Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (director's cut) | DW Documentary

I had a strange dream. I was walking through a golden temple under a glass dome and through chambers of splendor filled with so many objects that the heart so desires. I saw miracles of human skill and art and impeccable beings who apparently lacked nothing, but they seemed to. everyone was looking for something such strange creatures the whole world is in a big mess the more they get the more they want president bush after 9/11 said I urge all Americans to go shopping this print would still make me

money

is what's on I grew up in a way that I would still make

money

even if I was left in the desert.

There's someone trying to say, "You need this." There are enough people who think they need it. That's the marketing strategy. It tells you that you should not be happy, the Minge are not human, we are by nature

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y, evolution has shown us that as long as this mechanism does not become too dominant, it serves the objectives of the individual perfectly, it individualizes each mujuy to survive today. as for saying it's a symptom of a disease catastrophe is on the way catastrophe you and I can't even imagine it I wonder if we are a viable

life

form maybe we are just an evolutionary flash in the pan and we will be sitting right next to the dinosaurs at the Cockroach Museum one thing I would love to say is that you should always think about your death.

I was wondering why we are like this, we are loving and compassionate but we are also self-centered and reckless, we give and the reward we create and destroy what is our problem what drives us I went in search of answers the humanities at the crossroads I think a historic moment the physical environment is undermined to the point that we must address it war is something we must Think about why that happens. People are deeply unhappy. In addition to everything we continue to build. I see insatiable

greed

as something inextricably connected to all these other difficulties that, if we don't recognize and accept, we are literally putting our species at risk, you know, you could ask to talk about Darwin, well, if you're asked to talk about Darwin, it has to be about evolution and what the word evolution means change, so evolution is an idea that Darwin is trying to understand. and what is his surprisingly original proposal suit of natural selection We Cubans are, on the one hand, very similar to all other forms of

life

in the sense that we share a basic biological predisposition towards survival, but on the other hand, we are so intelligent that we really recognize that.

We exist and the point here is that being alive and knowing it is a source of great joy, on the other hand, it also carries a very terrible existential burden. If you know you are here, you know that someday, like all living beings, you will. I wouldn't be here if that's all we thought about I'm going to die I can go out and get hit by a meteor we would be literally paralyzed by abject terror what human beings did is build and maintain what anthropologists today call culture and all cultures offer some recipe for immortality, whether literally across the heavens and after the lives and reincarnations of all the world's great religions or symbolically through the belief that some vestige of our identity will persist over time, however , that's why you want to have children, that's why you want to build pyramids, that's why we want to write great books and symphonies, that's why we want to have a lot of money.

Human beings are motivated to have many things because, psychologically speaking, it gives them the feeling that they can live forever. Greed and fighting that causes anger and aggression from the Buddhist philosophical perspective are all states resulting from a person constantly trying to see what is not true, we talk about three fundamental truths, that things are impermanent, secondly, It is said the fundamental principle of everything. be empty but now what happens is that we try to build something that makes us forget this, we try to make things permanent and that struggle creates the third truth of this suffering, we begin to cling to things.

I'll give you an example. You know, if I have a shirt and every time I go out to do some shopping you buy another shirt, you may have 12 in your closet, but you will buy the thirteenth just to have the feeling that you will live long enough to wear altered shirts or maybe even longer than that, so there is a feeling that every day we constantly do something because of which we can further solidify our sense of immortality, our sense of living continuously without changing and that struggle constantly builds all these neuroses. and the most prominent of them becomes greed, death is a very real physical phenomenon and no matter how good your symbols, your religion, your politics, your money, there are still symbols and none of them will be enough to minimize death anxiety or, rather, to eliminate it, you can reduce it, but you cannot get rid of it and finally, to make matters worse, we also do not like the idea that we are animals from a strictly biological point of view, we are not absolutely. much more significant or lasting than beans or armadillos an animal takes only what it needs but the human animal is different more than seven billion of us inhabit the planet and each of us wants something wants more this is perhaps the secret of success the UM disaster Instruments now instrumentally developed to measure greed as a personality trait and also to elicit a state of greed in people mentioned in the Irish social context of an associated citizen.

This is the balloon task that we use to measure our test subjects' willingness to take risks that the subject has. To try to keep inflating the loom, the bigger the balloons, the more worth the blow period each round. The subjects play with real money every time they inflate the balloon, they take the risk that first it could happen and then their money would run out. pets that I incur we have been able to show that people who tend to be greedy are more likely to take risks when performing this task so they inflate the balloon more than normal test subjects and we see that people who tend to be greedy also demonstrate an altered brain response in this archaic view.

In this graph we see how our brain responds to rewards and punishments. So far we have been able to show that the greedier the test subject, the weaker the punishment signals, so she really wanted it. GABA technology is that interesting. The interesting thing is that these people also tend to want to maintain the nocturnal state. The classic experiments of the ancient Simula on the dopamine system of the brain are very interesting in this regard, the indium cysteine ​​amine if electrodes are implanted exactly in this place. region of a rat's brain and then the rat is put in a situation where it can stimulate that dopamine system directly by pressing a lever, the rats will continue to press the lever until they die is a test set and this is presumably one of the biological mechanisms that help explain overbreeding, come on Ren, there you go, flourish, come on, oh you can have two, where's my example? oh you already have two, most primates are very social but these guys are atypical because they are also very tolerant, there is a hierarchy and everyone knows who is at the top and the individuals at the top get more males get more matings, females have more access to resources, but there is not this really pronounced hierarchy where there is one individual at the top who gets everything and you also see some things that respect for possessions, you don't necessarily see in primates, so we can observe, for example, how you respond when you get more and I get less, how you respond when you get less and I get more, and that's manageable to study experimentally.

Hello guys, the experiment itself is very simple: you need two monkeys or two apes, you place them next to each other and you interact with them sequentially and what they have to do is a very simple task, so we give them a token, They return it and give it to us. They get the food reward for completing it, but then the critical component is how this individual responds to that half-preferred food, like a cucumber or a piece of bell pepper, when their partner gets something much better. See this, that could be due to inequity. It could be because my partner got something better than me or it could just be a general sort of greed for lack of a better term.

Hey, there's better food and I wanted, from an evolutionary perspective, the behavior that we consider greed. It is important to acquire as many resources as possible, most animals live more on the margin than modern western humans, so not acquiring as many resources for them is a real risk of death in human societies, so my perspective is that Green has taken on not only acquiring as much as possible but acquiring as much as possible explicitly at the expense of other individuals and I don't think that's something that can be applied to animals one day Narcissus found a spring that was so clear that it could see yourself in it.

As in a mirror, when he saw his own reflection, he fell in love with his beauty. We also like to see ourselves as the center of the world. The individual is now the measure of all things and that is why we long for recognition and self-esteem. Collect relationships, photos and likes. SUV shoes records we are like daffodils addicted to our own egos being successful in business is an art and when you have it you can take things to a level where people would be surprised at how much describe me price this we will talk about it the price international this talks about our prices 700 square meters fifth floor x eight floors x our logo price one thousand two thousand will cost you five point six million yes, I prefer to make those types of videos Because that's exactly what it's going to be.

I will tell you that my philosophy is very simple. There is a fine line between a businessman and a criminal. Gates is Richard Branson, we are all seen, the crew knows it, but it is because we think beyond other people thinking that President Mugabe is my brother from a European perspective or that our African's nephew is a brother, we cannot have the world full of critics, we went there and for the shrunken ones there are fewer critics more duels that way it will be nice to experience the world economy welcome to my house I want to show you everything as well as the achievements that I have had for so many years and yes, you know, it's great which one is near my old offices they gave me an award for building a school block and then an organization that helps us help ourselves honored me for my work for humanitarian reasons so they gave me this award where this BAFTA award its main focus is recognize those who I have worked a lot on affirmative action and human rights empowerment issues, you know, internationally, that's me here with my main room where he, if you come in, and friends and family, we meet and chat, already You know, we have conversations of all kinds.

Political economy and family, the property has a helipad on the top, so when it's cold here we put the heaters on, so it really has heaters here and this room is called it, the dining room, if I'm remodeling this house. It is the only room that I do not remodel because it gives me that sentimental relationship with the president and yes, the man that money can buy, this is what I know where I come from, I come from being a vegetable seller, my bed was his floor, the big elliptical floor, that's where I used to sleep with a very poor linen blanket that goes under me and another on top and that story is the reason why I want you to know to be able to prove that I have a good life in things like the track Racing and all other forms of public spectacles are of interest to people for many reasons: one aspect of the race track is the game, another part is highlighting a status in relation to other human beings, someone is better cited not by how big or strong he is, but by how you behave and how you establish that you are richer than worthier and therefore more immune to death than all the other people around you.

In some ways, this is no different than dominance hierarchies and primates, we love heroes and therefore, I have cared about being the best at something, even if it is how many hot dogs I can eat in ten minutes. . In the United States we are number one, not in science or literacy or anything important. We are number one in depression, yet how can this be what you have? What you need to do is look at cultural values ​​to see if they are realistically achievable by the average individual. If you are a man you are basically valued for how much you have and this is the so called American Dream, if you work hard enough you can have as much money as LeBron James or Warren Buffett or Bill Gates but realistically for every millionaire you have to There are hundreds of thousands of people working part-time at Walmart without benefits.

The same for women, but they have a different cultural load. We teach women that to be beautiful you have to be ridiculously thin, excluding your breasts of course, so if I can't floss on youyou are too fat and have to stay perpetually young, which of course is biologically impossible. Wow, we appreciate values ​​that are just not possible to achieve if you say I want to be true to the world you have to get rid of all your goals and when I say your times I'm talking about I'm this and I'm that I can do this and I can do this, oh yeah, I I did last year, oh I can do that, oh I'm better than him, so all those times are egos, there are many people in South Africa, both white and black, who carry the Eagle page and carry It's high as a flag And those are the people we would see as the future bureaucrats.

In the country, if you drive into a poor neighborhood where you know people are starving and you drive around in your Mercedes-Benz or your Rolls-Royce, that's the worst thing you could do. driving with this ego to say I'm better than you, you know you'll never be where I am, those people are lost, so every terminal if I think I have to assert my ego, the only way I can do it is through greed, I I am forced to constantly cooperate in something. in myself that gives stability to my ego, those can be material things but they can also be spiritual things, for example, ideas like I am important, for example, or someone because of money or fame, my title or something like that, everything our modern world is based on this here for the picnic green destroys the people of the earth why because it isolates us and because greed is something like a drug you know I have more than I want to have because what I have no longer satisfies me so it is not what I really Possess that satisfies me is the constant striving for more religion.

I have known for centuries that this impulse is within us humans, but this impulse is also our undoing. A Playlist Since time immemorial there have been stories of people who could never get enough people like King Midas. asked Diana told him to grant her a wish but everything she touched would turn to gold but even her food and drink turned to gold it looked like she could starve or die of thirst gold and riches have always been under the spell of omnipotence and a whisper of eternity what I wonder gives money such a powerful allure the couple is dating Spanky Karev I chose banking as my career I am a trained accountant and worked with Ullaeus Bear & Co, our first gay bank in Zurich I in the Cayman Islands, which is a job in a tax haven.

I was promoted to compliance officer and was waning. I was the legal conscience of the name of the company that gives me security. A certain amount of greed was instilled in you, that was true for me too. I have to imagine that you start to think only in monetary units. I believe the dollar signs appear before your eyes and in your heart, then they are there and they are the only thing that matters. Feed the poor, feed lots of profits and make sure you don't get caught. The way I operated in the course of minor duties in my role as a compliance officer I determined that we had criminal clients, tombi had minor names like bin Laden, I was a Mexican drug chest, it became clear to me that I was working for a criminal organization and that the bank was involved in tax evasion and fraud, we 12 from the industry hinted at some of the conversations that I ended up feeling morally and persecuted given that I took the matter to McDonagh's management, Anjali's management evolved it or we were threatened, The whole family ended up leaving the Cayman Islands, suddenly trying to bank.

They had been Swiss bankers in the Cayman Islands who had their house keys taken away in personalized suits. To that extent, my decision to leave the system was a moral issue, but what was more important, I think, was that I became aware of the system. had turned on me, the Keegan thing, for example, the threats they made to me in the Cayman Islands, the way they fired me and then threatened me again that the bank would destroy me if I tried to press charges against them in Tiger, where the dog fell on the rocks. bank the bank sent private detectives after us they followed me on my way to work I had to change the route I took to work change my training it's the site of a black car it would bother me I was completely stoned I even considered suicide I wanted to drive me crazy , they were involved in the pipeline, these darts and volkov's top prosecutors had all the information but did nothing with it, except the son Pony, it's politically, but it would make the criminal clients uneasy, they would realize that they are no longer safe nor protected.

With that in mind, authorities aren't going after the bank without the bonk, they're going after the man who made the truth public. The laws are very developed. I spent 217 days in prison, the first 30 days were in 2005, the rest in In 2011, at that time I was in solitary confinement and spent only 23 hours a day. In the south of my country there were prisoners who quickly turned around and started banging on the doors shouting this guy from Switzerland and basically in every country they protect their golden calves. The golden calf in Switzerland is bank secret that's why no one had ever investigated Yuliya's spare bank even though state prosecutors know that Yulia's bear could help deceive the US tax authorities. and so on for political reasons state prosecutors who never investigate us could be a burgeoning question was how we could create test conditions that would approximate the behavior of a stockbroker, for example our loss Meteor functional and magnificent we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to Investigating brain activity in our test subjects is coin 9 we can look deep into the brain without including the structures responsible for the reward response, our subjects play a stock trading game and have to decide if they want to invest a large amount of money or a small amount and then receive feedback during the game about whether the stock price is going up or down. able to determine that people who are especially greedy show a quieter response in the regions responsible for punishment and loss of money.

This mechanism allows a kind of disinhibition. I am making this monster an art in Tamil under its Quinta Naama Bay, the assumption that Ordinary people will be risk averse. It just makes sense for the financial industry, which is optimized for results, to hire people who are more risk-inclined. Yes. R Biden, they achieved that with bonuses and with specific hiring practices an efficient person allows five Flauberts. dozen I think it's just a matter of time before the next financial crisis hits yes we'll see it Jeanette okay tonight what in return what you did great okay thank you very much when I started hearing about Warren Buffett and Bill Gates it was worth it runs around 3040 billion, but now it is 70 billion.

You know, in life, if you only have a billion dollars, you can go out for 273 years and eat or spend ten thousand dollars a day. How many of us live for 233 years? So if you have a billion, that means you can even spend thirty thousand a day because you're not going to last that long, but other people make a lot more, you know, no one can say I don't want more if people like me don't make money. There are no taxes that allow the government to function, therefore the people who make money allow things to happen and I am all those people, more growth, more wealth, more satisfaction, this is the promise of those who mean well with us and us too.

Happy to believe them, we do our part, do we hope to buy ourselves

happiness

? Many Western Europeans and Americans no longer firmly believe in God, but you have to believe in something. You know, we have these belief systems that reduce death anxiety, but there will always be a rumble of panic beneath the surface of consciousness, we will take this death anxiety and we have to do something with it and one thing we can do is to become strange, by the time you can speak, you will have already been thrown away. with commercial images like the Nike check and the golden arches we know them subliminally our children are growing up in a radically different world than the one you and I grew up in and their brains have been modified accordingly the manufacturers of consumer goods on which they spend literally thousands of million dollars to ensure that no child is left behind in the commercial rat race, basically, in a sense, we are no different than amoebas, we are attracted to everything that encourages life and pleasure and we are repulsed and afraid of everything that threatens that. situation shoes shoes shoes and their shoes everywhere shoes sometimes you don't want to let go of something you keep it, for example this shoe I've never won, but I think it's been here for sentences like it's still new and it's the same with this one still new that's a still new one this is a designer shoe I don't want to be limited because in the Bible Genesis says you must have dominion over everything that gives me that strength no one in the Bible I can open it for you no one is poor Abraham Moses everyone is a rich man in the bible the bible doesn't talk about poverty the bible is the biggest money making machine everywhere every verse talks about money that's something people need to realize and I'm happy about it there is something like this.

I think the key to material society is that it will always tell you that something is missing, you need something more, we are all contributing. I don't think it's just the, you know, you can't just blame someone trying to sell them something so that demand and supply know that we all support each other and we've all gotten into this cycle where we can't free ourselves from talking. of 24 hours, I would say 23 hours and 55 minutes samsara says come, you are missing something and by samsara I mean the usual patterns and you keep thinking that they are calling me samsara is calling I need to go there have a car have a house have a partner being busy being neurotic that's what I would say of course you don't call it that you call it being someone being able to find your identity whether you're dissatisfied you're always looking for more you're always looking for more that struggle brings so much insecurity and un

happiness

One of the reasons why That people acquire so much is because they feel good.

There are both neurochemical and psychological feedback loops. This makes you continue doing it long beyond what you really need. It's one thing when you go out and I can have a cup of soda. hot coffee on a cold rainy day is a whole other thing when you buy a pair of size 75 shoes, you don't really need those shoes at any point, but they will still make you feel good, there is this trip to as we say in the US. keep up with the Joneses at our rich group on Park Avenue, everyone's 16th birthday party last year, everyone gave out iPods, well this year we're going to give out iPads, well this year we'll do this, so too there is this type of ratchet.

Indeed, there is nothing wrong with being a consumer, I mean, to stay alive, we have to consume things, but we literally surround ourselves with things to the point of being imprisoned in a golden cage, we consume ourselves with consumption, we will continue buying things until The last one has burned a drop of oil. A Flemish proverb maintains that the world is a haystack and each man takes from it what we humans want to have, but the question is, can we have something without taking it from another person? In 1657, the Portuguese they came through Mozambique they were the first to be here mining for gold Africa is like a thumb so anyone who settles somewhere will just extract the minerals and take them with them.

You can imagine a country ten times bigger than the map was colored by one. The person in Belgium who called him is absolutely unfair on the African continent, that's all, you maintain the principle, we have the right to ownership of our resources, our agrarian policy was correct, the man has done a lot for me. Mugabe made sure that the masses received land that they got for free and are producing, we may not have started or at best how things should be but people are catching up and that movie in particular met people should be equal, all of them should be treated equally when Christian missionaries. came to Africa, how long had Africans always been there?

They were the first humans and when they got there, they said, "Oh, we'd like to learn about the customs that you've used for hundreds of thousands of years," what did they say you are? Catholic now or we kill you, then they just said we are the best, the rest stop doing that and now you are Catholic, let's play bingo in the back of our heads, we know that the current Western approach to life requires us to direct and take advantage indirectly other people's war and everything goes hand in hand and they always have our ability to consume senselessly.

Li requires the involuntary subjugation of large sections of the rest of the world. You can't be an American for anything less. You can have a banana whenever you want. or coffee anytime I want that to happen. I need people to grow bananas and I need people to grow coffee and they might like to have somemore besides banana and coffee, but we will simply send our military and set up our businesses there. The military and the leaders of Fortune 500 companies are literally and symbolically inextricably connected. This whole place is full of minerals, you know, so yeah, I want to take you down so you can see David Livingstone, the man who discovered this force, we can say. doing business in this colonialism, if the Americans, the British and the Germans take away their money, the Chinese accumulate they become Russians.

What I'm asking is if we don't have capital as big as the Chinese are bringing to Africa, will we do it? not being able to exploit those minerals and we should create arrogance towards money to say that exploitation only happens in Africa is wrong, most European countries have slaves, even in Europe, America, there are two people who take people illegally, keep them as slaves and it's using them and pimping them and all kinds of things, so that needs to go away because it's not the right thing to do, you know, to do that to a human being, regardless of what kind of slavery you're in, you can break that slavery in history. biblical of Babel humanity wanted to build a tower that would reach the heavens God punished his girlfriend by creating a confusion of languages ​​the Tower of Babel the ultimate symbol of self-indulgence and excess when humans aspired to be gods of evil things happened that Emma had a nose for funerals in 1994 and Velma began working for the Barre banking establishment, soon discovered some strange things and tried to talk to management about them.

The dark stiff was sincere, but the bear's management wasn't too happy about it and they fired him and then. He became a whistleblower and passed tax data from a CV to the Swiss tax authorities. He thought they would take action given the dimensions and find someone a home in victory, but abroad to be a ninja. Players like to talk about fall shoring, nowadays, offshoring, I'm not just talking about taxes. paradises but also what I call paradises of collusion and concealment, this is the Ugland house in the Cayman Islands, the registered address of nineteen thousand different companies, as President Obama said, it is neither the largest building in the world nor the biggest tax scam, well, no. are Disney's largest houses Current estimates say that around 21 or maybe 31 and billion US dollars are hidden abroad, abroad, says Joe behind, I'm afraid because I was part of this sister and I know how these people end up.

An old sister named Tweak is scattered along her path. with corpses is to imagine Gare de Lyon, he has been an ignored gay, he could become an opponent of capitalism because I see the terrible things it has done to the world, the West has embraced itself at the expense of third world countries on a massive scale or a thief in a way that I believe is contrary to all of humanity Giga close to the CAI mention that your - office the arrogant ones who currently have power will use all means at their disposal to ensure that the system remains in place without changes on fish day until we are so tall knows arrogance One of the reasons we worship them is that they seem to be magical money. creators make money by making money and ultimately I think money has become the new God and a kind of secular universe.

I'm not saying people shouldn't be rich, you work hard to get there and it's your right, but those things exist. those who don't really care just take and take and that causes problems when we have kings who run the world from their palaces, they knew the value of gold, the more I have of this, the more I can have of whatever I want and that's how it is as it grows and they will ensure that the poorest people become poorer. We saw it then and we're starting to see it again today. I don't need a Lamborghini.

I don't need a mansion. I just need simple things like hello, hello. Talk, talk, you can't live a life without money and you can't live life without love because you have to love other people so they can love you and you have to do it so you have a man so you can give. life was the way you wanted the politicians most of them are greedy because they say especially atrocious o Africa there is a lot of corruption yes poor people who are surrounded by poor people for the most part they are not depressed it is when there is poverty juxtaposed with excessive wealth that is what which encourages depression and malaise there are people who say that this is a good thing that interested people acquire as much as they can or that they would like the rising tide to lift all boats then some people will have more that is fine, well However, The counterpoint is that I don't think it's right.

I wonder if humanity maybe isn't a mistake in evolution. Nature is a strange experiment on a small blue planet. Are we really mentally incapable of looking into the future? There have been many great civilizations, the Aztecs, the Incas that have from time to time imploded on themselves, if we look back at the history of societies that have collapsed, they often do so just after they seemed to be at their peak. most auspicious moment if we think that we can continue increasing the number of humans on the planet. and provide each of them with the lifestyle we currently enjoy in the West without turning the Earth into a humanly uninhabited smoking heap.

I think we are fooling ourselves: our frantic desire for infinite quantities of things will have the paradoxical consequence of being the first way. of life being responsible for our own extinction is very sinister I would say this is ground zero for climate change because this is where we can get closest to the big ice and that is why it is happening in 1978 as a corridor for the elderly. I gave a talk at the nominations that the big ice is melting, so when I finished I got a standing ovation and then they said that love is a well-spoken young Eskimo because no one heard the message, whoever is going to be in India in South Africa in Tokyo in Hong Kong in Rio de Janeiro New York Copenhagen Paris Berlin no matter where I go no one deceives no one at the time of my birth this ice was only an average of 5 kilometers thick, but now on average it will be about 2 kilometers, which means 3 kilometers of ice. it melts when it gets hotter and it gets hotter every day with one degree Celsius the water will literally expand more than 2 meters the manual is only 75 centimeters above sea level London is also less than a meter I wanted you to see these big ones The eyes to feel its energy, this great ice on the top of the world, carries a wisdom because everything that happens on mother earth will end in the northern hemisphere, because in Antarctica, in the southern hemisphere, we drive with tires made of rubber , but Addabani lost by eating rubber, so all those little pieces of rubber had to go somewhere for the wind to catch them and he goes towards the jet stream and the end here and it gets too heavy here they fall snoring but when the sun returns, rubber loves the sun, so the ice melts only faces only figures is telling you something humanity is like a teenager they don't care what is going to happen tomorrow this big ice will melt during your lifetime you before may you become like me most of this will be gone as a catastrophe a catastrophe is on the way for you and me we can't even imagine that water will always win Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans as punishment Zeus created the seductress Pandora and gave her a box as a gift even though he had been warned not to.

We folded or opened the box and all the evils of the world escaped, only hope remained within the human race, we have a tremendously decent record so far of overcoming deep difficulties, once we understand what causes them, we have to evaluate all the values. This is important to me because I'm a cultural puppet that society at large plays to my strengths or I've really systematically questioned what I want and why I do what I do, so you either give up and despair and do nothing or you do something and you do it with passion and conviction the cult of les was a project I started to try to get rid of everything I had because I discovered that the more things I had the less happy I was as I was.

When traveling I realized that I didn't really miss all the things I had when I came back. I couldn't really tell you, do you know what those things were? So instead of continuing to keep them, I decided to get rid of those things. cult of les was like a website that I created and I listed everything I had at the time and put a description next to it and a price tag and then over the course of about a year I sold all of that stuff with the goal of trying I had to put everything in two boxes and two suitcases and my rule was that if I couldn't remember the last time I used something, I got rid of it.

I don't worry so much about what I do. I'm going to buy the next thing, but it's more like what I'm going to do next or where I'm going to go next. The idea of ​​minimalism manifests itself in our work in many ways, but above all I think what we are known for is Really, the look of our product, sustainable growth is good because that implies that what you are building in the world is replacing something that is obsolete and doing it better and more efficiently, while unsustainable growth in many ways is something that is often very toxic to the market or to a lifestyle.

To me, wealth is not just measured by what you own or how much money is in your bank account, it can also be having experienced many things in your life. I think it's very important to even have something. very strong relationships with your friends like there's nothing better than a good friendship and it makes a lot more sense to invest in that than to invest in a new couch for your living room or something like that. It's very difficult to describe when something just feels good, but it seems great to me if someone could make intelligent use of it in every country in this world, a person who has vision, a person who is honest, if every president of every government could say for one day taking someone out of society to be a president for their country right in front of the fact that one day the world's manifesto could make a big difference so that for us, the three billion young people on the planet, the climate crisis is a matter of survival you world leaders have known about the climate catastrophe for 25 years we can't just sit back and watch let's work together the climate clock is ticking the main problem on this planet is the mentality people know the consequences of what can happen what they do people know what is right in people who know what is wrong and still they do not do the right thing.

I want to ask why, that makes me angry and sad at the same time, like I'm a human being too, like why can't you listen to my decisions about my life like who made you ruler of the world and let you decide to take away my future, like that? that now we are here because we are frustrated and we want to make sure this is done, but never directly, that in Malawi more than 70% died? young people like it, it's okay if they, if we young people don't act now, then when will the time be right in Hong Kong?

There are many young adolescents who begin to think about changing their society through their Mexico itself, for example, has large oil reserves because politicians are only interested in the money they are exploiting the ocean and do not care that it is being contaminated by the ocean. oil and that species are disappearing, they don't care as long as they make a profit but the Mexican people are not benefiting from it at all oh no no legaia nothing they will continue to get and get and from that greed is born people are confused and they don't understand like that that if they came somewhere else and were taught something different, they could probably get out of it and then look back and see how their life wasn't, be like, oh my God, if my life actually wasn't that good even though that I have all these things, the decisions that we all make.

I speak for those who stand still and say this is my continent, it is not too late, the time has come, we will fight and make a difference if humanity is truly the crown of creation and also understands its own impermanence, whence comes this infinite desire? As the saying goes, "you can't take it with you," everything in my life had been going pretty normally, my job as a neurosurgeon and all that, and then I woke up at 4:30 in the morning with severe back pain and shortly after I had grand mal seizures and went into a coma and then they took me to the hospital and at that point they determined that I had a severe and very rare form of meningitis due to a gram-negative bacteria that destroys the neocortex, the part responsible for everything. the consciousness detailed in our consciousness when I first entered the hospital I had a 10% chance of survival by the end of the week in Qom had reduced me to a 2% chance of survival no chance of recovery is a perfect model for human death and yet, it was more like my blinders were removed, so when I returned to this world theOn day seven, all my memories of Evan Alexander's life before the coma had completely disappeared, all language, any concept of humans, the earth, this universe, any knowledge of the beings around me.

You know, my mother, my sisters, my children, I had no idea who these beings were before my car, I was very much a modern conventional scientist, what is called a reductionist materialist, the traveling soul returning from an experience. Close to death he knows there is nothing to fear. Death is actually an awakening to a much grander existence that is who we truly are and that changes the way one can see themselves and how they interact with other beings. I would say any perception of greed, selfishness and material accumulation. Goods in this material realm are really a symptom of fear, a fear that we ourselves are not worthy and so we try to accumulate physical goods and somehow we accumulate our little pile as if that attracts people to us or attracts that love.

What we deeply desire is a bottomless pit. We have separated ourselves from the phenomenon of death. Every time death is in our mind, there is a process that is activated to remove it from consciousness. My wife is a therapist at the local hospice and she says, look, I have to. to sit with the deaf it takes courage to say that this entity that is me and was here yesterday and is here today may not be here tomorrow and will not be here in some vaguely unspecified future that takes some guts we are just beginning to study what It happens to older people as they become more aware of death, some people become wiser, they become more compassionate and now the trick is how, metaphorically speaking, do we put it in a bottle and get young adults to start to drink it.

I am very afraid. my own death. I would have said that, although I'd like to think I'm making slow but steady progress toward accepting the fact that one day I will die, it's something I'm not looking forward to right now. let me go away for a bit and make more money and let me visit sometime with my little cousins ​​and grandkids. Do you know I'm growing? So I need time before that can happen at any moment, at any moment, you hear, the next minute you're going to be done. You have to go to the school of anxiety in order to become a mature human being, if we could accept with grace and humility the fact that we are finite creatures, we must do it, we must let go, humans seem to be the only creatures that exist without Purpose, it doesn't make sense.

I think there are two. exceptional days in each life the day we are born and the day we understand our purpose what is important what is essential for what we live I think happiness is very overrated being happy is still important, but happiness itself it does not guarantee that life has meaning it does not prevent us from taking comfort in the trivial if you are simply looking to be happy there are many ways to do it but it does not make you more mature and it certainly does not make you in a position to honestly face the fact that you are an ephemeral entity destined to die, I would say that there have to be more than two lives besides the singular pursuit of happiness.

You need some things. Know. I like shoes and my bicycle. home but I'm still with Mary Poppins in the long run it's as good as a feast for me many times happiness is found in things you didn't expect to find positive so just to give you an example recently one night I was We went out with my kids, we had a walk to the park and we were walking home and we had a lot of what we call fireflies, fireflies, little bugs that light up at night, so we spent a happy 45 minutes catching fireflies and we played. with them for a while before you let them go it's those quiet moments but everything seems to be working well together you're enjoying the people you're with you're enjoying the activity you're doing and a lot of times you find yourself in those situations where you can't buy something delicious: Gucci, oh God, Buddhism flourishes best wherever there is a society of people who have cost materialism and consumerism and discovered that it is not the answer to happiness and peace and maybe that will be the first door that opens them .

Finding answers not in the external, but finding many more answers within yourself, you are always in the driver's seat and therefore you can choose to drive in a straight line or you can choose to drive in the opposite direction, so your own consciousness , your own potential to be conscious, is much more powerful I believe that happiness is found where there is inner satisfaction simplicity and satisfaction your money will not impress anyone how many bags you carry from a shopping center will not impress what kind of car you drive will not impress or make a statement difference is what you bring from your heart to the world and I wanted to give you an experience that relates directly to the celebration of life.

I don't know if you can feel the energy. This is a midnight sun and this is a full moon. completely opposite of each other Oh No Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Marnie neo life is a ceremony in itself so you had to recreate your ceremony to celebrate your life uh-huh that's the key to the chains there is no other key are there solutions ? I hope so, greed. It is a complicated ally of the motivational forces that has driven creativity, innovation and discovery, on the other hand, with every uniquely human innovation there has been an unexpected downside, it is a blessing and a curse, we are probably the first species to encounter the problem and evolution do not We do not create solutions to problems that do not exist.

Evolution is blind. Evolution does not plan the future. Evolution does not care about moral consequences. We have moral principles and we all know them, but we no longer live by them. our problem we need to hear that it is not always easy to understand that every action of my body my speech and my thought patterns interconnect and impact the lives of others if that genuine sense of consciousness could be developed human life could be and is the most powerful and the most beautiful gift for everyone. I like how Albert Camus put it in one of his notebooks.

He accepts death afterwards. Everything is possible. This is what my mother would do. She says: Uh oh. Oh, somewhat imaginative, but you're formal. Oh, Elizabeth, sure. You would be accused of novel adoption