He's a professor of evolutionary behavioral science and the author of the parasitic mind how infectious ideas are killing common sense. It comes out in paper back form in the next week.

Check it out. Gat always going to talk to you. And one of the reasons I wanna talk to you tonight

is this not particularly or not exclusively

an American problem, but this is a growing sentiment,

this expectation for less, this divorce from the meritocracy across Western civilization.

Indeed, you know, I wanted, I'm glad that you mentioned Carl Marx and Stalin because I had a quote all loaded and ready for you. the

Carl Marx and Stalin because I had a quote all loaded and ready for you. E.O. Wilson, the Harvard evolutionary biologist who studies social ants

in referring to communism and socialism, he said,

great idea, wrong species, meaning that creating equality,

this utopian equality across all members of society

is a wonderful way to organize society if you are a social ant.

You only have one reproductive queen and everybody else is indistinguishable from one another.

That's not the case for humans.

Humans are heterogeneous species, right?

Some of us are taller, shorter, better looking, harder working, lesser harder working, better

athletes, and it is those individual differences that create the variety,

you know, the spice of life, right? The varieties, the spice of life. And so when you try to create

an ethos that is contrary to human nature you end up having the types of problems we're having now

And GAD I think I want to ask you what idea you talk about the parasitic mind what I do what parasitic idea can it be

explained by communism can it be explained by Marxism can be explained by socialism

what is it I what is the idea that is poisoning this culture of excellence?

Well, I think there's several parasitic ideas.

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