Robin Greenfield

Americans saw their financial wealth just dissolve.

And I was reminded that we're living in this grand delusion.

That the majority of us are existing in a grand delusion with almost everything we're doing.

And I thought to myself...

All right, if I'm walking around on the streets just surrounded by people living in a delusion, then why does it matter what they think about me?

We're all delusional anyway.

The way our societal norms are set up is under the belief that we can create things that are permanent.

All of our buildings, all of our structures are all designed in a way where, yeah, this is just going to last.

But the reality is, is that we live in a very impermanent society.

San Francisco right now, after existing for a very short period of time in seemingly permanent way, is literally sinking.

And within a couple of generations, they might crumble to the ground.

But we don't acknowledge that.

We design our entire structures around that not being true.

And the same goes with all of our consumerism.

We live on what Carl Sagan calls a pale blue dot.

But we act like we live in this infinite place where we can consume, exploit, and extract endlessly.

And we pretty much seem to think that this will continue.

But the reality is, if you look at it pretty objectively, the most likely scenario is we're going to destroy ourselves through our own delusion of the infiniteness of our resources.

Okay, so if anybody was not yet convinced that I have gone insane, this may be your opportunity to think that.

So I will talk about delusion.