Acharya Prashant states that our culture and civilization have gone wrong. We came from the jungle with the hope of doing better in our villages and cities, but they have failed. In many ways, we still find the jungle to be better, which is why people are sometimes seized by a strong desire to return to it. This is because our education, society, systems, thought, and philosophy are all based on very material grounds, with no spiritual basis. They have failed to take us to a level of consciousness higher than that of the jungle. He asserts that animals are in many ways better than human beings. Man had the potential to either rise above the animal or fall way below it, and has continuously been making the wrong choice. If you cannot build your cities and social systems on spiritual foundations, it is better to stay in the jungle. If your family, workplace, and institutions do not run on spiritual grounds, they had better not run at all. We went wrong the day it was decided that spiritual education needs to have only a marginal presence in the education system of the society, a decision we continue to make by educating our children on purely material grounds. Our cities and culture exist to give us what we want, not to give us liberation. All our development is intended to give us more of what we want. He questions who this 'we' is, equating it to a gorilla. The entire thrust of our civilization is on giving the gorilla what the gorilla himself wants: more food, pleasure, sex, a lengthy life, and more amenities. This is what the human progress story has been about. The entire cult of liberalism is about respecting the individual's choice, but the speaker asks who this individual is, again calling him a gorilla. Before respecting his choice, one must first educate him. Before you say, 'I want,' you need to be educated on who this 'I' is. The emphasis is always on the 'want' and never on the 'I'.