Some damn real observations about the current state of humans

In this episode, I break open some raw, complex, and sometimes-unspoken questions about what it means to live coherently and based on reality amongst the complexities of being a human. I’m sure at least one or two of the below topics will pique your interest. See below for the topics list and timestamps ⬇️

0:00 – Intro

2:10 – How much change do we have to endure?

• Change won’t stop—but your ability to hold it evolves.


• The story of Sisyphus and how we can either be crushed by the boulder or push it more.

7:50 – Vagueness: Why do most people survive using fuzzy language—and why you can’t?

• Vague words → vague thought → vague outcomes.


• Vagueness collapses under existential weight. 

13:46 – Children & Meaning: Do children inherently bring meaning? Why does being needed make life feel real?

• Children are a demand that can’t be ignored


• Meaning could just be having a life demand you have to live up to even if it is not inherently meaningful itself


• Work and accountability echo this: someone is counting on you.

16:54 – What invisible immaturities and unworked fears, emotional scars, etc, do parents pass down to their kids?

• Children absorb atmospheres, not just words. Your unprocessed fears become their default environment.


• It creates a cycle from child to future parent


• The job of a parent isn’t to "be yourself"—it’s to guide through their terrain, not broadcast yours.

24:52 – Romance & Media: where is love an emergent thing or more of a performance?

• We mistake cinematic rhythms for real intimacy.


• Intensity is not the same as depth. Performance is not the same as presence.


• Most people aren't building relationships—they're roleplaying what they’ve seen relationships are supposed to look like. 

31:31– If people truly believed and internalized some of the axioms of their belief system, how would their behavior be different?

• Belief in unconditional love should kill shame—not intensify it.


• Truth becomes dangerous when institutions mistake loyalty for devotion.


• All being children of god should mean you would treat every person—homeless, trans, atheist, criminal—as kin. But people outside the covenant path are often viewed with pity or suspicion

38:25 – The devil, carnal human nature are just shields to protect us from the fact that humans are the root of evil and bad. 

• We outsource this to feel good, to fit in, etc.


• We can be cruel, indifferent, manipulative, passive, selfish, and still call ourselves a good person.


• We are the cause and that also means we are also the solution

42:38 –  When do we fall trap to moral obligations that actually don’t make much sense in the real world?

• Sometimes, what saves you becomes your undoing.


• In Les Miserable, did Valjean truly make an intentional decision or was he still imprisoned to moral debts?


• Is sacrifice without sovereignty just inherited guilt.

47:13 – What actually bottlenecks humanity’s growth and long term progression

• It’s not just battery tech—it’s our inability to think long-term.


• Cultural immaturity + godlike tools = existential risk.


• Progress isn’t just about tools. It’s about the collective soul that wields them.

53:06 – Outro

Document with notes/quotes from episode (some may be out of context or in different point of view) ➡️ Some damn real observations about the current state of humans (reference doc)