#196 War on Our Minds (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2023
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
In this 196th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
In this episode we discuss astronomical events, like today’s annular eclipse—that exist with or without human awareness of them. What would the ancients have thought of an eclipse? We discuss science, and the risk to us all as we take the S out of STEM, leaving an applied, human-centric set of fields that are missing their foundation. We discuss Roger Waters—his modern takes on Israel and Palestine, and his dreams and words as recorded in the music of Pink Floyd. We too wish for a world in which no one kills the children anymore, and are having a difficult time defining the shape of this moment in time. Finally: where are the neocons now?
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Mentioned in this episode:
Don’t look it up: https://www.academia.edu/35652813/Dont_Look_It_Up
Roger Waters video essay: https://x.com/rogerwaters/status/1712978707864797522?s=20
Lyrics to The Gunner’s Dream, in The Final Cut (1983): https://genius.com/Pink-floyd-the-gunners-dream-lyrics
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream. Number 196 is it 196? |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, it is. The 196 live stream. I am Dr. Brett Weinstein. I am of course sitting with Dr. Heather |
| 0:15.2 | Heing as so often as for all of our live streams. And we are well frankly a little discombobulated |
| 0:24.7 | because things are moving a pace in the world and it takes a lot of processing. But in |
| 0:31.7 | any case, we have quite a number of interesting things to discuss today. We've got a little |
| 0:38.0 | business to take care of up top. What have I missed? You're looking at me like I missed |
| 0:42.0 | something normal and essential. Just waiting for you to wind down. Okay. To wind down. |
| 0:48.4 | As if there's a spring in me that has perhaps a little too much tension. |
| 0:52.0 | But it's possible that it's true for all of us at the moment. It's yeah, it's a it's a rough |
| 0:57.6 | moment for sure. So come join us on rumble if you're watching somewhere else. Subscribe |
| 1:02.1 | to our channel there please. If you're watching live, join the watch party at locals at locals. |
| 1:06.7 | You can also find early release of guest episodes of Dark Horse Private Monthly Q&A, which |
| 1:11.4 | we're doing tomorrow. It's usually the last Sunday of the month at 11 a.m. Pacific. We're |
| 1:16.9 | doing a little early this month because we're going to be elsewhere. We've got AMAs, Zach |
| 1:22.4 | and I did an AMA. Brett has done them. We have access to our discord. Lots of stuff going |
| 1:26.8 | on at locals. We encourage you to join us there. And we're not doing a Q&A after this |
| 1:32.6 | live stream today. But we will be doing this private Q&A tomorrow. And then we will be |
| 1:36.5 | doing a Q&A after our next live stream, which is this Tuesday, rather than Wednesday, |
| 1:41.1 | after which we will have three weeks without any live streams. But there will be a couple |
| 1:44.4 | of guest episodes dropping during that time. You will have to hold your questions during |
| 1:50.4 | that time. I thought we were maybe going to do some AMAs during that time. Actually, you |
| 1:56.3 | won't have to hold your questions. But stay tuned for information on when you can open |
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