Bret Weinstein - The West May Not Be Salvageable

Bret Weinstein explains why he the West may not be salvageable.
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[@Liberty-Vault]

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[@Georgewasright]

When was this recorded?

[@winstonsmith478]

When you "borrow" the content of others you need to post the original source in the video notes.

[@wherezthebeef]

Unfortunately, democracy itself seems to be the common denominator implicated in the Fall of The West. Democracy, Progressive Liberalism, Secularism marginalizing and replacing Christianity... if this is the case, The West Is Finished. The are two hopes - on is more dark - only authoritarian government, which would have to be 'right-wing and populist/nationalistic', have a prayer of preserving their native peoples and cultures. The other is complete return to Monarchy. Where the King is actually the Guardian of the Faith and Protector of The Lands.. our current system of progressive liberal democracies in The West is a 100%, Guaranteed, Slam Dunk for utter destruction. Europeans will be 'replaced', as is happening, Christianity 'replaced'... as is happening, and it will be lost.

[@rabidgoon]

If you’re unironically talking about “the west” as a monolithic entity in 2024, you’re engaging in smooth brain behavior.

[@frankgradus9474]

The odds are heavily against. An article well worth a read, Left, Right and Canary in the Mine, Andrzej Koraszewski

[@liberty-matrix]

“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[@snu3877]

This quote makes me think of Lionel Shriver's new book Mania, in which there is a culture war against intellectual meritocracy. (In other words, don't judge based on IQ, police your language surrounding varying levels of intelligence, etc.)

[@kateoneal4215]

Those damn Ruskies!!!

[@spaRTan3246]

Why do you think the Bolsheviks and Pol Pot targeted and killed people wearing glasses? Because they might read and educate themselves… 🤬

[@dzcav3]

Read the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. You can find it for free online. It's about the culmination of equity.

[@ruthgrey7190]

​@@snu3877 So it's a non fiction? 😉

[@porkypig7170]

Yuri Bezmenov warned us

[@martino8114]

You are one of the few that actually get that… salute! My friend. I’m a defense engineer/warfare tactician that specialized in Yuri’s warning… and we still let it happen… the rub is… it isn’t the Russians that are responsible for this global communist attack on the world … The war plan Yuri speaks of was adopted by the elitists the leaders of vanguard blackrock state street etc… and they improvised upon that plan using technology to increase the potency of the plan ten fold…

[@BenQotsa]

what did he warn us?

[@Starday723y]

@@BenQotsa kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3bVfIeMmaqHptk&pp=ygUceXVyaSBiZXptZW5vdiAxOTgzIGludGVydmlldw%3D%3D

[@NoThankYouToo]

No, he didn’t. It was already too late by the time he said anything.

[@jackiemoon1556]

​@@NoThankYouTooNot really at that point, they hadn't crippled us with a beyond redemption national debt or flooded the 3rd world in at that point so although we were in trouble it was still salvageable.

[@garycallihan4206]

A war against absolute evil.

[@Mr0rris0]

He's gettin to r/k selection theory Like ants snakes bees vs whales chimps and things that raise their kids. Somewhere in that soup is paradigms like individualist and collectivist R or k could be individual or collectivist and either could have a fundamental attribution error like culture bias when it comes to "motive" So we are pitted against eachother and set up to scorn and accuse Thats the race and archaic selection But there is no race. Evil is what it's too easy to do....

[@Mr0rris0]

Peace would go a long way it takes 40 generations to tame fox that's epigenetic it must have generations of peace

[@Mr0rris0]

I can't really say but I think there's something to it with the shift from like 13 kids to 2.1 The 3rd generation immigrant is more assimilated It can go too far with like 1.2 kids Is anyone getting that 40 years of psychological peace though because we can gloss over a bunch of accelerated mating strategy dark triad stuff with culture as excuse via sin regions and conventions

[@Yesica1993]

And the only solution is repentance and turning to Christ. But that's what people hate most of all.

[@jp6614]

​@@Yesica1993 Your telling me this isn't hell??? this world is evil.

[@Scottlp2]

“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for the west as it commits suicide.” James Burnham 1960s. And as intelligent as Weinstein is, he contributed.

[@charlysteenstevens9314]

Of course Brett Weinstein contributed. We all did. Not that long ago, for example, the Left was pleading for same-sex marriage. We all wanted to be good people, to be fair, and as supportive of others as we could be. Now we've got Pride Month in our schools beginning in elementary school. We sure have come a long way from believing that "love is love" blah blah blah to having homosexuality promoted to our children as though that were a desirable thing that they might actually be missing out on if they don't give it a try.

[@snu3877]

@@charlysteenstevens9314 I remember reading about a teacher who was telling her students, how do you know you're not gay if you haven't had gay sex? I wonder if she is asking the gay kids, how do you know you're not straight if you haven't had straight sex?

[@charlysteenstevens9314]

@@snu3877 that teacher, so many other people with that agenda, have a desperate desire to normalize homosexuality. I shudder to think of the sinister lengths they will go to.

[@wherezthebeef]

There's a direct correlation between how many nails are hammered into the coffin of The West and the extent to which The West has abandoned and continues to abandon Christianity in favor of secular humanism/progressive liberalism. And don't hold out hope for most of the younger generations of The West, they don't even know if they're a man or woman and need to find 'safe spaces' to run to, curl up into fetal positions and suck their thumbs... at the mere utterance of any word that challenges their woke-indoctrinated world view.

[@kotenoklelu3471]

​@charlysteenstevens9314 this is not the most shocking part about the school. The most shocking part is that a person can have a high school diploma and don't know how to read, but he can fake that he read. That's why America has a fentanyl crisis, drug dealers can't read the label and nobody knows about it.

[@highonlifealone4332]

By accepting and promoting tolerance for stupidity, we create our own demise, pure "ideocracy"

[@Patricia_Stewart337]

“ Normality” is precisely the dictatorship of the generic average, by definition. Focus on Healthy, not “ normal “

[@leighmurrell5494]

Decades of aggression and corruption have eaten away the integrity and morality that once were the foundations of Western society. The Dollar became the god that everyone worshipped and served over the general good of humanity.

[@wherezthebeef]

It was the abandonment of Christian ideals and ethos, replaced with secular humanism, along with progressivism, that planted the seeds of our own destruction. Either you see it, or you don't, and you need a broad and deep understanding of history to clearly see what happened. Not agression, and corruption exist everywhere , through the ages... neither of the latter have stopped the enemies of The West from gaining ground. There was a real thing called Christendom and it made Europe, and briefly, America, what they were in their heydey. The countries is most rapid decay, decline and chaos are those which have most completely abandoned their Christian roots in favor of secular humanism/progressive liberalism. It's a death spiral.

[@anonymousonlineuser6543]

Go read Karl Marx and pray to USSR flag.

[@neovxr]

This was enabled by falling back into ancient times. Bret said something like this, but did not talk about who is doing this.

[@AmusedBabyPenguin-yt3vs]

"the dollar became..." you say, using the past tense. There are alternatives however. Humanity and humane values will survive!

[@AJ-ew1lp]

​@anonymousonlineuser6543 lol the 1950s called, they want their punchline back....

[@jabba0975]

Defund government.

[@tyramasters-heinrichs921]

So no pretense of democracy at all? Just Corporate take over of the country, like we have now? Or do you mean disallow bribes, bring back recall, and strip the 'For Profiteers' out & take government back to what it was meant for? Defund Government has the same meaning as Defund the Police, both are Corporate slogans with the goal of privatizing.

[@martino8114]

Bingo

[@toddtheisen8386]

And watch the country rip itself apart. Urban areas wouldn't make it a week without police and fire protection. Cities collapse, credit services disappear and rural areas are left having fallen back 400-500 years. Foolish.

[@lolopinpin4950]

Defund the fed

[@martino8114]

@@lolopinpin4950 that’s correct! The FED

[@Shadow_banned_again]

Unbreakable cycle of history, people have to keep learning the hard way.

[@nightmind919]

Yea, multiracial countries never work

[@richardgross3794]

@@nightmind919plenty of silly comments here from plenty of silly people but you get the blue ribbon

[@JKTProductionzIncNCo]

What did he get wrong.

[@liberty-matrix]

"This degradation in the West. You do not have to be religious to appreciate it, to be appalled by it. You can feel it in your soul, in your own moral compass. Something terrible is happening to the West and a destiny awaits for it." ~Mike Jones, Journalist

[@johnsmithers8913]

True Virtue has been replaced by faux Virtue. True Virtue is difficult as one must self sacrifice to be virtuous. Faux Virtue is a 26 Word Tweet filled with platitudes.

[@andreww4751]

@@johnsmithers8913 you could just say false virtue like everyone else to be more clear accesible and spread the message but no its more important to try to sound cool

[@johnsmithers8913]

@@andreww4751 No, "Faux" and "false" are not exactly the same. "Faux" means imitation or fake, more specifically faux is used in the context of imitating something of high quality. So you use the term when describing something like "Faux leather" for furniture and "faux wood" for car interiors. This also indicates that a person who has Faux leather furniture is trying to appear wealthy but is not. In the same way, Faux Virtue is someone pretending to be wealthy in spirit, but is not. Using "Faux Virtue" encompasses this relationship between what is being displayed, the person's motivation, and their shallowness. The term "false" simply does not catch this.

[@richardgross3794]

@@johnsmithers8913don’t be bothered by the critic who was average in a government school

[@johnsmithers8913]

@@andreww4751 My reply has been censored. Will keep it short. False and Faux are not strictly the same Faux means "imitation", especially a high status item with a cheap replacement. False does not have this meaning.

[@getlost3346]

Mass deportations.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

Of whom? People who speak a Latin-based language? They aren't Western?

[@nightmind919]

@@l.w.paradis2108of invaders of Europe

[@bullwinkle8266]

​@l.w.paradis2108 Here we go. The short and best answer is, Yes. Deport those who will not adapt and assimilate, those who contribute nothing to the common good, those who will import their failed cultures into a host country. The West is not a geographical location; it is a mindset. Are Japan and Australia not also the West? And yet...

[@carlfrye1566]

Start with Muslims, there are plenty of Muslim nations where they can live a much better life...since they say the West is.."racist".

[@stanleyshannon4408]

​@@l.w.paradis2108of those not of the lineage of the historic population that founded the nation.

[@JonYogev]

It's not saveable. It's game over already sorry.

[@martino8114]

No it’s not, three spec ops teams and we could have taken our country back overnight…. But our so called leaders are playing for the communists and the citizens are cowards and ignorant

[@johnsmithers8913]

The West died somewhere in the 60s.

[@hed2410]

You are incorrect.

[@BenQotsa]

the problem, society doesn't care

[@tyramasters-heinrichs921]

Society is not a 'thing' it's a collection of people and they do care. They care very, very much. Don't let the targeting by Corporate Interests undermine your ability to not only want change, but be willing to word for it...look around. All those 'lefties' are mostly kids who WANT change. They're no different then the 60s protestors. They know something is wrong, but they're targeted by Billionaires Oligarchs & aligned Big Business/Banking Interests. (Read Branded: the Buying and Selling of Teenagers, by Alissa Quart; or Marketing Ruins Everything, both show the hundreds of millions spent by Corporations to control Consumers and how they target children to create consumers; also just listen to the Jerome Powell speech (listen to the whole thing) where he states that Educated and Informed Consumers limit Profits, very eye opening.)

[@terririchter2279]

no no no problem is government does not care...not only that but actively works against its citizens....yall better buckle up buttercups...talk like that causing lineage to disappear

[@jeremiah5342]

1995? How about 1905, before the federal reserve?

[@QED_]

March 3, 1995: U.S. Senate failed by ONE vote to pass Balanced Budget Amendment to US Consitution. That was the last chance to save the American form of government . . .

[@ghostrecon3214]

They already don't follow the law, more scribbles on paper wouldn't change it. An irate people would.

[@browngreen933]

How about 1855 before the Civil War?

[@cowboyofscience7611]

@@browngreen933 Were you not listening? We are ever evolving. Slavery was the rule, not the exception. Yes, it still exists, but not like throughout history.

[@LarsLarsen77]

I'm not trying to die of tuberculosis, dawg.

[@mrman487]

You have to go to pre-feminism to go back far enough.

[@johnmac333]

Exactly , Feminism has ruined the West , and they're more pernicious than ever.

[@jamieharknett9620]

And to everyone thinking that this means pre-1960s it actually means pre-1840s. 1844 was when Seneca Falls occurred and the declaration of sentiments which was when feminism was really born.

[@jabba0975]

Trying to turn the ship around would take decades if everybody worked to that end, and the 'captains' are determined to keep heading for the reefs.

[@mrman487]

@@jabba0975 If 30% of men decided today that women could no longer vote. It would end today.

[@RodriguezFazanatas]

​@@mrman487I had the impression the Weinstein-crowd is heading towards full fascism for a long time. Now it gets obvious.

[@martino8114]

I agree with Brett. He is one of a few of us that actually sees things the way they really are and speaks the truth regardless of weather the cowards want to hear it or not

[@Andrew-kz5ew]

The exact reason we’re in this position is people like him who supported those currently and power and now downplay their hand in it

[@martino8114]

@@Andrew-kz5ew I feel what you’re saying but that is such a minuscule part of it… you need let that go and see the big picture

[@Thegrassman284]

Groups that see them self as superior or chosen over other groups are the problem .

[@cowboyofscience7611]

When, in history has that NOT been the case?

[@Thegrassman284]

@@cowboyofscience7611 never , hence the recurring problems.

[@JF-cd5hc]

Hey, leave Israel out of this.

[@Thegrassman284]

@@JF-cd5hc 🤣

[@Thegrassman284]

@@cowboyofscience7611 but some groups are definitely better than others and the nosey ones definitely aren’t the better ones

[@TomCrockett-bl1gp]

Should have outlawed lobbyists along time ago. The folks at the top put us in the poor house.

[@cowboyofscience7611]

Outsourced ALL of our industries.

[@JF-cd5hc]

That was capitalists, not the government.

[@cowboyofscience7611]

@@JF-cd5hc No, our government taxed corporations to the point that they had to flee America for foreign countries.

[@mikescorpio13]

@@JF-cd5hc governement is a facade,a masquarade for whats really going on backstage.

[@charlysteenstevens9314]

I totally agree with Brett Weinstein! Totally! I wish I didn't.

[@marysisak2359]

unfortunately I must agree

[@vespass225]

I don't at all. It totally leaves out the possibility to negotiate peace and start to talk peaceful, cooperative solutions. Of course that requires accepting the idea that you can't continue to dominate the world, but start being part of it instead. Totally possible though.

[@charlysteenstevens9314]

@@vespass225 I hope you're right. I don't think so. But, I hope you are. From what I've seen our government is never going to admit that it can't continue the bullying tactics we've used since the end of WWII to get what the powers that be want. We will end up dead, or suffering horribly, because of their monstrous egos. Maybe you're right that there's a chance they'll take a more reasonable course, but, I highly doubt it.

[@YardPrep00]

@@vespass225​​⁠cultural whispers already indicate the people know it’s the fall of the empire. What do you think the people up top will do to remain there? Create chaos across the world and stoop so low to start WW3 I imagine, oh wait.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@marysisak2359 you always agree?

[@johnbrown4568]

Bret, while seemingly a “nice guy” just as Jimmy Carter is a “nice guy,” is a quintessential “slow learner Democrat.” VOTE TRUMP & MAGA 100%

[@Barbara-gv2vw]

That is not necessarily the answer

[@mcihs2]

Voting, is the political equivalent of WWE, it’s all entertainment, it’s pure theatre, it changes nothing…..

[@mantykarhu]

Vote Kennedy 2024 🎉

[@cowboyofscience7611]

@@Barbara-gv2vw And Biden is?

[@LarsLarsen77]

Yeah he talked for HUNDREDS OF HOURS on his podcast about how covid "evolved." when really it was genetically engineered in a lab, and when I told him that his son banned me from the chat.

[@wendyspires1883]

I left London seven years ago but alas I did not go far out enough 😢

[@QED_]

You stopped in East Grinstead (?) Anyone could have told you that wasn't far enough away . . .

[@timbeck6726]

Sad for your loss. Nova Scotian, just saw a large " immigrant" surge and the slow subtle suffocation of our trad culture

[@Rainy_Day12234]

Sadly, it may too late. Western Civilization is dying.

[@Angelica-u7g]

Human race is dying

[@johnsmithers8913]

We didn't realize it but WW 1 and WW 2 killed it. We lost confidence in our ideals. This opened the door for our leaders to start listening to "new ideas" from people who wanted to see the West and its culture to be ineffectual, if not outright destroyed.

[@nightmind919]

Not if we stop with the overpopulation of the global south and having multiracial countries

[@elKarlo]

I agree. What he said in the very beginning is exactly true. The Soviet empire collapse because it’s been so much of its GDP on internal security as well as external security. Being able to repress your own people took a lot of resources. But now with AI the Internet and all the resources we have available, you can totally repress society at an alarming level with very few people. So you don’t need tens of thousands of people who are like-minded. You’ll need dozens in comparison. Which basically means if we become authoritarian, basically it’s forever. While in the past it was only for a generation or two.

[@mcihs2]

But, and it’s a big but, our current complex technology based systems, may be light on human capital, but require massive amounts of energy to operate. We are not only not investing in energy and the distribution systems, but actively sabotaging it…..not only are the lights going out, but the internet too….

[@cowboyofscience7611]

@@mcihs2 Dead internet theory....

[@elKarlo]

@@mcihs2 Yeah it is weird how we are advancing and the same time hallowing ourselves out. I really can not understand why we are doing this? Is this because we are inherently lazy? Or is this a real CT?

[@johnsmithers8913]

It's a little more complex than that. A tyrannical society will inevitably have an economy that's barely functional. You control everything, then the laws of supply and demand collapse and everyone will do the bare minimum to survive. Working harder will provide no material improvement. Modern surveillance requires massive computer complexes and energy. If you can't keep the power on to run your computers, then you are blind.

[@terririchter2279]

@@mcihs2 when the time comes you will be working to supply your leaders tech and internet and all the latest...you will never use it you are here to pay for it...all infrastructure will be weak to non existant for the worker...while the elite live in luxury ....climate change will not be discussed any longer....the elite will have clean air water and food....the worker will not be considered...you will receive rations...you will serve the very system that oppresses you...eventually you will love your captor and through generational brainwashing you may believe your captor is a deity.....there is nothing new under the sun....its all been told in the pages of world history....massive amounts of energy to operate is code for slave

[@markallinson8350]

How many commenters here heard Obama argue for "fundamental change" and said "yes"? Well, you wanted it, you got it.

[@globalfunseeker6733]

Most didn't even know what they were asking for.

[@therovingrobin5938]

"hope, change"... true commie slogans

[@marymacdonald2379]

Like my son said about Obama during his first presidential campaign "Isn't it suspicious that Obama keeps saying things everyone wants to hear?" Many of us were taken in.

[@DawnJastremski]

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[@LydiaShad]

Hello!! how do you make such monthly, I’m a born Christian and sometimes I feel so down of myself 😭 because of low finance but I still believe God

[@FarnellCannaday]

Thanks to my co-worker (Carson ) who suggested Ms Christy Fiore

[@NadineSigle]

After I raised up to 525k trading with her I bought a new House and a car here in the states🇺🇸🇺🇸 also paid for my son's surgery….Glory to God, shalom.

[@SureshkumarShaih]

She's a licensed broker here in the states🇺🇸 and finance advisor.

[@KanLedbetter]

I've always wanted to be involved for a long time but the volatility in the price has been very confusing to me. Although I have watched a lot of KZbin videos about it but I still find it hard to understand

[@royalirishranger1931]

Toynbee , Spengler , Brooks Adams and others predicted this situation , it is in many ways Faustian man’s destiny.

[@danddr7184]

Concur with Bret Weinstein regarding *Degree of Risk*

[@minomokwa744]

Once again Bret Weinstein: a brilliant, wonderful, smart genius is speaking facts & truth ... unfortunately.

[@JKent-ry9yg]

Very revealing, the esoterics of 2 jews talking to one another, about a failed system, that they created, and trying to figure a way to save it, by telling the Creator, and nature, to go to hell. Funny, but not.

[@oldervermonter7396]

One word - Christianity. Without it all the things you love and live for will be gone.

[@AniwayasSong]

One word- No.

[@bw2442]

True, but in its present form, it is compromised and toxic, the west have turned it into a head trip and a stick to beat anyone that dosent beleive like the self sanctified leaders.

[@elKarlo]

Even Dawkins admits he likes living in a Christian society. Without the morality that scales very well with Christianity, the underpinnings of society are basically gone. Look at how people act in the west compared to 20-40 years ago. You can see the impact Christianity had in character, and now the lack of it shows in society.

[@adammetz7063]

@@AniwayasSong One word- Yes.

[@marysisak2359]

Christianity has morphed into the prosperity gospel. Christians like everyone sold their kids down the river for prestige, power and possessions. Once you saw whole families in church, now they have become social centers for baby boomers. How many young people do you see there now?. I am not pretending to be clairvoyant but I had the oddest experience a few years ago. I was riding home from taking my dog to the chiropractor. I wasn't thinking about anything, just be bopping down the road. All of a sudden a wave of despair came over me. I looked to my left and there was a large building the size of a hospital but it was a nursing home. You could feel the waves of despair rolling over it like a wave. We have traded the family and children for things. Young people are so confused they do not know what gender or even species they are. We are done.

[@IMFrank-wv2eq]

NOT SALVAGEABLE. THE WEST IS UNDER THE WRATH OF GOD ESPECIALLY THE USA. THE HEDGE OF PROTECTION HAS BEEN REMOVED. PRAY FOR MERCY,- ST. FAUSTINA'S CHAPLET OF DEVINE MERCY. PRAY, PRAY PRAY UNCEASINGLY.

[@liberty-matrix]

"Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power... It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishments of a central world-wide dictatorship." ~W.Cleon Skousen

[@rexroscoeroggaschjr7530]

Total disagree with this perspective. It’s not a race or ethnic separation or control. It’s a corporate captured governments control and the policies that hold global domination. Through the exertion of this domination, it’s forced migration of a few types of religious groups to migrate into regions in such a mass that it creates conflict within the new country, not racial but religious conflict

[@msmeyersmd8]

Unfortunately I have arrived at the same dire conclusion over the last ~4 years. Starting in early 2020, my assessment has only proceeded exponentially. Based on my active search of what is happening and has really happened the last ~120 years. I was triggered ~22 years ago to study real history. My deficit of actual historical knowledge. Due to my youthful ignorance, propaganda, and being fed a steady diet of mis/dis information. I was truly oblivious to reality. Slowly and painfully learning what is much closer to a real truth. The likelihood of this dire outcome has became more obvious to me. It's in the cards.

[@schalkvandermerwe3838]

Bring back the HARD WEST!

[@l.w.paradis2108]

What is THAT?

[@sunnycrocket5990]

​@@l.w.paradis2108its billy the kid telling u I'll Make u Famous 🇺🇸

[@patcom1013]

The opposite of what it is currently.

[@catangelcarpenter5390]

To be free I'm in.

[@janetjacks3406]

I find Bret Weinstein annoying at times, here at 1.11 he tries to define the past as race against race, this is dumb as it was tribe against tribe, clan against clan. Here in the UK we fought the French for hundreds of years and they are the same race, so stop reverting back to the whole woke terminology.

[@willia3r]

Race is interchangeable with tribe and clan inasfar as a group of people with unique & easily identifiable characteristics goes. The concept still holds. Plenty of tribes that used to exist at one point in human history no longer do as of present. And usually due to a war or _"purge"_ of some kind, if not environmental catastrophe.

[@mikescorpio13]

that dude and his brother are full of themselves and THAT is facts.

[@jennetal.984]

1995??? How about 1895?

[@TheLastSongbird124]

totally agree with Bret. I'm 74 so have participated in & watched the world drive itself into 2024 (from the post WWII times) and I cannot see there is any solution to what we are watching now. It's a case of we simply will watch the collapse happen.....whatever that will look like and whenever that point occurs?

[@flyoverkid55]

There is no value in deluding ourselves. As I see it, the current manifestation of our hypersensitive society where feelings outweigh facts is a direct extension of liberal progressivism. Those who were part of the " enlightenment " of trying to move beyond tribal / racial identity / cult of personality group think allowed themselves to become overtaken with their self satisfaction. They moved the goalposts as it were from achievement to appeasement, where the end results mattered less than they way they felt about themselves following some activity or proclamation. Of course, all this was being done in the ignorance of basic human behavior. There is, has always been, and will always be evil, greedy, narcissist, sociopathic people among us. They have been the root cause of conflict throughout the history of humankind. They recognize the propensity for the masses to be appeased and placated, the ease with which this can de accomplished. History is replete with examples. The growth of " social media " has made this easier than ever before, and the popularity of that media is, quite frankly, disturbing. I am reminded of an old adage ascribed to a cartoon strip. " We have met the enemy and he is us.".

[@Joeybagofdonutts]

Agreed…we are in the “Fourth Turning”… look it up

[@dzcav3]

"Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

[@l.sophia2803]

Its telling Im giving this quotation its first thumbs up.. well quoted..

[@mina_loi]

it could have been salvageable if ppl weren't so indentured to their ideologies they refuse to accept correction of behaviour when facts dismantle the logical fallacies of their ideologies x their excuses for harmful/destructive/counterproductive behaviour

[@cowboyofscience7611]

Found the bot!

[@mina_loi]

@@cowboyofscience7611 no u

[@cowboyofscience7611]

@@mina_loi Which is precisely what a BOT would regurgitate!

[@mina_loi]

@@cowboyofscience7611 every chatbot i've argued with always accused me of being a chatbot- so double no u

[@aaron___6014]

He was a professor of biology! He's not a sociologist for anthropologist. Abd he taught at Evergreen.

[@MercifulMariner]

Something totally not spoken about here -, is the driver for the united states was that inalienable rights and freedom, and the morality and even the justice system they were striving for, were predicated largely on judo christian based values. Even early mass legal migrants, many had these same values, Many of these systemic values we strived for can be seen in proverbs. Like gravity, the more a moral based governance model draws to a basis of high principles as provided for in the scriptures, the ten commandments, the higher likelihood of that system having a long term success. We have become Pottersville. What we are witnessing now is a decline of values, resulting in deaths, constant lies, political power, fame, sports worship, violence and sex, predominant in movies, deceit, lack of justice, crime drugs, childless homes, fatherless homes, bribes, no need to work hard to eat, government becoming our sole provider and God, Corporations driven by stock price, and profit over Godly Values, and so much more. Map the nations. as a general rule, the higher per capita wealth, are nations that at least had their roots in Judea christian principles, the last several centuries, (though starting to run on fumes), and nations as people doing well on "per capita" basis, (Japan) though not with the same religious history, and yet influenced strongly post WWII by a nation that was. Our nation never arrived, because like Israel, when the dream of freedom, wealth, cars homes, flat screen tv's entertainment, a great education and job, became a reality for many, no longer were Godly values seen as being as much as necessary. our Society started doing what was right in mans increasing perverse own eyes, more and more - and its end becomes death and destruction. Be it murdering babies, acceptance of any number of immoral practices as the norm, ranging from divorce, to adultery, to sex before marriage, and now, its just whatever oh that's okay too.

[@ktall6749]

I noticed that as well. Without Christianity as a foundation, the West will fall.

[@reggieb3349]

What "Jewish" values was America based on? Sabean Masonry? I don't remember the Puritans running to America to protect the "rights" of Christ deleters (Jews).

[@martino8114]

Friend, that was beautiful… please come and be a voice on truth social if love to see more from you. I am a retired defense engineer/warfare tactician. I spend as much time as I can devote to try to make a difference in truth social debating discussions etc we could always use smart people like you

[@johnnyshanksalot8358]

They left Europe to escape theocracy & instituted the 1st amendment so no, inalienable rights are not particularly or specifically a 'judeo-christian value,' these were radical non traditional ideas. Infinite cultures came for freedom & prosperity not puritanism. 180 degrees backwards, people destroyed it by trading liberty for the illusion of security due to xenophobia.

[@_.-AAA-._]

Christian, not judo christian.

[@matthewgadd7057]

That was a really weird cut off point.

[@McD-j5r]

Very.

[@louferrigno4712]

The consent of the governed was based on race as well. That's why you've lost it.

[@handyman1016]

Not as long as women vote, its not.

[@saintsword23]

I favor a net taxpayer voting system, but essentially this, yes.

[@dontcallthemliberals3316]

@@saintsword23 Parents, women with children on average vote more conservative than men. Women were the primary voter base of conservative parties up until the early 90's.

[@thomasschreiber9559]

Politically, white women are a problem

[@CheekyMonkey888]

@@saintsword23 net tax payer and veteran is the golden ticket

[@thomaslove1285]

i dont want them to drive honestly

[@sdrc92126]

Sure it is. I can see many ways. Rome had this problem. See the crises of the third century.

[@sammencia7945]

Then invaded. Then you would have moved to Byzantium.

[@RavensEdge23]

Rome fell...

[@sdrc92126]

@@RavensEdge23 Centuries later. I think Spengler has the best take on this.

[@dion8962]

Rome didnt have nukes

[@RavensEdge23]

@@sdrc92126 350 yrs to be exact. About where the US is now..

[@donaldrobertson1808]

The system we created & you trashed

[@kti5682]

The world may not retain the level of technology in a fractured world.

[@DoseofTruth]

Certainly, that's the point

[@rogermorgan1522]

I think it has happened before, and will happen again, like lemmings running over a cliff. It's part of our natural cycle. We are evil hairless monkeys

[@TomCrockett-bl1gp]

All these people have most of there money in Swiss Francs. So ya they don’t give s/:; if the United States fails

[@cowboyofscience7611]

They're discussing Western Civilization--Not just the US!

[@browngreen933]

Lineage vs Lineage tribal warfare is what's happening in Israel/Gaza. 😢

[@lynnytisc1]

Jack Tiscione here: The "West" in the U.S. at least MIGHT be saved by having the country split into 4-6 separate countries and having the denizens "pick" a country of their liking (birds of a feather flock together). This would probably only happen after much "drang und angst tribal conflict" where simply being able to literally live would be the primary concern. (would be great, compared to the alternative, if the breakup happened peacefully BEFORE this tribal conflict) Its' unlikely this would happen and the country would degenerate into some Mad Max sort of thing where maybe the survivors ^ 20% maybe would find safety in their own tribal group...How would food be grown...Distribution would break down... On the face of it , it does seem like a hopeless situation. I fear for my grandsons

[@vivianoosthuizen8990]

The west allowed and a baited this to happen to the Afrikaner and now it’s their turn

[@vivianoosthuizen8990]

Is this coincidence what happened in 1919 On January 6, the Spartacist Revolutionary Committee announced via proclamation that Ebert should be deposed and that they would be forming a new revolutionary communist government. Whilst this proclamation was being announced armed groups of communist rebels took control of key government buildings in Berlin. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were hoping for a revolution along the same lines of Russia when it had undergone its own communist revolution in 1917

[@BrianVantHull]

Oh, must be Eric's brother.

[@RobClark200]

OMG, he is worried the species will perish if the hegemon does not stay on top! Wow... What ego!

[@l.sophia2803]

LOL, deep thoughts.. it used to be the best segment on Saturday Night Live, back when it was still funny.

[@samsearle4433]

In the old days they used to drop pamphlets from aeroplanes now they just do the same thing via social media.

[@sparkyfromel]

Naaahh lineage base societies are a far better outcome , certainly it has the wholehearted support of the population

[@DesertGuy702]

The irony of him saying this. They spit on our face, and then call us filthy.

[@cxa24]

Too many Brets in this world Im afraid

[@lynnytisc1]

Jack Tiscione: This is one Bret who understands though....

[@imanujakku]

I grew up in the 80’s/90s and I don’t think that was the peak but we were largely deluded it was. The average American was not aware the dream of the west was maintained through brutal tactics all across the world since WWII. coups, assassination, economic sanctions and hundreds of military bases etc to maintain the illusion and a standard of living that made us here in the US feel like the future was only going to get better for everyone. 9/11 broke the spell at least for me. I started looking into why it happened and who bin Laden was and as soon as I saw we created the monster we had to slay any optimism I had about how far humanity had come was gone.

[@l.sophia2803]

Islam produced bin laden, and an extremely wealthy family in a cultural context, made by a father who was an ingenious land developer. So while I understand your direction of gross generalization and post liberal doom, it may be more useful to define your argument with more skill and conclusion. And if you think there is somehow a unique aspect to the shadow side of the USA keeping the wolves at bay, set apart from any other nation not already enjoying a relatively stable global monetary and trade system, by all means explain. Id suggest you are only describing the recognition that there is a point at which children become adults and discover the full range of human behavior, defensive of otherwise.

[@danpovey]

I think he has it exactly backwards, and that we need to stop pretending that race doesn't matter or can somehow be wished away.

[@happyappy19931]

How does the color of skin matter?

[@danpovey]

@@happyappy19931 That's like me saying dog breed matters and you saying "how does the color of the dog's coat matter?"

[@mikescorpio13]

@@happyappy19931 its about the endoctrinement related to that said color....

[@happyappy19931]

@@danpovey So you prefer to divide people into breeds. Because that’s the way to unite the country. 🙄 Of course everyone matters. Perpetuating racism is not helping this place. But you do you.

[@Christian-qu9ml]

Capitalism is NOT liberty! 😅

[@mikescorpio13]

capitalism = modern slavery

[@eddieraffs5909]

The human species was cursed with the ability to reason and that's going to be its primary reason for its extinction.

[@Antonocon]

I dare say it's the more unreasonable people that will cause this rather than the reasonable ones.

[@mantykarhu]

Reason doesn’t necessarily imply being reasonable.

[@willia3r]

That's not a curse. The problem is the seven deadly sins.

[@mikescorpio13]

its an illusion because more than 99% of people cant reason,but they pretend they can....

[@mikescorpio13]

@@willia3r the problem is religious delusional folks now thats a big problem to be taken care of right.... billions where do we start or more importantly WHEN do we start.

[@michaellotz1811]

Whyyy would you end clip without completing that last statement?

[@stanleyshannon4408]

Today's world is proof that the world he wants to return to didn't work.

[@brucek66]

Who's to blame? He's a smart guy, been around - total liberal - what are the causes and what are the possible solutions? Need more details

[@SelectCircle]

He's a Deep State operative like Bill Maher - just putting moderating suggestions out there to calm things down. The Deep State went too far with the radicals - and it can steal only so many elections. It's got to level things out.

[@mfcobb1]

We've given away our inheritance!

[@markdevine4888]

The Enlightenment fueled all sorts of good things but also nurtured rejection of Christianity which was essential to Pax Americana. But these two are not Christians and recognizing that essentiality seems unavailable to them.

[@TheGreatAmphibian]

The Founding Fathers were dominated by Deists, genius. Deists, not Christians.

[@cowboyofscience7611]

@@TheGreatAmphibian Right. I don't think any person (with a clear knowledge of American history) would even think of calling Jefferson or Franklin a Christian. Some Founders were, but most weren't.

[@TheGreatAmphibian]

@@cowboyofscience7611 American enthusiasm for Christianity really dates back to the second and third Great Awakenings in the nineteenth century. If anything it goes against the spirit and hopes of the Founders.

[@cowboyofscience7611]

@@TheGreatAmphibian Yes--Jonathan Edwards and his sermon: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God!" kicked off "The great Awakening." (The original)

[@joeyboedeker2047]

The damage is done, there's no coming back.

[@bobs2809]

Only bringing God and the wisdom of scripture back to our lives will save us.

[@mfcobb1]

That is not what the discussion is about.

[@Yesica1993]

THAT is what people refuse! That's why we're in this mess in the first place.

[@TheGreatAmphibian]

But the Founding Fathers were Deists..

[@mfcobb1]

The problem is balance. Why is it that the religious zealots use God as a justification for force and atrocities, just as the none religious use Atheism to enslave, torture, and kill.

[@buglepong]

its always strange to me how weinstein, an evolutionary biologist, doesnt apply darwinism to everything (he should). evolutionary mechanisms are cyclical, having both positive and negative feedback loops, and deception is a tried and tested evolutionary strategy.

[@happyappy19931]

Deception? What a great strategy. No wonder this world is jacked up.

[@jberg8596]

Good riddens to humans .

[@mikescorpio13]

one of the best comment i read this year !

[@leemontoya1972]

Why develop a narrative without names. Specific names, specific goals and specific options must be declared. Otherwise, outcomes will always be random.

[@zumamaya2396]

Sorry what has October 7 got to do with this? We have been on this path for at least a century.

[@Bookhermit]

Oct 7 is an indicator of the results of hard-wired cultural incompatibility.

[@zumamaya2396]

@@Bookhermit one of many I would think

[@peterenglezos2880]

Im surprised they didn't bring up the holocaust while they were at it. You can clearly see the narrative.

[@colinshaw3326]

And indeed, nothing can save it, simply because in reallity theres nothing of any value, worth saving. Do you believe your worth it and the rare exception? Hardly.

[@PB111627]

Feels more like a surrender than a war.

[@GlobalDrifter1000]

Bret is dim.

[@Fahrenheit4051]

Compared to whom?

[@GlobalDrifter1000]

@@Fahrenheit4051 my dog or his brother.

[@gonzoexpress9885]

Oh yeah, and you're an intellectual giant with a trite, evidence free, three word sentence. LMFAO.

[@GlobalDrifter1000]

@@gonzoexpress9885 your as dumb as dirt.

[@rabidgoon]

Talking about “the west” as a monolith in 2024 is smooth brain behavior

[@aaron___6014]

Since when are we interviewing people on topics they arent really qualified to talk on. He was a professor of biology! He's not a sociologist for anthropologist.

[@davidfreeman2522]

So we deflect on whether the man is right or not

[@johnr1992]

Utopia can only be reached over a sea of blood!

[@weblebeknows1005]

Follow the rules of evil people, and it's easy to figure out what's gonna happen.

[@isn0t42]

Hey, you. Yeah, you. If listening to these two... gentlemen you have rolled your eyes, know that I'm right there with you.

[@xzqzq]

I keep suggesting to well intentioned white rt. wingers that they need to organize and fight, which is invariably viewed as distasteful and unacceptable, and something that the Left does, not them.

[@TexLogan-du2yi]

Things may get much rougher than we're used to. But, I don't think that necessarily means the end of our species. After all, we're a highly adaptive species. Could this be a challenge? Yes, but don't sign the epitaph too soon.

[@Mishima505]

“So invest all your money in my sure-fire scheme to keep it safe!”

[@henryburton6529]

Grifter incoming

[@Rocky-sn6fl]

Ok, this is the most racist elaboration ever? Somehow, YOU ARE entitled to set the rules for the WHOLE humanity?????

[@AceDude944]

"You vill be poora but you vill be happia"- Klaus Schwab

[@danielbrewer6469]

The very last statement about delivering people to the future they are leading us to. I don't think that would do any good. I'm 46 and have been politically aware for at least 20 of those years. I have personally witnessed policy change from birth to unintended consequence. There's always an excuse, displaced blame, or flat-out denial.

[@Tunick1902]

Makes some points but misses the mark in that he doesn't identify the real culprit: the illiberal forces of greed, self interest and religiosity at war with democracy, equality and the rule of law. It's not West vs non-West Its liberal democracy on the one hand vs kleptocracy, autocracy, theocracy and totalitarianism on the other

[@mustang607]

Sounds like he’s talking about total human equity AKA human extinction.

[@frankstein5967]

I have good news for Americans. The whole world will starve without the Mississippi/Missouri river. If everybody else wants to eat, America will be just fine.

[@KaliFissure]

What is funny is that instead of supporting diversity, and exploration he ends up pushing a conservative agenda which is hardly different than radical Islam.

[@tomschoenke5052]

Bret, I stumbled across you on the Dark Horse podcasts early pandemic and always found you to be very fair and overly intelligent but we have to believe it’s fixable or there’s no point in going on. And, not a criticism, but it’s going get worse before it gets better. But it will get better.

[@caracoidwren944]

I think it might be time to look back to ancient Rome when the barbarians were at the gates. The Roman empire divided itself with Constantinople becoming the eastern capitol and Rome the western. In other words, as The Enlightenment is being picked apart by those incapable of understanding it, we need to divide the country before one, we lose the greatest gift the western world has given mankind or two, that the delay of that necessary division may cause violent opposition followed by a potential civil war. Ideally, anyone capable of understanding the root justifications for The Enlightenment needs to be separated within their own nations or even between continents. One side gets western and central Europe, the other the US and Canada. Because this fundamental irreconcilable division has no way of solving itself; we're simply designed differently between those who are capable of understanding liberalism and those who don't and at the gut level probably never will or could never accomplish even if they tried.

[@StuStevens-rn7rb]

It's too bad neither of you apparently has never read the Bible. Humanity's fate is spelled out in detail in God's book the Bible. It reveals humanity's and the earth's ultimate fate. It might behoove you to actually read it, rather than offer up your mere opinions or speculate.

[@singularityintheround]

Video seems to have cut off awkwardly at the end. Where is the rest of the statement? Please don't tell me this was an intentional bait and switch type teaser slash buy my book blatant capitalist manipulation of the audience. ...Especially lame given the topics discussed