Brett Weinstein
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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And it is the exact opposite of what we are doing.
The conventional wisdom now is creating incredibly fragile adults, which, as you say, is what's happening in college campuses.
It's why we're seeing that rebellion.
It's effectively a tantrum, a demand for others to solve the discomfort of life, which is a very dangerous trend.
I want to defend your pro-bullying point.
Because it's easy to misunderstand it.
Bullying is not a good thing.
Skinning your knee is also not a good thing.
But being in favor of a world in which kids skin their knees is not the same thing as being in favor of abrasion.
The point is it's about the things that guarantee abrasions will happen.
And
What you don't want is adults who don't know how to deal with a bully, who cave in the face of a bully.
And we're seeing an epidemic of this kind of cowardice now precisely because we have over insulated children from the bullies that would teach them how to stand up.
Well, again, back to the question of how one raises children, we can speak best to the way we've raised our children, and we can say, in some sense, what its consequence has been.
We have been incredibly open with them about virtually every topic.
And in fact, we've been open with them about everything.
There were a couple topics we delayed slightly because we thought it would be confusing too early, but...
Sex, drugs, rock and roll, the whole shoot and match.
We have talked to them about the reality of the world they are going into.
We've talked to them about the fact that they have not been provided the tools to navigate it and they will have to bootstrap those tools and that we are...
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