Hello and welcome to Broconomics. Now, in this fantastic episode, I'm joined by three superlative guests.

I've got the very good Ed Dutton, also known as a jolly helicic, a professor of evolutionary anthropology, and always excellent guest on Lotus Eaters.

We're also very happy to be joined by his co-author on many a book,

J-O-A Rainer Hills, who has contributed significantly to the body of work, but not often been

on a big show, so we are absolutely delight to be breaking in him here. I hope he enjoys the

experience.

And also, of course, Dr. Danny, who you remember just a few episodes back, who was very, very good indeed, lots of positive audience feedback. And I had to make the face of,

oh, yes, you're right, multiple times during that. And was very entertaining indeed. So this is all very good.

Right. So basically, here's our opening frame. The West is in decline, definitely politically,

culturally and quite possibly even biologically. And often it seems not only forced on us, but actually chosen. And so we're

kind of here to ask a question is, are the left's destructive tendencies, perhaps they're

not just ideological, but what if they're biological? You know, what if the collapse of

Western civilization basically comes down to hormones and mating strategy? So we're going to try and figure that out. Now, the general point I would make here is I stand ready with my barrel of pork chops to throw into the piranha pit with various questions every time I detect a

lull or pause. However, there are three people on this call who know what they're talking about

and I am not one of them. So if you guys need to, you know, just ask each other your own questions,

go off on tangents and I don't speak again for the rest of the entire thing. I'm perfectly happy with that. But nevertheless, we need the first pork chop to get us going.

So I'm going to throw into the pit. Is the left's destructive tendencies? Is it a glitch,

or is it a feature? Whoever wants to grab that chop and take the first bite, please do so now.

Do you want me to summarize to your view as what the actual model is?

Yes.

So the basic idea is that I'll be trying to be as quick as I can,

but we were under that we were under half Darwinian selection until the Nuss Revolution about 1800.

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