Our ideas can die in our place

On every EPIST shirt, letterhead, and informational webpage, you will find these words, "Our ideas can die in our place."

Why?

Death is a critical part of evolution. In order for a species to advance, the weak must die so that the fittest will survive and reproduce.

But as humans, our behaviors aren't purely heritable impulses. We've developed advanced cognition and then externalized that cognition in precise language.

Our survival is based on ideas. Human progress depends on the competition of ideas. Survival of the fittest—where the weak die, and the strong survive.

Our ideas can die in our place.

EPIST provides the arena.