, sledgehammer art, but real high quality aesthetics art so that the culture starts when we're young, we start being exposed to beautiful things, heroic things, things that have deep meaning that does not fit all this other stuff. Imagine if some of those people become physicists and start explaining some of the theories of some of the quantum mechanic type stuff in ways that are rational, connected to reality in ways that we can all understand and comprehend and other physicists and other scientists can understand and comprehend. And imagine we have educators who actually start teaching kids and start educating kids and start conveying the kind of material and the kind of values that are important to convey to children. People in all kinds of professions are doing their thing, right? And slowly, incrementally, even if there's nobody actually teaching objectivism, slowly, gradually, the culture will get better because it'll be exposed to better stuff. It'll be no more through learning history and math and science and all this stuff. It'll have scientists who are not crazy and not caught up in nonsense and in mysticism or in the non-reality of things or what it's multiple dimensions or whatever the latest nonsensical thing that the physicists come up with. But it'll connect to reality and it can communicate that. And slowly, the culture is ready and then at some point, maybe there's some philosophers articulating objectivism and now it makes sense to people. And that's the evolution that needs to happen. It's a cultural evolution. It's a evolution of the way people are educated, the art that they're exposed to, the kind of people that they meet, the heroes that they have, the successful people and the kind of messages they convey. Imagine that the people who are successful in a culture, that Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, I don't know, the people who developed the Modena vaccine, whatever, imagine if all of them were hailing the value of reason and individualism and capitalism. The people wouldn't have to be objectivists to be more oriented towards objectivism just by the fact that they're heroes, the people with success in the culture are talking in that language. So when we come and say, oh, here's the philosophy of individualism and reason and capitalism, they go, oh, okay, Steve Jobs said something about capitalism. That's a good thing. So that's what has to come. The 100,000 objectivists that exist today have to be successful. They have to be successful in their own lives more than anything else. And then when they're successful, they have to be willing to say, yeah, and this is why I'm successful because I use these tools. That is how you change your culture slowly. And it's the only way to change your culture. So think about, and I know I'm going long here, but think about the Enlightenment or the founding of America. The founding of America doesn't, isn't a revolution in the sense that one day people woke up and say, oh, freedom, liberty, let's do that, right? It starts with Thomas Aquinas bringing reason into the Catholic church and Aristotle and reason into the Catholic church and the Catholic church struggling with these ideas and applying them wrongly and dogmatically and viewing Aristotle in a dogmatic way and an authoritarian way and screwing it all up but playing with the ideas, using the ideas. And then, and then sometime maybe 200 years later, people starting to discover Greek sculptures, but it's not an avoid that they're discovering Greek churches. They've already been influenced by Aristotelian ideas for 200 years. So when they discover the Greek sculptures, they're going, whoa, okay, they're ready for it. And then you get Michelangelo and Leonardo and Raphael and all the art of the Renaissance, which is expressive of free will and reason and science because they even do a perspective, think about what a huge leap forward perspective is in terms of applying science to art. And all this is happening. So now, while these artists are also reading, you know, they're more open-minded because the art is opened their minds up. And they've got this Aristotelian base, but now they're willing to read other people too and they're reading all the Greeks and they're reading the Romans and engaged. And then there's a printing press and books get start printing and more people get involved and people start libraries and people value education. And then Spinoza writes a book that says, oh, maybe God is what, not what all these religionists think. Maybe, you know, in a sense, we concedes of God in the Aristotelian sense of a prime mover, if at all, and maybe says something about should we be sacrificing, shouldn't life be about, you know, some maybe hints of egoism in his ethics. And a book is banned and it's smuggled throughout and people start, I mean, this takes time. And then you get the United States after all of that, plus John Locke and the French enlightenment and Scottish enlightenment and all the thinkers who came in between and all the art that's being created in between. And of course, don't forget Newton and the scientific revolution and a lot of Da Vinci. You go on and on and on about all the pieces that led to the founding of America. But it goes back to Aquinas and of course that goes back to Aristotle, but it's slow and it changes the culture. So you could say the culture evolved. People didn't evolve. The same genetic makeup in the dark ages, same genetic makeup in the Renaissance, same genetic makeup in the enlightenment, same genetic makeup is today. What evolved are their attitudes, their ideas, their knowledge, their conceptions about the world, their sense of life, all of that evolved. But it evolved out of thinkers. It evolved from intellectuals. It evolved from artists. It evolved from scientists. So it required the human mind. The evolution was an evolution of a conceptual evolution and a sense of life evolution. Emotions in mind. And that's a story that I don't think anybody's told yet fully, not from this perspective. And that's the sense in which our culture is not ready. In some senses, think about it, 250 years after the enlightenment. We're still Christians. God, I mean, God, really? I mean, how dumb is that? Right, that's easy. And that's not genetic. So there's a lot of work still to do in terms of the culture, in terms of changing all that instead of undermining the bad ideas that are out there, right? And replacing them with something. And that takes a long time. And I will emphasize this over and over again. It takes art. You can't do it without art. The enlightenment cannot come before the Renaissance. The Renaissance makes it the enlightenment possible in a sense that it conditions massive numbers of people subconscious to be ready for the enlightenment. And this is the problem. If you think rationalistically about ideas, you think wrong. But as soon as you say A is A to somebody, as soon as they accept A is A, it's finished. You've convinced them of everything. Yeah, right. I wish. It doesn't work. Knowledge doesn't work that way. So the human mind is very complex and very detailed in the things that impact it. I mean, if you read Ayn Rand, she understood this. She was not. Here's the principle. I'm just gonna deduce and show you the truth out there. It's not how she functioned. She talked a lot about psychology. If you read her essays, her essays are filled with psychological observations. And psychology is part of what drives a culture. We do not have a psychology. People out there do not have a psychology that makes them ready for capitalism or that makes them ready for the truth of the makes them ready for atheism or that makes them ready for egoism. If you told them there was no God and they should not sacrifice, they wouldn't know what to do with themselves. They wouldn't know what to think about. They wouldn't know what morality meant. Even if you taught them, they would then take you as commandments. They would say, oh, I have to be rational. Okay, what does that entail? Teach me. So it really is long cultural change takes all these different pieces. And until you get all the different pieces, you're not gonna get it. And this is why people say, oh, Atlas strikes me now for 50, 70 years or whatever. And I managed to have been doing this for so many years. Why hasn't the world changed? This is what? Because it takes a long, long, long time to change a culture, a culture. Well, Stephanie says that Johan said we need art first. We need art in the middle. In a sense, our start of first, renaissance slash art second, enlightenment third. But that's way over simplifying because everything goes together. It's a spiral. It's a spiral. So you need constant art ideas, art ideas, science. Don't forget science. Science is really, really important. It's no accident that science starts up during the renaissance. You should read about Leonardo da Vinci and what he did. And he was a scientist and an artist and the impact he had on the people around him. And he was probably gay and probably maybe an atheist. So he broke all the rules of the renaissance, all the rules. And he helped shape an entire culture. By him being just out there, he was incredibly courageous. He lived a long, he lived a very long life and was very, very visible in the culture. And he showed the world, you can be different. He was not a sacrificial meek Christian. He was a proud, you know, individual. All right, Christian, if you're listening, that should be its own video. That was actually pretty good. And some new stuff there, I think, from me at least. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning, any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations. 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