Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
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I mean, okay, hard to compare to the black death and a third of people dying.
But at least in modern times,
Generally speaking, we've increased human capital.
We've increased human ability steadily over a couple of centuries.
I see what you're saying, but again, I would go further than that.
So infancy is this amazing thing.
How do you get a large brain into a tiny package that can actually come out through the birth canal of a woman?
Okay, that's an incredibly complicated, almost impossible task.
And so we have infancy and we have this long, long childhood.
The point of the long, long childhood is to give the brain time to scaffold its development.
And so the kid, they first have to crawl and then they can stand.
You have to go through things in order.
And if you just take a six month old and you say, okay, we're gonna skip all that.
We're gonna go right to bicycling or driving a car.
Like, no, you can't do that.
The brain has to develop skills in a certain order.
And if instead of all that physical engagement with the world, kids love to run around, climb things, they need to develop the physical skills of living in a world of predators and prey where they, what are the games we play as kids?
Tag, sharks and minnows, they need to practice all that stuff.
And then you get a properly developed human mind that's capable of dealing with the world.
The brain changes speed up during puberty.
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