Bret Weinstein

So you pick up an increasing level of reality until you hit that agreed upon boundary, at which point everybody is in a position to hold you responsible for your behavior and to expect you to have certain skills on board.

The abandonment of these things, right, what we have is such a preposterous dim shadow of what once was.

You know, okay, you graduated high school.

Well, I assure you graduating high school means very little in terms of whether or not you know how to navigate the adult world.

Especially, you know, if you think about what we actually do to these kids, we put them in schools where the adults are in some sense themselves immunized from the realities of the adult world, and they end up having these ridiculous notions about...

you know, whatever it may be.

It's very easy to pick on, you know, gender ideology or equity or... But these are good examples, though, because they're preposterous.

Yeah.

They're solving some other problem.

Yes.

But at the level of how civilization is going to run, we are signing our own death warrant, putting our children in environments in which what they pick up is a determination to be unrealistic in the face of evidence that they are wrong.

Right.

Well, and financial consequences.

The problem is that all those consequences are way too indirect to correct the people who are driving the change.

Right.

We just got to go far enough.

Well, the problem is the thing that does turn you into an adult is a world of consequences.

Right.

Now, as a child, somebody should prune that world of fatal consequences or, you know, ones that would get you maimed.

But allowing you to experience the harm of your wrong understanding of the world is how you improve your understanding of the world.