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?
>> I think that at a minimum, 50% of the people in this country will not be contributing any labor to the national economy. What does that mean? What will they do? How will they pay bills? Who will be shopping and buying products if so many people no longer earn wages?
Why do you think “The Great Reset” calls for wiping out vast swaths of humanity? The elites only need so many servants, the rest of humanity are of no use to them.
“Been saying it for years, The Pill was the beginning of the end for our civilization.”
Yes. And I just did 2 minutes of research and guess who has the highest use of hormonal birth control? U.S. and Europe (Costa Rica being an outlier). That’s crazy.
But the phrase "bear children" appears nowhere in that paragraph! Rather, it reads:
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…(Emphasis my own.)
Both sexes "produce and protect" their offspring - but only men are required to create wealth in order to acquire status or provide security and thus attract a mate.
Q.E.D.
Regards,
Contraception and abortion also changed men, completely freeing them from the need to impress a mate.
They can screw women without consequences so long as there isn’t a baby. Contraception and abortion made that “friends with benefits” thing possible.
Now we have lazy, entitled men who behave like children and women sometimes adopt them and tend them like children, because these boys do not deserve the status of head of household when all they do is game all day. They are never willing to commit . They are actually content in the role of a child, and if they get sex too then they are in heaven.
There’s no commitment to family, children, church, community, … and for some, no country.
True, but Brett Weinstein and his wife are evolutionary biologists. That profession tends to speak about life using borrowed economic terminology. Works fine when you're talking about dung beetles or honeybees, but it can be a little jarring when you're referring to mankind.
So what?
And women bear and feed children
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AI will have the same overall effect as pushing women into the workplace — little to none in regards actually building and maintaining civilization.
Women do not build — check out any manual working area. They admin, for sure. AI will destroy those jobs in a few years.
Anything that needs actual physical touching will be unaffected by AI. Humans need to do that stuff and it is 99% male.
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