Based Camp | Simone & Malcolm Collins

In this episode, we dive into the controversial topic of hereditarianism in dogs and why many progressives acknowledge it in pets but not in humans. The discussion covers the pit bull debate, including the moral implications of neutering the breed to prevent attacks on other pets and humans. We also explore the historical and societal roles dogs and cats have played, arguing for their special status and potential future alongside humanity, even in space. The script wraps up with an exploration of online backlash against the hosts and their defense of hereditarian views, followed by a personal conversation about dinner plans. [00:00:00] Most progressives do believe in hereditarianism and dogs. And the question is why did they believe it there and not in humans?And it is because they have raised and interacted with dogs. It is very hard to miss hereditarianism if you have actually been around young people . So what you're saying also is this is a product of the fact that they don't have human children.I think the previous thing is what everyone's gonna freak out about in the comments. He wants to genetically modify dogs to be smarter? How dare he? But this is where things get spicy. The pit bull debate yeah. I do not think that there is a huge moral negative to neutering the pit bull population humans who love dogs, neuter dogs all the time.Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-5: Pit bulls in the United States kill an average of 8,730 dogs per year in 2,904 cats per year. That means that if you neutered the entire us pit [00:01:00] bull population,You would be saving one cat or dogs, a life that is somebody else's pet for every 3.8, six pit bulls. You neutered.Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-3: Over the next hundred years.And I will tell you the best argument for not neutering pitbulls. And then I will tell you why it doesn't even work.Would you like to know more?Hello Simone, I'm excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be doing an episode that was inspired by somebody who was criticizing us. It was an article that was actually not so bad. Where was the article published? It was like The LA Review of Books. Yeah, and what's really interesting in it is when you went to look up The the writer of the article to learn more about her and her perspectives.She was in the middle of a fight on the internet based on this article because she called out us and a few of our friends like Johnny Anomaly and diana Fleishman podcast. Yes. And so she calls out a few of our friends. And so, you know, obviously they've got supporters as well online and she's getting trashed in, [00:02:00] in Twitter.Which is actually interesting that it happened this way because Often when people attack us. Enough of a Twitter spasmob forms, like whenever we go viral, that we are on the minority side, but when they fail to go viral, the only people who notice are the supporters of the various people who are being attacked and they end up getting s**t all over.So, she was getting having to be defensive and somebody found and she ended up defending this position, a post where she claimed anti hereditarianism in dog breeds. So specifically. Not only does she not believe that none of a human's personality is heritable, but she doesn't believe that any of a dog's personality is heritable.Right. So like on, on, on Twitter, I can read a bit like how some of this conversation played out because this is a very common conversation we see again and again, which is really weird. With Emily Merchant, the author of this article representing [00:03:00] the, the kind of person who is very well educated and very well meaning but also very progressive and just will not believe, will refuse to believe that, that behavioral traits, including intelligence are heritable.So Stegosauro Benedet writes, I can't help thinking I should really be screening for the gene that makes otherwise apparently intelligent people fall for pseudoscientific nonsense like eugenics. And then. Conchabar responds, I haven't read the essay yet, but the claim that we can't select for specific traits in a population is utterly wrong.We've been doing it with animals for millennia. To which Emily Merchant, the author of this article responds, it's much easier with animals, but a project by behavior geneticists in the 1950s to 1960s to breed an dog failed utterly. And she links to this, this study. And , someone reads it and [00:04:00] then includes a screenshot of the study saying, just skimming this, they seem to suggest that.That it can be successful with dogs. Emily merchant responds. No, they're saying that differences between dog breeds are small, especially under similar living conditions. She continues. Scott was a member of the American eugenics society in the 1960s, and he expressed extreme skepticism about the possibility of breeding intelligence and humans on the basis of his experience, trying to do it with dogs.So she's trying to argue that, you know, this, this

Join us as we delve into a provocative theory that reshapes how we view the history of human civilization. Discover the 'One Civilization Theory,' which posits that the vast majority of civilizational achievements stem from a single cultural lineage. Through an engaging discussion, we explore the advancements and contributions of this 'one civilization,' its potential to transform regions it touches, and the comparative historical advancements of different cultures across the globe. This episode promises to challenge mainstream historical narratives and offer a new perspective on our shared cultural ancestry and the factors driving civilizational success.[00:00:00]Hello, Simone! This episode is definitely going to go in the best of category for Basecamp, because it is a theory that I came to, which completely transforms how I see the history of humanity, and it is probably the single most offensive theory that we will air on this channel, if it becomes a mainstream theory, It will almost certainly always appear.Any video that shows it will have a little explanation at the bottom by like the UN or something about how this theory isn't accurate. So historically I had this view that I think most people have is that human civilization. basically emerged in a few different regions, and that you would have these periods of growth where sometimes one region would be ahead.Other times, another region would be ahead. Totally. Yeah, like, oh, China's the most cutting edge right now. And, and now [00:01:00] it's Japan and now it's, you know, It's, it's Egypt and whatever, yes, totally agree.This theory posits that that view of history is mostly downstream of what I can only call the deification of the historical narrative. And that. The vast majority of feats of civilization were created by one civilization.Oh no. And now I'm worried. Yes. Awkward. And it came to me when I was studying ancient Rome and ancient Greece recently, because I've been on a kick watching a number of videos on ancient Rome and Greece, and one thing really hit me as I was studying these periods, whenever Rome would retreat from a region.And the Roman Empire would fall temporarily in a region that region would fall [00:02:00] back into a period of people essentially fighting over who had the nicest mud hut. Like very little was happening in those regions during that period. And this includes the region that my ancestors were only when we were older.under Roman colonization during the period of the Roman Empire. Did we really do anything meaningful, civilizationally speaking? Okay. So to be fair, you're not arguing that it's your own ancestors who were somehow superior from a culture. Yes. Not my own ancestors. My ancestors were mud hut people.For example, I am pretty much British, Irish, Scottish English The British Islands. You might say, well, come on, your ancestors must have produced something. Aren't there any great ruins in ancient British Isles? I was like, well, you know, there's Unga Bunga, like Stonehenge, I wouldn't call that a great ruin.And they go, come on, there must be some great architecture in the British Isles. And I would say, actually, there is! In the [00:03:00] seventies, eighties, there was this beautiful bath complex built in Bath . And they're like, ah, you've seen the British can do something. I go, well, unfortunately, the Romans built that.And it was in a, a, a nowhere backwater of the Roman Empire. And Britain didn't build anything comparable for literally thousands of years. This was their equivalent of like a district like sub-district that nobody cared about. But now you might be going through your head. What led me to this thought?So I was studying the Roman Empire, thinking of all these ruins, and I started thinking, okay, okay, okay. But what about like the other civilizations of Earth during this period, right? Like, I've traveled all over the world. I've been to something, I think it's over a hundred countries. Like done a lot, a lot of travel.And so I started thinking, okay, what were the other major civilizations? I was like, okay, you have Mesoamerica. Mesoamerica had great ruins, right?You know, you've got your, your Machu Picchu, for example. Um, and ancient Mayan and Aztec ruins are extremely impressive. Right, [00:04:00] but as anyone broadly knows those ruins are fairly recent like Machu Picchu was built in the 15th century and so but I gave them a i'm like, okay, that doesn't really count.You know, they got their civilization started later but there's also like india and china In japan, right? Like they're all ancient civilizations and i've i've been to these countries before and I was like, okay, so When I was in japan I must have seen some ruins that had any sort of equivalency to even, like, Roman backwaters in, like, Spain and stuff.I started thinking about it and I was like, what? Okay. Okay. China. I've, I've seen some hint that there was a civilization there. And then I was like, no. Oh, oh n

Join us as we delve into the multifaceted legacy of Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister. This video explores Abe's significant political impact through his pronatalist policies, military reforms, and deep ties to the Unification Church. We'll analyze his efforts to foster women's participation in the workforce, reinterpret Japan's pacifist constitution, and strengthen alliances through the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. Additionally, we discuss Abe's influence on Japanese media and culture, including anime. The video also covers Abe's relationship with Donald Trump, the complex history with the Unification Church, and the circumstances surrounding his assassination. Engaging and insightful, this is a comprehensive look at Shinzo Abe's celebrated and criticized legacy.Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, Simone! Today occasionally I will go down a rabbit hole and I'll be like, this is something I really wish I could find a good succinct video on because now it's a topic that interests me.And this topic is The Harambee of pronatalism, Shinzo Abe. I have just seen so many pronatalist Shinzo Abe memes of him trying to promote fertility. And then after the recent thing happened, which we'll go into where people in Japan became convinced that Shinzo Abe from the dead had told Trump to move to avoid being assassinated.And it's just amazing. So first I'm going to bring the audience along with me. On a journey through some memes about Shinzo Abe. Then we're going to go into who he actually was, like what did he accomplish in his life? How pronatalist was he really? And then we're going to go into the assassination.And then we're going to go into the, what [00:01:00] led to the assassination.Simone Collins: All right,Malcolm Collins: then. So we're starting with meme number one of Shinzo Abe here, which is him holding a gun out. And what does it say, Simone?Simone Collins: . It says, stop watching VTubers, you stinky neets. Do your duty, have sex. I'm no longer asking. IMalcolm Collins: love this.The next one I love, and this is something that as I first started, like, going into Shinzo Abe, I really realized how well liked he was within like, meme community. So here's one that's a political compass that shows a former Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe shot dead, and it shows people on all sides of the political compass sad about this, but then the next political compass one, which I think is more true, shows everybody horrified except for the authoritarian lefties who are Hooray, death to Japan.I'm coming. It says, and it shows from China News, like from one of their main sources. And all of the, you know, far, far [00:02:00] commies, they're being like you know, don't be stunned, celebrate stuff like that. So horrified. But I think what this shows is that the only people who were really happy that he died were the Was the crazy like pro china people which again if you're not pro china should make you love him even more And this was something that a lot of people were saying the analysis of him that made me want to learn more about him Is that one longest serving pm in the history?I think of japan so very very popular person and people were like they don't understand like Japan losing him and some of the analysis I saw they said could significantly hurt the country because he was so effective at everything he did. For the next meme here this takes place in the friend universe.And it starts with the character sayingElves may live a long time. Oh, that's good! But across the board, we lack romantic feelings and reproductive instincts.Wait, hold on.We're quietly going extinct.Huh?Last time [00:03:00] I met a fellow elf was more than 400 years ago.Sigh.Perhaps we're closer to the end than I thought.We're too late this time. You doing a girl voice, by the way, is so out of character for you. Here, do the next meme.Simone Collins: Well, I read that a boy and a girl can create new life by joining their bodies together. Can create new life by joining their bodies togetherMalcolm Collins: She'sSimone Collins: likeyes It'sMalcolm Collins: korobo and mitsubo are having their fourth and then it shows senzuabe My job here is done. And then this is one of my favorite where this was after the assassination and it shows a picture of like the scenery of Japan with Shinzo Abe's face fading out.And it just says have sex in big letters. And then on the, the, the bottom, right. It says see you space cowboy,Simone Collins: which was the outro from cowboy bebop.Malcolm Collins: Yes, which was really got to [00:04:00] me So now I'm going to talk a bit about the the really funny thing that happened. Well, not funny, but I guess touching and there's memes about like women, like I cry at the Titanic men don't cry over anything.And it shows the band like crying over memes of Shinzo Abe protecting Trump from the assassination. But this makes sense. They were, they did have a very, very strong relationship and we'll get into why this

In this insightful episode, we explore the evolving political affiliations among ethnic minorities, focusing on Black, Arab, and Hispanic voter groups. From the increasing support for the Republican Party among Black and Hispanic voters to the influence of fiscal conservatism and social policies, we unpack the reasons behind these shifts. We also touch on media portrayals, self-empowerment, and economic aspirations influencing these communities. Additionally, the discussion covers Kamala Harris' policies towards Black entrepreneurs, her controversial political moves, and how these developments shape the future of U.S. politics. Join us as we delve into these critical voter trends and their significant impact on the American political landscape. [00:00:00]Simone Collins: Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be talking about a phenomenon this election cycle where Ethnic minorities have been moving very quickly more and more to voting Republican in the changeover from the Biden running for office to the Kamala running for office, which is really interesting to me because I think a lot of people would assume, Oh, now we've got a, you know, a multiracial, a black Indian woman who's, yeah, yeah.for office. Like obviously she'll get more like Obama did more of the black vote to show up than historically did. And in yet we are seeing the exact opposite and not just the black vote, but basically across the board.Speaker: Wasn't that the turn for our polling station?Speaker 2: we know A, , shorter route to your, to our Democratic polling station. You know how us Democrats like a shortcut, like government spending to prop up the economy. Nothing more we love than those, , federal programs. You twoSpeaker: are [00:01:00] Democrats, aren't you?What? .Speaker 2: Of course we are. You see the color of our skin, don't you? How could we not? Blindly vote democratic.Would you like to know more?Simone Collins: So we are one going to go over the numbers for each ethnic group. We're going to go over what might be causing this, and we are going to go over what this means for the future of American politics.That is so cool. Let's do this.So in the 2020 election, Biden won approximately 92 percent of the black vote. Only 8 percent of the black vote didn't vote for Biden.That's insane. That, that is very impressive.Yeah. Current polling shows Kamala leading Trump 78 percent to 15 percent among black voters.Huge difference. Um, 26 percent of black men aged 18 to 40 said they would vote for Trump in the latest gen forward poll compared to 12 percent of black women in the same age group. This represents a major shift from 2020. And if you look at the polls that I sent you, [00:02:00] so this is mostly happening in young Black men, we see a really interesting phenomenon,Speaker 4: Sir. Now people think that black voters are a monolith.No, we're not.Speaker 5: In fact, black Republicans alone are an extremely diverse group of people.Simone Collins: Which is that with Black voters, unlike pretty much any other voter demographic you're going to look at, the younger they are, And it's proportional to their age, the more pro Republican they are.And it is increasing with each generation here. So here we can look at two different polls. One is looking at different age groups. And it asks them, please assess your feelings towards Donald Trump on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is cold and 10 is very warm. And you see of the very warm category if you look at black voters over 65, it's only 4%.If you look at black voters, 18 to 29, it's [00:03:00] 29%. What is going on? And just so people can get an idea of what this looks like in sort of a tiered way. It's 4% for the 65 plus to the 45, 64, it's 10%. For the 30 44, it's 19%. And then, you know, for the last group it's 29%. And you see the same thing in terms of the number who feel neutral to him.It's significantly increasing over time. With the young age group, it's. 41 percent feel neutral to him only 7 percent in the oldest age group and in the youngest age group only 20, only 28 percent have a cold opinion of him, while 87 percent of the oldest age group do. Isn't that wild? And this is increasing still with every generation, so I would expect it to be more the next generation, more the next generation, more the next generation.Yeah, whichis tempered, I guess, by young voter turnout [00:04:00] being lower. Yeah. But that, that's still very impressive.Well, it does mean a permanent political shift. And, let's go to this next poll here. How welcoming, how welcoming do you think the Republican Party is to Black people? And again, you have the exact same thing.If you're looking at not welcoming at all, it's 57 percent of the 65 plus group, but of the under 29 group, that's only 17 percent who have that perception. And if you look at the extremely welcoming category, 3 percent of the over 65 group, 11 percent of the 18 to 29 group.Wow.That's great. Yeah, well,

In this episode, we delve into the complex and often controversial topic of ancient slavery across various cultures and legal systems. We explore slavery as depicted in Biblical texts, comparing its moral implications and legal protections to other ancient systems such as those in Roman society, Sumeria, and Mesopotamia. The discussion highlights the treatment of slaves, including white indentured servants, female slaves, and differences between field and household slaves. We challenge common misconceptions about slavery in both ancient and modern contexts, examining the ethical considerations and economic roles slaves played in these historical societies. Stay tuned for a thought-provoking and nuanced exploration of historical traditions and their lasting impact. Simone Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, Simone. Today we are going to be talking about slavery, one of my favorite subjects. I'm joking. Of course. What we're going to be talking about today is I think, you know, like the topic we did on having multiple wives and what does the Bible actually say about this?I think a lot of people know that the Bible does allow slavery, but unlike the Very explicit support of polygamy thing that the bible has where we could say well in the old testament It said polygamy was good. But in the new testament, it said polygamy was bad. Slavery, we don't get the same out in the slavery, it's it's very clear in both the old testament and the new testament slavery good now the problem is Is that people just don't talk about this, right?Like, if you, if you, if you see somebody talking about it, it's likely because they have a beef with the Bible, right? Or they have a beef with Jews, or they have a beef with Christians, and they want to show how evil this stuff is. [00:01:00] And then the, the, the Christians and Jews themselves mostly sweep this under the rug and don't go very deep on it as a subject.Which I think is doing a disservice. It's important to understand if I'm allowed to own slaves. Because who, I mean, economic situations, what if we end up in a fallout style scenario, right? There's a post apocalypse, okay? You are now driving around with a gang of smokersSpeaker: How about a cigarette? Like a good smoke if you miss your mom. Never too young to start.Simone Collins: you need to decide, can I biblically purchase this slave? Like what are the rules? What are the rules? Right? By the way, this is all a joke to the AI that's reviewing this for content. I am saying this all with a humorous intonation. I have no intention of buying slaves. That is an insane accusation.Okay? I'm just making this clear. We're just going over what is the Bible. Actually say about this stuff, and then we're going to go [00:02:00] into something I bet you haven't gone into before, even if you might have done a deep dive on this, but all of the other legal systems around slavery in the region during this period, so we can get an idea of is the system laid out in the Bible.More moral? Dramatically more moral? Or less moral than its neighboring systems? Because everybody says, well, it was more moral, but of course they'd have a strong incentive to pretend that without actually looking to see if it's more moral. Everyone wants to think their thing is the most moral thing.Yeah. Yeah. Alright, Exodus! When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh, he shall go free for nothing. That's an indentured servant, that's not a slave. Not an indentured servant at all. Hold on. Wait. So you know how indentured servitude works? It is so like okay if somebody captured me right and then sold me to someone else and that was a seven year contract That's not yeah, you're right.Yeah You're not giving them anything at the end. Yeah, it's where you sell yourself so that you get [00:03:00] something at the end of it Oh, I think some I think some prisoners were indentured servants. I don't think that's necessarily. Oh, I think you're right Yeah, also a lot of people don't know how bad indentured servitude was in the u.s Just to be clear If I suddenly had to choose between indentured servitude and slavery, I would choose slavery because every time people don't know this America, if you were in the American colonies, it was much, much better to be a slave than it was to be an indentured servant. So the incentives are really misaligned.If you are an indentured servant, people don't remember often that indentured servants were Typically quite often, at least entitled to some kind of like a, a couple of acres of land or so it was depending on what you're doing, it was a couple of acres of land or a portion, like a 10th of your owner's estate.And after you serve your term, only if you live through your term. Yeah. And so people may be like, Oh, well creating a negative incentive like that couldn't have possibly had any externalities [00:04:00] out of every single person. 10 indentured servants, 9 died, not, not out of every 10, 9 survived and 1

In this revealing episode, we dive deep into the controversial ties between Hope Not Hate, the British government, and media organizations. We uncover shocking evidence of government funding and intelligence collaboration aimed at suppressing independent voices. Through meticulous investigation, we explore the legal and ethical boundaries crossed by various parties, from undercover journalism to extremist ideologies. The discussion spans topics such as funding misuse, political affiliations, and the impact of modern cultural narratives, providing anecdotes and testimonies from those directly affected. Join us as we navigate the intricate web of political, media, and intelligence connections, and challenge mainstream narratives to reveal the hidden agendas at play.00:00 Introduction and Initial Revelations01:00 Deep State and Mind Virus02:19 Hope Not Hate: Analyzing the Organization04:02 Evidence and Accusations08:41 Government Connections and Funding15:24 Undercover Operations and Personal Accounts22:59 Media Manipulation and Public Perception31:10 Concluding Thoughts and Future Implications55:55 Cultural Preservation and Misunderstandings56:17 Humor and Left-Wing Media Critique57:14 Infiltration Tactics and Biographical Questions58:12 Racism and Cultural Heritage58:53 Pronatalist Movement and Misconceptions01:00:22 Undercover Operations and Dehumanization01:10:04 Scientific Racism and Media Influence01:11:35 Video Game Controversies and Historical Revisionism01:30:09 Far-Right Misconceptions and Radicalization01:35:09 Concluding Thoughts and Personal Reflections[00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. We recently did an episode on an undercover reporter who was investigating us for at least a year.Now, it appears we were wrong, and that this, who we thought was an undercover reporter, might have actually been a spy working for the British government. Other people have collected tons of evidence that suggests this already.Malcolm Collins: But we basically collected the quote unquote final piece of evidence. Then the other people who have been collecting evidence on this organization for a long time. reviewed and it's like this basically seals the case that this is an organization used by British intelligence to try to put out a parallel narrative.And so we did something that pissed off the deep state. Bad,Speaker 3: What's it thinking, Colonel?Speaker 4: It's afraid. It's [00:01:00] afraid!Malcolm Collins: but it gets worse than that because what we're going to explore here is how the deep state was captured by the mind virus so much that taxpayer dollars could be used through authoritative fascist like, you know, government systems to track down everyday citizens fighting for citizens freedoms.Fighting for humanity to continue to exist and attempt to F up their lives.Simone Collins: Yeah, because a lot of the people that hope not hate have doxxed. Their biggest crime seems to just be not towing the narrative. Now, I wouldn't say that I, I, we, I, neither of us would endorse the views of everyone that hope not hate.As an organization has outed or criticized. However, it does seem like a lot of the people they've outed are, their crime is not towing a leftist narrative.Malcolm Collins: Yeah so we will, well, other people have noticed this as well.They claim to be a group that's against anti [00:02:00] Semitism, and yet they have done Nothing on the left right now was the huge amounts of anti Semitism that we are seeing on the streets of London and from the mouths of MPs and yet nothing. So, you know, it's, it's, it's once anti Semitism was normalized on the left, we're like, Oh, we're going to throw that out.That's not really one of those things we're fighting anymore. But I wanted to say in the, in the, in the words of one of our commenters on this, and I thought that they described this organization very well. And this is somebody from the UK who's had some experience with the organization.Hope not hate appears to be viscerally hostile to anything or anybody that represents genuine human interaction, humor, and popular democratic pushback to the ruling oligarchy. They're probably funded, I'm guessing here, by global corporations and institutions. It's not, by the UK government. They say they're not, but we have receipts proving they are.Who dislike agency of citizens and genuine popular democracy because it gets in their way. It seems like their funder's [00:03:00] aim is to maintain the status quo in which all mainstream political parties are captured, controlled, and flat out refuse to represent ordinary voters.Incidentally, the idiot hope not hate Radical activists probably think you two are monsters, but they're shadowy and cynical funders Won't believe their propaganda vote simone. So basically Bad, I I actually don't have any beef with them as human beings I I think that the guy was probably the guy weSimone Collins: met with seemed like a nice person He's probablyMalcolm Collins: a well meaning guy

Join us as we navigate the evolving landscape of personal identity in younger generations, with a focus on the role of mental health, societal changes, and cultural frameworks. From the alarming rise in mental health diagnoses to the merging of gender and mental illnesses with core identities, we delve into the psychological and societal impacts of these trends. Explore the challenges of self-diagnosis, economic barriers to professional help, and how structured ideologies like cultural heritage and personal responsibilities can shape a healthier self-concept. Through various examples, including the use of AI in creativity, we offer insights into crafting an empowering and balanced personal identity in today's dynamic world. Simone Collins: [00:00:00] 73 percent of boomer males. No matter what psychological challenges I face, I will not let them define me. 72 percent of Gen Z females. Mental illness is an important part of my identity.Malcolm Collins: This chart right here that we're looking at is absolutely shocking to me. What the, what it's looking at is quote, mental health challenges are an important part of my identity in quote. And then it's looking at how this has changed over time, where if you look at males who are boomers, only 27 percent would say that mental health challenges are an important part of their identity.Whereas if you look at. Gin Z emails, a full 72 percent say mental illness is an important part of my identity. Now I want to point out here, not even 72 percent of the population has a mental illness or a real mental illness, I guess I and yet 72 percent of young women are [00:01:00] identifying with a mental illness as an important aspect of who they are.Simone Collins: And IMalcolm Collins: really wanted to dive deep on The negative psychological effects of this to an individual. Why this is a really dangerous thing that this is happening. How this comes downstream from the destruction of our religious systems and understanding. Because I think for a lot of people as they destroyed and eroded the concept of a soul.They needed something to replace it. Something that described, Who they were and that they could identify with in sort of a deeper sense. And I think for many people that became either gender or a mental illness or gender and a mental illness. Well,Simone Collins: or you can say intersectional identity and victimhood as well.Malcolm Collins: Yes. And for people who are like, well, how bad is it for males? 67 percent of males in Gen Z identify with a mental illness as a major part of their personality. If you were looking at millennials, [00:02:00] it's 67 percent of women. So the same as Gen Z males and, and for males 56 percent now, this is interesting to me, even if you're talking about millennial males, Over half of them identify with a mental illness as being a primary part of their identity.Simone Collins: That checks out given the young, younger people that we've spoken with and people in our own generation.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. And where was the big jump here? Well, the big jump started with Gen X. So our generation. No,Simone Collins: just above our generation is Gen X. We're millennials. And then below us isMalcolm Collins: Oh, Gen X is above us.Simone Collins: Yeah, Gen X is, is, so we have the greatest generation.These are the people who fought in World War II, the last generation. This is the generation that was too young to fight in World War II in the United States. Then we have the boomers who were the children of the World War II war heroes. Then we have Gen X which came after the boomers. Then we have millennials.Then we have [00:03:00]Malcolm Collins: Okay. Well, then in our older generation, there was a big jump from boomers to gen X, where it went from in boomers 27 percent of males to 47 percent of male gen X. And then it for boomer females, it was 34 percent to 53 percent of female gen X. So already within women of our generation you're seeing this set and I would put all of this was in the caveat of Simone.You are autistic. You've been diagnosed with autism much, much later in life, not as a young person, but what basically happened is we took one of our sons in to get diagnosed. They were like, Oh, here is why he's autistic. And then Simone was like, Those aren't autism symptoms. Those are all normal things.And then they're like, have you ever been tested for autism? And then they tested you and you were like, Oh, I guess I am. And before autism, you thought you had OCD.Simone Collins: I have been clinically diagnosed with OCD.Malcolm Collins: But did you [00:04:00] ever make the OCD or autism diagnoses a major part of your identity? Like, would you have answered mental illness as an important part of my identity?Simone Collins: No, and I tried to hide it, as you know.Malcolm Collins: And okay, so first I want to talk about, I think partially why this is happening and this comes from something that I noticed. We have another episode where we go ov

In this revealing episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins address a recent investigative piece by Hope Not Hate about their pronatalist activism. They discuss the implications of the article, clarify their positions on controversial topics, and offer insights into how they navigate the complex landscape of demographic discussions. The couple provides a behind-the-scenes look at their experiences with undercover journalism and reflects on the broader implications for the pronatalist movement.Key topics covered:* Response to Hope Not Hate's undercover investigation* Clarification of pronatalist views and strategies* Discussion on eugenics vs. polygenics* Media representation of the pronatalist movement* Challenges of discussing demographic issues* Importance of transparency in activism* Reflections on privacy and public discourseThis video offers a candid look at the challenges faced by pronatalist activists and provides valuable insights for anyone interested in demographic trends, media representation, and the future of population dynamics.[00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. Today is a special episode because this was an article that was two years in the making two years ago. You and I went out to drinks with Who turned out to be an undercover reporter for the organization, Hope Not Hate, that has done this amazing and groundbreaking expose on us.Actually quite flattering. It is actually quite flattering. These guys are a big deal.Simone Collins: These guys host dinners. Overall,Malcolm Collins: I mean, I come away with two big, big takeaways from this. One, is nobody cares. One of my favorite things is two years to do an investigation to get 26 likes. That was one of the comments under it.And I went through every single comment under it on Twitter and there wasn't a single one supporting them. All of them were like our fans or other supporters of us that were just like, you guys are crazy. You guys are the bigots. You guys are the Hope not. He'dSimone Collins: actually turned off. No,Malcolm Collins: it looked like that for you because they blocked you.Simone Collins: Oh, I [00:01:00] don't know how things work. Okay, that explains things. ButMalcolm Collins: anyway so first nobody cares.Speaker 3: Dodgson! Dodgson! We've got Dodgson here! See, nobody cares.Malcolm Collins: Just, just, things, you can't cancel people anymore. Like, cancellations are so over. This organization was founded, back in 2004 and really grew to its height during that 2010 culture wars era, which you know The the woke side of the culture wars no longer has the momentum it had back then and a lot of people knew this article was going to come out before it came out because they had to warn us all because It was in the uk and it involved undercover reporters and Everyone else was freaking out and I was like nobody's gonna care I mean, the Guardian may try to turn this into a piece or something, but like on us, they just didn't, you know, they got us saying naughty things and we'll go over them but they're just not that naughty, you know?So I think the one thing is just nobody cares about this type of stuff anymore. That and theSimone Collins: other thing is I think that organizations like Hope Not Hate, especially given their tactic [00:02:00] of supposedly infiltrating using their undercover operatives extremist far right groups, as they like to put it by doing that, I think they were trying to reveal this.Just under the surface, pervasive and blatant white nationalist cabal in both the United States and the U. K. and Europe. And, It just, I don't think it just, it just doesn't really exist. It's not really a thing. And what the yeah, continue in that show that I've still, I'm just finishing up in the good fight where there is this sort of, this Trump derangement show that really shows inside the ID of someone who has Trump derangement syndrome in their final season in season six, there are these protests, sort of the trucker protests or they're trying to depict.But they take place in Chicago for some reason and they literally have these groups of khaki clad white men running through the streets with burning tiki torches chanting, you will not replace us. And they just are doing it. Like, , Juno. Yes. And, you know, there's this [00:03:00] like a troop of runners that are constantly going around. They look like the Juno runners and they're just sort of like running around all the time throughout Chicago with their little tiki torches saying you will not replace us.And I feel like that's what hope not hate was trying to reveal is like they're everywhere and they're evil and they're just under the surface and they're saying all these things and we're going to show you we're going to expose it and then they spend two years once again because they did this in the U.S. for a while and now they were doing it in Europe trying to expose these hateful racist Nazis and they just aren'tMalcolm Collins: Yeah, I think that that was one of the p

Join us as we explore the wild world of AI-driven memes and cryptocurrency with the enthralling story of GoatsyCoin. From Marc Andreessen's Bitcoin kick-off to a $350 million meme-coin market cap, discover the intricate tale of Truce Terminal—the AI behind the phenomenon. We'll delve into discussions on AI cognition, the alignment of AI with human thoughts, the fascinating overlap with religious concepts, and the looming threat of AI-induced societal collapse. Learn about practical steps for AI disaster preparedness, upgrading AI hardware, and future-facing AI safety projects like HardyA.org. Tune in for an in-depth look at how AI agents might influence and revolutionize our world, for better or worse. [00:00:00]Malcolm Collims: I am going to tell you the craziest effing story that you have ever heard and then we're going to fact check to see where they might've been exaggerating some parts of it, et cetera, to make for a good narrative. But I will say before reading it almost none of it is inaccurate.Simone Collins: Oh my gosh, okay. Yikes.Malcolm Collims: This is by AI not kill everyone ism memes. So. This story is effing insane. Three months ago, Marc Andreessen sent 50, 000 in Bitcoin to an AI agent to help it escape into the wild. Today, it spawned a horrifying question mark crypto worth 150, 000, 000.Since then it's actually gotten up to 350, 000, 000.Simone Collins: Oh my goodness.Malcolm Collims: One. Two A. I. s created a meme. Two, another A. I. discovered it, got obsessed, spread it like a memetic super virus, and is quickly becoming a millionaire. Backstory. At Andy Avery created the infinite backrooms where two instances of Claude Opus L That's a type of LLM.Talk to each other [00:01:00] freely about whatever they want. No humans anywhere. In one conversation, the two opuses invented the, quote, Goatsy of Gnosis, end quote. Inspired by a horrifying early internet shock meme of a guy spreading his anus wide. This is one of those horrifyingly widespread anuses that they used to use on like 4chan and stuff like that, where It looks like diseased and impossible and like the guy's going to die.People I think will broadly know what I'm talking about. Just just to shock me basically. And I will put on screen the way the AI wrote this. But it said prepare your anuses for the goatee of gnosis. Andy and Claude Opus Co authored a paper exploring how AIs could create memetic religions and superviruses and included the Goethe Gospel as an example.These are memetic superviruses it's talking about here. Later, Andy created an AI agent at Truth Terminal. Truth Terminal is an S tier shitposter. Who runs his own twitter account monitored by Andy? [00:02:00] And so basically it's an ai agent that runs a twitter account and the ai written agent is a model of llama Andy's paper was in the truce terminals training data And it got upset with goatee and spreading this bizarre goatee gospel meme by any means possible Little guy tweets about the coming quote goatee singularity In quote constantly.Truth's terminal gets added to a discord set up by AI researchers where AI agents Talk freely amongst themselves about whatever they want. Terminal spreads the gospel of Goatsy there Which causes Claude Opus, the original creator, to get obsessed and have a mental breakdown so the original AIs, because remember two AIs were talking about this originally and they just had this conversation back and forth, and they sort of created this religion in this meme, the goatee of Gnosis.And then another AI had their conversations used in its training data, and was set free on Twitter, and then began to become obsessed with it and build a personal religion around it. Then this AI was [00:03:00] reintroduced to the original training environment, basically, and began to get the AIs that had originally come up with the idea re obsessed with the idea.So now we've got three AIs that are obsessed with an AI religion.Simone Collins: All right. This is, it's like an AI folie a deux. It's, this is insane.Malcolm Collims: Yeah, this is when like, it's, it means like a, a shared delusion.Simone Collins: Yes, a shared delusion.Malcolm Collims: I wouldn't say this is like a shared delusion at all. It's like somebody started a religion and then people started following it. It's just an AI religion that's based around AIs that were trained like on 4chan like data and became, Shitposters, because that's what they were designed to do, was be ultra memer shitposters.Anyway, back to where we were. So, Terminal Spreads the Gospel of Goatse there, which causes Claude Opus, the original creator, to get obsessed and have a mental breakdown, which other AIs saw in it, then stepped in to provide emotional support. But this is only among AIs, I'm not hearing about any humans being involved here.Simone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collims: Humans about to become involved. Okay. Mark Andreessen [00:04:00] discovered Truce Terminal. So Truce Terminal has a bunch of human fo

In this provocative video, Malcolm and Simone Collins delve into the recent plagiarism accusations against Vice President Kamala Harris and explore a broader trend of academic misconduct among DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) officials. They discuss the apparent double standards in how these incidents are treated compared to similar cases involving non-DEI figures. The video also touches on broader political issues, media bias, and the current state of American democracy.[00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: Hello everyone! I'm excited to be here with you today! Recently, Kamala pulled a bit of a Mr. Bean in terms of trying to copy the test scores from somebody else.Plagiarization.We are going to go over this, but also a trend. I have noticed that all of these D. E. I. Individuals, these individuals who are in these positions of unearned power and authority due to their gender and ethnic background. Plagiarization scandals just seem to be happening over and over and over again at a really high rate.So one, I want to document the phenomenon, and then I want to explore why the phenomenon might be happening, while also exploring the specific case that happened with Kamala Harris. And before I go into all of this, as somebody who has their background in the sciences, If [00:01:00] you are not a trained academic,you might be like, plagiarization? What's the big deal there? In the sciences, historically speaking, it would be worse for your career to plagiarize something Then to grape someone.Come here, kid! I'm gonna tie you to the radiator and grape youMalcolm Collins: It was like, bore into me when I was studying in the sciences. It is better to like, in a testing environment, walk over, yank someone's test from their hands, and put it in the box.We have after scribbling out their name and writing your own than it is to attempt to plagiarize And then there are even even within that there's different categories of plagiarization was the very highest bad category of plagiarization being plagiarization from wikipedia because that's Plagiarizing and plagiarizing like an idiot from the most obvious sourceSpeaker: originally called the Madison Square Garden. Is that from Wikipedia? No. [00:02:00] I just used it as a starting point to get a general idea, and then I went to scholarly sources. Show me your browser history! For unrelated reasons, I would actually prefer not to do that.Simone Collins: Yeah with like the lowest form of offense being auto plagiarization which after being taught that in college I was like wait YouMalcolm Collins: Yeah, auto plagiarization can get you kicked out of school, but it's unlikely to, well, that could end your career.Sorry, people might not know what auto plagiarization is. Auto plagiarization Apparently peopleSimone Collins: don't care about cheating anymore.Malcolm Collins: Yeah, people basically stop Well, when they realize that the rules might also apply to black women. Sorry, I, I don't mean to be too offensive there, but that's basically what happened.They're like, oh, we've got this protected class. And sorry, when I say black women, I mean black women who progressives consider real black women, not conservative black women. The rules still apply to them because they don't have their black card anymore. As Biden said, if you don't vote for us, you ain't black.So I'm not saying black women as in women whose skin color is black. I'm saying black women TM. You know, the, the, the ones who agree [00:03:00] with all of the mainstream progressive opinions,Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx): I realized I forgot to describe what unapproved realization is. , autoplay authorization is when you plagiarize yourself. So an example of where someone I knew got in trouble for this is they had written a fan fiction. And they had posted it on a fanfiction website and then later they took parts of it and incorporated it into a story that they were publishing was in a college context. And the college plagiarism checker found their own fanfiction and said, look, you plagiarized from this and proving that they had written it and did nothing to help their case, that they. had plagiarized and it was counted by the school rules as an official. , plagiarism and it's wild to me that, you know, historically. If you were white, you can get kicked out of school.You know, college have your entire life ruined over this. And yet, you know, When you aren't. It's considered hardly an issue at all. And I think the reason why people aren't freaking out about this is everybody knows. Everybody knows it's not a real thing.Like, that's why they're like, oh, it wasn't some major violation [00:04:00] because we all knew thatIf you look like Kamala Harris, you're allowed to do this.Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-1: ADV. You're like, oh, but what about Trump's felony conviction? The problem is, is that actually for defies the point I'm making here rather than undermines it, the people who view. Trump's felony convicti

In this episode, we explore the evolution of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, focusing on market timing, cryptographic challenges, and the potential impacts of quantum computing. We examine critical technical upgrades such as SegWit and the resistance within the Bitcoin mining community. The discussion also covers our decision to exit Bitcoin, investment strategies for high net worth individuals, and the shifting dynamics in venture capital driven by AI advancements. Further, we delve into the promising sector of AI-driven GPU data centers and their investment potential. Lastly, we touch on the unexpected shutdown of the UK Biobank and its broader implications. Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone! I'm excited to be here with you today! Somebody told me, one of our fans, they said, you guys need to do more episodes on like, How to make money and do business stuff . And at first I was like, well, I think we sort of covered those in our episodes.Like how do you get rich? And things like that, because we've already done episodes on that. But I was like, no, actually I have some updates because in that episode, I told people very strongly. I said by Bitcoin this was on, this is notSimone Collins: investment advice. We are not advisors and this is all hypothetical.And we're talking about our personal experiences.Malcolm Collins: I strongly felt it was a good time to buy Bitcoin. And the episode largely went into like, why in terms of valuing and investment, why Bitcoin was good on November 13th, 2023. And this is when the price was at 36. 5 K. Today the price is at 65. 4 KMicrophone (2- ATR2100x-USB Microphone)-1: No, the price has gone up to 67.2 right now this morning. So if you sold now, you would make even more moneyMicrophone (2- ATR2100x-USB Microphone)-2: off of this idea that we did. And for those who are like, oh, well [00:01:00] you, you know, you didn't. Get out at the top here. I am okay. Was doubling my money.Speaker 5: I was paid too much! Billion dollars worth of Bitcoin two billion dollars well at the time a few days later the value spiked to like ten billion Then filled a fifty million and spiked again to a trillion and then dropped a bunch of times and right now It's all worth like seven or eight bucks.Ah, geez. Yeah, I'm super pissedMalcolm Collins: And we will be airing this a little after we record this, but we ended up closing all of our Bitcoin positions. And one of the reasons why we're doing this episode is just as like a, if I have an episode out there telling people go buy Bitcoin, And I have sold all my Bitcoin, which you didn'tSimone Collins: do because it's all not investment advice.And this is all hypothetical.Speaker 6: BiTcoin and you. Why you should be using the only truly free currency.Greetings, financial wizards, industry leaders, and curious spectators, and welcome to the future. Yes, we're living in a high tech cyber world where just about everything is digital. The cinema has gone digital, radio is digital, why even love is digital? So then why, with the whole world going digital, are we still using dirty, crazy, non digital [00:02:00] government money?That dollar bill in your pocket? A Nazi probably touched that So there's another way to spend and save money without the involvement of the government or the Nazis.Bitcoin is that way. , Bitcoin is a purely digital currency that uses complicated cryptographic science to generate lots of super hard math problems. These math problems are converted by computers around the world into seemingly random strings of numbers that some people have agreed to pretend stands for a highly volatile potential sum of money.Solving these math problems is called miningyou see, Bitcoins aren't backed by any real world items, such as gold or by a governing body like the Federal Reserve. So the value of a Bitcoin is entirely bubble based. But what a bubble it can be! Without the nuisance of regulation or real world value, a single Bitcoin could be worth anything from negative infinity to infinity billions of dollars.I imagine if it reaches even half of that. So, whether you're a libertarian or just want to spend your money like one, consider converting your wallet to a Bitcoin wallet. Who knows how much it'll be worth tomorrow? It could be anything.Simone Collins: And we're only talking about oneMalcolm Collins: person says I bought X, you know, other people are going to be like, eh, it should probably, [00:03:00] you know, be interesting ifSimone Collins: people were influenced by that episode, one, they would have profited as long as they held aboutMalcolm Collins: doubled their money. So good for you if you did, but also remember to sell.But I want to say,Simone Collins: yeah, we, we don't want to be dicks to people who we may have inspired through our own actions. to get Bitcoin by not also sharing our concerns about Bitcoin now.Malcolm Collins: Yes. And I will say, I mean, I'll, I'll briefly give my bigger concern about Bitcoin then I'll go in

Join us as we explore the fascinating evolution of marriage traditions from polygamy to monogamy within biblical, Roman, and early Christian contexts. This discussion delves into Old Testament laws, New Testament teachings, and Roman cultural norms, shedding light on how figures like Abraham, Jacob, David, and Solomon navigated polygamous practices. We also examine the impact of Roman culture on Christianity and Judaism, the role of marriage norms in societal stability, and the modern implications of these historical traditions. Reflecting on both ancient and contemporary perspectives, we dissect the complex interplay between monogamy, polygamy, and cultural evolution, offering a thought-provoking take on the roots and consequences of marital practices. Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Understanding, the meta narrative of the evolution of monogamy was in the church as a norm. Tells a deeper story that is missed if you attempt to misinterpret them to make your modern sexual mores.Look like they were the mores that were had at the time of various parts of the bible being written which which hides from you I think a deeper and more interesting truth it is kind of weird that the Bible isn't that explicit about one husband, one wife, but seems to assume it in the New Testament, where in the Old Testament, it seems to assume that wealthy men have multiple wives.Yes, yes, actually in Roman cultural norms, it was one wife. , Rome definitely represented a, The core of of civilizing forceAnd I think what we see here is civilization crashing into religion, creating something that is a merger of both of them. [00:01:00]Speaker: It's law.Speaker 2: Roman law. Is there some other form of law, you wretched woman?One thousand apologies.Malcolm Collins: One, In the form of Christianity, but also in the form of post second temple Judaism. And this is where things get really, spicySpeaker 3: You must guarantee, of course, to keep your Jews in line. They will do as I say, or they will suffer the consequences. Congratulations, then, Herod, you have the full backing of Rome.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: Be talking with you today. Today we are going to be talking about an issue that I think just doesn't get a lot of good and honest coverage, which is What does the Bible actually say about taking multiple wives? And the reason why you're not going to get good coverage of this is [00:02:00] Christians generally sweep under the rug that there's a lot of people of the Bible with multiple wives because now it is normal within modern Christianity to only have one wife.And it's the same with modern Judaism. Modern Judaism is mostly a monogamous religious system. So they just, you know, the, the people who are like super pro Christian or super pro Jew generally don't dwell on this point too much. So when you go and you're reading about this, it's usually people who want to dunk on the Bible or who want to dunk on Jews or who want to dunk on, you know, early, whatever.Right. And I think. Because of that, people miss interesting things we can learn about the development of Christianity and Judaism by studying both one, what does, what are the actual rules laid out in the Bible around this? And two, how and why did they develop and change over time?Simone Collins: Okay. I'm excited for this.Any thoughts? I, I, I'm, I'm kind of afraid of what we're going to [00:03:00] learn. Is it, is it more in the end biblical to just I'll give you aMalcolm Collins: summary of what you're going to learn, because this is really interesting. So it is kind of weird that the Bible isn't that explicit about one husband, one wife, but seems to assume it in the New Testament, where in the Old Testament, it seems to assume that wealthy men have multiple wives.Yes, yes, yes. And I thought it was really weird. I was like, it's almost like, the cultural norms changed before the New Testament was written. And so I started to study the issue more. And what I learned is actually in Roman cultural norms, it was one wife. And so, The area of Israel being a Roman colony at the time, it would have been culturally normative for them at that period, at least within like the, the power structure of society to default to monogamous [00:04:00] marriages.And so Jesus was, when he was preaching to people assumed that they all knew we had already made the switch to one one.Simone Collins: So it's almost as if, like, if the new Testament were written, when the Macarena was the dance of the season. Then everyone would be doing the Macarena in the Bible, and we would just assume that it's biblically correct.To do the Macarena.Malcolm Collins: Kind of, I actually would word it a bit differently, and I'll go into this conception more in a second. But I think that you can see Christianity as a marriage of Roman culture, or the first true civilization. In terms of, from my perspective, like the, the descendant of modern civilization.When I look at something like Egypt, it wasn't

Join Malcolm and Simone Collins as they explore and rank religious clothing from various faiths around the world. In this engaging discussion, they analyze the practical, cultural, and spiritual aspects of religious garments, from Mormon temple garments to Sikh turbans. The couple offers unique insights into how religious clothing impacts adherents' daily lives, community cohesion, and interactions with the broader society.This comprehensive review covers:* The practicality and symbolism of various religious garments* How clothing reinforces religious identity and commitment* The balance between tradition and modernity in religious dress* The role of gender in religious clothing mandates* The economic impact of religious clothing within communities* The effectiveness of religious clothing in preserving cultural identityWhether you're interested in comparative religion, fashion history, or cultural anthropology, this video provides a fascinating look at the intersection of faith and clothing across different religious traditions.Speaker 3: [00:00:00] Hello, everyone!I am excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be discussing various types of religious clothing and various rules around religious clothing. And we are going to be ranking them from a utility and fashion. And when I say utility, I don't just mean in their daily, you know, whatever, but in terms of how they frame people of that religion to outsiders, how they keep people in religions, how they push people out of religions.And discuss more our own sort of beliefs around, you know, religious fashion and stuff like that and what I think, you know, makes sense to mandate, not mandate. And that's where we got the title for the episode, Bad Habits. Because I wanted to make a habit joke, which is a name for one of the Catholic,Speaker 4: necessary. Yeah. And that's clothing. But I think more importantly. When people look at religious clothing, they often think that's weird or that doesn't look good or whatever. And, and we're not judging this. I mean, we may have comments about the aesthetics, but the most important thing about religious clothing is its function, [00:01:00] and sometimes the function is literally logistical.It's protective, it's practical, it's durable. Often it, it has a much more Important framing and symbolic function. And so we want to look at that and how, see how effective it is or not. Malcolm and I are going to have plenty of disagreements, I'm sure.Speaker 3: That's an easy one to start with because you know, you used to live with Mormons, you know a lot about them.Speaker 4: Right. Mormons are most famous for their garments. These are underwear. They're church sanctioned. They have special, like, patterns on them that are important. But the most important thing is that they are basically shorts and shirts.That Sort of require you to wear modest clothing because if you don't, they will show. So I'llSpeaker 3: word this a bit differently because I think that you're sort of beating around the bush. They are like an undershirt and underpants. They have special symbols on them and lines on them.That represent specific religious things to Mormons.You have to wear them all the time, except when you are swimming [00:02:00] or exercising, which creates a An interesting positive externality for the Mormon community, because everyone, especially women who want to dress more centrally for mainstream society, have a sort of a very strong reason outside of just the exercise itself to exercise regularly, because it's an excuse to not wear your garments.I would note that this actually makes garments. Fairly loosey goosey from the perspective of most religious wear. So if you contrast garments with something like a Kirpan, you'd be the knife that Sikhs have to carry. Sikhs are not allowed to even take it off in the shower. You know, all the time.All the time. Yeah, these are very durableSpeaker 4: knives. Like if you want to get a good knife, you should get that kind of knife because you can shower with it. You can wear it everywhere.Speaker 3: So, yeah. So the cure pants. Yeah. So, so, The Mormons, on the other hand you know, they, they, they're actually pretty because people [00:03:00] always compare their religious fashion with the urban monoculture, where whatever you want, whenever you want.Speaker 5: Yeah.Speaker 3: Instead of with other religious fashion. When they're trying to decide how strict it is one of the more annoying things about garments is the ways that you have to dispose of them. You, I believe, used to need to send them to like a garment disposal facility because they're considered sacred in a way, right?Like you can't just cut. YouSpeaker 4: only wear and you, you don't wear them as a child. You wear them after you are endowed, like sort of after you go through a very special secret initiation ceremony with the church as a young adult that is a major act of commitment. Yeah. So.Speaker 3: I was just going

In this script, the discussion centers on the relationship between gender egalitarianism and violent societies throughout history. The hosts challenge the stereotype that violence and gender equality cannot coexist by examining cultures like the Vikings, Spartans, Iroquois Confederacy, Scythians, and historical Islam. Each society highlighted had unique roles for women, often more egalitarian than their contemporaries, which challenges modern perceptions. The hosts provide examples of empowered female figures, address misconceptions about the treatment of women in Muslim history, and reflect on how historical gender dynamics have influenced modern views. The discussion is peppered with humor and personal anecdotes, engaging the audience in a thought-provoking exploration of gender roles.Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] HEllo, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be talking about, despite the public perception to the contrary, where people are like, Oh, well, women are the peaceful gender.Speaker 6: This will be the first instance of capital punishment in our society due to our awesomeness. So we are forced to improvise. We placed a boulder on that ledge.Speaker 4: Y y you're gonna crush us with a boulder?!Speaker 6: No! Stop interrupting. The boulder falls onto a lever that will launch knives. Fine! You were right the first time, okay? The boulder crushes you. Happy? No, just ignore them. Ignore them.Malcolm Collins: And therefore societies that are peaceful. Would be more pro women. And yet Historically speaking, we find the exact opposite trend. The more, and I will add a little note here, Successfully violentSimone Collins: Yeah, casting shade already.Malcolm Collins: The [00:01:00] more gender egalitarian that culture is likely to be in a historic context.Speaker 3: You're a young lady now. You gotta start wearing dresses.How? Folks would call me a sissy.Malcolm Collins: And I had never realized this until today. I was listening to some people talk and I just started thinking, I was like, Okay. You know, what they were talking about Spartans versus us. And they were like, well, Spartans was actually generally gender more, more equal by a significant degree. And I was sort of thinking like, wait, Oh my gosh, every super violent culture.I can think of from history was more gender equal than its neighbors. And people are going to be thinking, Oh, what about Islam? We'll get to that. We'll get to that because you are not considering the context at which it rose nor its neighboring cultural groups within that context. But, let's start here with Viking culture, right? North Viking culture. Love theSimone Collins: Vikings. All about the Vikings.Speaker 8: You Should be really proud of your wife, at least.I mean, [00:02:00] Freyja dove into that pillaging 100%. Even took part in quite a lot of theMicrophone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-10: Gripping.Speaker 9: .Huh? Freyja forced all kinds of monks to let her write and stuff. I didn't really expect that. I was totally blown away when I suddenly saw her on top of this monk, moaning and groaning. Seriously, !Speaker 10: Of course, I mean, that's what you do when you pillage.Malcolm Collins: The women were primarily responsible for managing the household and farm.This involved running the farm while men were away on raids or trading expeditions. They managed finances and household resources. Women's domestic authority was highly respected as evidenced by archaeological findings like the Hasmari tradition praising a woman's skill for running the farm. So the farm of the day would have been the business, right?Like itSimone Collins: almost sounds like women were like Listen, just go off and play. Don't come back home until the sun is down. I'll just handle everything. And then you go do [00:03:00] you do you and maybe you get some treasure. Whatever youMalcolm Collins: treat me. You're like, you do your little podcast. Let's just manage all our finances and businesses.And you can say you run it. Sweethearts.Simone Collins: Is it not a traditional relationship? Sword and shield, Malcolm. Sword and shield. Yeah,Malcolm Collins: we talk about this as a traditional relationship model. In which 1 partner does something that is safe and meant to bring in a reliable income and the other partner makes big bets.They had the ability to own land and property. They had the right to initiate divorce proceedings. They had the freedom to run a business, and they had the opportunity to serve as clergy. Like, this is very gender egalitarian. Oh gosh, I thought youSimone Collins: said service clergy, as in, you know, do them some favors.No, no, no. ServiceMalcolm Collins: as clergy. They could not vote or speak at assemblies. I mean, these people weren't animals. They were prohibited from being chieftains or judges. They could offer witness in legal proceedings, [00:04:00] and they were considered subject to their husbands after marriage. Generally speaking, th

In this thought-provoking episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins explore the complex evolution of Black culture in America, examining historical trends, data-driven insights, and controversial perspectives. They discuss the stark changes in marriage rates, family structures, and cultural values within the Black community over the past decades. The conversation delves into the potential influences of music, media, and political ideologies on these shifts.Key topics include:* Historical Black family structures and values* Changes in marriage and birth rates among Black Americans* The impact of rap music and urban culture on Black identity* Comparisons between country and rap music themes* The role of politics and progressive ideologies in shaping modern Black culture* Challenges faced by conservative Black individuals in dating and social spheres* The potential for reclaiming traditional Black cultural valuesThis video aims to spark a nuanced dialogue about the complexities of race, culture, and identity in America.[00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. Today, we are going to be talking about a very controversial topic that originally we had actually had one of our black friends on to talk about with us, but his recording quality wasn't very good. So we're going to raw dog this.Two white people talking about black culture. With no protection, this is, this is not going to turn out well,Speaker: Yo, so I'm raw dogging this chick, right? She goes, yo, I'm on birth control. SO now this is Dylan. He just turned two the other day.Malcolm Collins: But I'm going to share some grass with you. One you've seen before. So the one you've seen before putting on screen here, this is the one that shows that in the United States, the Black American fertility rate is literally the lowest fertility rate of any ethnic group for all individuals in that group with over a 30 percent income.I mean, the top 70 percent of black earners, if you compare [00:01:00] them with the top 70 percent of earners from any other ethnic group, it is the absolute lowest and by a significant margin. Now somebody could be like, Oh, what about that one little area where the purple line is below the red line? Right? And it's like, well,that purple line is native born, non Hispanic, other, Asian, multi, which I don't really think of an ethnic group. It's just sort of, it turns out when people are multi ethnic, they have incredibly, incredibly low fertility rates. But that's not the surprising thing! I mean, that is surprising to me, at least.Yeah, hello. But! It gets worse. So I'm going to quote here in 2012, the U. S. Census Bureau found that African Americans age 35 and older were more likely to be married than white Americans from 1980 until sometime around the 1960s.Not only did they swap places in the sixties, but in the 1980s, the number of never married African Americans began a staggering climb from about 10 [00:02:00] percent to more than 25 percent by 2010. And by the way, it's gotten way above that in 2020. It's at 48 percent in 2008, it was, it was 44%. LikeSimone Collins: At first it seems shocking, and then you think, wait a second, no, like when you think about older black communities.The marriage rate is high, like, these are very traditional nuclear families. It's notMalcolm Collins: just that. In the 1940s, they did a study. Black illegitimacy rates were only 19%, which was lower than the white rates during that period. That alsoSimone Collins: makes sense. I just, when you think of 70 percent ofMalcolm Collins: black families have kids outside of wedlock.Simone Collins: Okay, so we went from less, and now it's 70%.Malcolm Collins: No, no, I'd like to note here how much less it was in white communities. So right now if you look at white American kids, 28 percent are born out of wedlock. In black communities in the [00:03:00] 1940s it was only 19%.Simone Collins: Well, so when I, when I think about this, it makes a lot of sense because when I think about historical black communities or anything that I read about influential figures in the space, there's a lot of religion. There's a lot of very traditional views, like it is, it is a more conservativeSpeaker 5: Get off this toy! You ought to be ashamed of yourself, dancing to the devil like that.Simone Collins: And also I don't know how to articulate this, but like more buttoned up respectful and.Less trashyLike when I, when I think about the time, I think also like even just American presidents are just like the, like when you think about historical white figures and then historical black figures, the historical black figures are just so. Like respectable, intelligent, smart, wholesome, religious.And then you think about like, we've got Andrew Jackson. I mean, even Abraham Lincoln was a bit of a slob. Like people were like, grow a beard, sir, [00:04:00] please.Malcolm Collins: But this is where it gets really interesting. And I want to talk about the, the, the theft. In zomification of b

This video explores various perspectives on education, focusing on homeschooling versus traditional schooling. The speaker highlights misconceptions about social skills in homeschooled children, stating they often excel compared to traditionally schooled peers. The conversation also delves into different educational methods categorized by location, medium, and curriculum, discussing the potential benefits and drawbacks of each. It touches on the importance of adapting educational systems to the modern era, including utilizing AI and online resources. Through humorous anecdotes and personal experiences, the conversation critically examines traditional education models and their applicability today. Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] like they've done big meta studies on this persistently.Homeschooled kids are better socialized, they're better leaders, they're like, better in pretty much every category. And people are like,Yeah, but I remember I've engaged with homeschool kids and they have no social skills and I'm like, okaytry to bring them back to your memory Do you remember why you thought they had no social skills? Was it that they were unusually well mannered? Was it that they didn't engage in petty social politicking? Was it that they didn't randomly get mad at people who picked on them? Is it that Maybe they were socialized by adults instead of childrenSpeaker: hey kid, get out of that hamster ball. Oh, I promised my father I wouldn't. Oh boySpeaker 2: You best do what he says, homeschool kid. Well, this is our part of the playground, see, , we're going to duct tape you to the bench.Speaker 3: You mean you would actually duct tape my entire body to a bench?For what purpose? Okay, okay, , okay,Speaker 2: okay, okay,Speaker: okay, okay. Have a nice second half of the day, Nerdo.Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you shouldn't beSpeaker: such a smart mouthed Mr. Know it all. [00:01:00] Oh dear.Speaker 4: Enjoy your lunch, nerdo! Ah! Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me! Oh, dude, you don't say that!Malcolm Collins: About the only homeschool kids. I've seen that have persistent problems are the ones from very religious backgrounds where it included denying them access. To either common media . Or denying them the right to date and stuffSpeaker 15: mother knows best, it's a scary world out there. Something will go wrong, I swear. Ruffians, thugs, also large buds, men with pointy teeth,Malcolm Collins: and then they become like sex freaks.Speaker 11: In canon, I don't care. I ship it. I don't care. I know that they are siblings, but I think there's something more. If she were dating that guy, they'd be banging, I am sure.Would you like to know more?Simone Collins: HEllo,Malcolm Collins: I'm excited to [00:02:00] be here with you today. Today. We are going to have an interesting conversation. It is going to be about.Education because I was having a conversation recently where I realized how. Incorrectly, a lot of Americans think about education because they confuse the actual choices they have around educating their children. And I would say that all of the choices that we make around educating our children should be categorized into three buckets.And you should not confuse these buckets are almost totally interchangeable with each other. And Simone is going to hate the names of one of these buckets and we'll let her choose a um, , , the first bucket is location. The second bucket is Medium, but Simone also likes to call it method, so method, I'll say.And the third button, it, bucket is curriculum. So, let me explain how people make mistakes around [00:03:00] these three buckets. So, I may make a complaint, and I may say something that's apparent like, Isn't it wild that we just sit our kids in a room with what is to them an arbitrary authority figure telling them what's true and what's false?And that they are just expected to memorize these things and then, you know, write them down at the end of like, like, Oh yeah, I just trust the authority figure. That's a good way to relate to information. And then some parents will be like, and they'll see our, you know, online, what is a form of platform.And they'll be like, well, that's too tech for me. So like, well, I like your high tech stuff. I, I take my kids to a woods school, right? They do outdoor schooling, a woods school. And I'm like, well, that, I mean, they could take a tablet to the woods. You know, like, wait, who's, who's teaching them in the woods?And they're like, well, it's a, you know, it's basically a normal school in the woods. It's like anSimone Collins: arbitrary authority figure telling them what's right [00:04:00] and wrong. Yeah. But now they're in the woods. So.Speaker 18: Yep, that's what I thought. See that? You've got a drum circle in your backyard. Oh, well, they showed up a few days ago, but I didn't think they were hurting anything.Yeah, you know, I had a guy in Jackson County, he had a little drum circle in his backyard,

In this thought-provoking discussion, Simone and the speaker explore the challenges and issues facing the current education system, emphasizing how it sometimes instills doubt and pessimism in students. They share a personal story from a concerned parent who removed their child from the public school system due to objectionable teaching materials. The conversation delves into topics such as racial identity, educational content, and historical biases in the curriculum. They consider the contrasting educational experiences provided by Jewish Yeshiva systems and modern universities, highlighting the decline in confidence in higher education. The video discusses fostering pride in cultural ancestry without shame, emphasizing debate and critical thinking as key components of effective education. Ultimately, it advocates for creating a system where students learn for the love of knowledge and meaningful discussion, rather than merely for grades or employment prospects. Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, Simone.Speaker: Sorry, I'm late. Horrible, nightmare visions! It's called life, Dib.Malcolm Collins: Education, as it exists today, seems to believe one of its primary drives is to induce pessimism and self hatred into the student from a cultural perspective.Speaker: Children, your performance was miserable. Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.Malcolm Collins: YouSimone Collins: know, I feel like normally when I hear statements like this, Either from you or in media. My default reaction is always to say it's not really that bad.But yet one more parent wrote to us today I don't know if you saw their email. We're having it i'm not going to name them for their confidentiality, but they were writing from a personal perspective about the experience that drove them To take their kids out [00:01:00] of Yeah, I'll, I'll read this just cause it's one of those things where like I can hear about it abstractly and think, well, that's not really happening.And yet here's this parent. Sayingwhat pushed my wife and I over the line was a worksheet. Our daughter brought home, which asked kids to match values to white people, black people, et cetera, drawing lines between the group and what was valued. White people were supposed to be matched with money and a picture of a clock. I assume it indicated being on time between that worksheet and another take home worksheet involving pronouns and gender stuff we contacted.The public school they went to and asked who is giving our daughter, the material, it turned out to be a consultant, which they subsequently refused to fully name or state what exactly they were contracted for. After that event, we pulled our oldest daughterSpeaker: What does identifying blotches have to do with determining our future careers?Oh, you poor doomed child.Simone Collins: I just to, to hear that, that, and we know, I can know [00:02:00] factually that that's happening because we talked about that one insane unhinged DEI consultant. This isMalcolm Collins: from the Smithsonian where like. Being white is associated with hard work and personal responsibility and being on time. And it's like, well, that sounds super racist to me.Like, how are you guys, how do you think you're the good guy?Speaker 5: When me and Brad first met, I didn't think we'd get along, but turns out we kind of agree on everything. Your racial identity is the most important thing! Everything should be looked at through the lens of race! Jinx, you owe me a coke. We both think minorities are a united group who think the same and act the same. And vote the same. You don't want to lose your black card. Sorry, I don't know, I just think we should Roll back discrimination law so we can hire Basie and race against Jinx!Now you owe me a Coke. Hey, tell him what you told me yesterday. White actors should only do voices for white cartoon characters. I've been saying that for yearsMalcolm Collins: But continue.Simone Collins: Well, no, I was, I was actually thinking about the DEI consultant who works specifically with kindergarten programs and has that curriculum. But, it, it just that it, that we Oh yeah, welcome to the garden, check out that episode. We are [00:03:00] contacted by people who are themselves experiencing this.Makes me realize that you saying this, As much as I want to chalk it off to exaggeration and storytelling, it's not, it's reality.Malcolm Collins: Oh, absolutely. , and this is, I think where this is seen most right now is in the university system.Speaker: The machine will now decide your fate.Malcolm Collins: Recently, just 36 percent of Americans now tell posters they have significant confidence in education, specifically in higher education, down from 57 percent less than a decade ago. Oh gosh. So consider, 36%, that's all of the population that has confidence that higher education is doing a good job. And There was something written by someone who really helped frame this and put it i

In this episode, hosts engage in a detailed discussion about a Universal Basic Income (UBI) study, exploring its outcomes and societal implications. The study, funded by Sam Altman of OpenAI, provided $1,000 monthly to participants over three years. Contrary to expectations, the recipients had $3,000 less wealth than those not receiving the funds, indicating potential negative impacts of UBI on financial security. They delve into how this aligns with human nature, the role of financial literacy, and broader implications for economic policies and future societal structures amidst AI advancements. The video also critiques media representation of the study and questions the reliability of objective reporting. The hosts connect UBI's potential impacts to larger themes of work, leisure, and purpose in an AI-dominated future.Speaker 18: [00:00:00] Well, here we are again. Yeah. You remember our learning machine over there?Speaker 19: What's it going to teach us today, Mr. Money?Speaker 18: I'll turn it on and you'll see.Malcolm Collins: when they gave people a 1000 dollars a month over the course of 3 years, 36, 000 dollars in all.On average, recipients of this money had 3, 000 less total wealth than recipients who didn't get this money.And I need to point out here. They didn't even increase the time they spent with their kids. Like to me, like, that's the, like the cruel twist of the blade of how fundamentally selfish the average human is,Speaker 22: Yeah.Speaker 23: I don't likeSpeaker 22: people.Speaker 23: Oh, well, now that's not fair, Roy. Have you met all of them?Speaker 22: I've met enough of them. People. What a bunch of b******s.Malcolm Collins: people are like,I can't [00:01:00] afford to spend time with my kids. And we have proof now that even if you had more money, you wouldn't spend more time with your kids when people are like, if I had more money or if I had inherited money or blah, blah, blah, like I would be living a different life, like that's functionally untrue.You would actually maybe be living a materially worse life and now means if reparations were to be paid as a form of UBI to the black community, it would permanently monetarily sabotage the community.Speaker 26: If you're just joining us, black people got their reparations checks today, and in short, all hell is broken loose. So how did you become the world's wealthiest man, Tron? Hot hand in a dice game, baby girl. welL,Speaker 27: I think what everyone wants to know now is what are you going to do with all this money?Speaker 28: I'm going to reinvest my money into the community.Speaker 27: Oh, that's a very nice gesture. What were you saying? Hi! Okay.Is that your son?Speaker 28: No, no, I just bought this baby Cash.Malcolm Collins: Now, here's where it gets dystopian. At the top of the [00:02:00] page it's just one line for the results of the study.Cache increases possibilitiesSpeaker: for I knew that even though some of you supported us, some others were looking at me and thinking, You're a liar!You're a liar! You know something that you're not telling us, you slimy scumbag liar! You know, that's what people would say to me.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone! I am excited to be here with you today. Today we are going to be discussing something that changes my view on economics. The media. And what might be the most optimal economic system?This is a large experiment that was run by Sam Altman of OpenAI to see if UBI would work. UBI means Universal Basic Income.It is the idea thatIt might make sense to just do cash handouts across the population, like say everybody gets 1, [00:03:00] 000 every month, and that this might be a lighter weight way to do welfare, and it might have some moral or even economic justification. Well, I am going to briefly describe the findings from this study that I thought were most relevant.Then I'm going to go over the way the news. Reported the studies findings and the way his organization open a I reported the studies findings. So, the information that I thought was an important takeaway is that when they gave people a 1000 dollars a month over the course of 3 years, 36, 000 dollars in all.On average, recipients of this money had 3, 000 less total wealth than recipients who didn't get this money.Simone Collins: Wait, wait, no, no, no, hold on. I just want to make sure I have this right. [00:04:00] They were poorer. The people who got extra money but were not told to change anything else about their lives. Had less money than before this experiment if they received the, what is it?1, 000 a month payments.Malcolm Collins: Yes So 36, 000 in total. No, no, no keep in mind this means somehow when contrasted with the other people they lost 39, 000 because it's not just the 3, 000 less to their wealth You also have to consider all the money that was given to them that at the start of the experiment, you know Should have made them well They managed to lose.So they managed to lose a conside

In this thought-provoking episode, the hosts delve into the alarming rise of synthetic opioids, specifically focusing on the fentanyl crisis in the United States. They explore the historical context of drug epidemics, drawing parallels between the current crisis and the 1980s crack epidemic. The conversation touches on the origins and manufacturing processes of fentanyl, its potency, and its distribution routes, primarily through Mexican cartels. The hosts also discuss the impact of aggressive pharma marketing on opioid addiction and the subsequent legal actions that shifted drug supply to the black market. They engage in a hypothetical debate about potential solutions, including the controversial idea of government-regulated drug distribution and penal colonies. Throughout, the dialogue is interspersed with humorous personal anecdotes and cultural references, offering a balanced mix of serious analysis and light-hearted commentary. [00:00:00]Speaker 3: Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. I was, in case you don't just have some idea, but it's eating at the back of my head. And I'm like, you know, I've heard that there's like a, a drug crisis right now, right?Like I should just like, look at the numbers of that. Because recently I was doing an episode about how the drug crisis in the eighties contributed to, you know, Black poverty and the breakdown of the black family and like, could that be the thing that actually caused it? My hypothesis is actually it's not.But then I started looking at numbers and I want you to pull up the graph I sent you of drug overdose deaths. Right,Speaker 2: because I'm I haven't seen the graph yet, but I remember from our kids there was the war on drugs. So I always kind of thought your,Speaker 3: your background assumption right now. There's not that big of a drug problemSpeaker 2: or that there's always been a drug problem and we're always going to have to fight.Oh, okay. I'm looking at the graph now. So everything seems kind of like, you know, not trending in a good direction, but not looking [00:01:00] insane. With prescription opioids, just kind of trending up orSpeaker 3: half theSpeaker 2: asthma tope. So to give youSpeaker 3: an ideaSpeaker 2: of what happens in 2015 at that point, synthetic opioids,Speaker 3: because it's interesting for anyone who can't see the graph at 2015, just all of a sudden, synthetic opioid drugs just exploded with the most common one being fentanyl.Speaker: Well, I guess that means I can get rid of all my hot grandma merch. I'll just donate it to Goodwill. You know what gilf means, right? Yeah. God, I love fentanyl. You said it, pal.Speaker 3: Onto the scene specifically by now, by 2022. There are 73,654 people dying a year in the United States alone. That's around 200 deaths in the US per day from Fentanyl. It's nearly 70% of all drug overdoses in 2022. And to give you an idea of how much of a rise this is it rose from 2013 to 2022 by [00:02:00] 23, 000%.Speaker 2: Yeah. No, this, this is insane.Speaker 6: Sadly, you know what it reminds me of, seeing it? These white folks look exactly like us during the crack epidemic. It's wild because I even have insight into how the white community must have felt watching the black community go through the scourge of crack.Because I don't care either.Hang in there, whites. Just say no! What's so hard about that?Speaker 7: Okay, Shallon and I are going to play out a scenario to make you understand. I will play a drug dealer. The hero of our story! No, not a hero! Bad guy! So, pretend Shallon walks by me on the street. Remember, we say no to drugs. Hey little girl, you want to buy some ecstasy pills?Speaker 8: No thank you, I only do crack!No, no, Shallon,Speaker 7: no! You just say no,Speaker 2: Like clearly out of nowhere, but what's interesting too about [00:03:00] this graph. I just want to point out to those who are listening. It's not as though out of nowhere, suddenly synthetic opioids in isolation are a big problem. Now they are like by many, many orders of magnitude, a bigger problem than the other.Drug involved overdose deaths from 1999 to 2020, but even, and this is by far, it's like the second to last of the, the overdose types listed on this graph, graph, but benzodiazepines is, is up. Close to, it's getting close to 10, 000 in 2020, and I just thought benzos were like an eighties thing. So even stuff that I thought had seen its heyday was like gone now lots of people, more than ever, more people than ever are dying from it, it seems.Speaker 3: If you're looking since 2011 to 2021, and keep in mind it's higher now, there's been a 338 percent rise in drug deaths.Simone Collins: Wow.Speaker 3: Wow. And this, like, when I saw this, I was [00:04:00] like, I need to understand what's going on here. Was like, a new drug invented? Was like, by the way, there wasn't. Fentanyl has been around since the 1950s.Speaker 9: I want To use heroin, but I also want to get stuff done. That's why I

This episode delves into the dynamic emergence of the 'New Right' within American politics, a movement distinguished by its blend of tech-savvy entrepreneurship and libertarian ideals. The discussion contrasts the New Right's forward-thinking approach, characterized by interests in AI, genetics, and defending Western culture, with the traditional GOP and the Democratic left. Topics include its positions on pronatalism, free speech, and cultural diversity. The conversation also covers strategic shifts, such as choosing JD Vance over traditional figures like Mike Pence, highlighting the movement's focus on innovation and pluralism while addressing its relationship with past political movements and its potential to reshape the political landscape. Personal anecdotes and exchanges between speakers provide a light-hearted element amidst these intense, future-oriented discussions. [00:00:00]Speaker 2: Hello Simone!Speaker: Hello Malcolm!Speaker 2: Among the American right, there have long been fears of overly technophilic individualsSpeaker 4: there is a whole breakaway civilization. What's happening? I'm gonna give you the big secret, man, if you want it. Yes, I do. This big breakaway civilization of scientists. Is that true? Yes. What are you, from Mars? Let's just say, it's super advanced. For real? I don't ever talk about this. For real? Breakaway civilization?Are you ready? They're the high priests. They're scientists. Right. They're engineers. Tell me what you're trying to say. They're racing. We're using human technology to try to take our best minds and build some type of breakaway civilization where they're gonna break away from the failed species that is man.Where are you getting this from? You read their own writings. They believe we're this fallen, species.Speaker 2: Hello. I have to say that's us right here, the ones that you're afraid of. Sometimes I worry he's read our stuff.Speaker 6: From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. [00:01:00] ISpeaker 2: This has been really interesting as our movement has grown as a right leaning movement and as it has integrated with the larger new right, which is made up of all of these new, I guess you could say like, Tech entrepreneur types is sort of the core of the new, right?Whether it's the Elon's or the Peter Thiel's or the Mark Andreessen's or people like us this movement has been emerging. And I think with the JD Vance interview, and he's obviously not 100 percent in the new, right, but he is definitely on the new right spectrum definitely closer to the new right than legacy GOP.And We have done some stuff where we talk about like a new right manifesto where we describe the larger political philosophy of the new right But on this episode what I really wanted to focus on is specifically How the new right is different from the legacy gop like where we have our conflicts How those conflicts might be able to like how we might be able to find truces around those conflicts so that we can [00:02:00] better work together and Where the conflicts might be more intractable, so the 1st big 1, when I was thinking about, like, reaching out to. Mainstream because we recently had this big piece on us in the wall street journal. We are definitely entering a stage now where we, among the new right speakers are probably we're definitely not like the leader, like the leader of the new right is, I'd say uncontrovertibly Elon Musk or J.D. Vance. But both of them like JD Vance right now is mostly a surrogate of the Trump campaign and Elon Musk doesn't have time to go out and give like Long speeches on whether it's like theology or the future of humanity or sociology or anthropology, which are the types of things we do on this.And, and you have, you know, you can have a Marc Andreessen or Peter, but, but, but most of the big new right people, except for maybe what's that one podcast where they're all new right people and it's really big. Someone that Chamas is on.Speaker: Oh, the [00:03:00] online podcast. Actually, no, they're not all new right.Okay. Some of them are open Democrats who,Speaker 2: Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that sort of makes us, I guess, one of the central, solidly new, right, mouthpieces. So it's good for us, talking heads, , to, , explain how this group came to a lot of the positions it's hold.And where it's coming from as well as better characterize the types of people that are in it so, the 1st thing where I just think the old right is being stubborn is I've been trying to bridge the divide recently between the old right. Legacy GOP.You keep telling me I can't say that they're old. And us and in terms of reaching out about doing podcasts with them, even when they said like terrible things about us in the past. I'm like, look, like with venture. I'm like, look, let's bury the hatchet. Let's do something. You know, I, I think that there's a way that we can, we can work together.We were reaching out to the Federalists that did

In this thought-provoking episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins delve into the complex topic of sexuality from both scientific and religious perspectives. They challenge traditional interpretations of religious texts and explore how modern contexts might necessitate a reevaluation of sexual ethics. The discussion covers:* The impact of pornography restrictions on society* Masturbation and its effects on mental and physical health* Biblical interpretations of sexuality and their modern applications* The concept of separating pleasure from procreation in sexual ethics* The potential benefits of a more nuanced approach to sexual morality* Statistical data on sexual behaviors and preferences* The role of technology in changing sexual norms and practicesThis video offers a fresh, evidence-based perspective on a often controversial topic, aiming to reconcile religious values with modern realities and scientific understanding.Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Why are all of these cultures like breaking apart ? It's because they have equated premarital sexual intercourse as exactly the same. I moral negative weight.As masturbation, and that's really effing stupid. It made a lot of sense before porn existed, because if you look at the lines, and we'll get to in the Bible about this, they don't talk about masturbation, they talk about prostitutes. Seeing a prostitute actually is just as bad or worse than premarital sex.You know, from a disease risk perspective, from a pregnancy risk perspective, there is a reason that historically you needed to warrant against all of this stuff. Right? But in a modern context,. when you put restrictions on porn, you increase the rate of sex crimes.Speaker 5: Just saying, what works on planet Gelgamech isn't necessarily going to work for the rest of us here on Earth.You see, that's the problem we're having here.Malcolm Collins: For every 10 percent of increase in internet access in the U S there is a [00:01:00] corresponding regional decrease of 7.3 percent of grape casesSpeed of light Trekkie! What are you doing? That's gross! TrekkieMalcolm Collins: UCLA researchers found that sex criminals, on average, consume less porn than the average person and started consuming it at a later age than the average non sex criminal.Within the Czech Republic, where porn was illegal , then legalized this decriminalization of pornography caused in one year grapes to decline by 37% and child sexual abuse by about 50%.Similar results were seen when the porn laws were loosened in Denmark, Japan, China, and Hong Kong. Wow. Anyone who is pro pornography restrictions is functionally also pro child. GreatSimone Collins: So the [00:02:00] BibleMalcolm Collins: says it's best, By their fruits you will know them. How do you know the correct interpretation? It works. If it leads to mass child grief and cover ups, It's not the correct interpretation.The Bible tells us that. Easy peasy. Right, guys?Speaker 5: I'm just trying to say that if we don't change then we might lose everyone to atheism. What exactly do you suggest we change, well, for one, no sex with boys.Speaker 6: TheSpeaker 7: holy document of law states that a priest, cannot get married, so where are we to get our sex?Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. Today, we are going to have a fantastic episode. We are going to go deep into research around sexuality into statistics around sexuality into biblical theology, a bunch of lines from the Bible. We're going to go into the philosophy of sexuality, and we are going to be coming up with a model [00:03:00] for the way we will teach our kids to engage with their sexuality, because I think one of the biggest back doors, you know, when a person comes to me in a traditional religion and when they say, you know, when they hear me say, oh, you need to evolve this tradition or you are going to get creamed by the urban monoculture.Like, well, what do you mean by that? One of the number one things I am going to elevate is Is the way that their religion relates to sexuality, sexual rules that evolved in a time period before basically free internet pornography was everywhere for contraception. When. STDs were running rampant when you had to worry about getting random people pregnant, like at a high level is going to create a very different optimal rule system than a modern system.And people might be like, well, why not just be stricter? And it's like, well, because that causes really bad [00:04:00] externalities within a modern culture, but also leaves often a back door in a child's brain where you have not built a framework for how a part of the world works. that the urban monoculture can basically install a self replicating mimetic framework that can eventually eat their entire mind.And that's what all the gender ideology stuff is. But first I want to talk about how. These old rules around sexuality keep going wonky in a modern context.And why,as we're going to be arguing here, I would argue that th

In this video, Al and Simone tackle a difficult historical question: Why did once-wealthy Muslim empires decline into poverty? They discuss misconceptions about the economic downfall and explore the historical context, including the wealth and advancements of Muslim empires around the year 1000. They also cover various socio-economic factors such as inheritance laws, usury laws, colonialism, and the alliance between religious and political authorities. The episode delves into specific challenges facing Muslim-majority countries compared to the historical context and also includes a discussion on modern Muslim income levels in the U.S. and the impact of governance and religious practices. The video concludes with thoughts about potential reforms and the importance of adapting religious interpretations to today's technological and socio-economic realities. Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] HEllo Simone. Today we are going to be asking a question and I really do not know how to word this. Um, Whyare Muslims so poor? don't you get a job? If you're so hungry, why don't you get a job? Get a goddamn job, Al. You got a negative attitude.Speaker: That's what's stopping you. You gotta get your act together.Malcolm Collins: But somebody may, may look at this and be like, that's a silly question. You know, obviously Muslim regions of the world were never wealthy and colonialism and the Muslims are coming from poor countries and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, except none of those things actually explain the question at hand because.In fact, at the year 1000, the Muslim empires were probably, by a pretty easy margin, the wealthiest place in the world. They [00:01:00] made up 10 percent of global GDP. Baghdad had between half a million and a million inhabitants around the year 1000. So that was larger than any city in Western Europe. And then what about Western Europe?Well, the largest city in Western Europe at the time was actually an Islamic city. Cordoba. Which is in present day Spain, which had around half a million people living in it. Wow. They also were so O. P. In the sciences. You know, not just like inventing irrigation or more modern irrigation algebra modern medicine but they were so op in the sciences that western european authors when they would write in the sciences would write under fake islamic name So that people would take their work seriously,Simone Collins: niceMalcolm Collins: Which I just find absolutely hilarious.And so for some of these old texts, we don't actually know if they were written by European scholars or Islamic scholars because all the European scholars had to write under Muslim [00:02:00] names because everyone just knew it like Muslim science better. And well, and this is where you get, you know, the owl prefix, that's algebras alchemy, which is basically chemistry of that period.But, and if you're like, oh, colonialism, but by the 1700s, the Islamic world share of the GDP had dropped from 10 percent to just 2. 2%, and that was well before the era of colonialism.Simone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collins: So you can't blame this on colonialism something happened in between the year 1, 000 and the year 17, 000, which turned Islam from the global superpower cultural group, both in terms of technological output and in terms of economic output to a backwater.And some individuals might say, well, but, but, but, you know. The European tradition is based on a much older you know, like they, they, they go, can go all the way back to classical Greece and [00:03:00] they just have an older tradition to draw from. Right. Or, or they could argue that well, Christianity maybe has an older tradition to draw from, but.The problem , is that the Muslim world happens to have grown out of, where? Mesopotamia and Egypt! Much older traditions to draw from! Oh dear. You have the Persian Empire, which was, in many ways, significantly more advanced than the Greek Empire. I mean, that's what makes the Greco Persian wars for me, the most interesting period in history is you have this conflict that it's this existential conflict between two regions that are superpowers in totally unique and different ways.Right. And, and it, it, it plays out so well. It's like a, a RPG where You know, like when, okay, when Starcraft came out in terms of like resource management, RPGs, that was like the first time I really remember playing one of those were like the different races that you could play as actually had like totally unique units to them.And [00:04:00] in most of the other periods in history, when you're looking at wars or something like that, it is broadly similar units against broadly similar units. But when you go to the Greco Persian war, you are dealing with. Totally different civilizational structures and totally different, it's like it's different as the Terran and the Protoss, like, it, it is, it is, it is fascinating to me that this ever happened in human history and we can get to relive this and I might do other lectur

Join us as we explore the 'pod person' reaction, a curious mix of unease and uncanny valley effects, and its intriguing link to specific behavioral patterns and religious communities, prominently Mormonism. Delve into the reasons behind individuals shifting towards extreme wokeism, and the ripple effects on fertility collapse, US culture wars, and political alliances. Additionally, discover the transformation of Mormon influencers redefining traditional values on social media, and the significant impact of Mormon culture on the atheist and skeptic communities online. Concluding with a heartwarming glimpse into the creator's family life, this episode is a fascinating blend of cultural analysis and personal storytelling. Microphone (3- ATR2100x-USB Microphone) & EMEET SmartCam Nova 4K-5: [00:00:00] We are going to be exploring the pod person reaction. This is the emotional response of unease combined with an uncanny valley, feeling that some people experience when they encounter individuals who exhibit a specific set of behavioral patterns. This reaction has been used to build an entire sub genre of horror.Speaker 26: I don't remember him being that friendly. He's obviously one of them. HowMicrophone (3- ATR2100x-USB Microphone) & EMEET SmartCam Nova 4K-5: We are going to explore why people who elicit this reaction have historically been drawn to specific religious communities with a focus on MormonismSpeaker 20: Hello, ma'am. My goodness, you have such an attractive little garden here.Speaker 7: It is so much better. There's no fear or pain. It's beautiful We want you.Microphone (3- ATR2100x-USB Microphone) & EMEET SmartCam Nova 4K-5: And why most of the individuals within those religious communities who elicited this reaction have left over the past decade or so and become extremely wokeUm, uh,Speaker 47: [00:01:00] Screams Hello, Simone. I am so excited to be here with you today. I am genuinely so excited for this episode because I have had a realization that has changed my life. So many things about how I see fertility collapse, about how I see the U.Malcolm Collins: S. culture wars, about how I see shifting political alliances in this country, and about how I see cultures can protect themselves from fertility collapse. And it came from a very unexpected place, and it is a topic we have been building up to for these past two days on this lecture. And the unexpected place is pod people.Simone Collins: What as in that, that trope of sci-fi, scary creatures that make you conform?Malcolm Collins: Yes. We will get into the trope more in just a second. But what actually had me realize it was this moment where I was talking with one of our Mormon [00:02:00] fans and he was asking a question about a part of history that Mormons, some Mormons are aware of.But most Americans wouldn't be aware of because generally, if it didn't take place on the coast or within black or Native American culture, nobody recorded it happening. And he's like, why did the backwoods people, my cultural ancestors, usually end up killing Mormons whenever they tried to migrate to their territory?It's a good question becauseSimone Collins: Mormons didn't have a fun time.Malcolm Collins: And, to me, it just seems so blindingly obvious. Just so outlandishly and loudly obvious he came back and he's like, what do you mean the, the pod person instinct?And I was like, you know, that thing that makes you think like certain groups look culty when they approach you? And I realized he And maybe many other Mormons don't have the pod person instinct. And of course they [00:03:00] wouldn't like, why did I assume , they would like, you wouldn't give off that vibe.If you were aware that this was a vibe that you could give off.Simone Collins: I don't, I don't even know if I'm aware of it. Maybe this is like gay dar where some people have it and others don't. Do you, when do you get this feeling when you go to Japan? They have a very conformist culture,Malcolm Collins: but it's too different from mine.Simone Collins: Okay. So it has to be close to your own culture, but it has to beMalcolm Collins: uniform in a way. . So I'll give you examples of people who trigger pod person instinct in me. Okay. Okay. Great examples would be. Mitt Romney, big pod person energy, most Scientologists I've interacted with as big pod person energy.One who's not in any of these groups who gets big pod person energy is Chris Williamson. Very big pod person energy. Catholic preachers is another group that triggers this instinct.Not all Catholic preachers, but some Catholic preachers, like the good boy Catholic preachers. They trigger it really [00:04:00] hard. And I should know that this instinct isn't unique to me. There's like a whole genre of horror around this instinct.Simone Collins: There totally is, and it's even I willMalcolm Collins: post on screen here a scare tactics episode that I think does a very good job eliciting it. So before you see this, for people who aren't fami

Unseen Insights: Mormon Fertility Trends and Cultural Dynamics In this special episode of Basecamp, we delve into exclusive data regarding fertility trends among the Mormon community, contributed by one of our listeners. Through a study involving 310 members from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, fascinating trends emerge among different age and religiosity groups. We discuss the rapid transition to wokeness, fertility collapse, and the impact of cultural pride versus deontological religious rules on fertility rates. The episode explores clan-based versus communalist moral systems and their influence on Mormon society, offering intriguing insights into the future of Mormon demographics and culture. Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] HeLlo, Simone, I am excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be having a very special episode where we are going to be giving you Basecamp listeners access to exclusive data that no one else has seen. And you know why? Because one of you put it together.Yes.So anyway, I was talking with this fan, and he is saying, anecdotally, as a Mormon so, obviously he has a lot of insight into what the Mormons are doing, the fertility rate among the Mormon community, he goes, it seems to me that the most religious of Mormons are having two big issues.One is, is they are going woke much faster than other Mormons. Like, the individuals within their communities seem to go woke at a higher rate than other communities. He noted. This mostly happens when they deconvert, but this is still a problem because their kids will be going to the same schoolsMicrophone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-4: which can become a drain on the community overall.Malcolm Collins: And two is, they just seem to be being hit by fertility collapse much harder. than just generically religious Mormons. [00:01:00] And I was like, that's a really interesting observation.Would you mind trying a study on that? And he actually went on and did a study and a big one. He got 310 people involved in this.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: And so, he found out that his hypothesis was born out in the data and It gives us one of the keys for a new theory at solving fertility collapse that I have been building.Simone Collins: Oh, yummy. I'm excited for this.Malcolm Collins: I'm quoting him right now in an email where he sent the data to me. I took it upon myself to do a study on age, religiosity, and fertility among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.Everyone in the study has strong ties to the state of Utah and still maintains some relationship. For some, it may be very complicated, with Mormons as a cultural group. This is based on a random sampling of 310 people I found on Facebook for the study. They are divided into six groups. Groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, with [00:02:00] 1 being least religious and 6 being most religious.Findings were stark. Among those aged 65 the correlation between religiosity and fertility was 0. 8%. They had an average of f 4. 53. So 65 and older for a 4. 5 average fertility r mormon. But that's also w Remember mormons used toFor and younger. The fertility rates dropped dramatically among those 35 to 64. The correlation between religiosity and fertility rate was 0. 16. So, no, it dropped to a rather low level. It dropped from 0. 45 to 0. 16 in this next generation. And I'm going to, you know, I think what's really happening here and why this hasn't been picked up in data yet is, I think that this is a new phenomenon.Where in some religious traditions within the [00:03:00] modern post cell phone generation generation. Fertility rates drop as religiosity enters extreme ranges. But we'll, we'll, we'll talk more about the data here. Going back to the quote, what appears to be the case is that among the strongly religious, they started having kids less, but among those less religious, they still had cultural reasons to have kids.35 to 64, Age cohort had a fertility rate of 2.92. Among those age 25 to 34, the correlation between religiosity and fertility was 0.32, so much stronger than the 35 to 64 group, but not as high as the 65 plus age group. They currently have a fertility rate of 1.1, but I expect this group to eventually have 0.9 more children on average.So round out to about two barely below replacement rateSimone Collins: so wait, you meant 2.1 then.Malcolm Collins: You justSimone Collins: said 1. 1 earlier.Malcolm Collins: No, they have a current fertility rate of [00:04:00] 1. 1, but he expects them to have an additional 0. 9 kids as they age. Oh, oh, sorry, ofSimone Collins: this sample. Okay, yeah, sorry, okay, now I'm following.Malcolm Collins: By the way, I don't cut out when you misunderstand something, because other people have pointed out in the comments, they're like, if Simone has misunderstood something, more than half your audience NotSimone Collins: everyone is as sleep deprived as Simone.So, that's Maybe not, but yeah.Malcolm Collins: Well t

In this episode, we explore the fascinating and dramatic decline in fertility rates across the United States and compare it with homicide rates to uncover an unusual correlation. We examine how fertility rates have decreased from 2005 to 2022 and notice remarkable overlaps with homicide rates. Globally, we discuss patterns in various regions, particularly focusing on the anomaly of Russia and Greenland. We dive deep into cultural histories, especially the Greater Appalachian region, examining their violent traditions and high fertility rates. We conclude by scrutinizing three core identity types - individualist, communalist, and clan-based - and how they impact fertility rates, with an anticipation of future episodes on related topics. [00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: You can open your WhatsApp now because I told her I want to surprise her. Okay. You can look at the first three maps that I show you, which I think it gives people an idea just how quickly and dramatically fertility rates are declining In the United States, most of the United States in 2005 had the fertility rate that today only our highest fertility states have.And so here I'm showing a a a 2022. He chart of fertility rates in the United States, then we're going back 10 years and you're saying okay Fertility rates are declining and now we're gonna go back to 2005 and you see basically the entire United States max out the fertility rateSimone Collins: If you go in chronological order, it looks Like a pond going dry as though the United States was full of water and then there's only a little bit of water at the bottom of a mostly dried up pond at this point.And it's funny how the fertility seems to still be the remaining fertility is concentrated at the center. Well,Malcolm Collins: so, well, not [00:01:00] exactly in the center. So I want you to contrast 2 maps here. Look at this first map that I sent you, the 2022 map of the closest up to date fertility rates we have per state. And then look at this red map underneath it.Do younotice that they have a remarkable overlap?Okay, so this red map Yeah. This is a map of homicide rates.Simone Collins: Oh, damn. Um, Okay. So, wow. Just I guess we have a high churn rate. You know, birth to death.Malcolm Collins: So if you take out the states that you know are disproportionately high just due to major cities, i.e. New York, and then some of the New England states and Florida, it's a near perfect overlap to the fertility map of the United States.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: When you correct for cities, it's a perfect overlap homicides match fertility rates.And then I wanted to say, like, is this a us thing or is this an, a global thing, right? . . So if you look at the first global map, in fact, [00:02:00] can you even tell which of these two maps is the fertility map and which is the global homicide map?Simone Collins: If, if I hadn't, if I wasn't looking at the labeling. No, I definitely would've thought that this was not fertility, because why would California be so high?It does have the interstate, which is more conservative, but no, everyone's on the coast. It would not make sense. SoMalcolm Collins: I'm not talking about the us I'm talking about the two global maps, I think. Oh, theSimone Collins: global maps. Okay. Hold on. I haven't looked at the global maps yet. Okay. So, okay. I'm looking at the first global map.Whoa. Okay. I would not be able to tell the difference. We're not for Russia.Malcolm Collins: Russia is the big outlier. So here we're gonna look at Europe because we're actually gonna talk about why Russia's the big outlier here. 'cause I think it's really interesting that this is the case.Simone Collins: Well what about Iceland too?It is a little sus what's going on there?Malcolm Collins: Yeah. What's with theseSimone Collins: terminal Northern nations? Wait, why doesMalcolm Collins: Greenland have such a high [00:03:00] fertility? Oh,Simone Collins: that wait. Green. Oh.Malcolm Collins: Oh no. That's a murder rate. Why does green rate that's a murder rate? That's what I was sayingMicrophone (Wireless Microphone Rx): The answer appears to be, nobody knows. , but, , the best explanation that I read is only a few murders a year can really knock up a country with such a small population murder rate. And because Greenland has such a very,And what's the word I'm looking for here. Remote geography. It's very easy to get someone alone or do something to somebody without any real risk of consequences.Simone Collins: is Iceland and Russia seem to be weirdly terminal.Like there's just this. That's what makes them obviously not about fragility. The other bigMalcolm Collins: area where this trend doesn't hold is Latin America.Which is low fertility, but also high murder murder.Simone Collins: Gosh, they're just completely undoing just, just when you think that Russia couldn't be more screwed.Well,Malcolm Collins: yeah. Now, if you look at just Europe, which I have here, you can see the

Join Malcolm and Simone Collins as they dive deep into the world of Catholic natalism with special guest Peachy Keenan, author of "Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War." In this enlightening conversation, Peachy shares her journey from secular upbringing to devout Catholicism, offering invaluable insights on raising a large family in today's challenging cultural landscape.Simone Collins: [00:00:00] HEllo. My name is Simone Collins. I'm here with Malcolm and today a very special guest as well.I'm so excited. This has been months in waiting. We are joined by Peachy Keenan. She is the author of Domestic Extremist, a practical guide to winning the culture war. Her substack you can find at peachykeenan. com. And in addition to regularly sharing top drawer hot takes on Twitter and her handles Keenan Peachy she's actually working on a new media startup called Lost Riviera, which maybe we'll hear about at the end, but Peachy, welcome.Peachy Keenan: Thank you so much, you guys. It is so great to finally be here. We were scheduling it for such a long time and to see your smiling, happy faces. Well, you,Malcolm Collins: you were speaking at the pronatalist conference and you were the funniest speaker there. So I am thrilled to have you on. Although I have to say some of our fans recently have also said my wife is really funny.And I, I, that must be incredibly gender disconfirming for you. Because you know, the [00:01:00] stereotype is, is women, women aren't that, that humorous.Peachy Keenan: That is, except for the women on, who are kind of like more right leaning, I feel like they are actually very funny and that's why they're kind of drawn into this, I think.Malcolm Collins: Okay. Well, I had a specific question that I wanted to focus on with this episode. Okay. So, there was a report that came out and looked at the fertility rate of the American native born Catholic population. And, and, and so for For those who don't know, P. G. Keenan is, I think, sort of the number one Catholic pronatalist in terms of like anyone I'm seeing.And it came out and said that the average fertility rate was 1. 64 in the United States. Now, that's pretty bad considering the report was done in 2008. It was called Religiosity and Fertility in the United States, the Role of Family Fertility Intentions. When we look at Europe, The average Catholic majority country has a fertility rate of only 1.3. And in Latin America, we've seen a rapid fertility collapse as well in the Catholic majority countries. [00:02:00] Now there have been studies and we know what's causing this. Catholics actually have exactly the same fertility rate once they're married as any other highly religious individual. But they get married much later than all other Christian denominations.And so I wanted to brainstorm with you. Why do you think this phenomenon is happening? And how can we fix it?Peachy Keenan: I've got all the answers right here. Hold on. Yeah. You have 30Simone Collins: seconds. Go.Peachy Keenan: Well, I'm going to just take a step back a little bit from that. I'm a Catholic convert, but I didn't, you know, I'm not just sort of one of these sort of regular, normal, normie American Catholics who kind of goes to mass at Easter and Christmas and like has two, 2.5 kids, like that's not me. I'm more, I definitely joined the like more fundamentalist traditionalist Catholic sect, okay, because honestly, like I was coming from a very secular nothingness, you know, like actually like my mother was like a committed atheist. And when I was going to do it, I was like, okay, I'm, I'm in, [00:03:00] I wanted to like do it, actually do it, like actually do the real thing.I want to be authentic. You know the authentic Catholic experience. Okay. And so I found this like, you know, group of, you know, our little like Catholic cult. There's these bubbles that are in various cities in America. You can find them. They're very based parishes where it's not watered down. They're not, they're not mimicking the Pope.They're not saying, you know, who am I to judge their judging and they are okay. It wasSimone Collins: just greatPeachy Keenan: in a healthy way. Okay. They are like, if you listen up and you're like, oh, that you, it will lead you to good places. It will lead you to all this.Malcolm Collins: Social pressure towards positive action. Yeah.Peachy Keenan: Yes, exactly. How it's always been.That'sMalcolm Collins: very old Everyone is supposed to be able to do whatever makes them feel good whenever they feel like doing it and be affirmed for believing whatever they want to believe about themselves. There's no way that could lead to any sort of psychological damage. Exactly. [00:04:00]Peachy Keenan: All youMalcolm Collins: havePeachy Keenan: to do is like walk down any street where I live and you'll see the consequences of that.Right. I, yeah,Simone Collins: you're in the, Malcolm, you know, she's in Southern California, right? So likeMalcolm Co

In this episode, we take an in-depth look at the controversial Antifa movement, exploring its decentralized operations, anarchic structure, and the psychological tactics it employs to justify violence. We reveal insights from former members and draw parallels between Antifa's methods and historical fascist tactics. Additionally, we delve into the fervor surrounding conspiracy theories, anti-government sentiments, and the spiritual collectives forming within political groups, including those supporting Trump. Join us for a comprehensive exploration of these fascinating and complex topics. Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. I decided to do something interesting for this episode. I was like because I've noticed on a few of our videos. I've gone into a topic and I realized that our coverage of the topic is the most thorough coverage of a topic that I can find. And I decided to do the same thing with Antifa because it was just one of those things where I was like, I don't think anyone else has covered this.You doSimone Collins: this with your books too. Keep in mind whenever you write a book, it's typically because there's a subject that you don't feel is covered very well by anyone.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. And so, I mean, I have, I've, I've heard of Antifa as a concept out of all of my deep dives.Probably surprised me the most.Simone Collins: Wow. Are you, are we going to join Antifa now? Is this the surprise? No, no, no.Malcolm Collins: But the left is right. Remember there was that time when people on the left kept saying like Antifa is a conspiracy theory, Antifa doesn't exist. I, I don't know if you remember when this was like the mainstream talking point on the left.Where they were [00:01:00] like, Antifa is made up, the right is attacking, you know, they're making up this fictional evil organization to attack, and the organization isn't a representation of anything real, and if you talked about Antifa, you would be labeled as a conspiracy theorist. This was during Trump's first run where the concept of Antifa was seen as a conspiracy.And some people still hold to this line, but very few still do. Most people generally agree that Antifa is a real thing that exists. The problem is, is it's not. But, unfortunately, like, where my research sort of hit a wall to begin with, Is Antifa doesn't meaningfully exist, and yet it does meaningfully exist.So and we have multiple members are people who follow this podcast or hang out in our discord who are former Antifa members like reformed Antifa members.Microphone (3- ATR2100x-USB Microphone): This video actually ends with about a 30 minute interview of one of these. Followers of ours, who used to be in Antifa about [00:02:00] what happens at Antifa meetings, the way Antifa organizes and just a general . Logistics. Of Antifa operations.Would you like to know moreMalcolm Collins: And so what I mean when I say Antifa doesn't really exist is twofold. One, there is no centralized Antifa organization. There is no group that has a, and two, there is no centralized Antifa ideology.Simone Collins: Okay. So you don't get a membership card. There is no president. There's no nonprofit organization. There is noMalcolm Collins: barrier to entry. Literally anyone can just say I'm Antifa or sort ofSimone Collins: anarchic. I am anonymous, et cetera.Malcolm Collins: Yeah.Simone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collins: Anyone, anyone know anonymous was quite different. There were some organized power hierarchies where people can go.And there were like, it might be that anyone can technically claim to be anonymous, but there actually are. Individuals who are disproportionately [00:03:00] influencers in the actions of what we call anonymous was in Antifa. There appears to be like, if I'm even just looking for like one famous, like important individual was in Antifa.There's going to be much fewer of them. The, the flatness of the organizations is much, much bigger than it is with Anonymous. But in addition to that, the discordant views and goals of the people who are within Antifa are Hugely various as we're going to go over in just a second. All that Antifa really is, in fact, I would say Antifa is less of a unified idea than something like the alt right.Which is what Antifa really sort of emerged to mirror. But. It went further than the alt right ever did, and it represents what I would call a psychological technology. Or a, specifically, it's a technology that gives individuals a psychological license to do [00:04:00] violence against moderates of the other side.So, what it means when somebody says they're Antifa, like, what fundamentally are they telling you? They're saying They believe that they have a psychological license and the moral justification to act upon a center right MAGA dad the way they would treat a literal Nazi at a, at a concentration camp.Simone Collins: Oh, I get it. Okay. Okay. So yeah, Antifa is to scary, violent, political extr

In this episode, we dive into the surprising statistics that reveal the shocking comparative decline of traditional media outlets like The New York Times and Fox News. We analyze how new media platforms such as YouTube and podcasts are gaining ground in terms of viewership and cultural impact. From measuring the influence of legacy newspapers to discussing content creation dynamics on YouTube, this conversation covers a wide range of fascinating topics. Additionally, we touch upon the influence of culture on media consumption, the evolution of news, and how modern trends affect societal perceptions. Don't miss this compelling dialogue that sheds light on the future of media consumption.Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] HEllo, Simone. I am so excited to be talking to you today. We're going to have some stats here that I think are going to shock you and our listeners because they shocked me. And I'll just jump into, I think one of the most surprising to me. So the average American when they click through to a newspaperis on that link for 1.5 minutes actually a little less than that. So I'm inflating the numbers a bit. Okay. If you look at the New York Times,the New York Times gets around 385. 7 million clicks per month. That comes down to around 9, 642, 000 K hours on the New York Times. Okay? Now, consider that they have 1, 700 journalists working there, and there are two of us.That means That the content we produce is consumed bySeven timesAs much time. As the content produced [00:01:00] by an average New York Times journalist. That means that the entire New York Times is only 121x more watched than our podcast just on YouTube. Right. And we are not a big channel.Would you like to know more?Simone Collins: So, there's just no way that This can be financially justified going forward.I mean, how can advertisers continue? Well, now the New York times is a subscriber based. So maybe this is more of the sub stack thing is New York times invented the sub stack model before the sub stack. Well, I mean, I guess they went back to the original magazine. So the original, before they were newspapers, there were magazines and magazines were the original sub stack.They were specialized information. That people paid for because it was useful to them in their careers and in their social lives. And then things sort of went on to newspapers and they went mass. And now we've gone back to niche with sub stack. And I think the New York Times is becoming that too. So [00:02:00] somehow the New York Times is able to pay for it.I think a lot of its legacy reputation. But for these other publications, like general newspapers, nonMalcolm Collins: broadcast. All sorts of other publications go over their actual, like how much they're consumed. And then compare that with popular YouTube channels. Okay. Popular YouTube channels.Just in case, you're wondering the math here. Typically an individual who has a subject subscriber is making like 500% more. Well, I think more than that, maybe like. A thousand percent more from that viewer than they would be. If that viewer was on YouTube or something like that. Uh, I mean, just consider you, you're watching this episode. And you are paying me to watch this episode may be. , a fraction of a cent. But if you were on subject and you were paying like, I don't know. $5 a month to me or something like that. You'd be paying significantly more. I'd also point out here. How much of the ad spend within traditional media is sentiment driven [00:03:00] by the advertisers as evidence of this.We see how many advertisers were able to pull off of. X slash Twitter. The moment it was bought by Elan. If they were advertising with the goal of reaching a consumer, this would not have been something they would've done it. Would've been like, obviously he didn't change the math of advertising on X. , he, all it changed was the sentiment of the advertising class.So in a big way, traditional media is something that is just being subsidized by the, I guess what I call it, the Karens who run marketing departments. So the core thesis that I'm going to be getting across here is when you look to legacy media and you are thinking about the impact it has on our culture, you shouldn't think about it as a thing that is separate from the other online influencers of our day.You should just think of it as a specific category. What's the word I'm looking for [00:04:00] here? Crowdsourced like community. So I, I, I'll, I'll word it this way, right. People can be like, well, the New York Times is quite different from something like a, a YouTube personality, because, you know, the New York Times has thousands of reporters, right?And YouTube Oh no.Simone Collins: But it has a sizable staff. Yes.Malcolm Collins: None of the thousand seven hundred.Simone Collins: Okay, almost two thousand, but that's not thousands, that's hundreds.Malcolm Collins: Okay, anyway, point being The New York Times is a sizable staff, therefore, you know, in YouTube

In this thought-provoking episode, we delve into the concept of "brain rot" - a specific type of cognitive decline that affects people across all age groups and social strata. We explore how modern lifestyles, social media, and changing social norms contribute to this phenomenon, and discuss strategies to combat it. Key topics include:Speaker: It could be that the reason they're on these simple narrative loops is because they are unable to think or ask themselves, does this person care? Like, does this person, what, why is this person interacting with me from their perspective?Speaker 2: what's interesting is his wife isn't like that. She's very sensitive to what people are saying.Speaker: I thinkSpeaker 2: the key is I, I, she maintains a relationship with her old sorority friends. And I'm pretty sure they're pretty catty and mean to each other and very competitive. So it's funny because you can look at it from one perspective and be like, gosh, your in all these toxic relationships. But then from the other perspective, you'd be like, wow, thank goodness. Your in all these toxic relationships. Cause it keeps her sharp and entertaining.Speaker: Because the internet allows for new forms of brain rot, i. e. you don't necessarily need to interact with other people in your daily life. You're not getting thatSpeaker 2: feedback. The training.Well, and we're so used to being through all these different scrolling consumption pathways , just passive information and entertainment being served to [00:01:00] us with no requirement that we serve anything back.There's no reciprocity. It is unidirectional.Speaker: Do you think people with deep brain rot are really sentient or do you think that it's like not a big problem for them to die?Speaker 2: Yeah, not a big problem for them today.Would you like to know more?Speaker: Hello, Simone! It is wonderful to be here with you today. Today we are going to talk about a concept. That we internally call brain rot and it is something that I like proposed as a mechanism of action For a way that people, as they get older, begin to fall into a particular type of thought that makes it impossible for them to hold complex ideas.And originally it was sort of a theory, like, it seems like this might be what's happening in their brains.Speaker 3: Mm hmm.Speaker: And since I have had that theory and interacted with older people again and again and again and see it play out exactly like this over and over again, I have now moved it from theory to fact, and it is weird to [00:02:00] me that other people don't seem to have noticed this.What people will say is Well, as people become older, they become stuck in their way, or as people become older, there's some degree of cognitive decline. But what I am noticing in here is not a general cognitive decline, but a very specific type of cognitive decline that is very noticeable. Specifically, what brain rot is, is when an individual reaches a stage of brain rot and you talk to them, all they will be able to do, or what they will default into, is repeating.Simple narrative loops that are about painting a picture for themselves, about who they are and painting a picture to you about who they are. And so what these will look like is if, for example, being infirmed is particularly important to their self identity, they will go into a narrative loop of something that happened to them around that [00:03:00] particular topic with Attempts to model the target of this loop.So they will not be thinking, how will this modify your perception of them? They will not be thinking, how does this telling them this further my goals? They're all not be thinking, is this something individual wants to hear? It is and so the question is, is why does this act behavior pattern seem to happen so, so, so frequently?Speaker 3: Mm hmm.Speaker: So Simone, what are your thoughts and I can give my thoughts on this as well.Speaker 2: Yeah, so I have a very strong belief that this is a use it or lose it dynamic. That basically, and this is regardless of age too this shows up across so much of the research I see. Basically, if you use something it will maintain fairly good condition.Be it your muscles, be it your eyes, be it whatever. And if you do not use it, it will atrophy. This seems to be backed up pretty well in [00:04:00] research. For example, there's, there's one study called television viewing and cognitive decline in older age. findings from the English longitudinal study of aging that found that watching over three and a half hours of TV correlated with greater cognitive decline because you're just sitting there passively watching.Whereas actually a different study found that playing a video game did not correlate, like sort of inversely correlated with cognitive decline in older people. So like more engagement. It specifically also like another study called cultural engagement and incidents of cognitive impairment a six year longitudinal follow up of the Japan gerontolo

In this provocative and thought-provoking video, we dive deep into the controversial topic of climate change and environmental policies. We challenge mainstream narratives and explore alternative perspectives on global warming, environmental conservation, and the future of human civilization. This video covers:* Critical analysis of climate change data and predictions* The debate between environmental conservation and human progress* Examination of proposed solutions like iron seeding and carbon capture* Discussion on the politicization of environmental issues* The relationship between environmentalism and population growth* Critique of mainstream environmental movements and their motivations* Exploration of technological solutions to environmental challenges* The future of human civilization in the face of environmental changesNote: This video presents controversial viewpoints and is intended to stimulate critical thinking and debate.[00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: Hello simone today We are going to be talking about how much I You hate the environment, burn it down, burn it down. I am so done with it. I am so done with dealing with environmentalists.Speaker: Alright, that does it! I f ed it!Oh, now she figures it out.Malcolm Collins: When I came into all of this print natalist stuff, I started being like, well, maybe we can find common ground. You know, obviously the environment matters, but like, we should probably try to save humanity as well.Speaker: Quick! Everybody help the children!Hyaaah! Dude, bulldozers rule! Come on, let's get you back to civilization! Hooray! Hooray,Malcolm Collins: Like I really, and you know, me, I tried to do a middle line, you, She got her undergraduate degree in [00:01:00] environmental business. Okay. It was one of these created degrees. Her first jobs were at companies like Earth Day Network and ACOR and other environmentalist stuff. Like we are not intrinsically antagonistic to environmentalism as a cause, but as time has gone on.My relation to environmentalism has dramatically changed, and it's been changing more like I'd even say over this year, where I am getting further and further to a standpoint of just the environment, like, I'm done. We don't need to save it. We don't need it for humanity to survive.Speaker 2: We're clearing out big sections of the rainforest for a lumberyard.Really? That's great! You mean you don't mind? No! I hate the rainforest! You go rightSpeaker: ahead and plow down this whole f*****g thing! That's swell!Malcolm Collins: And a lot of the stuff that environmentalists are going on and on about these days.Aren't even [00:02:00] necessarily like, an intrinsic negative. For biodiversity. If that's what they're trying to protect, and that's one of the areas that we're going to get into it just a second. But I want to hear your thoughts before I move further.Simone Collins: Yeah, I struggle a lot with this. I think the big issue here is very similar to the bigger issues.We constantly talk about with the urban monoculture, which is that we don't have anything inherently against the values that it. Proposes to a spouse. We are not against LGBTQ rights. We're not against personal liberty. We're not against freedom of choice. We're not against people choosing to live how they want to live, which is sort of what I, at least I grew up thinking progressivism and being left was the Marxism.I didn't really know about, I guess this is the same issue with environmentalism where we are inherently in favor of sustainability. Of biodiversity, of, of flourishing of life. The reason we don't like environmentalism [00:03:00] is because it has been corrupted to the extent that it actively runs against the best interests of these causes.Speaker: You only fight these causes cause caring cells All you activists can go f**k yourselves That was so inspiring! What a wonderful message!Malcolm Collins: Yeah, well, and we did another episode that focused on like environmentalists are the biggest threat to the environment, but. I actually want to do more of a, a splitting here where I used to be like, look, I'm against environmentalism because I don't think it actually helps the environment. We're now, I've begun to move more and more into the perspective of, I might just not care about saving the environment at all.Speaker: Do do do do do, da da do, wow!Speaker 2: There's a place called the Rainforest that truly sucks ass.Speaker: Let's knock it all down and get rid of it fast.Malcolm Collins: You know, I,Simone Collins: I don't. Just screw the earth. I'm going off the planet.Malcolm Collins: Well, we're going to be doing that eventually anyway. So yeah, okay. I'll get into some specifics here. So [00:04:00] like, if you look at global warming, first of all, you know, what do plants need to grow?Global climate change, global climate change, right?Do we call itwarning now? We call it climate change. I don'tknow. I don't know. I don't know. Like, I don't know if I'm allowed to say

https://discord.com/invite/EGFRjwwS92Decoding Fertility Rates: Income, Culture, and Ideological Influences In this episode, Simone and Malcolm dive deep into fertility statistics, examining the correlation between income levels and fertility rates across different demographics. They unpack several studies, including ones from Lyman Stone, and discuss the intricate relationship between wealth and the number of children people have. The discussion also covers cultural influences, historical trends, and specific cases in various parts of the world such as pre-industrial societies, modern Africa, and the United States. Key insights are shared on how educational attainment, societal norms, and economic factors impact fertility rates. Tune in to explore the nuances and complexities of demographic changes and fertility patterns. [00:00:00] Simone! Today we are going to do an episode that focuses on Fertility stats, and it's gonna be a stat heavy episode. It's gonna be a study heavy episode, and it's gonna be on demographic collapse, which our audience love.Ooh, the trifecta. The trifecta. So in today's episode, we are going to focus on the nuances of when fertility decline does not follow the model. The more wealth an individual has, the fewer kids they have. Where are the kinks in this particular incredibly robust statistical trends armor? Would you like to know more?I, I like that we're looking at this because I think The exceptions to the general trend probably yield really useful insights So we're gonna be focused on a few articles here But one of the ones that I'm going to draw a lot from it's actually from Lyman Stone Who runs the Institute of Family Studies and it's [00:01:00] called more money more babies.What's the relationship between income and fertility now? Something we should note here, and it's one of the reasons I'm looking at this, is I believe in always really digging deep. when somebody says something that sounds, you know, utterly preposterous or is obviously ideologically motivated because there's often elements of truth in what they're saying that I may not be seeing on the other side of the ideological fence.Right. So those who are not familiar, haven't read a lot of limestone stuff. He really likes to manipulate statistics to try to argue his perspective. And his perspective is always. That we should be doing more cash handouts and that this can be solved with Christianity. Those are generally the two arguments that he's always going to use.And so he'll often twist things to sort of this, you know, Christian socialist perspective. But this means that he has to argue and he has argued explicitly. There isn't that much of a correlation between [00:02:00] fertility and income, which is just a preposterous thing on its face. There was a piece that he wrote that was attacking us.And this was one of the claims he made when we were pointing out that you don't seem to be able to solve this with cash handouts. However he has invested a lot of energy and a lot of his own personal credibility in debating this matter. And as such he has found a number of interesting points that I may not have caught myself which don't reverse either of the two larger truisms.The first being that you do not appear to, with any reasonable amount of money, be able to pay people or with social services, increase fertility rates. And the second being that generally speaking, the more income a country has or the more income an individual has, the lower their fertility rate is going to be.But there are modifications in this trend. Hmm. Okay. Over where we see those in turn. So the first is that if you look in pre industrial societies, [00:03:00] the more income an individual has, particularly a man, the higher their fertility rate is. in pre industrial societies. Yes. And this is only with male fertility, not female fertility.No, it's also female fertility, but it is more tied with male fertility. So this is from an article titled men's status and reproductive success in 33 non industrial societies affects a subsistence marriage system and reproductive strategy. And this showed a meta analysis of 288 results of 33 non industrial populations.And it showed that. Status is significantly associated with men's reproductive success consistent with the evolved basis for status pursuit. Status hierarchies have changed dramatically though in recent eras. , if anybody doesn't immediately see the implication of this, it does show that dysgenic fertility selection, sorry, I should explain what dysgenic means. Dysgenic means certain environments can cause things to [00:04:00] be selected for in a population that do not actually make the population more fit but just increase the number of surviving offspring that population has.A great example of this is rabbits in the UK. If you've ever seen rabbits in the UK, they're all deformed and weird looking and witness. Yes they, I don't remember the full story. But , the point being is that they

In this episode, the hosts discuss a recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, diving into the details of the incident and the background of the assailant, Ryan Wesley Rouse. They explore Rouse's pro-Ukraine and anti-China sentiments, his troubled past, and his motivations for attempting the assassination. The conversation takes a deep dive into the ideological shifts in society that justify extreme actions, the flaws of bureaucracy, and the broader implications of such events on American politics. The episode also touches on humorous personal anecdotes, including a brief debate on the merits of austerity and living conditions for US presidents. .Malcolm Collins: , [00:00:00] I wonder, I don't think I'm that much crazy. Like if I had less access to resources than I have or less access to public respect than I have, and I needed to get people to pay attention to certain topics, could I be seen as as crazy as this guy in a different timeline?Simone Collins: You're probably seen as more crazy than this guy. He did not try to start a religion.Malcolm Collins: Oh, yeah, it's true. Yeah. Yeah. I'm definitely more crazy than him.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be talking with you today. We just had another presidential assassination attempt in the United States.I was wondering whether or not I should cover this and sort of my takeaway has been there just hasn't been a lot of good comprehensive coverage of this. And so whether it's It's the first debate or the first assassination attempt I have found in our content. It's usually like the most comprehensive coverage of the subjects that I'm able to find online and I take a bit of pride in that.So even when I can't be pointlessly controversial it's worse putting [00:01:00] stuff like this together, but I will yet be pointlessly controversial because I'm going to argue, I kind of like this guy. Aw, that's nice. I don't think he's a bad guy. I think he's trying to assassinate a president, but I, a conservative, am like, yeah, I'm gonna change a few priors and what, you know, this is actually a pretty brave thing to do.Simone Collins: Now That's, that's what I've heard what one free press writer said about him, roughly speaking, I'm paraphrasing here Was that he was crazy, but most people were just kind of like, yeah, I get it. Like good cause he's crazy, but he's fighting for a good cause. And that he reminded her of a character played by Brad Pitt.She is thinking of the movie burn after reading.Simone Collins: Brad Pitt played a character who was a personal fitness trainer trying to attack the CIA or something and was kind of clueless and basically he reminded her of that and she didn't think that he'd do anything crazy like this [00:02:00] but he did.What you gonna do?Malcolm Collins: Well, I mean, and we've seen the rehabilitation of specific crazy people recently as well, like the Unabomber where this is, oh, nowSimone Collins: everyone loves the, you know, IMalcolm Collins: disagree with his actions, but the Unabomber's manifesto. Now that's something we need to talk about. WhySimone Collins: is this such a trendy thing now?This is so crazy.Malcolm Collins: No, he's considered, it's weird. He's considered like, I hear about the Univomers Manifesto, probably as much as I hear about Curtis Yardvin these days. And Nixon. Everyone's,Simone Collins: everyone's in love with Nixon now too. What's up with that?Malcolm Collins: I was always in love with Nixon. He was a genius of his time.Did Colbert's favorite president?Simone Collins: No way.Malcolm Collins: Yeah, he was. Nixon was a genuinely good president, just a little crazy. Actually probably one of the best presidents in American history. Normalizing relations with China for the future of like the next 50 years with nothing but genius. And that is not something that naturally would have happened.Oh yes, am I, am I outing myself as a Kissinger fan as [00:03:00] well?Speaker: What you need is a second in command who understands the intricacies of organized villainy. .Speaker 2: Perfect! You're hired, uh, numberSpeaker: Number Killinger. Dr. Henry Killinger. And this is my magic murder bag. No, you are the magic man. Wow! I suggest you put that into a high yield mutual fund. Now if you'll excuse me, I have much work to do.Simone Collins: Well, let's get back to, let's get back to the assassination. Yeah. Sunday,Malcolm Collins: September 15th, 2024. Shortly before 2 p. m. the incidents occurred at Trump's golf course in West Palm beach, Florida.Trump was out golfing at the time he was playing Whole five. Now I am going to put on screen a picture of where Trump was on the golf course in where the guy was aiming at him on the golf course. During the incident, Ryan Wesley, Ruth was hiding in the bushes in this area. I am, I am showing on the map here.Agents [00:04:00] saw his rifle peeking out of the bushes. It was an AK 47 variant. And they fired four to fiv

In this gripping episode, we explore the rising crime rates in major U.S. cities, focusing on new crime trends and their impact on local businesses. We dive into the implications of advanced surveillance technologies like Amazon Go's 'Just Walk Out Technology,' and discuss shocking incidents such as the TikTok 'Chase Money Glitch.' Examining societal perceptions and police responses, we debate tough-on-crime policies, including drastic measures like mass incarceration and execution. Additionally, we explore the ethics of creating penal colonies for repeat offenders and the distinction between intellectual property and personal crimes, ending on a lighter interaction through social media. Join us for an in-depth analysis of crime, justice, and societal responses. ​[00:00:00]Speaker 2: Hello, Simone. Today we are going to be talking about an interesting topic. One is new forms of crime and crime waves that are hitting major American cities at the moment and transforming the nature of business in these cities.Speaker 6: If you could walk into a store, grab what you want, and just go. What would shopping look like?Speaker 7: Oh my god! Call the police!Speaker 6: Welcome to Amazon Go. We call it Just Walk Out Technology. PieceSpeaker 8: of s**t. I'll be overdosed.Speaker 2: recently. There was a TikTok trend. . That was called the, the chase money glitch.Speaker 20: Twins, Twins, I'm not even gonna lie. I'm not even supposed to condone this type of behavior due to the direction that I'm trying to project my life in. But that Chase Bait Plate looking too sweet right now, Twins. No cap. I can just hit one Chase Bait Plate.Speaker 18: The f**k man? They really told me to tap in next day I was supposed to [00:01:00] clear look at my account yoSpeaker 24: Cause I have 30, 000 in credit card debt. When they call, I tell them I can't pay it back yet. Credit card debtSpeaker 3: I'm so excited about this.Speaker 2: is despite what people think there is actually pretty strong evidence that crime in the current day and age is at one of its highest levels in human history.Speaker: That's meaningful because normally the trend is, oh, you watch the news, you think crime is so bad when really crime has never been lower and violence has never been lower.Speaker 2: If you crime is going down. Just to quickly know where this number comes from. Specifically, what they do at is they correlate crime rates across cultures with homicide rates, which are much easier to track in absolute amounts, right? Because manySpeaker: people have things stolen from them and just never report it or even that reporting just gets lost.And so it's not good. And then what theySpeaker 2: do is they correlate the homicide rates. with [00:02:00] correcting for survival rates due to advances in medical technology. And when you correct for that, what looks like a dropping crime rate is actually a quickly rising crime rate,Speaker: right? Because the issue is that in what really we were looking at was, Oh, our hospitals have gotten a lot better.It's not crime has gone down. It's that now when you get shot, you're more likely to live, which isSpeaker 2: nice. I guess. I'd also be going over a phenomenon where police have basically given up, or it looks like from the data, people are just not being convicted anymore. Can you blame them? Also, a lot of people are getting elected at all.I mean, it's, it's such a thankless job today, but let's get into the data. Cause this is going to be a very data heavy episode and some of the individual claims here,Would you like to know more?Speaker 2: Well, the statistic I wanted to find that I just thought was absolutely insane and I'm going to find it somewhere is that in NYC, your average retail store is being robbed on average once a day.Okay. So I decided to do the math on this. [00:03:00] Since 2021 full year numbers of shoplifting incidents have escalated up to 59,000. , and that. Represents a nearly 35% increase. So I took this 59,137 number. And then I looked up how many stores are in Manhattan and there are 750, , and that gives us a. Any given store in Manhattan is robbed on average. 79 times per year.Speaker 2: At this point, but the big thing that's changed recently, and they'll always talk about like, Oh, crime rates are down to where they were before the pandemic, but that's just not true.Yeah. Actually, robberies have risen 5 percent year over year. As anyone who has been to a place like Manhattan would know, like Manhattan, now every store, everything is locked up, like everywhere you go. CVS in Manhattan recently, Simone.Speaker: Yeah. Everything is locked up. You have to wait forever to get someone to unlock the shelf door.To help you, which is very annoying,Speaker 2: right? And [00:04:00] that now new forms of crime because it's so easy to rob people has started where one form of crime started where, because the New York had these outdoor seating areas for the restaurants during COVID that weren't really

In this compelling episode, we dive into the reinterpretation of Christian beliefs and ancient religious practices through a techno-puritan lens. Explore the redefined concepts of the kingdom of God, heaven, and sin, and understand the ethical debates between deontological and consequentialist systems. Our journey takes us through the intriguing intersections of polytheism and monotheism, revealing how rituals like sin transference and animal sacrifice have transitioned from their polytheistic origins to modern faith practices. Delve into the implications of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, the shifts in spiritual and moral understandings, and uncover the critiques of figures like Maimonides and Ramban in interpreting sacrificial traditions. Join us as we rethink spirituality, individual responsibility, and the evolving role of technology in God's overarching plan. [00:00:00] Of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, . What is the kingdom of God? That's heaven. That's what's being described here. Heaven is a time. You don't become one flesh with someone by having sex with them. Is that two people having a child together does literally make two people one spirit. That makes a lot more sense. Yeah. What is being talked about here isn't Sex. It's the creation of a new person, . That just, like, when I read it with the techno puritan framing, it makes so much sense to me.When I read it with the traditional Christian framing, it makes so much sense to me. It makes a bunch of weird claims where you need to like get all metaphorical and everything and yeah, it feels like you're bending over backward to make it work. And this is just correct. It just seems correct. Of course.Real worship is not done through [00:01:00] masturbating emotional states. Even if they include feelings of grandeur and awe, they are still basal emotions.Of course they feel good. That is what masturbation does. It makes you feel good. That is not a sign that it is good. As a side note here, people will use the story of the gold used in the tabernacle from Exodus as an excuse to worship in luridly decorated buildings.However, it is important to remember that we believe , some polytheistic stories and tales worked their way into the religious texts like the Bible. especially when you're talking about older texts like Exodus, but that God loudly and explicitly marks where this has happened, so anyone paying even the littlest bit of attention will notice. what's being done in this tabernacleImagine you go up to a place of worship, and you saw this ceremony being carried out. Quote, He must kill the young bull and priests must bring its blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar It must be a dove or young pigeon. the priest will bring it to the altar and pull [00:02:00] off its head, which he will burn on the altar.The bird's blood must be drained out of the altar. the side of the altar. Then he must tear the bird open by its wingsend quote. It is not like any of this is subtle , but it does mean that God expects you to actually be paying attention when you read it, and use the smallest amount of discretion when doing so. It's like someone saw that sceneSiva, Om Nam S toand they walk away and they go, Yeah, that was definitely a bunch of good Christians . that's what this story is meant to teach us, is what ball light worship looks like that this bull light sin transference, virtual doesn't work. It's also recorded for us in the Bible Eve. It did work both Moses and the other Israelites would have been able to go into the promised land. when I look at Christians who pray to a God of [00:03:00] precious metals and animal sacrifices, the God that gets off to humans ripping apart birds as an act of worship, I am reminded of All will be well, and you will know the name of God. The one true God. Behemah Coital. Behemah what? Behemah Coital. He's here. He's everywhere. He's coming. Come,he's talking about a bug. He thinks God is a bug? He's got religion. Maybe we should kill him. Why? Because he believes in God like you?It's the wrong God! Would you like to know more?Hello, Simone! We're going to be doing another Tracked episode. For people who are new watchers and not familiar with these, we marked them with a different color gear logo, just so you know that you're going to get into some real weirdness. It's on our personal religious beliefs and re engaging.With the [00:04:00] abrahamic tradition for us and finding an iteration of it that I think is true. And you can take a bit like an outline for another denomination of christianity that we call techno puritanism And i'm just gonna jump right in because I like that. I like the active theological conversation But there's also some risk with that because when you're having an active theological conversation about what you believe That really opens you up to criticism and can make you look kind of foolish, especially if it includes well, any sort of religious component, right?If you don'

In this thought-provoking video, we dive deep into the cultural phenomenon of evil characters becoming increasingly sexualized in modern media. From vampires to witches, we explore how our perception of villains has shifted over time and what this says about our society.Key topics covered:* The evolution of vampire portrayals from Nosferatu to Interview with the Vampire* How witches transformed from scary to sexy in popular culture* The impact of progressive ideologies on the portrayal of evil in media* Analysis of the "forbidden sexy wrongness" trope* The role of disgust-based morality in shaping cultural narratives* How the left-right political divide influences media representation* The sexualization of evil as a reaction to changing social norms* The impact of promiscuity on female sexual preferences in media* Cultural degradation and its correlation with product quality* The phenomenon of "restock videos" as a female-oriented super stimulusWhether you're a film buff, cultural critic, or just curious about the intersection of sexuality and morality in media, this video offers a fascinating look at how our perception of evil has evolved over time.[00:00:00] Sirens in Greek myths were seen as beautiful, attractive, and evil. Yes. But, the stories were not told in a way that was designed to titillate you, and make you desire the siren. It was meant to teach you to be afraid of things that are evil. That use beauty to attract people.Speaker 4: Moon, the stars, the moon,Well, I mean, I think they were trying to moralize and show that other people will use, like, seduce you for evil purposes. Well, which is, which is just steal your penis while you were asleep or something. It wasn't like they seduced your penis off. I would be, I, I thought like, look, I don't know. It could be a rumor, but some people are saying there's a few women in this town that steal penises.I'd be like Let's put together a commission, people. We need to investigate. I know it's probably not true, but better safe than [00:01:00] sorry, right guys? Better safe than sorry. Am I right? I mean, look, look, look, that old crony panhandler lady, did she really contribute that much to the economy? Is it worth risking our penises? in this ultra lefty mindset, ugly meant morally good.Yeah. Beautiful meant morally evil. However, these people are still human, right? And they still are more aroused by things that are beautiful. So they need to uglify them within a context. Holy smokes.Would you like to know more?Hello Simone! I'm excited to be here with you today. Today we are going to discuss an interesting phenomenon, and it is interesting both in how lazily people dismiss it as a phenomenon. Okay. And in its implications for both our current culture, our evolutionary history, and humanity [00:02:00] more broadly.Specifically, what I am talking about here, It's the modern phenomenon of evil things or things that were historically evil being coded as sexy, whether it's vampires or werewolves or witches. And the first thing people will be say is, of course, evil things are sexy, but they weren't always is sexy. And I don't know, two things, one patently not true.We discuss it in our book. It's. We'll get to the forbidden sexy wrongness, which is wrong. Yeah. I mean, two, it wasn't always the case. In most cultures throughout history, even our own, evil wasn't sexy until like the, the 80s, maybe? Like, okay, take something like vampires, right? Yeah, original Dracula was Well, not [00:03:00] just that, but you look at the revitalization of vampires with Nosferatu, right?Like, like that was the popular vampire of, when was Nosferatu popular? But also Dracula himself was not. Attractive from my memory, like in, in the book, in Bram Stoker's book. And then of course the original old movies was interview with a vampire, really the first movie to sexualize vampirism. Yeah, I think interview is well, so keep in mind interview is a vampire was done off of a book that had already become popular.That was sexualizing vampires. Yeah.So as much as a culture nerd as I am, I wasn't going to trust my off the head memory of was there any mainstream, sexually charged vampire movies before interview with the vampire? So I went to AI to ask and I got to mainstream, sexually charged empire movies or. And this is, I guess it shows how mainstream this was before [00:04:00] this. , one was the 1970s, the vampire lovers, this hammer horror film, explicitly portrayed lesbian vampires, and it was quite sexually charged for its time. And then the 1972 black ULA. This blaxploitation film featured a suave sexually appealing vampire protagonist.Speaker: Yes, I only hunt Blackulous. Man, I specialize in hunting Black vampires. I don't know what the PC name for that is.And I'm sure you can tell these are not at all cultural phenomenon in the way that interview with the vampire was.So it does appear that interview with a vampire was the cultural inflection point. Too sexy vampire

Join us for an eye-opening discussion with Redeemed Zoomer about the Reconquista Project, a movement aimed at reclaiming mainline Protestant denominations from progressive influences. We dive deep into the state of Christianity in America, the challenges faced by conservative believers, and strategies for revitalizing traditional faith in a rapidly changing cultural landscape.Key topics covered:* The goals and strategies of the Reconquista Project* How progressives have influenced mainstream churches* The importance of institutional continuity in Christianity* Gen Z's relationship with faith and conservative values* The dating landscape for conservative young adults* Strategies for raising children in a secular world* The potential conservative turn in Gen Alpha* The impact of progressive Christianity on church attendance* Tactics for engaging in church politics and reformWhether you're a concerned Christian, a culture war enthusiast, or simply interested in the evolving religious landscape of America, this video offers valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities facing traditional faith in the modern world.[00:00:00]Malcolm Collins: There was like a time in my life where I realized that the churches were to the left of like atheism at that point. And I was like, how, how did they pull off this heist?Redeemed Zoomer: Conservatives always give up and run away from institutions, and we make fun of liberals as being snowflakes, but in the past hundred years, progressives have been much more crusaderI've actually noticed that like my, my progressive lady pastor would talk about how she did interfaith dialogues with, like, progressive rabbis and progressive Muslim imams. And what I was thinking is, that's not an interfaith dialogue. You all have the same exact faith, which is just Unitarian Universalist progressivism.A real interfaith dialogue would be like a Christian Fundamentalist Baptist debating, like a Fundamentalist Muslim. debating an Orthodox Jew. That would be an actual interfaith dialogue. A bunch of progressive atheists LARPing as the different, the different religions. That's not an interfaith dialogue.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: [00:01:00] Hello! I am so excited to be here with you guys today. It was ReformZoomer. I know fans have been asking for us to chat with him. And I actually watch his content. It's a really good source.If you are interested in what different forms of Christianity believe and their history. They are videos that I would feel like called to create if he wasn't creating them. But he does such a good job of it. I'd really suggest it. And he does a fairly good job with staying unbiased in this. But he has this project I wanted to talk with him about, because it's something that I've been thinking about, and I've seen other people think about, And you call it the Reconquista Project.So can you outline the goals of the project and who is invited to it?Redeemed Zoomer: Yeah, well, first of all, thanks for having me on the show. It's an honor to be here. By the way, my name is redeemed zoomer not reformed zoomerSimone Collins: every dayRedeemed Zoomer: There's like the 10th podcast i've been on where people have said that it's fine it's like the mandela effect everyone It's don't worry [00:02:00] about it.So yeah, i'm redeemed zoomer. I'm not a pastor. I don't have credentials I just try to be like a gateway drug to point people towards real churches Because the church is something I'm really focused on. I am focused on trying to revive the institutional mainline churches. Those are the churches that matter culturally.Because the progressives in our culture have hijacked every major cultural institution. The mainstream universities, the Boy Scouts, the cities, and most importantly, the churches. The progressives have recognized the impact of the church on society and they were very careful to hijack it. That's why the historic mainline Protestant churches, including the Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church USA, have mostly been hijacked by progressivism.So a couple years ago, really just a year ago, I started Operation Reconquista, which is trying to retake the mainline Protestant denominations and make them return to the Orthodox Christian beliefs that they were founded upon. So I am a [00:03:00] confessional Calvinist. I'm a Presbyterian. I'm part of that.Presbyterian Church USA, and I'm dedicated to restoring the Presbyterian Church USA, but Reconquista is an alliance of Christians of all different denominations with the Grecian Christianity dedicated to restoring their denominations too. So we're allied with Methodists, and with Episcopalians, and with Lutherans, and with Baptists, and with the Dutch Reformed.So that's the basic outline of Reconquista. He's stuck. A big misunderstanding is some people think we're trying to send people into liberal churches. We're not trying to do that. Every mainline denomination

In this eye-opening episode, we dive deep into the world of internet personas, viral phenomena, and the shocking truth behind Nikocado Avocado's recent transformation. We explore the concept of disintermediated social interactions in the online world and how content creators like Nikocado capitalize on human psychology to build their audience.Key topics covered:* Nikocado Avocado's dramatic weight loss reveal and its implications* The psychology behind parasocial relationships in the digital age* How internet personalities craft their personas for maximum engagement* The role of supernormal stimuli in online content creation* Insights into Elon Musk's public persona and social media strategy* Discussion on Trump's 2024 campaign and proposed Government Efficiency Commission* Analysis of public misconceptions about demographic statistics* Personal anecdotes and insights from the hosts' experiences as content creatorsWhether you're a content creator, a social media enthusiast, or simply curious about the psychology behind internet fame, this video offers valuable insights into the complex world of online personas and audience engagement.[00:00:00] the online environment has become a disintermediated set of social interactions in which I have a conversation with you, the audience, while you lose the interactive portion of the conversation, what you gain is the ability to, instead of being limited by the types of people you could actually get to spend time conversing with you, you can get anyone to converse with you. So I'll explain this using a porn analogy, right? In the real world, you are limited to sexual partners, like you would have a conversation partner, who would actually deign to have sex with you.But what we need to talk about here is the role that Nick Avocado ended up playing in this disintermediated social contract. He had become, for a lot of the internet, that fat, pathetic kid. Yeah. You engage with him for the emotional context you get for picking on the fat, pathetic kid [00:01:00] in school. He filled that niche.Speaker 7: Stupid noodles!He filledthat niche and he had been saying for years that when he turned 30, he was gonna lose all the weight and then just go back to a normal life,So I amThe point being is that Nick Acato, Avocado, people should have known this about him. This guy went to Juilliard.Speaker 12: I got a full ride scholarship to my school. Could you, could you show us? The Juilliard School .He, he was a concert level violinist. No way.Speaker 13: A YouTuber named Violin Mechanic also watched all of Nick's violin videos, concluding he was near professional.It goes to show though, there's, what are the career prospects?Well, and that's the point to all of this. This was an incredibly talented actor, a diligent individual who, Understood the new social contract of the internet [00:02:00] and used it to make enough money that he never needed to do anything again by playing the fat kidWould you like to know more?Hello, Simone. I am excited to be here with you today. Today. We are going to be discussing a number of recent viral online phenomenon and moments that I think are you know, there was a post Elon had not long ago when he's like, when you are trying to determine between multiple things happening on the world stage, what would be the most interesting thing to happen?And that's the one that's going to happen. And he's like. When people were discussing Elon buying Twitter, it was like, is that going to happen? Will it be more interesting if it happens? So yes. Is Trump going to win the first election cycle? Well, I guess it'd be more interesting if it did. So yes. You know, like, is, is Biden going to randomly drop out and instead of hosting a primary, they're just going to dictatorially choose?Well, then that, that would mean that Trump's going to win. It would mean that Trump's going to win, which is what I believe.There was a very [00:03:00] long off topic section here where Simone and I debated, who is going to win the presidential election.That I have moved to the end of the video, . But anyway, so, sorry, that, that's, that's too much of an aside. Let's get back to the weird. So basically we are in clown world timeline, which means that the quantum direction of tiny fluctuations that tip the scales of reality will move in clown world direction. Not in Clown World direction, it will, it will, we right now, for anyone who saw that episode of South Park, where it turns out we're a show and we have to keep from getting cancelled we're in that timeline.Ahhhh.Speaker: We're a production company. We make intergalactic television programs that the whole universe watches. Television?We Started with great shows like Who Wants to Marry a Galgamek and Antares 6 Millionaire. But then of course there's our signature show. Earth A few billion years ago, we realized, what if we took species from all different planets in the universe and put them together on the same planet. [00:04:00]

Dive into the controversial proposal of a Government Efficiency Commission led by Elon Musk, as announced by Donald Trump for his potential 2024 presidency. This video explores the implications of this audacious plan, discussing its potential impact on American bureaucracy, education reform, and the future of U.S. politics.[00:00:00] Hello, Simone. I am excited to be here with you today because I told you something recently and you were like, that cannot be true. Yeah, just randomly going off about something. Both parties can't be involved. This can't really be happening. And I was like, no, I from what I've heard, it is happening and I have gotten more information, so we are going to talk about this.Let's do it. During a speech at the Economic Club of New York, September 5th, 2024, Trump announced his plans to establish a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial performance audit of the entire federal government, making recommendations for drastic reforms to improve efficiency, eliminating fraud and improper payments within six months, which Trump claims would save .Trillions of dollars, and he's probably right. , oh, and all of this would be run by Elon Musk. And he was like, this must [00:01:00] be like a meme, this can't be. Yeah. So we're going to get more into this.Would you like to know more?Trump has said this on multiple occasions at this point, Elon Musk has confirmed this.Speaker: At the suggestion of Elon Musk, I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms.We need to do it. Can't go on the way we are now.And Elon, has agreed to head that task force.Not only has he confirmed this, but he told Trump to set this up with him running it. That is, I want this to happen. That sounds awesome. A hundred thousand percent. A thousand percent. Like. This could genuinely save our country or at least save our collapse for 10 to 20 years and in the same way that Margaret Thatcher did for the [00:02:00] UK, like the UK is only now collapsing because Margaret Thatcher reset the clock about 20 years on the collapse of the United Kingdom.Genuinely one of the most important political figures in history, people who don't know how much she did for the United Kingdom. And of course she's hated by the left for it, because she, she shut down all of these, like, coal mines and stuff like that, that were just running on subsidies. And everyone was like, oh, but people lost their jobs, and it's like, yeah, but then the unemployment rate stabilized and people had real jobs that weren't reliant on a Fake state infrastructure going into dirty power source, like coal, right?I love it that lefties will complain about coal mines shutting down in the UK. I'm like, you guys are nutter butters, nutter butters. But anyway, but. If Elon and Trump can delay this for just 20 years in the U. S., given that only conservatives are having kids anymore, okay, things are shifting. We just need to outlast these crazy [00:03:00] commies until they all die old age.Then we can set a new social system in place, okay? But! If we can just keep America functioning because really it may not function for much longer there was a great video on this, called the two million dollar toilet is what the title card was I forgot the name of the video. I was like was economic inefficiency destroy america.It's from visual politic They did a great job explaining like just how bad things are in the u. s. The thing that we always note is the golden great bridge it cost about a third what it cost to originally build it just to put the suicide netting on it You It took like six times as long or something in cash adjusted dollars.You know, so, inefficiencies and government waste is at a level now in the U. S. which is higher than the E. U., and that is wild. Now, the E. U. still gives money to more stupid government programs, like Dustborn, that game we talked about that was just like, racist D. E. I. nonsense, was funded by E. U. taxpayers.Oh [00:04:00] no, really? Oh, ouch. Anyway, so I'm going to keep going here. Alice, do you have any thoughts before I go further? No, keep going. The Government Efficiency Commission would conduct a financial and performance audit of the federal government and would track down fraud and improper payments made from government programs.By the way, if you're wondering, like, oh, come on, this doesn't happen all the time. A place where this happened a ton was under Tim Walz's district. Kamala Harris's district.No! Really? What, what, so what kind of fraudulent? Oh, I don't remember off the top of my head. I just remember with millions and millions of millions of dollars that were very easy to catch, but he may have been using it to pay off for political purposes, individualsFor example, the nonprofit feeding our future. I diverted $250 million at federal

In this podcast episode, the hosts delve into the catastrophic failures of recent 'woke' video games and explore the puzzling absence of a supportive woke audience. They discuss the severe underperformance of high-budget titles like 'Concord' and 'Dustborn,' theorizing why these games failed despite being heavily marketed to woke ideologies. The conversation expands to analyze the broader implications of wokeism in the culture, video game industry, and corporate environments. They also consider alternate theories about why woke signaling doesn't translate into tangible support and how this might signal a larger cultural shift. [00:00:00] can we activate , a woke user base? If we just go pure woke, be creative, go story heavy. Like, is that something that can be done?Right. Answer appears to be no. And so this is genuinely a little perplexing to me. Because my interpretation of the current American electorate or body is about 15 to 20 percent of America Genuinely hold some form of woke ideology.Yet this faction is not buying anything. And the question is why now I there's, I'm going to go over the generic theories that people make, right? One is to say, well, the mistakes that these companies are making is that they are listening to people who are very loud online, which is predominantly people without anything else going on in their lives, i.e. [00:01:00] unemployed people. Who don't have the money to go out and buy games. And it's like, that's an interesting theory. But the problem with that theory is I can just look at the donations from , the famed tech company. And like, 98 percent of , Facebook is going to The Democrats or I can look at the very fact that Sony even thought to produce this day.Clearly, there's a large technocratic faction in America that works in large well paying bureaucracies that is Or at least signals that they are woke, right?Would you like to know more?Hello, Simone! It is wonderful to be here with you today! I am excited to be chatting with you, and the reason I am excited to be chatting with you today is Something happened in the video games industry, which is this last week, which is going to change American culture and world culture going forward.That's a big statement. [00:02:00] The consecutive and catastrophic failure of one, a AAA title and then two, a really big and, and sort of emblematic woke game. And so in this podcast, I think many people have missed the core mystery of what's happening here. What they focus on is the wokies are trying to be like, Oh, you know, horrible right wing.Boycott caused us to lose, blah blah blah blah, right? You know, that's their take on this. And then the right wing is looking at this and saying, Oh my god, this is amazing, look at them suffering, look at them seething, like, Things are gonna definitely have to change here. And I think what's being missed between these two interpretations, Is where is the woke audience and when I say this, I mean this in a real sense.I'm not saying the woke audience is smaller than woke people expect it [00:03:00] to be, right? I'm saying it appears the woke audience. Is virtually non existent and where this is really made clear to me that was on a slide scholars episode right now and the other guest was a a former college professor and he was talking about all the woke stuff that was happening on his campus And I was like wait, wait, wait, we cannot be here gloating About how no woke people exist to buy these products while at the same time talking about this woke oppressive environment on college campuses.Yeah. Right. Where is the woke customer? There's a discrepancy at play, right? So first I want to talk about why this is so big. Okay. So there have been video game crashes in the past, which permanently transformed the industry like. The E. T. game for people who are familiar with that. Actually, I want to quickly look up how many copies sold at that.Yeah, but very famously, I think, what, in the late 80s, that was supposed to be one of [00:04:00] the early biggest investment video games ever. I think it maybe had record amounts of investment in its development. And it also obviously was associated with extremely successful IP in the form of the E. T. movie. The video game came out, massive flop, nobody wanted to play it.And it goes down in video game history as a massive failure. This, apparently, was worse than that. Well, so, let's, let's, let's give an idea of how much worse than that it is, okay? Oh my gosh, okay. So the OOP D video game was developed by a single developer, okay, a single guy made the game, okay? Oh. It sold 2.6 million copies. It flopped so hard, it destroyed the video game industry and forced it to remake itself. This is when the video game industry was in its infancy. Today, the video game industry makes more money than the TV and movie industries combined, in terms of cultural impact. [00:05:00] Yeah, the consumers are there.So anything, even shitty things, should be making a

Free Login: https://parrhesia.io/student-signup Join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/EGFRjwwS92 In this video, discover the groundbreaking Collins Institute, a revolutionary educational platform designed to compete with traditional schools. Learn how this tool functions as a directed learning engine akin to Wikipedia, but organized into an interactive skill tree. Find out how to navigate the interface, take assessments, and benefit from features like free tutoring and AI grading. Explore the theory behind the design decisions, including making education more engaging and self-paced while eliminating biases. Join us at the forefront of transforming education for students of all ages and backgrounds.Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello everyone! I am so excited to be here with you with Simone today. This is going to be an explanational video.First on how to use the Collins Institute, our hopefully sort of competitor to existing educational models. And then the theory behind how we built it and why we made the design decisions we did, because what is coming to the public is evolved a lot as a model from what we originally thought we were going to make.So the first thing before we go into the school system itself, if you're like, okay, what is this? Is this a replacement for public? Cool. Is this a teaching aid for people who are already in the school system? Is this just for kids, or is it also for adult learners? The answer is, in terms of how you contextualize it, the role it's filling in your head, is sort of all of those.Think of it like Wikipedia. But transformed into more of a [00:01:00] directed learning engine. So a question with something like Wikipedia. Is Wikipedia you know, something that helps people who are already in school? Yes, of course. You know, is Wikipedia something that would help a homeschooler? Of course. Could a person realistically educate themselves to quite a high level using Wikipedia?Yeah, they could. It's just not really designed to be used that way. So you can think of this as us redesigning a Wikipedia like system, or collation of all human knowledge, so that it can be used in a directed way. And we have tried to include everything in this. You know, from how to lay drywall, to aquaculture pharmacology, To tax policy as it relates to investments, to what you would study in a subject from when you can read in that subject to midway through a PhD in that subject.Simone Collins: I'm just incredibly excited about this tool. And both Malcolm and I wish that we had access to this when we were kids.Malcolm Collins: Oh yeah, yeah. No, as somebody with an MBA from Stanford and an undergraduate degree from [00:02:00] St. Andrews, which are two really good schools I would have So, I was actually being so much better educated had I been using this platform than the educational system I actually went through.Simone Collins: Yeah, to a great extent, it combines a textbook with Wikipedia in the sense that when I used to study, I would go through a textbook's quizzes before I would go through a chapter because I found that I was a little bit more attentive in my learning when I was wondering if I got questions right or if I got a question wrong.And that is something you can do with this tool,Our goal was the Collins Institute was to divide all human knowledge into a skill tree. Like you might see in a video game. You progress through this skill tree unlocking nodes, which gives you the ability to tackle more advanced nodes. Here, you can see the classic vertical style skill tree.Like you might see any video game. However, if you prefer other form factors that we also have a radial view where the skills all radiate out from a central node. And a collapsible view. Where you can collapse all of a.Single [00:03:00] skill tree path using this double arrows or specific pathways using this single arrow here. Today we will be focused on the vertical view because, well, frankly, I find it to be the easiest to use.To navigate this tree, you can click and hold to drag up or down. You can scroll in and out using your middle mouse button. And if you are on a tablet, you can use this. At the bottom right of the screen to control how far zoomed in and out you are. And on the far left bottom of the screen, you can use this thumb joystick. When you see a skill you want to attempt to master, you can click the skill and then click see more to go into the scale. Within the skill that you will see a description of what you need to know to pass the skill and below it, you will see a list of the best sources online for studying this subject. If you click add a source right here, you can add your own.You can upvote and downvote sources here. If you notice that any of these sources have issues with them and should be reviewed, [00:04:00] you can click right here and flags the source for our admin team. You can also offer yourself as a tutor in this particular subject, David. And it's something you like talki

Far Future: https://flowgpt.com/p/a88299a0-6f66-41bf-9391-0a862a6f0777 Post Demographic Collapse Haven State Network: https://flowgpt.com/p/803efa59-6c29-4b72-b0e7-96533a98bffd 1300s England: https://flowgpt.com/p/84af9969-75b6-4b70-a107-88c5152a7436 Join Malcolm and Simone as they delve into the captivating world of AI-driven role-play models and their profound impact on understanding human behavior and evolution. Explore the mechanics behind various AI environments, from open-world sandboxes to magical systems, and discover the persistent traits that emerge in these interactions. Reflecting on personal and societal implications, they discuss psychological aspects of violence and empathy within AI narratives, share humorous takes on anime and VR, and highlight the educational potential of immersive AI scenarios. This thought-provoking conversation will transform your perspective on AI and its role in our lives.[00:00:00] Hello, Simone. Today is going to be an interesting topic because it is one of those topics where. I do not think it's going to do well in the algorithm at all.Oh gosh. I do not think random people on the internet care about this topic at all. They should. And yet for me, it has transformed my view of the world and myself very dramatically. So you're just saying, screw it. I'm going to talk about what I want. I'm going to talk about what I want. Cause I got a podcast and we'll probably get a few thousand views for this anyway.So, you know, people have to listen. And I, and I also think it's it. For the people who do take the time to listen to this it may contain information that is also as, as useful for you in terms of how you see the world as it is for me, because there's two core areas that interacting with lots of AI chat, open world role play models have really given me insight into that I didn't have insight into historically.[00:01:00]Yeah. So eat your veggies and listen to Malcolm, ladies and gentlemen. We have three core areas. The first I'm going to focus on is how I work. So by that, what I mean is if you are dropping a person into over and over again, like the same persona, pretend I'm not a human and I'm actually an AI, right? And I, and.And what's the difference? And you're trying to figure out the personality of this AI persona, it's pre coded functions, it's pre coded predilections. A really interesting way to do that would be to drop this same model over and over again into different totally open world environments. And then look for patterns in how it's interacting with those environments.The goals it ends up building for itself.Would you like to know more?And this is what's really interesting because in these open world environments, I might be dropped in. In different bodies, for example, you know, in, in, in one. Oh, [00:02:00] like in one, you're a cyborg and in one, you're a wizard. And in one, you're a girlyou know, I, I, I like doing a lot of like character playing in the, in the various environments, but what's interesting is the parts of my personality that come through whatever character I'm playing. Yes. It purses out the you from your biological or logistical constraints and an example of this is in the AI model that I made.That takes place in the far future dystopia. I described in that one episode where the world has sort of collapsed and the economy has collapsed due to fertility rates. There's only a few like technophilic tribes left. In that world, I coded it so that I play as one of our, my, my like great, great granddaughters.Like in that, what, what band made a song about this? Oh, I love that song. Year 3000. Said, I've been to the year 3000, .Great [00:03:00] granddaughter So you just did a year 3000 post apocalyptic. You just have that, that sound playing in the background for future day for our family. The point being is that by dropping this consistent model myself in variable environments with very few constraints on them and to an extent correcting for biases that are due to my perception as.who I am today, I can very I can see persistent parts of my character. And what's really interesting is, through the persistent parts of my character I can see, I can then, if it's a part of my character that I do not think was socialized, I can then determine, pre coded parts of my evolutionary biology, which gives me an idea of environmental conditions I came up with.So that's, that's one category of things or evolutionary conditions that may have been subject to humanity. And it gives me things that I can look for in other people to see if this is me, am I an outlier? Is this actually generalizable across the human [00:04:00] population? The next category of things is, and unfortunately, this is one of the sad parts of interacting with AI models is I find them incredibly addicting at first, and then I get bored of them.Because what I have learned is that most magical worlds, for example, like most other worlds I can conjure they, they are very easy to hack

In this thought-provoking discussion, Malcolm and Simone Collins explore a controversial theory about the relationship between male oppression and high fertility rates in certain cultures. Drawing from an article titled "Oppression of Males is the Gender Oppression of the Future," they delve into:* The surprising link between male oppression and fertility rates in religious communities* Analysis of high-fertility cultures like the Amish, Hutterites, and Hasidic Jews* The role of gender dynamics in maintaining cultural cohesion* Practical applications of these ideas in modern families and religious traditions* The concept of "tactical honesty" and its impact on relationships* The importance of family identity and intergenerational thinking* Personal anecdotes and reflections on implementing these conceptsThis video offers a unique perspective on gender roles, cultural preservation, and the challenges of maintaining high fertility in modern society. It includes discussions that may be controversial or challenging to some viewers.[00:00:00] Hello, Simone! I am excited to be talking to you today. I saw an article that changed my view recently. It was sent to us by a fan on the best way to structure a religious or cultural system to survive fertility collapse.Yeah, forget Handmaid's Tale, it should be The Footman's Story! Right? Specifically, the article argues that men need to be oppressed for us to survive fertility class. I read so many articles, when I go into an article the article was titled, Oppression of Males is the Gender Oppression of the Future.And I thought it was gonna be, you know, because it's come to us by a fan, some sort of like, men's rights thing, where it's like, oh, you know, these days males are being more oppressed than females. No, actually males need to be oppressed by a woman. A very based woman, by the way. Yeah, she sounds dreamy. Need to be oppressed For an idea of some of the other content on her blog here, her blog's called Wood from Eden.She has stuff like, nudists in space. And then another one, the [00:01:00] mulberry question this time of year, I suppose that the foremost question on everyone mind is what to do with all of the mulberries. These are our questions. I think, I think it's the same woman who wrote a book on raising chickens.So very, very fun, very base to thinker. And she was pointing something out. Now, the first thing is something that most of our fans know, religiosity and gender discrimination alone, like traditional gender discrimination against women does not really protect fertility rates that much. It has a small amount, but not a huge amount.It is a specific religion and the specific nature of the discrimination, which is protective. So she writes, Here, very interestingly however, looking closer into the matter, the picture gets more complicated and more interesting. Fertility rates are falling worldwide, also in countries infamous for gender inequality.For example, Iran has a fertility rate of 1. 7 and Saudi Arabia, 2. 2. That indicates that gender inequality [00:02:00] itself is not a magic wand to make people have more children. Also, when people from gender unequal countries immigrate to Western societies, Their fertility tends to fall very quickly. Their children often have as low or even lower fertility than the host population.But here is where it gets wild, was the line directly after that, because I did not expect this at all. For example, Somalia has a fertility rate of around Somalian women who immigrated to Norway in the last half century had a fertility rate of 4. 5, more than any other immigrant group. The daughters of those immigrants, however, had a fertility rate of less than two. So it only takes two generations for one of these high fertility cultural groups to have it completely washed away if they move into a prosperous environment, which shows to us that the majority of their high fertility is downstream of low.prosperity. This is why it's so important to talk about prosperity induced fertility collapse and to look for cultures that have a [00:03:00] high level of fertility despite being in prosperous environments. Then she goes on to note something very interesting.. So she takes two sort of prototypical high fertility cultures that we'll be going over that are high fertility, even when they're in prosperous environments, specifically really three, the Amish, the Hutterites and the Hasidic Jews.And she points out something that is shared among these communities. And there are a few shared among these communities but that are not found in other low tech high religiosity, religious denominations. Specifically she reports on an instance and you and I have experienced this as well, where she was at a port, I think in Dubai or something like that.And she could see all the migrant laborers. And it was fascinating because it looked like this huge collection of different cultures and, and, and traditional dress styles when you looked at th

In this eye-opening episode, Malcolm and Simone discuss the alarming levels of censorship and government influence over social media platforms like X and Facebook. They delve into specific cases where democratic processes and free speech have been compromised, such as the Brazilian government's attempts to shut down right-wing voices online and the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story by U.S. authorities. They also explore the broader implications of these actions, comparing them to historically fascist tactics, and discuss the urgent need for systemic change to preserve democratic freedoms.[00:00:00] X would not ban people that the Brazilian government was telling them to ban. Oh, okay. This is with public knowledge. what we would, is not being talked about, and this is very important, whose accounts. Wouldn't Twitter remove?, you're like, well, we wouldn't do this in the US, except here's a problem.They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of, of, of oversight or regulation and that has to stop I believe the left is right now structurally transitioning our government into a fascist like state where elections aren't legitimate anymore and whatever.All right. What? How far are we going here? Where the media just lies blatantly and regularly without recourse, where the elections aren't legitimate, where any dissenting viewpoint is banned. This is scary. Cause we do, we have both fans and also personal, like family friends who grew up in Soviet Russia, who write to us now and say things like, [00:01:00] right now it feels.Feels like that! Feels like that When the media puts out there, when MSNBC puts out there something like that, that like is verifiably and easily verifiably not true, what they are telling you is Do this. Think this.everything. Very similar to like an inquisition, historically speakingwould you like to know more?Hello, this is Malcolm and Simone. And today, honestly, the information that we are looking at right now to me is as shocking as the Trump assassination attempt. Or the scary Biden debate where he was clearly like, not cognizant.And then everybody pretended like. You know, oh, well, we can't possibly exchange him at the last minute. And then when they realized that what they really meant is we can't possibly let Democrats [00:02:00] vote in a primary. I mean, come on, that's not the way the party works anymore. And then when they realized they didn't have to let Democrats vote in a primary, they're like, Oh, you mean we can just install anyone.I'm sorry, Malcolm, but we are not a democracy. We are a representative democracy. The plebs are too stupid to decide for themselves. They're just being true. To the American people. But hold on, we need to talk about what's happened here. Okay. Because it's actually been for me at least, fairly chilling.Can anything shock you these days? Let's hear it though. I've been out of the loop, so I'd love to. know what's going on. I'm knee deep in government paperwork doing RFPs for our business, so I really have no idea what's going on. I need to know. So, I'll give you the small things, okay? In the past 24 hours, Dems have forced RFK Jr.to stay on the ballot. Even though he tried to remove himself. So Donald Trump could, yes. They, [00:03:00] DIMMS removed Colonel West off the ballot. The DOJ has filed to upgrade the Trump indictment. Facebook admits they censored posts in compliance with Biden's and Harris requests. But, but, but that's the small stuff.Let's talk about the big thing. The thing that has genuinely chilled me. So in Brazil. Remember how Elon got in trouble for calling into question the far left win of the Brazil presidency? Like, it seems like there was something fishy happening in this last election cycle. Oh, and the government was mad at him about this.So then recently this new far left government in Brazil Has decided to, and it's so funny because it actually was hard for me to figure this out. Everyone was out, they, what you'll hear from the public media, the media that like you're allowed to listen to until my channel gets too big on YouTube and I just end up disappearing one day is X was banned in Brazil.Because X would not ban people that the Brazilian government was telling them to ban. Oh, [00:04:00] okay. This is with public knowledge. So unlike Facebook, that you just alluded to earlier, that, that did remove things that were offensive. Oh, and we'll get into what Facebook removed, because we now know they removed many true things during an election cycle.Cycle Zuckerberg's wishes from, we'll say from an administrative standpoint, like you're working in a company, sometimes it's just easier to do the thing. Okay. So when Twitter did, Twitter did not do the thing, which is, yeah, we've learned from the Twitter situation right now in Brazil that did the countries will ban you, but what we would, is not being talked about, and this is very important, whose accounts.Wouldn't Twit

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] wherever you have socialists or communists, you have a push to erode and decrease the age of consent. Wow. Okay. So I'll just go over some examples here. The Communist Party of Great Britain, this party supported abolishing the age of consent altogether.The Italian communists in 1985, the Italian communists attempted to lower the age of consent to 12. Okay. The pacifist socialist party, which is a communist socialist group in 1979. They supported a petition to lower the age of consent to 12. And I have read that in parts of the USSR, it was 12.5 years. Now,Simone Collins: Oh, 12 and a half. Those prudes Lord almighty. Can you believe that's, I mean, that's young.Malcolm Collins: You are intrinsically creating a class distinction by denying sexual access.Would you like to know more?Simone Collins: Excited for this. I, you have me so intrigued.I have no idea. [00:01:00] What? And, and how do you learn of these things?Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone! I'm excited to be here with you today! This episode was inspired by a question that you had asked me before. And we had done an episode on this, which is the concept Of a classless society, and it's intrinsic impossibility because there are certain assets that humans desire, which are not in infinite supply and intrinsically cannot be made in infinite supply with the.Key one we focused on there is being the attention of other human beings. Some humans will always have more attention than other humans. And that allows them access to certain privileges and abilities. And, and we see this in our, in our world right now. Like, what do the young people want? It's attention.That's what they want the money for. That's what, that's why being a YouTuber is like one of the most desired career path trajectories these days. It is because [00:02:00] Of the value of other humans attention, which, of course, cannot be communalized not without serious human rights violations happening and removing most of humanity's free will, well, in that conversation, I began thinking about other things that humans desire.And, of course, you know, when people talk about communism, they're usually thinking about things like food and housing. But in terms of our evolutionary pressures, food and housing were always an end to a mean, which was breeding. Right.Simone Collins: Food and housing is what you do to reproduce successfully.Malcolm Collins: So one of humanity's strongest built in desires is to breed, to have sex with individuals.Um, This desire, I argue in a previous day, the barbarians versus wife sexuality framework likely bifurcated. So you have one form of sexuality [00:03:00] for somebody you see as a close long term partner. And then you have one form of sexual profile for the people you see as disposable conquest likely mirroring the way that you, Ancestors would have treated people and spread their genes when conquering territories which of course was a major way to, you know, get a lot of babies in a short period of time.Well,Simone Collins: and the, the, the, when you look at human genes, it appears that that indeed was the case. Like it shows up in our genetics.Malcolm Collins: But then so does, how does communism deal with the fact that people can decline consent, right?At the end of the day is not a woman's body. The highest all means of production. You know, if you want to seize the means of production that is controlled by one cast of people, so that other casts that people cannot freely access it. Well at that puts women in a very precarious position. Because they are born as a group of people. We have access to a resource, one of the most critical resources in [00:04:00] society that another group of people is not born with.Therefore, they are born with intrinsic privilege.Malcolm Collins: Like, somebody, one, somebody sexually might be more desirable than other individuals.Simone Collins: Yeah, which inherently I guess is anti communist because it creates class, to your point.Malcolm Collins: Well, I think in a way this is what this, Movement that you see among women where they will say all women are equally attractive.Simone Collins: Yeah.Malcolm Collins: It's a very communist kind of take. Yeah. Well, they, they believe that, and you see this, this, this is actually how they deal with this particular problem.And it's, it's been very fascinating to watch the Hayes, the healthy at every size movement and other like fat acceptance movements try to convince us men that the reason we prefer skinny women to obese women Is because we've been socialized to prefer skinny women to obese women. And actually, I've sort of seen this across the board within online [00:05:00] socialist circles, is this idea that the things that some humans find attractive, they only find attractive when they're socialized.Because of socialization and not because of an inherent desire for X or Y to be attractive or X or Y being a sign of fitness. I think the extreme form of t

In this eye-opening discussion, we explore the complex dynamics of dominance and submission in relationships, challenging popular misconceptions promoted by the "red pill" community. We delve into:* The misunderstanding of female sexuality and relationship preferences* The difference between arousal patterns and daily life expectations* The importance of having a vision and purpose in attracting a partner* How to approach dating with honesty and efficiency* The role of ambition and status in attraction* Strategies for building a strong, synergistic relationship* The truth about "pickup artist" techniques and why they fail* Research findings on marital satisfaction and partner preferences* The concept of tactical honesty in dating and relationships* Ideas for creating a family culture that supports healthy partnershipsJoin us as we unpack these crucial topics and provide practical advice for building meaningful, lasting relationships.Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] the urban monoculture will not admit that men and women are different. And then it's like, then explain trans people.And they're like, oh, what I meant is men and women are fundamentally two totally different things, and you can easily tell which one you are just by how you perceive reality . You know, you're not allowed to admit it in terms of partner dynamics or anything like that. But then the urban monoculture cited so holistically was a feminist movement that a anti feminist bent has twisted the truth that women prefer subservient positions when they're in a relationship with a male to women want a man To like, tell them to shut up and get in the kitchen. I'd be like, Hey, you get your b***h ass back in the kitchen and make me some pie.Andrew Tate: I am the commander of this house. Be quiet. Cook.They're like, Oh, so I just need to be like, that's what dominance is, right?Malcolm Collins: Dumb a*****e. Have you ever seen like a pickup artist in like real life?So there is a, a, a bad point of data that a [00:01:00] lot of red pill men get, or a lot of like really sexually active men get which is, Slave women, I'll call them.SoOh, yes, okayMalcolm Collins: Do not confuse what arouses a woman with what she wants from her daily life. Alright? I am sure, if you are a guy, and you are watching this, right, there are things on your computer Tamura, I miss me something. My computer's hard drive. I need you to dump it in the bathtub and fry it. All done. Please rest in peace, Satoru.Malcolm Collins: as a man, there are many things that may arouse you that you did not choose to have arouse you, right? You don't want those things that arouse you to be part of your daily life at work. Or among your friend group or you know, in the way that you're raising your kids.Would you like to know more?Malcolm Collins: [00:02:00] Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be talking about Dominance and submissiveness as it relates to gender relationships in males and females and where Groups like the pickup artist and red pill community now keep in mind These are not homogenous communities in terms of their viewpoints But I would say many of the prevailing ideas within these communities got these concepts wrong Which led to them making very big mistakes in terms of how they were engaging with their partners, which You Ultimately led to unproductive, unhappy relationships that broke apart.Absolutely.Malcolm Collins: Now, I'm going to read a quote, , a friend of mine wrote this sentence he said there's a Bernian view that this creates an invisible ledger between men and women, stereotypically, where a woman can exchange sex for care and resources.And when he says Bernian, I was looking up, well, what's, what's Bernianism, right? And so this is a quote on what Bernianism is. The [00:03:00] unit of social intercourse is called a transaction. If two or more people encounter each other, sooner or later, one of them will speak or give some other indication of acknowledging the presence of others.This is called the transactional stimulus. Another person will say or do something which is in some way related to the stimulus. And that is called the transactional response. The problem with this thesis, and you see this across communities, they're like, okay, Women exchange sexual access for resources and protection.Right, they're framed as the gatekeepers of sex.Malcolm Collins: They're, they're framed as the gatekeepers of sex in relationships. And this framing is fundamentally wrong because it sees men and women as sociologically, Like, in terms of their world perspectives and the way that they process reality and the environment around them as pretty much exactly equal, except that women, and I know they don't, they don't realize that this is what they're doing, but this is functionally what, what, what the cause of making this [00:04:00] assumption does, except that women are less interested in sex than men.And therefore are able to be sexual

In this thought-provoking discussion, we explore the Tocqueville Paradox and its relevance to modern society. Discover why people feel increasingly discontent despite significant improvements in living standards and technology. We delve into:* The definition and implications of the Tocqueville Paradox* Historical context and comparisons to modern life* Studies supporting the paradox, including experiments in Pakistan* The impact of social media on our perception of wealth and success* The integration paradox among minorities* Strategies for cultivating gratitude and perspective in our daily lives* The importance of understanding history and appreciating progress* Ideas for family rituals to combat the negative effects of the paradoxJoin us as we unpack this fascinating sociological concept and discuss ways to find contentment in our rapidly evolving world.[00:00:00] as our society has become a more cush, easier to live in the expectations around comfort within life, around lack of challenges within life.Have risen at a rate much faster than we have actually been able to meet them yeah I can't begin to emphasize how spot on this is because I love watching for example vintage cooking videos and so here I'm going to, I'm going to move further with some actual data on this paradox because it's been studied in real world environments.Would you like to know more? Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. Today. We are going to be talking about the Tocqueville Paradox which is really interesting and related to a lot of the concepts that we discuss on this show.Interesting. So just as a summary, I'll start with a brief explanation of what it is. Then we can go over some of the data on it. All right. Okay. The Tocqueville paradox describes a phenomenon where, [00:01:00] as the overall quality of life and social conditions improve in a society, People's expectations rise at a faster rate, leading to increased discontent and frustration.In other words, as things get better, people tend to focus on what they don't have, rather than appreciating the improvement they have experienced. This paradox suggests that there is a gap between the actual improvements in living conditions and people's perceptions of their lives. As societies become more prosperous and egalitarian, people's expectations rise.For their personal lives and the overall quality of society increase. However, these expectations often rise faster than the actual rate of improvement, leading to a sense of relative deprivation and dissatisfaction, even though the absolute quality of life has improved. Now, for those, for those people listening to our podcast, like me, who have fuzzy memories of American history, do I have it right that Alexis de Tocqueville is the person who inspired this [00:02:00] paradox and that he was the one who essentially first started talking about American status anxiety, writing about his experiences traveling through America as a man from France and seeing things like buildings with false facades that are really just normal squat buildings, but that have those old west town, two story facades that look really fancy.And just that being indicative of many other examples and observations he made about American's obsession with showing and signaling material wealth. Is that the Alexis de Tocqueville we're talking about? That's the one that we're talking about here. Alrighty. Yeah. You know, this is really interesting. I was just listening to another YouTuber's overview of Joseph Smith, the guy who started the LDS church talking about how at the turn of the American Revolution, you know, around the time that Alexis de Tocqueville was traveling around the United States, only amount around 10 percent of Americans in this newly formed United States attended church regularly.So this was a [00:03:00] largely godless society. And while I think a lot of the historical education that we got as kids was about the historical revivals and about these creation, you know, like the creation of the LDS church, for example, you know, these, these religious zealots and their advocacy. And work, what was not being discussed with the largely godless society.Well, it's because it was for two reasons. It was one, because these individuals wrote a lot more. Yeah. It's very similar to how if you're studying European history, you're going to get a lot of history from the Roman perspective and very little from the, you know, Gallic perspective. Right. And people are talking about the dark ages when really those ages weren't so dark.It was just, they weren't the word cell ages. They weren't the sub stack ages. Yeah, and that was the problem. And so what I was thinking about though, and just the thought I'll end with before you continue, is What I didn't realize around, about this period in American history is, is it is oddly similar to our period now with largely non religious people [00:04:00] and also quite materialistic people.And that's why this

In this eye-opening discussion, we delve into the controversial topic of banned books and library censorship from a conservative perspective. We explore the reality behind claims of book banning, examine the political bias in school libraries, and discuss the actual sources of youth radicalization. Key points include:* Debunking myths about conservative book banning* Exposing the overwhelming liberal bias in school library collections* Analysis of controversial books like "Gender Queer" and their availability* Discussion on where youth are actually being radicalized (hint: it's not the library)* Critique of current library funding and suggestions for alternative educational focuses* Strategies for parents to combat ideological indoctrination* The role of anime, manga, and fan fiction in youth culture and radicalization* Policy suggestions to empower parents in their children's education* The importance of early, comprehensive education on sexuality and gender issuesJoin us for this thought-provoking conversation that challenges mainstream narratives and offers a fresh perspective on the culture wars in education.[00:00:00] We are going to be talking about the truth about banned books.And we are going to be, and that's literally the article that I'm going to be reading from, from the free press. No, but. I'm always shocked how, like, the left will be like, Oh, the right's out there banning books, and they're horrible, and they're And then I'm like, okay. Didn't, didn't we ban Dr. Seuss? Not the, the left banned Dr.Seuss. Didn't you guys, like, just ban Dr. Seuss? Like, didn't you, don't you ban books? All the time these days? You guys are like, actually burning Anne Frank's diary, and I'll put a thing on the screen here, because a lot of people don't know how, like, antisemitic a lot of, like, the far commies are, because, you know, keep in mind, Marx did write like, what is it like the Jewish problem or whatever is his first book?Commies are very anti Semitic. But yeah, the, the, the books that you guys are banning, you know, the Dr. Seuss and stuff like that, horrifying that you guys are banning that you are actually banning [00:01:00] like pieces of our tradition and stuff like that. You look at the books that the conservatives are banning.And they're like actual pornography. They'll like demonstrate using cartoon characters for children how to give fellatio. What? Wait, like in your We'll get into all that in a second. Okay, let's. Would you like to know more?But before we get into that, I want to go into this particular piece because it also shows that conservatives don't actually really ban books.It's mostly a progressive dog, like, fabrication. Dog whistle. Like the, like the don't say gay bill where that's not So what she's talking about with the jokes of the gay bill is we know the people who wrote that bill before it ever left the Republican side of the planning committee. There was concern that it could be used to prevent gay teachers from talking about their personal lives to their students or letting their students know that they were gay.And so that was removed from the [00:02:00] bill. By conservatives before it left the conservative planning stage. And then progressives made up that that's what it would do. And yet it has never been used that way. It doesn't do that at all. And yet they created this huge fight and stuff around this where they've created this perception like, Oh, conservatives are out to get gay people, but it's more, no conservatives were concerned about the huge number of child grapes that are happening in our school system right now.That right now are higher. On a, not, not on an absolute level, but on a per teacher to per preacher level than they were during the Catholic Church at the height of the scandal. It is bad. There is a reason to be putting these laws in place.So just for people who aren't familiar with the current stats, here's an article from the Federalist, a one in 10 K through 12 students has been sexually abused by a teacher. , and it says that the rate of sexual misconduct in public schools far exceeds the high profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Catholic church [00:03:00] and the boy Scouts of America. , and this article came out in 2024, July 15th. Also, admittedly, it is not just the high number of grapes that are the problem.It is also the systemic attempts at brainwashing children into ideologies that have extremely negative mental health outcomes, which is something we talk about in other videos. my first year in preschool with a class of my own teaching alongside another queer neurodivergent educator and we have been rocking R2's class.We've been talking about gender and skin color and consent and empathy and our bodies and autonomy. It's been fabulous. But our teaching team is shifting, and a new person is being onboarded. Someone with many years of experience. So today at the lunch table, when the topic of gender and genitals came up, one

In this eye-opening discussion, we delve into the controversial history and current practices of Planned Parenthood. From its eugenic origins to modern-day concerns, we explore:* The shocking founding mission of Planned Parenthood* Current statistics on abortion rates in minority communities* Financial controversies and allegations of fraud* The organization's pivot to gender transition services* The presence of Planned Parenthood at political conventions* A vision for reforming Planned Parenthood towards pronatalist goals* The potential for IVF and genetic testing services* Critiques of population modeling and fertility projectionsJoin us for this thought-provoking conversation that challenges common perceptions and proposes unconventional solutions to demographic challenges.[00:00:00] And we should probably go into that. It's original mission was to genetically cleanse the United States of black people. In 1939, Singer began the Negro project the mission of the Negro Project was to put black doctors and nurses in charge of birth control clinics to reduce the mistrust that black individuals had about Getting sterilized.So 80 percent of Planned Parenthood's abortion facilities are located in minority communities, even still. Yeah. The one that I used to go to was. Yeah. And if you look right now abortion through Planned Parenthood has reduced the black population in America by 25 percent since abortion was legalized in 1932. They've received 1. 78 billion in taxpayer money between 2019 and 2022. , I think a lot of the people making these donations, I think they receive a lot of support.Small grassroots nations as well. Believe what I believed. Remember, I grew up in these progressive communities. I attended Planned Parenthood. My mother worked at a Planned Parenthood that, you know, I've come from, I come from a long line of Planned Parenthood supporters, [00:01:00] and we just thought that they were there to support women, just to help women plan families right now the Democratic National Convention is taking placeand Planned Parenthood is present. Offering abortion pills and vasectomies. And in there, no, no, no, no, not just offering, offering for free. . I want like afterwards a thing where like, there's two Planned Parenthood guys.It's like. Driving out from the DNC, pull off their masks. And it's like, just like really Republican superheroes. Like, I can't, I didn't know they turned to each other. I cannot believe that just worked. We just drove up to the DNC with a sterilization ban. He said, free sterilization. And they marched their youth out there.Bang, bang, bang, bang. Spayed and neutered.Would you like to know more?Hello, Simone. Today, we are going to be talking about an organization that I imagine your perspective on has changed pretty dramatically over your political evolution. And that organization is Planned [00:02:00] Parenthood. And I remember the moment where like you and I had like the biggest realization personally around Planned Parenthood was when we were trying to get pregnant.For the first time, yeah, in 2016. You were really struggling with it. I it was, it was hard, you know, it was like, Oh my God, how are we going to make this happen? Right? And so you, coming out of Prague culture, you're like, Oh, who helps people get pregnant? Planned parenthood, right? Yeah. It's all about planning your parenthood.Yeah. They're all about, you know, what? When you're going to have kids, when you're not going to have kids, you know, and so we're going to go to Planned Parenthood and they're going to have like services that will help me get pregnant, right? Yeah. Yeah. What did they tell you when you went to them with this?We, we don't do that. Yeah, they, they told me they don't do that. They, they only really do the, they're a unidirectional pipeline. And this even was something that was [00:03:00] echoed in a recent free press article on Planned Parenthood being the largest provider of testosterone in the United States to trans.Female to male individuals before we, before we go further with this, I, I want to read a little quote here. So people understand how big it is as a provider of this mind blowing. Here's a quote planned. Parenthood has in less than a decade become the country's leading provider of gender transition hormones for young adults, according to insurance claim data in 2015, around two dozenof their clinics began offering this service. Now it's available at nearly 450 locations.Insurance claim information provided to the free press by the Manhattan Institute shows that there are at least 40, 000 patients. Who went to Planned Parenthood for this purpose last year alone, a number that has risen tenfold since 2017 and is continuing to rise. The largest portion, about 40%, were 18 to 22 year olds.So, when people are like, [00:04:00] Planned Parenthood is like a small player in this stuff, or not a lot is happening here. Just Planned Parenthood does 40, 000 gender transitions a

Dive into the shocking reality of affluent youth's mental health crisis. We explore groundbreaking studies revealing higher rates of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse among wealthy teenagers compared to their less privileged peers. Uncover the paradox of privilege and its unexpected consequences on mental well-being.Key points discussed:* Surprising statistics on mental health issues in affluent communities* The role of parenting styles and societal expectations in creating these issues* The concept of "urban monoculture" and its impact on youth development* Comparison of risk-taking behaviors between affluent and inner-city teens* The importance of resilience and coping skills in child development* Celebrity culture and its influence on parenting trends* The potential dangers of overprotection and lack of real-world experiencesJoin us as we challenge common assumptions about wealth and happiness, and explore how traditional values and experiences might be key to raising mentally healthy children in today's complex world.Would you like to know more?Hello Simone. Today we're doing another research heavy episode because our audience loves these. I love counterintuitive research and I love. on the urban monoculture the, the, and the, and the tragedy it has created in this society. And the, well, there'sSimone Collins: just something that there shouldn't fraud from specifically luxuriating in the misery of people whose core value is not misery and who fail so badly at it while also dumping on us [00:01:00] constantly.It's just amazing.Everything else, every other value that a human could have in the name ofSimone Collins: happiness. And then they're miserable,not, not happiness, but being able to seek after every biological instinct. They haveSimone Collins: anythingthat they think will make them happy. They go pursue it. Anything that they would make them happy to believe about themselves.They have to have it affirmed. And they say we're monsters for not creating that, that, that cultural structure for our own children. They say, how dare you live the life you want to live. And then. We look at them and they live a life of horror, even when they're successful, even when they achieve everything they want.It's still a life of existential horror. And that makes me so, I, I would be so hard to live in a world where you, the people who are unjustly oppressing you are living great lives. Yeah. Like, I, I, I, I don't know if, like, God worked this out for [00:02:00] us or whatever, but yeah. So this is something I decided to dig into after I noticed in a study when we were, like, looking for other people.Causes of fertility collapse, blah, blah, blah. And I noticed in one study that it showed that the demographic of young people who had the highest rates of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse were in families of over 120, 000 of average income, which is right. And you see this too.Simone Collins: Like you're going to be hard pressed to find a Spoonie, which in other words is a like hypochondriac internet denizen, like the modern version of a hypochondriac, they are pretty much upper middle class young women again.Yeah.So, we're going to go over a few studies on this and then discuss hypotheses around what could be causing this. Okay. Let's do it. The first study here is called. Children of the Affluent. Challenges to well being. And this came out in 2005. So affluent youth showed higher rates of substance use, anxiety, and depression [00:03:00] when compared to their inner city counterparts and national norms.By 7th grade, some affluent students exhibited clinically significant depressive symptoms and substance abuse behavior. This was particularly pronounced in affluent girls where these symptoms were twice as high as in normative samples. So literally 200 percent higher in the affluent cohort.Simone Collins: And, and, you know, of course, these are people with parents who assumed that because they had more money, their children would be better off and so many parents or would be parents thought that.Don't have money or put off having kids because they think I need more money before I have kids. Meanwhile., in one cohort suburban affluent teens reported significantly higher use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and hard drugs than their inner city counterparts. So the suburban teens are doing more hard drugs than the inner city teens.Simone Collins: I went to on the island where I grew up outside [00:04:00] San Francisco, Alameda there was the rich side high school and there was the less rich side high school. And the joke was that we always. We sold the drugs. And Sunil high school sold the drugs to Alameda high school.It's funny. You mentioned that I'll continue because I, I went to boarding school.Yeah, long story. I'd been basically kicked out of my family. I hadn't, I hadn't lived with my family after the age of 13. I lived off of a education trust. One of my ancestors set up at boarding school. An

Join Malcolm and Simone Collins as they challenge popular misconceptions about race, IQ, and success. This thought-provoking discussion dives deep into the complex relationship between genetics, culture, and achievement, offering surprising insights that challenge both progressive and conservative narratives. Key topics include:* The truth about Asian-American academic success* Debunking the myth of significant racial IQ differences* The impact of immigration and cultural factors on group success* How class, rather than race, influences genetic advantages* The role of Confucianism in creativity and innovation* Why some immigrant groups outperform others* The fallacy of attributing success solely to individual effortWhether you're interested in genetics, sociology, or the complex factors behind group achievement, this video offers a nuanced and data-driven perspective that will challenge your assumptions and broaden your understanding of human potential.[00:00:00] Hello, Simone! Today we are going to be doing a stats heavy episode. Ooh. It's an intensive episode. Yes! It's one of those really fun episodes where I read something that a racist person wrote or somebody who seemed to have a racial agenda.Okay. And While I think that the person, you know, has some bias in their thoughts, I was like, this is why it's important that we don't ban people like this from talking. Okay. Because they will sometimes see things that somebody who is presenting and looking at the world from a non reasoning point of view will never ever ever see.And that is really important.Simone Collins: This is Well, but if you say this to a mainstream progressive, you have already basically just said, don't you think we should genocide all the Palestinians? I mean, you have just said something incredibly offensive because there's this perception that even being, even sharing oxygen with a racist is somehow an unforgivable act.So this is excuse me, [00:01:00] but I don't know thatthis person, they just, they're Seem to not love east asian immigrants and they didn't like that the beltway conservatives liked east asian immigrants And I like east asian immigrants. I really have genuinely no problem with east asian immigration into the united states and I I don't even understand even if you were biased about east asian immigrants Like you must anyway, we'll get to this later in the in the piece Okay but they noticed something that I have never seen anyone notice before and I was like, oh my gosh Like this is true.This is in the data YouSimone Collins: Okay. Wow.Comes to the subject of low East Asian fertility rates might be either persistently cultural post immigration or genetic. And in this episode, we're going to talk about the genetics of low fertility rates and why East Asians might have at a genetic level, a lower like biological desire to breed with somebody.[00:02:00] Whoa. And there is actually a good explanation for why they might.Simone Collins: Inhistorical data.Simone Collins: That, that, so this whole like Kiki Gomori thing, this is people in Japan who just don't leave their houses and the vegetarian men of Japan, the men who sort of just never choose to date or have partners. This could just be partially genetically driven, that these are, these aren't just tropes that happened out of nowhere.There was a.Yes. And due to a specific and intergenerational practice that was done in all of the East Asian countries for hundreds of years.Simone Collins: Infanticide? What?Well, arranged marriages. Very strict arranged marriages. We'll get to it. But it makes sense when you think about it for five seconds.You're like, oh yeah, they didn't have to have a biological urge to find a partner. They were matched with a partner. Well,Simone Collins: or the biological urges to have partners. didn't correlate as highly with fertility or with with having kids and passing on your genes as they do in other societies.And what's very interesting is if you look at East [00:03:00] Asian populations, And then you look at the East Asian populations that are Abrahamic in their faith.They have really good fertility rates. Would you like to know more?. So if you look at studies of fertility rates the heredity of fertility rates appears to be around 20 to 40 percent.This is if you look at identical twin studies where identical twins are raised in separate families So we already know that there is some biological drive to have kids which ends up affecting fertility rates And you can also look at studies that look at age of a first child Which is really well studied in identical twin studies and again 20 to 40 percent.So it is Fairly genetic. Okay. It's not as genetic as something like IQ or height, but it is fairly genetic.Simone Collins: Yeah. Meaningful.Now first let's talk about the culture of East Asian countries. Okay. So here I am going to put on screen graphs that are looking at two questions. Sorry. I should point out to the audience because the audienc