Fix The World, an international nonprofit, today announced its rebranding from the World Transformation Movement, citing the need for a more focused approach to global reform. Leadership said the new name better aligns with the organization’s mission to promote Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith’s scientific work on the human condition.
The organization said its previous title emphasized long-term change but lacked the urgency demanded by current global crises. Escalating threats — from political polarization and mental health epidemics to environmental devastation — are viewed by the organization as evidence that traditional reforms fail to address the biological cause of our species’ troubled and destructive behavior.
Among those who have recognized the significance of Griffith’s work is Professor Harry Prosen, former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, who described it as the “11th-hour breakthrough biological explanation of the human condition necessary for the psychological rehabilitation and transformation of our species.”
Key Points
- Rebranding to Fix The World reflects escalating global crises
- Fix The World advances biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct versus intellect’ explanation of the human condition
- Understanding this internal conflict is presented as key to addressing the world’s crises
The Paradox of the Human Condition
Despite our species’ extraordinary capacity for empathy, cooperation, creativity, and love, human history is inseparable from violence and cruelty. Alongside scientific breakthroughs, artistic achievement, and acts of compassion lies an unspeakable record of troubled and destructive behaviour. No other species exhibits such a profound contradiction between sensitivity and brutality.
Within evolutionary biology, the need to understand this contradiction has long been recognized as foundational. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson framed it starkly: “There is no grail more elusive or precious in the life of the mind than the key to understanding the human condition.”
But while the problem itself has long been recognized, science has not settled on an explanation. It is this monumental deficiency in understanding that Griffith addresses with his explanation of the human condition, a theory prompting striking responses including comparisons to a “Darwin II” moment.
Griffith’s Biological Explanation
At the heart of Griffith’s treatise is the distinction between instinct and intellect. He argues that when a fully conscious mind emerged approximately two million years ago — associated in the fossil record with significant cranial expansion — it inevitably came into conflict with pre-existing instinctive orientations shaped by genetic selection.
While instincts can automatically orient behavior, a conscious, nerve-based intellect requires understanding. As the emerging intellect began experimenting in self-management, those instinctive orientations effectively ‘criticized’ and resisted these deviating experiments.
Griffith maintains that this unavoidable conflict produced an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity, leading humans to become psychologically defensive — attacking, trying to prove wrong and blocking out the instincts’ ‘criticism’, which is our present, angry, egocentric, and alienated human condition.
Griffith further argues that once the origin of this conflict is understood, the need for such defensiveness is removed, making possible our species’ psychological rehabilitation. As he says, “It brings about the real repair, in fact, the transformation of ourselves and our planet. It fixes the world!”
Scholarly Responses to the Griffith’s Treatise
Griffith’s explanation of the human condition, presented most fully in his book "FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition," has drawn praise from scientists, mental health experts, and public figures, in addition to the earlier-cited commendation from Professor Harry Prosen.
Professor David Chivers, former President of the Primate Society of Great Britain, described the work as providing “the necessary breakthrough in the critical issue of needing to understand ourselves.”
Spanish nuclear physicist and former Vice-President of the European Parliament, Professor Alejo Vidal-Quadras said, “FREEDOM is a really significant contribution to science, providing fundamental answers.”
Professor Stuart Hurlbert, Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Diego State University, described Griffith’s work as “a most phenomenal scientific achievement”, writing, “I am stunned and honored to have lived to see the coming of ‘Darwin II’.”
Additional assessments of Griffith’s work can be found at www.humancondition.com/reviews-commendations.
About Fix The World
Fix The World is dedicated to advancing the biological explanation of the human condition developed by Jeremy Griffith. With an active global community, it supports more than 80 volunteer-led centers across 30 countries. Fix The World continues to operate www.humancondition.com as its primary educational platform, from which it distributes its books, essays, and video presentations globally free of charge.
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