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Francis Foster

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4873 total appearances

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

And you go, yeah, but deep down, we're just primates.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

We're glorified chimpanzees.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

All right, we can express ourselves a little bit more articulately.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

And we're not going to start flinging excrement at each other.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

But we're not that far away, are we?

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

Sorry, I've come from South London.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

I see.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

And it appears that we kind of need this balance, don't we, when we're talking about the human being and our societies.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

On the one hand, we need to be pragmatic and accept that we're tribal and we still have these instincts and impulses to go to war, for example, for resources.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

We're still hierarchical in nature.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

But we still need perhaps that progressive element, which is, look,

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

We're not as violent as we used to be.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

We're maybe not as tribal as we used to be.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

So we can work on the human being whilst also accepting that there's going to be some fundamental aspects of our biology that can never be changed.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

And we talk about genetics, the origin of politics.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

There's been a discussion that's been happening online, which I'd love to get your opinion on, which is ever since women have got the vote, we tend to vote for, as a nation or as a society, for more left-leaning politicians, more left-leaning parties.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

Is that something that you would agree with broadly, or do you think it's far more complex than Reddit would like to appear?

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

Look, we spend a lot of time on Trigonometry talking about things that matter, and I'd argue this matters more than most of them, because you are wearing underwear right now, and there is a reasonable chance, sorry, and there's a reasonable chance it's not doing its job.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

I'm talking about sheath, S-H-E-A-T-H, sheath.com.

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The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails โ€” Nicholas Wade

It's underwear built around a dual pouch system.