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- Traditionally, when you measure success, evolutionarily speaking, it's about a species or a population's ability to sort of continue through time, to successfully adapt, and to grow.
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So under that definition, there are 8 billion humans living everywhere on the planet.
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We are super successful in the traditional sense.
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At the same time, there's 8 billion humans living on the planet, many of them suffering horribly.
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The planet is suffering horribly.
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The climate crisis; a variety of other really horrible things are going on.
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There's a massive extinction event where plants and animals are disappearing at an unbelievable rate because of human action.
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So one might ask, "Is this evolutionary success?" "Just based on sheer number of humans, is that the way to measure it?" In the recent past, and today, there are many people who argue that like, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Don't complain so much, humans are doing better than they ever have done.
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There's air conditioners, there's warm showers, there's restaurants, and food, and yeah, so there's some inequality- some people don't have as much as others, but overall, we are living longer and doing better than we ever have done." So I have three responses to that: Number one, who is "we"?
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Are we talking about the entire human species?
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Well, it turns out that different humans are living very, very different lives.
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So we need to clarify that.
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Before one says, "We are doing better," let us define who that we is.
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The second problem I have with that is that these arguments are coming from one broad culture- this sort of Euro-American cultures, these intellectual traditions of a particular way of being in the world, of a particular political and economic process saying, "Well, this is the way it should be, things are better." Well, there are other ways of being in the world.
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There's lots of societies, lots of languages, lots of cultures, lots of people; many of whom have suffered enormously from this particular way of being.
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So again, how do we rectify that?
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How do we understand that?
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And the third thing, my third response to people saying, "Hey, stop complaining, things are better, we're living longer," is "Look, what is the measure of success for humans?" It has to do with how are we doing the human thing?
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How are we being human?
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And how can we minimize, not get rid of, but minimize suffering and injustice?
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Humans are always gonna have inequity and injustice: there's a lot of us, and human history always have hierarchies, and some have more and some have less, there's these incredible dynamics.
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But when it comes down to it right now, we can see that the inequity, the discrepancy in political, economic, technological, health, and many other outcomes for humans is bigger than it ever has been in the entirety of human history.
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If that's the case, something is wrong, 'cause that direction is not good for humans; we already have data that suggests and shows that it's not good for the planet.
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So, to those who say, "Calm down, everything is better than it used to be." I say, "No, it's not." It's not just surviving longer, it's not just having more, it's not just having access to technology- to really understand success, evolutionarily speaking in humans, we need to also talk about the capacity for flourishing.
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Are human bodies and societies reaching at least these minimal levels of flourishing, of health, of security, of interaction, and of well-being.
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So, I would argue, in the modern context, to understand evolutionary success for humans, we need to understand the capacity for human flourishing, and how that is distributed across our species.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „Everything is better than it used to be — or is it?“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: success, planet, flourishing, suffering, measure. Dieses Video enthält 26 Sätze und 619 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 3:56. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 157 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. 89 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also leicht zu verfolgen. 7 der 26 Sätze sind Fragen – gut, um Frageintonation und kurze Antworten zu üben.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| suffer Verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | leiden |
| flourish Verb | /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/ | gedeihen, blühen |
| argue Verb | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | diskutieren, erörtern |
| complain Verb | /kəmˈpleɪn/ | sich beschweren, klagen |
| evolutionary Adjektiv | /ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i/ | evolutionär |
| injustice Substantiv | /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/ | Unrecht, Ungerechtigkeit |
| minimize Verb | /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/ | minimieren |
| successfully Adverb | /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/ | erfolgreich |
| horrible Adjektiv | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | schrecklich, abscheulich |
| define Verb | /dɪˈfaɪn/ | bestimmen |
| intellectual Adjektiv | /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/ | intellektuell, verstandesmäßig |
| interaction Substantiv | /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/ | Interaktion, Wechselwirkung |
| minimal Adjektiv | /ˈmɪn.ə.məl/ | minimal |
| disappear Verb | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | verschwinden, entschwinden |
| dynamics Substantiv | /dɑɪˈnæm.ɪks/ | Dynamik |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Bedeutung |
|---|---|
| calm down Verb | sich beruhigen |
| turn out Verb | sich herausstellen als/dass, sich erweisen als |
Sätze zum Wiederholen
Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:
- Are we talking about the entire human species?
- How do we understand that?
- How are we being human?
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | have done · have suffered · has been |
| Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache | people who argue · those who say |
| Komparativ -er than / more … than – zwei Dinge vergleichen | better than · bigger than |
| Present Continuous am/is/are + -ing – etwas, das gerade jetzt oder zurzeit passiert | is suffering · are going · are disappearing |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 4 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel don't, gonna, we're. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, evolutionary /ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: evolutionary /ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i/, successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/, intellectual /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): inequality /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, inequity /ɪnˈɛkwɪti/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, dynamics /dɑɪˈnæm.ɪks/, adapt /əˈdæpt/, clarify /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.faɪ/
- /dʒ/ — stimmhaft, nicht „tsch“: injustice /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/, technological /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/
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- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie suffer, flourish, argue.
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