Epilogue

In the epilogue, I could have talked about money as a multizoa hormone more. Or, I could have referred to human society’s endocrine system ¹, and how some people are endocrine humans, releasing money into human society. I could have listed some of the other hormones of human society, such as coffee, or I could have had some coffee and forgotten about this chapter altogether, but no. Instead, what I want to close off with is what my version of the ideal world would look like. That, and peanuts.

The ideal world is one in which no one does repetitive labour, because all of that type of work would be done by robots who love that stuff, and with that there'd be no more people working to make ends meat because there’d be no reason for it, so every single human being would be out there to have fun and enjoy their time in the world. Also, peanuts are not actually nuts like chestnuts or cashews, they're really a type of legume, which makes them vegetables.

A world in which worries like hunger, thirst, lack of shelter is so far from everyone's minds, it's only talked about in history textbooks. Also, someone once pushed a peanut to the top of Pike’s Peak (14,100 feet) using his nose in 4 days, 23 hours, 47 minutes and 3 seconds. Why? We can only assume it's because the guy's pants had no pockets to carry the peanut in.

A world in which everybody's as social with everyone they meet as snakes in a snake pit, or drunken best friends:

Why? Because it's been proven over and over again that the richer the social life, the bigger the increase in happiness levels across the board, the less mental problems² and at a society level the more thriving the culture due to cross fertilization of ideas and the build-up of diverse teams of individuals to tackle on projects³. And besides, how else would you stumble upon people that you truly connect with, if not by meeting as many people as possible until you hear that "click" in your head? Also, you can find different peanut flavors when you go to the store, like salty, chocolate peanuts and my favorite: nutty!

A world in which every field, from genetics to physics to programming to gymnastics is geared towards making the world a better place for the greatest number of people because it would just be common sense in a society that is self-aware, and so corruption would go the way of the gun holster…it would only come up in b-rated Western movies. Also, The United States Food and Drug Administration allows one pound of peanut butter to contain a maximum of 150 insect fragments and five rodent hairs…I wonder how they count that.

A world in which rather than needing to choose between a good or a bad situation, the question that you will have to answer throughout your life will be: “If all roads lead to heaven, which one will I choose?” Also, there are many ways to eat peanuts. You can eat them raw, you can eat them out of a bag, you can hurl them up in the air and catch them in your mouth, you can throw it in other's people's mouths and then kiss it out of them...

A world in which people's time is valued to its maximum, and in which all of society seeks to free as much human time as possible from the very beginning of any activity or project, with no repetitive labour involved, whether we're talking about building homes, designing the new line of starships, or propelling a beaver into a tree hole half a mile away.⁴ Why? Because it would be obvious that human time is the most precious asset that human society owns, and it should therefore be used intelligently. Also, George Washington Carver promoted over 300 ways to use peanuts, including as an insecticide, face powder, peanut sausage and shampoo. I wonder who would win in a showdown between eggs and peanuts:

A world in which everyone's childhood is filled with loving experiences growing up, experiences that lead them to become secure, fun loving, confident individuals who are not afraid to take chances when the benefits prove major...like trying out pasta with canned beans instead of tomato sauce. Ooh, living on the edge! Also, guess what's ‘stunap’ spelled backwards? That's right, ‘panuts’, which is very similar to the word ‘peanuts’.

A world in which we would be going to school, cause we would still need to learn how to read and write and how to throw pieces of paper into the people around us without them noticing, but beyond that our education would be to learn stuff that's useful for us as individuals, that we consider useful, like how to memorize whatever we want easily and effortlessly instead of just having to do rote memorization for exams, or learning how to throw pieces of paper towards the people around us without them noticing A SECOND TIME! (In other words, learn magic.) This without losing the social perks of being in school, like making new friends, hanging out with them, house parties, vowing to never get drunk again while your bf is holding your head over the toilet. Ah, sweet memories! Also, if you first put a scoop of peanut butter in an ice cream cone before putting in the ice cream, it will prevent the ice cream from dripping through the bottom. Bet you didn't think of that, did you, Mr. George Washington Carver?

A world in which people would be so happy and would have at their disposal so many different ways of achieving happiness that everyone would start realizing that too much happiness isn't necessarily good for you and experts would start recommending a diet of feelings...a little melancholy here, a touch of elation there, a sprinkle of the feeling of novelty there. And people would compare the emergence of such diets of feelings to the food diets that our generation came up with to deal with the enormous amounts of sugar that suddenly became available everywhere. A balanced diet of feelings is healthy for you even though happiness is available in abundance, "feeling specialists" would say, just like nutrition specialists now say that a balanced food diet is healthy for you. Of course, that wouldn't stop us from going on happiness binges from time to time, just for the hell of it. Also, peanut sculpture is a thing:

A world in which everyone would be free to do whatever, because past generations of people would have put their human time into fields that lead to that freedom, from robotics to remove repetitive labour, genetics to create some kind of food that has the perfect balance of nutrients and is easy to grow, architecture so as to build the housing that can take care of all basic human needs, education to create the most fun, engaging and personalized learning environment, to engineering so as to make some sort of thing that could light up a room at night and would replace dangerous kerosene lamps which have led to so many fires. Oh wait, we already have that last one, they're called lightbulbs! We're so ahead of the curve. Also, the world’s largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich weighed 608 kilograms, or 1342 pounds.

So, what kind of world would you want to see? Actually, what kind of world would we all want to see, if we all asked ourselves this question and pooled in the answers? And if it would seem like a very unlikely world, it’s really not. We can help build it. How? By giving people freedom of time, and by encouraging them to use that time to specialize in the fields that will make that world a reality. Computer engineering, architecture, etc. Let the people choose what is right for them, it’s how they do their best work. Their path may take them through learning how to juggle in a circus, to being a pilot in some video game, to being an activist to then being a monk and in the end becoming the computer engineer that will design the code that will run on the first robot butler. If they have time on their hands they can make informed decisions. Also, oh my god, I fucking love peanuts!