In this 243rd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
In this week’s episode, we discuss the evidence for the traps being laid by Goliath, continuing last episode’s discussion of the presidential debate. Then: sex, gender, meaning, and identity. What kind of science is being done that concludes that sex and gender are not just distinct, but unrelated? And why are 10 year olds being asked if they’re transgender, or how much they feel like a boy, or a girl? While “scientists” use models to produce results that make no sense, adolescents stop pursuing meaning, which is dynamic and expands one’s horizons, and instead focus on identity, which is all too-often a static dead-end.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Traps abound: https://x.com/thedarkhorsepod/status/1834608617330512197
Dhamala et al 2024. Functional brain networks are associated with both sex and gender in children. Science Advances, 10(28), p.eadn4202: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn4202
Potter et al 2022. Measurement of gender and sexuality in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 53, p.101057: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929322000019
Potter et al 2020. Early adolescent gender diversity and mental health in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(2):171-179:
https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.13248
Will European wheat have an effect on Bret Weinstein? This is Part II of his European experiment, the results.
Watch Part I: https://rumble.com/v6pns8o-is-bret-allergic-to-european-wheat.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Dr. Bret Weinstein is running an experiment on himself. After a decade of avoiding wheat he has tried eating it while in Spain. In this update video he explains how he has been feeling and answers common questions around glyphosate and dry fasting.
Watch more on the topic of glyphosate and dry fasting from Bret and Heather:
It’s not Complicated: The 230th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying https://rumble.com/v52it2i-the-230th-evolutionary-lens-with-bret-weinstein-and-heather-heying.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Think Fast: The 252nd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying https://rumble.com/v5rcks8-the-252nd-evolutionary-lens-with-bret-weinstein-and-heather-heying.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
No live stream today, instead Bret is running an experiment from Spain.
Do you have a wheat allergy? Have you been able to eat wheat in Europe without the symptoms you experience in America? After a decade without intentionally eating wheat, Bret Weinstein is running an experiment while visiting Spain - will the European wheat cause the same symptoms he experiences when stateside?
Watch more on the topic of allergies and vaccines from Bret and Heather:
Mr. Jones and Me: Nathan Jones on DarkHorse
https://youtu.be/anC_au3HhdA?si=rNhk6_SUzF0lsgI1&t=1781
Bret and Heather 180th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: Allergies, Adjuvants, & Affirmative Action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Ra_qW470w?si=G9BTq7Nv3WusHR2-&t=1968
Joe Rogan Experience #2198 - Bret Weinstein https://youtu.be/iOQdjgdRcfA?si=d-hVtgZ54MZ96Jdn&t=5664
Bret talks to Russell Brand in the wake of his Baptism.
Find Russell on X: @rustyrockets (https://x.com/rustyrockets)
Find Russell on Rumble: https://rumble.com/russellbrand
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Title: Failure to Launch
Subtitle: The end of playbooks
Have you ever seen the episode of The Simpsons where Homer Simpson becomes a boxer? Moe discovers that Homer has an unusually thick skull, so he puts him in the ring. Homer keeps winning, not because he’s skilled, but because his opponents get exhausted punching him in the head. Eventually, they wear themselves out, and Homer just pushes them over.
That feels analogous to what I see happening to the American public over the last few years.
In my opinion, the United States was supposed to have a full-blown revolution during the BLM riots of 2021. The conditions were there: widespread anger, media and institutions providing what looked like unconditional support, political support, and a fog of war that had most white people reeling, even today.
After Occupy Wall Street, for example, several journalists noted a dramatic shift in media and institutional reforms, pointing out massive spikes in Google Trends for words like slavery, racism, and ...
Title: Melisandre the Red Woman
Subtitle: How she captured my imagination
At first, I hated Melisandre, the Red Woman, an ominous priestess demanding blood sacrifice and using dark rituals in service of Stannis Baratheon, whom she believes to be a prophesied savior. Early on, I thought she was the devil: willing to burn the innocent, convinced that her god’s will justified any atrocity.
But her character became interesting to me once the threat of the White Walkers became known. In that moment, she spared the life of Davos Seaworth, Stannis’s Hand. That moment really struck me when, the pragmatism behind her decisions and how she completely recalculated everything upon learning of the threat of the north.
From then on, Melisandre became one of my favorite characters. As much as I hated her, it became clear that she wasn’t acting out of emotion or hatred, but out of an ideological belief, and at a level that I will never understand, that at some level, she believed she was doing what had ...
Leviathan’s Mal-adapted Immune Response
I think what I see in society, and in individuals, including myself, is a kind of hyper-sensitized moral immune system: one that reacts aggressively to certain forms of bigotry while remaining apathetic toward others. For example, I see open hostility toward Muslims or Somalians while the U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, delivers a speech addressing the expulsion of a student at Florida State University for verbally attacking another student who was wearing an IDF shirt.
What I think may be happening to our society is that we have been given social vaccines repeatedly throughout our lives. Our moral outrage has been trained, or conditioned, to be hyper-focused in some directions and largely inactive in others. And, to be honest, if there were a button that many of my friends could press that would instantly remove every Russian from the planet, I think some of them would press it without hesitation.
So why do I bring this up? Because a maladapted social immune ...
