Bret Weinstein

Well, I mean, in other contexts, I have said, I probably said to you, you know, there are no adults.

That's one of the shocking discoveries of becoming adult age is that it's not like there's some set of adults who knows what to think about this and how to approach it.

One of the reasons that you would have no adults is that it's kind of impossible to imagine where they would come from.

Right.

An adult is somebody who has picked up the wisdom for how to deal with the world that you live in.

Where would that wisdom have come from if the world just showed up five minutes ago?

Right.

It's in principle impossible to deal with this level of change.

So at most what you can do is become, you know, very robust.

Yeah.

In fact, in A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, Heather and I argue that rites of passage are the place.

So they're artificial in a sense, right?

We dictate that this is the moment at which you go from being a boy to being a man who is eligible to marry or something like that.

Yeah.

And the point is you know that that date is coming.

There is a thing that causes you to have made that transition, right?

Maybe it's a vision quest of some kind.

Maybe it's an animal that you have to hunt and bring back or something.

But the point is you grow up with the knowledge.

that I am a prototype until that marker, and after that marker, it's for real, right?