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Seth Gruber

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
593 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

There's no proof that a society that adopts total sexual freedom eventually collapses.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

There's no evidence of that.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

And so J.D.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

Unwin writes this book in 1934.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

92 years ago.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

It's called Sex and Culture.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

It's a study.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

It's not very fun reading.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

It's very dense.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

And he gives you his research methods, his conclusions.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

And he looks at 86 civilizations over a 5,000 year period of time.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

And he asks the question, what causes civilizations to rise and thrive?

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

And what causes civilizations to decline and fall and be replaced?

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

And he says that there is not one exception to this rule, that civilizations that

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

paired prenuptial chastity with absolute monogamy, created the strongest civilizations in history and lasted the longest.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

These civilizations, he says, Ali, gave us the best art,

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

food, architecture, standing armies, families, art, just go down the line, okay?

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

Then in the inverse, he said, there's not an exception to the inverse rule that societies that adopted, and what's this, codified total sexual freedom

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

collapsed within 90 to 100 years and were freaking replaced by another civilization that still possessed what he called that great social energy.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1356 | America Has 37 Years Left โ€” Unless We Make This Change | Seth Gruber

And you're like, wait, hold on a second.