Last video, I looked at this idea of human domestication, thinking about how we share some of the features of an animal that’s been domesticated when we compare modern civilized life to some kind of wild past. And I wonder how far we can take this analogy. And it seems that it goes a lot […]

Human domestication. Being civilized: this word that sounds very positive, and in so many ways is. We have this wonderful system that we live within that provides unimagined, unimaginable in earlier times levels of safety, security. A whole framework for living our lives in which we don’t have to worry about basic survival. As long

The Santa Claus disappointment. We’ve all had that moment when we learned, one way or another, that Santa Claus isn’t real. And it was a moment of shock and surprise, and kind of it’s disappointing. It’s like wow, I believed in this magical thing, but actually it was just my parents pretending that there’s this

When in doubt, simplify. I like to remind myself of this phrase, because it seems so easy to let things just get too complicated. This kind of like sighing in exasperation, “Ah, it’s so complicated. Life is so complicated. There’s just so much going on. I’m overwhelmed.” This feeling of overwhelm. I mean, we’ve all

When it comes to my daily routine, often I find the most difficult part for me right now is the evening, going to sleep, shutting everything down in a way that works and it gets me ready for the next day. Because every part of our day except sleeping, it seems like we have some

The bus stop feeling. Just standing there, side of the road, looking to see if that bus is finally going to come. Checking the app, maybe, but it’s not always accurate. It might say five minutes, then five minutes later it says five minutes. Or you’re looking, you see the light: oh, is that a

What would you do if you didn’t care about being a good person? What would you do if you didn’t care about anybody but yourself? Now, this kind of thought, immediately I think of, well, that’s something bad people would do, and that’s psychos that think like that, that are just purely selfish. So I

Being stuck in a rut. Like this metaphor of the rut, like this hole in the road, a warning track, in a muddy road. You’re going down the road in your cart, and the wheel gets stuck in this rut. You can imagine this going down the road of life, and you just feel like

What is the fire of life, this feeling of being alive, this feeling of wonder and amazement, euphoria, ecstasy even, that we exist, and we have a chance to be alive and experience this universe? Imagine actually having this feeling. I’m sure almost all of us, we’ve had this feeling. And some of us know

The idea of changing my life, the idea that my life is not what I want it to be: that is behind why I started this channel, this project, to try to find a way to make my life closer to how I want it to be, how I imagine it to be. And I