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?
Those jobs move money around and keep people busy.
People had these exact questions during the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s. What will people do when machines replace the farm hands? The United States’ population went from 95% farmers in 1790 to 5% farmers in 1910, but the country became overall much wealthier.
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But first many many starved.
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…
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This entire sentence covers BOTH the 100%
Agree.
People who change and grow are most interesting and have a lot to offer.
That is your opinion.
I think there’s value here.
“I think that at a minimum, 50% of the people in this country will not be contributing any labor to the national economy.”
If the economy is stable then the most obvious solution is to reduce the number of non-contributors. Stop ALL immigration for a few decades. Identify and then encourage those who do not want to assimilate to seek a life outside the USA. This can be done easily by derailing the gravy train.
Just for my curiosity...why would you be installing cable when anything you might want to see can be DL from the internet for a fraction of the cost?
Are you joking?
Dickenson, Gaskell, Orwell, Alcott,and others wrote tons about the displacement and starvation that the industrial revolution wrought.
Read the papers of the day.
Realize that Marxism and communism did not arise out of an itch.
It is more discerning to disaggregate these factors by sex.
Only the male sex is required to create wealth so as to acquire status, security, and to attract a mate. Overly vague statements don't clarify the true issue at hand.
Just like saying, "In WWII, some Europeans genocided some other Europeans," instead of "The German Nazis murdered the Jews."
Regards,
Most people’s lives are mere footnotes in history so what’s the big deal?
Nonsense.
The diaggregation occurred at the phrase bear children.
Bret W. needs to understand evolution and nature is just plain dumb. The accumulation of bad mutations in DNA acts as a natural clock indicating only 10k - 20k of viability for all lifeforms before extinction. Further most species never survived even the 6,000 years that true science can prove.
“ Does that idiot actually think this is reality. He is advocating oblivion of modern society”
No. Don’t know how the word “oblivion” works with what you are trying to say. Did you mean “obliteration”?
Anyway, he’s not advocating the obliteration of modern society. He’s describing it. It’s already happened. Your 40 year olds who want babies aren’t getting them. That’s not preference, that’s biology.
And those missing babies won’t grow up, won’t marry, and won’t have babies of their own. This has already happened. It’s not a prediction - it’s a post-mortem.
Mark Steyn coined the phrase “the future belongs to those who show up”. That’s Muslims and Africans.
What you call “modern society” has quit the field and sealed its fate.
interesting
I did not know that history
the Weinsteins showed up on my radar during the covid fiasco
“I think AI (fancy logic processing) “
I like that definition of AI, which my wife still calls “A1”.
You tell ‘em!
the answer is that people go to the edge where where life is hard.
Where is the edge?
Lots of places. Some unknown today.
Ping
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