The modern West was built on a combination of caffeine, nicotine and alcohol.
We abandon that cocktail for newfangled nootropics and appetite suppressants at our peril.
Culture is downstream of drugs and religion.
Jimmy Carr and Joe Rogan were riffing on something I’ve never thought about but instantly recognized.
Super attractive people often speak very slowly… because no one ever interrupts them.
Jimmy’s friend Roisin Conaty pointed it out: gorgeous supermodels talk slowly because they’ve never had to fight for airtime. Meanwhile, the rest of us speed-talk because we know we might get cut off.
Joe added that attractive people also tend to value their own opinions more highly — since no one challenges them when they want to sleep with them.
Jimmy’s punchline: “That’s how horoscopes got big. Incredibly attractive women spoke about their horoscope, and no one went, ‘this sounds like some bullshit.’”
It’s a funny but sharp observation about how looks shape social dynamics in ways we rarely admit.