# Humanity is Feral

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Cool Worlds
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6AT_suuFx4

## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6AT_suuFx4) Segment 1 (00:00 - 02:00)

If you give me a minute, I will leave you with a provocative but rather unsettling idea. So, we all know that monhumans evolved from hominins in the African continent some 2 million years ago. And eventually they migrated across the entire globe. And piece by piece we figured out all manner of things from food production to forms of government, from medicine to morality, from monetary policy to physics. And what's wild to remember here is that as far as we know, no one taught us any of that. We just figured it out by ourselves over a long period of time. So the origin of that knowledge is interesting to wonder about. And in fact, humans have long been fascinated with where knowledge comes from, sometimes to disturbing extremes. For example, in the 13th century, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II allegedly locked away a group of infants, only allowing them contact with wet nurses who were forbidden to speak or even show expression. He hoped that the children would eventually naturally speak the original language of Adam and Eve. But instead, every child died before reaching the age when speech would normally develop. A similar Macabber experiment is thought to have been carried out by Mughal Emperor Akbar in the 16th century who later reported hearing no cry nor any speech from the children. Frederick's infants died in isolation. And today we recognize that solitary confinement is one of the harshest punishments that one can inflict. Indeed, the UN has argued that isolation longer than 15 days can amount to torture. So what's wild about humanity as a whole is that we are Frederick's feral children. I mean, think about it. As an ensemble, we have received no parent, no teacher, no guide as to what's right or wrong. Everything that we have learned has been in collective isolation. And you have to wonder if isolation can drive an individual mad, what does that say about humanity as a whole, who has been alone for our entire existence? Is the madness finally catching up with

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*Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/42195*