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?
Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.
@IngrahamAngle@mirandadevine What is she, twelve years old? Credit to the guy questioning her for asking how she formed these opinions and exploring she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
@Protect_Wldlife Not to excuse the tourists’ behavior, but that’s actually a black bear. Had it been a grizzly, there’d be a few mauled tourists in that video.
If you have this sticker on your Tesla, just sell it along with your Tesla stock.
You’ve proven that you don’t deserve to reap the benefits of Elon Musk’s unwavering commitment to changing the World.
@MJ12thman@thehoffather And democrats control your entire crooked state (my former home). The Washington State election motto is count, count count, discover more ballots, count some more, until we drag the Dem across the finish line.
@iowahawkblog Unfair comparison. RFKJ has a medical condition known as spasmodic dysphonia. The two in the post have taught themselves to speak that way.