The Darien Gap & Postmodernism | Bret Weinstein | EP 434

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with evolutionary biologist, author, and podcaster Dr. Bret Weinstein. They discuss the migration crisis, what values make up the “American Identity,” the potential for defining the transcendent, the origins of mutual reciprocity, and how the founding fathers codified these ideas into guidelines for the most functional nation in history.

Dr. Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist who specializes in adaptive trade-offs. His current focus is on the interaction between genetic and cultural evolution. He has studied tent-making behavior in neotropical bats and worked for 14 years as a professor at The Evergreen State College. He has testified to the U.S. Congress, and been a visiting fellow at Princeton University. He hosts the DarkHorse Podcast and is a New York Times best-selling author. Bret has been a frequent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and has done live events with Richard Dawkins, Jordan Peterson, Eric Weinstein, Peter Boghossian, Sam Harris, Douglas Murray and has been interviewed by Bill Maher, Russell Brand, Glenn Loury, Dax Shepard, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Glenn Beck, Bari Weiss, Derrick Jensen, and Lex Fridman, among many others.

This episode was recorded on January 26th, 2024

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(0:00) Tour update 2024
(0:40) Coming up
(0:57) Intro
(3:51) What people aren’t paying attention to
(5:10) Michael Yon, Panama, seeing the Darien Gap up close
(7:40) Immigration and an “invasion” are both happening
(10:06) Why are Chinese immigrants crossing the southern border?
(11:35) The Darien Gap is a roadless no man's land
(12:57) Chinese immigrants are housed separately and strictly off-record
(17:48) The two migrations fuse in Panama, is one cloaking the other?
(23:23) What you need to ask of those immigrating to a new country
(31:41) The unobvious structure of the migration crisis
(36:51) We were deceived with Multiculturalism
(43:22) Lineage versus lineage, and why the American system is better
(53:08) Using large language models to map out abstracted connections
(56:39) Culture is a means to an end, why evil must be defined through narrative
(1:02:35) Sex is only a fraction of reproduction, sacrifice and true continuance
(1:07:01) Perceptual bias, religious belief, and the practice of science
(1:15:08) Defining the religious through the hierarchy of dependency
(1:23:33) The hierarchy of repairability, the sacred and the shamanistic
(1:29:56) The Omega Principle
(1:32:52) We are somewhere entirely new in history