On this, our 329th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we continue to discuss the West. We begin with readings of glorious California—from Stegner to Chandler to Didion—and reminisce about our own time growing up in LA. Then: the elections in California seem rigged, and if your elections are rigged, you don’t have a democracy. Paper polls worked; in-person voting worked; exit polls provided information. Why did our elections change? The system as it stands is an invitation to fraud. A democratic republic is the only viable alternative, and Democrats are destroying the goose that lays the golden eggs, which makes the marvelous life of most people—including the men singing about not taking it anymore--possible. Meanwhile in the state of Washington: the newest Executive Order demonstrates just how spineless, powerless, and in need of replacement, our leaders are. EO 26-01 purports to address menopausal and perimenopausal symptoms; instead, it is a pandering, bureaucratic, gameable, woke, anti-scientific mess. To everyone who still believes the blue team: Stop being foot-soldiers of Goliath.
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Mentioned in this episode (Amazon links receive affiliate commission, thank you for supporting DarkHorse):
Haslam 1992: Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State https://amzn.to/3QwRDPN
Didion 1968: Slouching Towards Bethlehem https://amzn.to/4vEJnw4
Stegner 1971: Angle of Repose https://amzn.to/4olKo9U
Chandler 1939: The Big Sleep https://amzn.to/3RYFVOn
West 1939: The Day of the Locust https://amzn.to/4uqy0a2
Didion 1979: The White Album https://amzn.to/4uKdem5
KTLA: https://ktla.com/news/politics/los-angeles-mayor-primary-election/
Men’s chorus: https://x.com/politibunny/status/2064083824393236818
WA EO on menopause: https://governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/exe_order/26-01%20-%20Menopause%20%28tmp%29.pdf
Women’s Commission: https://wswc.wa.gov
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:05:10 West of the West
00:07:41 Sponsor: Redmond Salt
00:11:40 Sponsor: Branch Basics
00:14:20 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:17:23 Why We Care About the West
00:50:31 The LA Mayoral Race (What happened?!)
00:52:48 Can You Deduce a Rigged Election?
01:03:41 The SAVE Act & Voter ID Filibuster
01:16:54 Defining “Goliath”
01:21:10 Diluting the Vote = Stealing Power
01:22:16 Parties: From Necessary Evil to Just Evil
01:36:01 Gov. Ferguson’s Big PR Tour
01:37:46 The Menopause Executive Order
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."
I am reading this:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/
Spawned by a question from a relative concerning silver threads embedded in sheets as shown here: https://bareearthlife.com/. Wondering if any views/experience on this here? BTW, has Bret finished the book, "The body electric"? Did I miss any of that discussion?
Iran Was Always the Final Domino
If you think Trump is responsible for the Iran war, then you don’t understand foreign policy for the last 30 years.
This War With Iran Was Planned Long Ago
Everything you see on TV is theater, which should be painfully obvious by now. The war with Iran was the final domino in the Clean Break strategy, a plan designed to reshape the Middle East back in the 1990s. Biden would have gladly gone into Iran, but he was busy toppling Syria. It all started with Iraq, and the United States has been toppling governments ever since.
If you’re a glutton for punishment like me and enjoy tracking the media and its messaging, then this piece is for you.
The Three Myths
For the current narrative to work, that Trump simply wandered into war with Iran on a whim (and no, this is no more about nuclear weapons any more than Iraq was about WMDs), there are three myths the public must accept.
1. Trump must appear to be calling the shots and fully in control.
2. Trump must not appear intimidated or pressured.
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