Rick Strassman
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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
Yeah, a very cool book I try to mention as often as possible is called The First and Last Men by Olaf Stapledon.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
And he talks about 19 species of man.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
And this is the first one.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
It's a story that spans 2 billion years.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
And it's mostly through genetic engineering.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
Make people bigger, smarter, smarter.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
Like brains that occupy a football field.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
That's one of the species of man.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
So his thought is that it occurs biologically through genetic manipulation.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
Just over time, naturally?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
After a while, it gets steered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
Yeah, it's all basically based on what people want.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
So there's one species that instead of love as kind of the core valued feeling, they have hate.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
as their core value feeling.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2385 - Rick Strassman
You just can't wait to hate.