Paul Conti

Maybe there's an unacceptable urge because I'm actually listening to the lies society is telling me about what's okay and what's not okay, right?

So in exploring those things, yes, we become happier and healthier.

And that could mean if we're already happy and healthy, it gets better.

We get more insulated against the negative.

Or it can mean the person who's really nurturing some of those seeds of evil and envy does that less or steps away from it.

So whether it's good or it's bad, it's in there inside of us and we benefit from that.

I think language is among the most amazing gifts we have.

And it's also one of the most like clunky routes to misunderstanding, right?

I think of like, there's a concept of facticity, you know, things that are like, I guess, unnecessary evils.

And from the religious perspective, I think is where the word started.

But of language being like a facticity, right?

That...

We need to communicate with one another.

We want to communicate.

So we develop words and we have these amazing brains that can have language.

And that's all well and good.

But our fantasy would be more like Mr. Spock, right?

You know, the Vulcan mind meld.

It's like, I communicate with you because we put our hands on one another and we know, you know, by doing this, what we're thinking and what we're feeling and we won't have misunderstanding.

Mm-hmm.