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There's this thing that exists,
this,

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this multi-headed snake,
and it's got this infinity problem.

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It's everywhere.
That's that little circle down there,

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and the problem is,
well,

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what do you do with it?
You cut off one head,

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seven more,
grow.

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That's the eternal problem of life and 
the problem is they're there.

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There is the category of problems in 
life and it ain't going anywhere.

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And so the question is can you deal with
the whole category at the same time?

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That's the thing.
That's how to be in the world is to deal

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with that category all at the same time.
And so how did,

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how did human beings,
what did they come up with as a 

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solution?
And that's so cool too,

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because the solution they come up with 
not only was the heroism that allows you

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to approach what you're terrified by and
what you find offensive and to learn 

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from it,
but also the idea of sacrifice and that 

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was played out by cultures everywhere,
including human sacrifice.

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And you think what the hell was up with 
those crazy bastard so long ago?

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They were sacrificing to the gods all 
the time,

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but kind of clueless behavior was that 
burned something and please God burned 

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something valuable and please God.
It's like,

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what was with,
what were they thinking?

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Well,
they weren't stupid.

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Those people,
if they were stupid,

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we wouldn't be here.
They were not stupid and believe me,

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they lived under a lot harsher 
conditions than we do.

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So those were some tough people,
man.

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You know,
back then you'd last about 15 minutes.

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And so you don't want to be thinking of 
your ancestors as stupid,

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like there's no real evidence that we're
much different cognitively than we were 

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150,000
years ago.

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So anyways,
sacrifice.

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What does that mean?
Sacrifice?

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Well,
it's a discovery man.

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It's the discovery of the future.
It's like the future is actually the 

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place where there is threat and it's 
always going to be there.

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So what do you do?
You make sacrifices in the present so 

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that the future is better,
right?

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Everyone does that.
That's what you're doing right now.

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That's what you're doing here.
That's what your parents are doing when 

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they pay money to send you to 
university,

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they think let you can bargain with 
reality.

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It's amazing.
You can bargain with reality.

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You can forestall gratification now and 
it'll pay off at a place in time that 

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doesn't even exist yet.
It's like,

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who wouldn't believe that?
It's like that's a miracle that that 

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occurs and it's not like people just 
figured that out over night,

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you know,
we were champs for Christ's sake.

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Like how are we going to come up with an
idea like that while it's like,

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well,
we thought about it for 7 million years 

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and you know,
we got to the point where we could kind 

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of act it out,
but we didn't know what we were doing,

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but it was a emerge just like a dream.

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It was.
So the terror of the future is a dream 

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and his solution to the terror,
the dream of the terror of the future is

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another dream.
And it,

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it comes out in mythology and in fantasy
and in drama where you act out the 

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sacrifice and then it's a step on the 
way to full understanding.

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So we can say sacrifice instead of doing
it,

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you know,
although we still do it,

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it's just not concretized like it used 
to be.

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We do abstractly and we all have faith 
that it will work,

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you know,
and we also set up our society so that 

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it'll work.
And one thing about,

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you know,
I'm not a fan of moral relativism for a 

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variety of reasons,
partly because I think it's an,

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it's an extreme form of cowardice.
But anyways,

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apart from that,
no,

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no,
no,

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no.
There's minimal ways that you can set up

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a society that will work and so one of 
them is,

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is that the society has to be set up so 
that your sacrifices will pay off or you

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won't work,
and then the society will die.

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And so it has to make promises.
People have to make promises to one 

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another.
And that's what money is.

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Money is a promise that your sacrifice 
will pay off in the future.

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That's what money is.
And so if the society is stable,

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you can store up your work right now.
You can sacrifice your impulses and you 

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can work and you can store up credit for
the future and then you can make the 

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future a better place,
but society has to be stable enough to 

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allow for that.
Hyperinflation will do you in.

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So the promise that's implicit in the 
currency is the promise that what you're

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doing now will pay off in the future,
and if people don't have that promise,

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then what?
We know what they do because in in gangs

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for example,
and say gangs in North America,

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the time horizon of the gang members 
shrinks rapidly because they don't 

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really expect to be alive much past 21.

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And so they get really impulsive and 
violent and like,

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why the hell not?
That's what you do when,

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when the future doesn't matter,
when it's not real,

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you default back to living in the moment
and you take what you can get right now 

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and no wonder because you don't know if 
you're going to be around in a in a year

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and you get whatever you can.
Well you can bloody well get it and 

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that's like anarchy that state.
And so you don't want to live in,

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some people like to live in that state 
because they're really wired for that,

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you know,
and so they're much more comfortable in 

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those conditions.
They're,

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they're kind of like warrior types,
I would say in some sense.

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But you know,
for most people that's just where that 

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stress will just do 10,
you know,

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the stress of a life like that.
So.