Where Are We Heading? Bret Speaks with Peter Boghossian

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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🗓️ 31 July 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Bret Speaks with Peter Boghossian on a multitude of subjects surrounding wokeism, Covid, and the endpoint of our present course.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(04:20) Sponsors

(08:08) Woke ideology and confirmation bias

(13:00) Professors and institution’s culture

(17:30) Thinking critically

(24:21) Shared characteristics of woke

(30:38) Responding to friends who you disagree with

(37:22) Pandemic and expertise

(43:22) I stopped listening to NPR when...

(51:06) Is Wokeism an existential threat?

(56:00) The Selfish Gene and culture

(01:03:00) Is Wokeism seeded by foreign entities?

(01:10:12) New atheists and woke

(01:14:28) Wrap up

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0:00.0	We are not allowed to believe that there are two sexes and that, you know, have your
0:06.5	own hair and hair and hair and hair and hair and hair.
0:07.5	Right.
0:08.5	They're behavioral manifestation.
0:09.5	We are not allowed to believe that we are understood to be bad people if we did.
0:12.9	Yeah, I, I, a little self-conscious about saying this, but I think that, that, uh, my former
0:18.2	um, um, co-author and I were the first people to come up with that idea of woke-ism as
0:22.3	religion in 2014 and essay, we published and all think, uh, privileges the original sin.
0:28.5	We talked about this as a new religion, but you see, so this is the explanatory mechanism
0:35.9	for why media, literally every institution you could think of has been captured.
0:42.2	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast.
0:47.7	I am of course, Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:49.5	I am sitting with Professor in Exile, Peter Begozian.
0:54.9	Peter Begozian.
0:55.9	Welcome to Dark Horse.
0:57.2	Thanks, Brett.
0:58.2	I'm going to start the audience that you are co-author of the very successful book, How
1:02.8	to Have Impossible Conversations.
1:05.3	You are founding faculty at the University of Austin.
1:08.4	Correct.
1:09.4	Uh, you are the author of articles in Scientific American, New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
1:16.0	New Republic, many, many different places.
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