Posted on 07/15/2026 7:22:39 PM PDT by Chickensoup
Bret Weinstein said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding.
Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds.
Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected.
Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.
And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.
Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?
Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting.
Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?
Doing God’s work there, no doubt!
Definitely!! 😀
God bless you.
Reminds me of the Universe 25 rat experiment where RATs were given unlimited water and food. They eventually collapsed into extinction.
That has never been a requirement for half of humanity.
Regards,
He isn’t advocating this, he is describing it. He isn’t in favor of it, either - what he is clearly describing is a disfunctional generation.
True, that!
Contraception and abortion didn't make men hornier or more reckless, it didn't make them more desirous of getting into a young lady's knickers.
Since women have (biologically) always borne the heavier burden from pregnancy and early child-care, and also (socially) been subject to greater shame when bearing children out of wedlock, contraception and abortion should be viewed chiefly as instruments of female empowerment.
And we can plainly see where that has gotten us!
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Even though most of Western society is failing to maintain replacement level? Even the U.S. is "dependent" upon immigration.
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Don't shoot the messenger! He is obviously not advocating for this!
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Kind of makes you wonder how they could have raised such a reprobate child (your mother or father, as the case may be)...
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I find Brett to be a pretty interesting modern philosopher.
He has provided insight that I find valuable
He is worth a listen
there is much truth in this analysis
more “wealth” (as measured by things and money) is not the primary goal of human life. it is a form of the very idolatry we’ve been warned against for thousands of years
more “wealth” (to a reasonable degree) enables a person to support a family (by which I mean to include children)
wealth is a means to a goal, not the goal itself
a family (with kids) is the goal, or should be by all accounts of human history, psychology, and sociology
thus, I must disagree with the article’s characterizing family life as a “cost” ... it is the goal, something to be sought (and certainly not avoided).
that couldn’t be more wrong, excepting on a trivial (and frankly meaningless) level
but otherwise, yes the article has much validity in it...whether we can do anything to fix the problem?
It’s a sci-fi world.
Answer us the same as always.
“Oh - they are marked digitally”
That makes sense.
About 25 years ago, we needed to dig for something and one of the utility guys came out with divining rods - bent steel wires from those little marking flags and two short pieces of copper pipe - one in each hand. I thought he was joking. He wasn’t. He was certain of the underground utility location and marked with spray paint. I’m still not over it.
The whole premise, argument and conclusion are all LIES.
He is not advocating. He is describing.
I agree.
Some really intelligent people advocate this.
Charles Murray for one.
He wrote a book on universal basic income.
I think it is seen as a sop to the reality that many many will be drugged and or killed.
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