Our world seems a lot like a dystopian episode of Black Mirror. Can we escape our real life dystopia? Many believe that dystopia is an inevitable outcome of human nature and therefore cannot be escaped nor overcome. And this also seems to be a popular interpretation of Black Mirror: that the show’s message is that dystopia is the result of technology colliding with human nature.
In my previous video I presented an alternative explanation for the causes of our real life dystopia: our political and economic systems which, although not inseparable from human nature, are not an inevitable result of our nature.
In this video I make the case that humanity is capable of creating a world that is non-dystopian and actually pretty damn awesome, a world free of the divisions of rich and poor, powerful and powerless, dominators and dominated. And I make this case not just with abstract argumentation but using actual evidence from the actual real world, with particular focus on evidence from anthropology.
Throughout the video, I relate the discussion to Black Mirror and in particular the episode USS Callister (season 4 episode 1).
Previous video: Black Mirror and the Causes of Our Real Dystopia
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VIDEO CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro and Thesis
12:00 Political and economic systems influence our psychology, behavior, and culture
32:48 Human Nature and Human Potential
45:12 Ongka’s Big Moka
49:46 Humanity’s Egalitarian Potential
1:03:04 What enables the “immediate return” type of hunter-gatherer societies to be egalitarian?
1:09:14 How dominance hierarchy conquered the world
1:18:22 The worst people have the most influence (but that can change)
1:30:16 Humanity’s egalitarian potential in societies like ours
1:38:48 Egalitarianism: Adapting its recipe for societies like ours
1:53:14 Wrap-up / Summary
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Ancient Palace Persepolis, Iran - CC 2.0 Ivar Husevåg Døskeland
Central City East, LA - CC 3.0 Erica Chang
Chewong - CC 2.0 Son K Lee, Flikr
Class systems drawing -Tony Biddle (Economics for Everyone by Jim Stanford)
Dinner party - rawpixel.com (Freepik)
cop - CC 2.0 Chris Yarzab flikr
Great Sphinx - CC 3.0 UsuarioBarcex
Hadza - CC 4.0 Arnold Tibaijuka
Indus Civilization map - CC 3.0 Avantiputra7
Ju/’hoansi pics - CC 2.0 David Barrie, Flikr
Malapandaram - CC 2.0 Ragesh Ev Flikr
Map USSR - CC 3.0 Milenioscuro
Mohenjo-daro - CC 3.0 Saqib Qayyum
Persepolis - JimKillock CC 4.0
Village - vecstock (Freepik)
WWII railway tableau coach (CC 3.0 FORTEPAN Saly Noémi)
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