On this, our 312th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the fact that the centre cannot hold. More Epstein files were released, which included an email from our friend and former mentor, Robert Trivers. We discuss his contributions, his life, and what the email does and does not imply. Also in the Epstein files: pizza, torture, Bitcoin, and the “goyim.” Was it all about blackmail; if not, what? And what is the CEO of TikTok on about, with regard to hate speech? Finally: a silver lining in the madness, as gender clinics close down and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (finally) takes the position that “gender-affirming” surgeries should not be done to people before the age of 19.
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Mentioned in this episode:
The Second Coming, by Yeats: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
Epstein files: https://www.justice.gov/epstein
CEO of TikTok: https://x.com/klonnypin_gosch/status/2015692335967826273
Gender Clinic at Mary Bridge Hospital closing: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/mary-bridge-childrens-hospital-to-close-gender-clinic
ASPS Position on Transing Kids: https://www.plasticsurgery.org/for-medical-professionals/health-policy/position-statements
Leor Sapir on the AMA: https://x.com/LeorSapir/status/2018888126974812652
Covid Era Stories: https://naturalselections.substack.com/s/covid-era-stories
Timestamps:
00:06:22 Some Weeks a Decade Happens
00:10:22 Sponsor: Crowdhealth
00:13:08 Sponsor: ARMRA
00:15:15 Sponsor: Xlear
00:18:22 The Second Coming
00:24:48 Jaw-Dropping Corruption: Complexity Got the Better of the Complicated
00:27:32 Robert Trivers: Bret & Heather's Relationship
00:33:27 Why Bret Has Been Slow to Respond to the Trivers Emails (Hospice)
00:37:08 The Emails in the Epstein Release
00:48:16 Robert Trivers and the Black Panthers
00:56:46 Manic Moments and Financial Instability
01:00:44 The Choice of Bob Trivers as an Officiant
01:04:14 Bob Trivers Did Not have the Same John Nash Control Over His Mental Health
01:08:54 Have Some Humility: Question Your Assumptions
01:10:23 The Moral Valence of Transing Children is Horrifying
01:12:33 The Error in Reviewing the Tranche of Emails
01:19:22 Pizza and Grape Soda?
01:25:56 Bitcoin
01:28:00 The "Goyim"
01:31:09 The Rules are Different
01:32:32 Preponderance of the Evidence to Reasonable Doubt Gap
01:33:11 Possibility that this is NOT Blackmail
01:44:49 TikTok & Zionists: No Banned Words
01:54:14 Gender Clinic Closed
01:56:53 Position Statement on Gender Surgery for Children & Adolescents
02:10:17 Covid Era Stories
02:11:38 A Pretti Shooting Correction
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."
Bret and Heather discuss Russell Brand: his history, his character, his recent convictions and sentencing. What does consent mean in the modern era—is it a concept that can possibly do what it needs to do? Other concepts under discussion are rape, statute of limitations, charisma, and redemption.
Then: how a story of a failed co-op reveals deep divides.
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