Common Sense, Inverted: The 232nd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

In this 232nd 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 248th anniversary of the founding of the United States, with readings from Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence. Then: deep state vs. shallow state, and how it came to be that news = New York Times ^-1, and health = CDC^-1. Discussing the biggest story of 2020—the corruption and affiliations of what would become the first family of the U.S.—was considered a moral failure at the time. Finally: feminism fails in a spectacular show of rugby and lingerie (as Meghan Murphy said: “Modern feminism wants women either in burkas or p*rn gear”), and we discuss why WNBA star Caitlyn Clark is being competed with in the way that she is.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Common Sense (Thomas Paine, 1776)

Declaration of Independence

The Standard on rugby players x lingerie

Linda Blade weighs in

Lingerie company x DEI

Heather on Competition, and how it differs between the sexes

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(02:35) Sponsors

(11:05) Thomas Paine's Common Sense

(28:15) Excerpt 4-6

(39:15) Indifference to suffering

(58:50) Declaration of Independence

(01:06:20) Defining Deep State

(01:11:43) Post debate discussion

(01:18:20) Revisiting the 2020 election

(01:22:35) Hunter Biden's laptop and inverse institutions

(01:34:10) Certainty yet dead wrong

(01:39:55) Team GB Rugby and body positivity

(01:50:50) Caitlin Clark and attention communism

(02:04:30) Wrap up