Are we back in the stone age? The 320th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
4/4/20261 hr 47 min
On this, our 320th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss whether it can happen here, or again. It is genocide. Growing up in a secular Jewish household in the 1970s and ‘80s, Bret remembers many discussions of whether it could happen again, and where, but it seems to be assumed that the repeated targets of atrocities cannot themselves ever engage in atrocity. Is this true? We discuss lineage selection, the nature of history and memory, diaspora, Israel. Also, the belligerence of the U.S. again Iran. Then: Washington state is allowing non-citizens to become peace and corrections officers, but if an...
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First 90 secondsBret Weinstein· Host0:00
[intro music] Hey, folks. Welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 320.
Heather Heying· Host0:10
Mm-hmm.
Bret Weinstein· Host0:11
Nailed it. Um, I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You're Dr. Heather Heying. Spring rages on here before anyone has returned to the Stone Age. And, um, I don't know, these are exciting times. I'm kinda nervous about, uh, well, everything from the markets to the Straits of Hormuz, which ordinarily I don't think enough about, but boy, am I focused on 'em at the moment. Um, and we have a lot of interesting things to talk about from the philosophical to the kinetic to the descent into tyranny as viewed from right here in the state of Washington.
Heather Heying· Host0:53
Kinetic, huh?
Bret Weinstein· Host0:55
Yeah, there's a lot of kinetic. Um, and, uh, you know, depending upon who you ask, the, the kineticism of the war in Iran is either going brilliantly or catastrophically and presumably the truth could lie somewhere in between those. But nonetheless, all of our futures seem to be hanging in the balance of a story that I don't know anybody who's really got a grasp on exactly what's happening. And I, and I will say the degree to which events