Following on from the first video, what I would now like to say is that when it comes
to the issue of human nature I know everyone uses the excuse that our selfish and competitive and aggressive
behaviour is due to us having savage animal instincts, which are driven by the need to reproduce our genes,
I mean our conversations are saturated with the excuse, with comments like:
‘We are programmed by our genes to try to dominate others and be a winner in the battle of life’; and
‘Our preoccupation with sexual conquest is due to our primal instinct to sow our seeds’; and
‘Fighting and war is just our animal nature expressing itself’.
But surely this idea that we have savage competitive and aggressive instincts is just a convenient excuse
while we searched for the real reason for our c ompetitive and aggressive behaviour.
After all, words used to describe human behaviour such as egocentric, arrogant, inspired, depressed,
deluded, pessimistic, optimistic, artificial, hateful, cynical, mean, immoral, brilliant,
guilt-ridden, evil, psychotic, neurotic, alienated, all recognise the involvement of OUR species’
fully conscious thinking mind.
They demonstrate that there’s a psychological dimension to our behaviour;
that we don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’,
but the psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION.
Also, we humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts,
the voice or expression of which we call our conscience.
—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts.
As Charles Darwin said, ‘The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between
man and the lower animals’.
(I might mention that in Video 4 I provide both the irrefutable evidence for, and the
biological origins of, our species’ wondrous cooperative and loving ape ancestry, which
our moral instincts are the result of.)
So saying our behaviour stems from having competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts like
other animals is simply not true; as I say, it’s just a convenient excuse while we waited
for the psychosis-acknowledging-and-solving, real explanation of our competitive and aggressive behaviour
which is what FREEDOM presents and what I'll be summarising in the next video.
I now need to point out that this excuse that we are victims of competitive selfish and aggressive
instincts also implies that our nature is fundamentally unchangeable,
and this has led to the false belief that there will always be bad people,
that there will always be wars, murders, inequality and so on—
and that the meaning of life is just to try, as best we can,
to manage those supposedly innate, unchangeable aspects of our make-up.
But again, this overlooks the fact that we suffer from a psychologically troubled human condition
—and a psychosis can be healed with understanding.
Most significantly, the left-wing culture of dogmatically imposing cooperative, selfless, loving
ideal politically correct values is also based on this false belief that we have unchangeable competitive, selfish
and aggressive instincts, because if those are our instincts then it reasons we have
no choice but to dogmatically enforce cooperative, selfless and loving behaviour.
But, as just emphasised, this overlooks the fact that we suffer from a psychologically
troubled condition that can be healed with understanding.
So our divisive behaviour is not unchangeable, and furthermore, it’s healing understanding we need, not dogma.
Dogma is the opposite of understanding—in fact dogma stops the search for understanding
or knowledge because it stifles the ‘FREEDOM’ of expression needed to search for, experiment with
and by so doing find, that healing understanding or knowledge.
Dogma is not the cure for the troubled state of the world, it is the poison!
So, convenient as it has been, the use of the savage instincts excuse has been incredibly
misleading and dangerous
—and I explain much more about that in Video 14.
What I also want to say here (and I explain much more about this in Video 14)
is that the famous Harvard-University-based biologist E.O. Wilson,
who as I mentioned in the previous video rightly acknowledged the importance
of solving the human condition, has been the leading proponent of this extremely dangerous
false savage instincts excuse for our competitive, selfish and aggressive behaviour, even putting
forward a completely dishonest savage instincts-based so-called ‘explanation’ for our ‘good
and evil’, psychologically conflicted human condition!
So that’s the importance of the psychosis-addressing- and-solving, real explanation of the human condition in
‘FREEDOM’.
It reveals that so-called ‘human nature’ is a product of an underlying psychological
insecurity about whether we humans are fundamentally good or not—and because the fully accountable
explanation in ‘FREEDOM’ is SO redeeming and healing, it brings a complete and permanent
end to our insecurity-driven destructive behaviour, completely transforming all humans into secure
and happy beings.
It shows that our species’ psychosis can be healed with understanding and is not an
immutable or unchangeable state.
So, that’s why the front cover of ‘FREEDOM’ features this wonderful sun rising over the horizon
bringing us the long sought after dawn of understanding.
Light/the sun has always been the metaphor for knowledge, and that’s what’s arrived.
And you can see the people on the horizon are dancing for joy that this understanding
of the human condition is finally here.
Also, this little booklet, ‘Transform Your Life And Save the World’, is the condensed
version of ‘FREEDOM’.
You can download both books for free from our website, or purchase them from bookstores,
including Amazon.
So I really urge you to watch the next short video where I present the psychosis-addressing-and-solving,
REAL explanation of the human condition.