Such an underrated channel.

That's some good goosebump invoking, cerebral stuff!

English subtitles reviewed in youtube and addded to amara too. Here's the transcript so people can translate it easier into other languages: There's a lot of emphasis right now in the public sphere on our differences. How we are divided by ethnicity or nationality or sexuality or race or wealth, or all the other axes that can be used to categorize and actually divide people. But I think that there's a way to bridge that divide ironically, by looking at what we share in common with animals. These qualities of love and friendship and cooperation, and a surrendering of the self that lie at the core of many social mammals, and that are ultimately forces for good in the world. Even if sometimes they have odd expressions. There's been a lot of interest how genes make us different from each other. It's about how genes make us the same as each other, our similarities. We look around the world and we think "Oh my god, there's so much diversity in the way human beings live." It seems vast to us, but if you take a step back and properly describe the total number of ways in which human beings could organize themselves, actually, all humans are like a little oasis in the desert. And the rest is just is the empty quarter of Sociology. There's like nothing else out there. All the societies we make wondrous and diverse, or so they seem, actually are just a tiny fraction of all conceivable societies. For example: Friendship is present in all societies. There's no society in which there's not this thing of friendship. Love is present in all societies. There's no society in which there's no love. Cooperation is present in all societies. There's no society in which there's no cooperation. Teaching is present in all societies. There's no society in which there is not affirmative teaching of other people. So that's what we're saying. That's like there aren't societies outside that don't have those qualities. I think for mammals, of which we are, there may only be one way to be social: friendships in cetaceans, and friendships in elephants, and friendships in us in very fundamental ways are extremely similar. So that the fact that we share those qualities. Let's say with chimpanzees, probably doesn't surprise many people because you know, we have a common ancestor and that ancestor was probably had many of these qualities. But we also share these qualities with animals that are quite different than us. And our last common ancestor was almost 100 million years ago and that ancestor did not live socially. So by independent convergent evolution elephants evolved friendship just like we do. And I find that incredibly moving, because if we can share the capacity for friendship with elephants and if we can share the capacity for cooperation with dolphins and if we can share the capacity for teaching with chimpanzees, then we can share those capacities with each other. Those are common traits of human beings seen everywhere among all humans.

@InspirationJourney

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Thank you so much Rafa! You are the best!

@RodriguezResiste2

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Genial. Hice mi aporte... Español!

Its a materpiece, thank u

Thank you for the videos you have done so far - I feel truly blessed having found you on youtube - please if you can, more videos please

Wonderful work once again

As pessoas focam mais nas diferenças do que nas similaridades. Eis o aprendizado!

Man is talking like a prophet