Why are humans so complicated?
We’ve mastered the talk, the art, the tech – but not the peace. Humanity can build anything except understanding. For all our progress, we’re still divided by color, gender, religion, ideology, and ego – trapped in the same damaging emotional loop we’ve been replaying for millennia.
Acclaimed Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith has been asking “why” for decades, but instead of pointing fingers or jumping on the next fleeting pop-psychology bandwagon, he points toward something deeper – and far more hopeful.
Through his groundbreaking book FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition, disseminated by The World Transformation Movement and labelled “the book that saves the world” by a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, Griffith says the reason humanity’s been at war with itself isn’t because we’re evil or irreparable – it’s because we never understood why we feel the way we do.
And once we understand that, he says, everything changes.
“The Human Condition” – Explained, Not Judged
Griffith’s explanation cuts through the noise of politics, religion, and pop psychology with the precision of biology. He argues that humans are not “fallen” or “flawed” – we’re just psychologically conflicted.
Here’s the science: for millions of years, our instincts evolved to guide our behavior automatically. But when our conscious brain developed – the part that thinks, questions, learns, and challenges – it started making decisions that conflicted with those ancient instincts. Those instincts, being non-thinking, couldn’t understand what our new intellect was doing. The result? A kind of internal war – guilt, defensiveness, confusion – the source of what Griffith calls the human condition.
That invisible battle between instinct and intellect, he says, is why we lash out, compete, isolate, and struggle. But it’s not proof of human “failure” as a species. It’s the proof of human courage – of a species doing its best to manage its way through a misunderstanding written in its very biology.
Healing the Human Divide
That’s the real power of Griffith’s work: he doesn’t just explain individual pain – he offers a framework for a path forward, for collective healing.
His theory, by scientifically reconciling our inner conflict, also dissolves the outer ones it produced. The racial divide. The gender wars. The generational clashes. The culture wars that keep us scrolling and shouting so noisily.
If the root cause of all human tension is a universal misunderstanding of ourselves, then that means reconciliation isn’t just possible – it’s biological destiny.
When you understand that every person – every race, every culture, every age – has been fighting the same inner battle for self-worth and validation, suddenly the old barriers start to crumble. Griffith’s science doesn’t preach unity as a moral command; it proves unity as a scientific fact. We’re not enemies in competition – we’re one species wrestling with the same inherited guilt, just in different forms.
A Science With Soul
Griffith’s work has drawn praise from across the scientific world. The late Stephen Hawking said he was “most interested in [Griffith’s] impressive proposal.”
Psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen, the former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association mentioned earlier, additionally said, “Griffith presents the 11th hour breakthrough biological explanation of the human condition necessary for the psychological rehabilitation and transformation of our species.”
Esteemed primatologist Professor David J. Chivers said his work represents “the necessary breakthrough in understanding ourselves.”
But what makes Griffith stand out isn’t just who endorses him – it’s what he’s doing with the science. He’s taking developmental biology and using it to light up the darkest corners of the human mind. His writing blends scientific explanation with something almost spiritual – a kind of tough, fearless compassion that refuses to accept human suffering as normal.
He explains: “When our self-managing, conscious mind began experimenting in understanding life, our instinctive self didn’t understand and condemned us. That misunderstanding created all our anger, egocentricity, and alienation – the human condition. Understanding that now, at last, reconciles us.”
In other words, this isn’t just science – it’s a blueprint for forgiveness.
The Revolution of Reconciliation
The World Transformation Movement (WTM) – the nonprofit Griffith founded – is taking this message global. From Africa to the Americas, from Australia to the Bronx, the WTM is a movement of people who believe that real freedom starts with understanding ourselves.
Griffith’s books are all available for free through the WTM’s website. That accessibility matters. This isn’t an exclusive club for academics or those with coin; it’s a call for humanity to start learning, stop hating and begin healing – together.
Because once you know that every argument, every prejudice, every broken heart comes from the same misunderstood struggle between instinct and intellect, you stop seeing “them” and start seeing “us.”
This is how science becomes a revolution – not through lab coats and equations, but through empathy backed by evidence that is, as Einstein recommended, provided by the “test of experience”.
Why This Matters Now
Look around. The world is noisy and divided with blame, burnout and an inability to have functional discourse. People are so weary of talking about unity while living in division. Jeremy Griffith’s work drops into that conversation like a truth bomb: we’re not born divided; we’ve just been living without understanding.
That understanding, he believes, can finally reconcile the sexes, the races, and the generations – because beneath the differences, the same fight is happening inside every human mind.
It’s rare to find a scientist writing with the urgency of a poet, but that’s what Griffith does. His message is raw, fearless, and radically inclusive for all the right reasons. It says:
We’ve all been struggling for the same reason.
We’ve all been misunderstood for the same reason.
And now that we understand it, the healing can begin.
For a world ready to stop the blame game and start the healing process, Griffith’s FREEDOM isn’t just another science book – it’s a manual for peace.
Not the soft kind that hides from truth, but the fierce kind that comes from finally understanding who we are.
