I Can't Overstate How Dire This Is | Bret Weinstein
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 10 December 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report talks to Bret Weinstein about the decline of enlightenment liberalism; if tribalism is Western Civilization's future; why Western Civilization has been reversing course on racial equality; the missteps of the New Atheists and the challenge of reconciling past wisdom with modern problems; the societal consequences of rapid progressivism; the arbitrary nature and pointlessness of a lot of our education; the unintended impacts of discarding established norms; the human tendency to focus on immediate problems while avoiding thoughtful analysis to avoid unintended chaos; the need for a balanced approach that respects both conservative and progressive instincts in societal evolution; Elon Musk's unexpected role in the Twitter free speech battle; his personal meeting with Musk and Musk's subsequent blocking him; the challenges faced by individuals with strengths like courage and insight but who struggle to collaborate effectively; and much more.
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| 0:35.0 | All right, Brett Weinstein. Last we did this, we were in London at the Arc Conference about a month or five weeks ago or so, |
| 0:42.0 | and we agreed to do it again. So here we are and you're |
| 0:46.6 | in a suit this time. I've never seen you this professional. I don't think I've ever seen |
| 0:50.1 | you wearing a tie. Are you going into a new line of work? What's going on here? |
| 0:53.6 | Well, Dave, we are at war and I think it's incumbent on us to dress appropriately. |
| 0:58.1 | We are at war at some level, I think, sort of across the the board we're at war with our institutions |
| 1:04.6 | with we're at war with our sense-making apparatus we seem to be politically at |
| 1:09.0 | war with everybody I guess why don't we just start there? What is on your mind the most at this very moment? |
| 1:16.0 | Well, I am concerned that we are in a kind of war that none of us have seen previously |
| 1:21.0 | and that this is a war that actually must be won. |
| 1:26.0 | That were we to fail to win the war to, I don't even think defending the West is possible at this point but to rekindle it from what remains. |
| 1:36.2 | If we lose that war, then where we're going, I think is unsurvivable for the species really and you know I wish I wish there was more |
| 1:46.7 | nuance about it but that is that is how it looks to me. |
| 1:50.3 | All right so let's do the black pill first. |
| 1:52.5 | So what is the black pill? |
| 1:54.3 | Where is it that you see us going that if we don't rekindle we are going to end up at? |
| 1:59.7 | What does that place look like? As we may have talked about in London, there are really two |
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