The Worst Mistake In Human History

For nearly 200,000 years, Homo sapiens lived as hunter-gatherers—migrating, sharing, adapting. Then, about 12,000 years ago, everything changed.

We started farming.

And with that came surplus. Cities. Bureaucracy. Law. Empire. Civilization.

But what if that change wasn’t progress?

In this video, we explore what farming really did to the human body, human society, and the human soul—from skeletal evidence and nutritional collapse, to the birth of inequality, war, and state control. Drawing on research from Science, Nature, The Lancet, and the archaeological record, we ask a haunting question:

Was agriculture a miracle—or a trap we never escaped?

This isn’t a lecture.
It’s a story. A long one. And maybe, one that’s still unfolding.

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🎙️ Script based on peer-reviewed studies and recent discoveries in anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology.

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What do you think?
Would you have taken the deal?

00:00 Intro
02:38 Bodies In The Dirt
08:20 A Perfect Recipe For Disease
14:05 The Birth Of Hierarchy
19:16 The First Wars
25:25 Inheritance & The Cage
30:54 The Fragile "Miracle"
35:28 The Deal We Never Saw
38:04 Outro

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Sources include:

Jacobsen & Adams (1958), Science

Staubwasser et al. (2003), Geophysical Research Letters

Wolfe, Dunavan & Diamond (2007), Nature

Bocquet-Appel (2011), Science

Kennett et al. (2012), Science

Keeley (1996), War Before Civilization

Tainter (1988), The Collapse of Complex Societies

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