Coltan Scrivner

Darwin, of course, was famous for his theory of evolution.

He was a theorist, not an empirical scientist, didn't do studies.

But he heard about this story from a zoologist named Alfred Brim, who gave a story about these monkeys that saw a snake inside of a bag.

This was an experiment that he did.

A monkey would look inside the bag and scream, and then another monkey would come up and look inside the bag and scream and run away.

And it's exactly what you're describing here, where people are like, oh, I've seen this.

You don't want to see it.

That's the human version of looking inside the bag, shrieking and running away.

And yet the other monkeys had to come up and see it because he survived.

The other monkey survived.

He was fine.

And he signaled danger.

So I kind of want to know what that thing is.

And that's a very similar thing to, oh, this thing is terrible.

You don't want to see it.

Now I kind of do.

But because he told you what it was, essentially what he was emphasizing is what you're going to learn from this will not counterbalance how you will feel about it.

Or even better, do a public execution so people can come watch and they can see the power of the state and how, like, what will happen to them.

Yeah, that's exactly what that's doing.

Like, on the wheel.