A short spoken monologue (YouTube) arguing that humans are exceptional because we collaborate, communicate, and conceptualize to build futures far beyond basic needs. The speaker emphasizes influence and relationships as central to creating the future and criticizes modern “selfie” culture, isolation, and the declining aspiration for extraordinary relationships.
What makes the human species so outstanding. Extraordinary is how we collaborate and communicate and conceptualize to achieve dramatic futures that are very different from our basic human nature and very different than our basic human needs. No human walked around and thought, gee, my human needs is a skyscraper. But a bunch of humans got together and figured out how to build skyscrapers. The building of the future is about your ability to influence other people. And for whatever reason, we got so focused in a selfie generation and selfie culture where everyone's just staring at their stomach all day and how they feel. It's a me culture. We are so isolated and lonely that we have actually convinced ourselves that that's preferable or okay. And very few people strive to have extraordinary relationships anymore. Why.
