On this, our 313th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the Orwellian landscape(s) we find ourselves in, beginning with a reading from 1984. Minneapolis has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; a male school shooter in a dress was referred to as female in several media outlets; and Wikipedia is lauded for its neutrality by (the science journal) Nature, with an example that demonstrates a lack of neutrality at either place. Orwell modernizes Ecclesiastes, then: Epstein: QAnon, Massacre of the Innocents, giant vats of sulfuric acid, jerky, kompromat, and oh by the way, is he still alive? Bret thinks so.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Nobel Peace Prize: https://x.com/cityminneapolis/status/2019879753407148313
The shooter + commentary: https://x.com/JenniferSey/status/2021591862147231781
Nature on Wikipedia: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00074-1
Politics and the English Language (Orwell 1946): https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/
Epstein files: https://www.justice.gov/epstein
Dreher on art & Epstein: https://x.com/roddreher/status/2021525549232083275
Lack of prison tapes: https://x.com/alternatnews/status/2020999962054549542
Covid Era Stories: https://naturalselections.substack.com/s/covid-era-stories
Timestamps:
00:05:39 Topics: Orwell, Nobel Peace Prize, Horrible Mass Shooting, Wikipedia & A Unique Epstein Discussion
00:10:04 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
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00:19:06 Our Orwellian Landscape (1984)
00:23:54 Minneapolis Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
00:29:03 Reuters Reports "Female" Canadian Mass Shooter
00:35:30 Predator Inspection
00:45:40 Wikipedia is Needed Now More Than Ever - Says Nature
00:52:18 Orwell on Good English to Modern English (in 1946)
01:03:25 Epstein: What did we just see?
01:18:33 Someone Has the Library of Kompromat
01:21:48 Epstein Probably Survived
01:27:43 Game Theory Level Analysis of Epstein
01:32:28 The Frogs Are Calling
01:34:18 Ralston
01:36:48 Covid Era Stories
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."
