Everything You Know is About to Collapse - David Friedberg - #1084

Apr 13, 2026 · 2h 11m · YouTube

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0:00You've said the future is going to be epic.

0:02You're really optimistic about it when a lot of people are pretty worried.

0:07How come?

0:09I think people have had a tendency to be worried about the future because humans are programmed to be that way.

0:17We always were worried about some predator coming around the corner eating us.

0:21Like we're tuned to survive, right?

0:23So we're tuned to always, there's always some existential threat to humanity.

0:27This goes back to kind of biblical eras, thousands of years ago.

0:31It was the great flood that was about to come.

0:33There was the, you know, the plague.

0:37The plague's going to wipe us all out.

0:39There's starvation.

0:41You know, the late 19th century, population was outstripping food supply.

0:48And there was this big belief that we were going to run out of food.

0:52And there was this kind of rush to, and the primary reason was all the world's fertilizer actually came from these guano fields off of the South American coast.

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