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00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:05:53 Welcome!
00:06:29 Discord Question: I recently learned the OMB is proposing changes to how grants are being funded. As an avid darkhorse listener, I am no fan of the peer review or grant process, however, I worry about the changes being an overcorrection and am very hopeful to hear Bret and Heather's take on the proposed changes.
00:10:44 Q: I am going to grad school to become a therapist because the benefits of good psychoanalysis has done wonders for me and my struggles with bipolar disorder and I want to provide the same for others with severe mental illnesses. As I a regular DarkHorse listener I am also trying to integrate an evolutionary lens into how I see mental illness and the treatment of it. Any advice on how to approach grad school given the dismal state of higher education and the medical profession in general?
00:31:55 Q: Is there an evolutionary benefit or reason for male pattern baldness? Or is it a problem worth solving? Also, Bret, Ashwagandha literally translates to 'horse smell'. So you can visit it at any stable nearby 😉
00:38:56 Q: Bret, what is your position on «remigration», as is advocated by your Darkhorse guest Rupert Lowe? Don’t you think the overwhelming immigration wave our societies have had to endure was provoked by globalists so that the public would demand digital ID & technocracy for safety, ushering the police state to first fight illegal migration, then be repurposed against citizens?
Could «remigration» happen without causing the civil war it is supposed to prevent?
Thanks for considering my question. Warmest.
00:42:48 Q: Can the term “First Principles” be used to describe politics? As I watch the “news” I get a feeling that all the political arguments could be neatly framed by saying: “This all boils down to Democrats wanting two things. 1. Rigged elections and 2. As many bodies as possible to count in order to stuff congressional districts in blue states. Both "By Any Means Necessary."
00:45:24 Q: Why from an evolutionary point of view, why do you think so many adult siblings have poor relationships? From talking to friends, it’s much more common than I would expect. As a parent it’s very concerning.
00:54:49 Revisiting the OMB question
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."
Watch the live stream tonight, September 10th from 10:30 pm to 11:00 pm ET to hear Bret Weinstein speak on “Forensic Science and Conspiracy: How to Be Rigorous When Deception Is Built In.”
Bret and Heather discuss men, women, and feminism; and the love of our pets.
Gloria Steinem died at 92 this week. She exposed working conditions at Playboy clubs in the 1960s by going undercover as a bunny; founded Ms. Magazine in the 1970s; took Ms. ad free in the 1990s, and became a feminist icon. We discuss her legacy, both good and bad.
Then: cats, dogs, and the differences between them.
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