Bret Weinstein

Each of these things would take time to metabolize, to deal with the harms of them, to learn how to address them in a wise way.

But we never get the chance to figure that out because the next one is already upon us.

In fact, it's...

You ever go body surfing and you get into a situation where the waves are just coming too quick, and as soon as you catch your breath from one, the next one is on you, right?

It's just like you can't do that, right?

You need time to settle.

And our rate of change is so high, this is what Heather and I call hyper-novelty.

Hyper-novelty is the state at which even our amazing ability to rapidly adapt is incapable of keeping pace with technological change.

Well, I agree, and I think we need to think outside the box with respect to what kinds of inputs might be affecting us.

I will say in parallel with what I think is a much more toxic environment and developmentally toxic environment, we have a radical change in the way human beings are interacting with each other.

And it is unclear to me how far reaching the consequences of that might be.

But we talked last time about the impact of the sexual revolution and of reliable birth control and abortion on the way males and females interact with each other, that basically

sex being the ultimate reward, the most powerful motivator that exists.

When birth control made sex common or made it possible for sex to be common by virtue of radically reducing the risk that females face in engaging in sex with men who won't invest, it robbed us of

The central organizing principle of civilization and the consequences of that central organizing principle evaporating are incredibly far-reaching, right?

In effect, we do not know that there is a way for us to live without that central organizing principle.

We don't know that it lasts.

And we are running that radical experiment, and then we're going to augment that radical experiment now with

AI and presumably AI-powered sex robots and companions and other things that the mind is not built to properly understand, right?

So what effect are all of these things having?