Dr. Michael Bryant is a professor of History and Legal Studies at Bryant University. Dr. Jonny Hudson has a Ph.D. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Bret talks with the two of them about Jonny’s recent dissertation which applies an evolutionary lens to the Holocaust.
We have "cartesian blinders being put on us so that we are trying to make sense out of scraps of information and hints." - @bretweinstein
WEINSTEIN: I mean, even if you have your villains who are engaged in the behavior that motivated this war in Iran, even if that's the story, presumably most of the people in the path of these ferocious bombings that he is describing are not deserving of going back to the Stone Age.
In fact, I distinctly remember him telling us that part of what we were up to was liberating the people of Iran from their tyrannical regime.
So if it's the tyrannical regime that justifies the ferocious bombing, then it's a tragedy that other people are going to be sent back to the Stone Ages with them. Right?
HEYING: It's it's not a narrative. It's an incoherent set of talking points.
WEINSTEIN: Yeah, it's a kind of cheerleading that is completely inappropriate from the perspective of the president.
Bret Weinstein discusses the Trump administrations "back to the stone age" recent remarks in the latest episode of The Evolutionary Lens, Episode 320 "Are we back in the stone age?" on DarkHorse.
Bret Weinstein explains, "If you stop businesses from starting here, and if you drive people so that they move elsewhere—even though it's difficult to do—then the point is the tax base dries up, which then forces you to become even more predatory for the people who stayed.
And that's really the thing, right? They're setting themselves up so that they have to go after more and more people, because the people who are starting new businesses are not going to do it here."
No stream today, but The Evolutionary Lens returns with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying on Thursday.
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Beyond the Corrective Lens: Bret’s Bigger Civilizational Question
My bonehead intwerpertation on latest “Inside Rail” with Bret Weinstein, Jordan Hall, and Jonathan Pageau
1) Overall: Productive and More Synced
Overall, I thought this conversation went really well. Jordan Hall did a great job translating between frameworks, and for a large part of the discussion it genuinely felt like Bret, Jordan, and Jonathan were actually syncing up concepts instead of just talking past each other.
One of the more interesting parts for me was that the conversation seemed to show that evolutionary theory and Christianity don’t necessarily have to be fundamentally incompatible. At several points, it felt less like science vs religion and more like an attempt to show how both may be describing different layers of reality.
2) Religion as a Corrective Tool
What really stood out to me was Bret’s apparent framing of religion as something like a corrective tool—or corrective lens—for civilization.
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