Hello you savages. Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at www.shopify.com/modernwisdom Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - chriswillx.com/books/ Here’s the timestamps: 00:00 The Downfall of Harvard 11:02 Is This the End of DEI? 22:14 Are Legacy Admissions a Bad Thing? 29:58 Why Stephen Hawking is in the Epstein Documents 38:45 The Problem With String Theory 52:45 When Will it Be Time to Put String Theory Down? 56:00 The Current State of Aliens & UFOs 1:05:00 Technology Required for Aliens to Come to Earth 1:18:29 Why Can’t We Say Certain Things? 1:23:59 Eric’s Predictions for the 2024 Election 1:35:55 Wanting Fame is Like Wanting to Be on the Titanic 1:53:16 Society’s Nostalgia for a Unifying Narrative 1:59:57 Is There Power in Prayer? 2:15:14 Why Teenage Boys Are Becoming More Right-Wing 2:30:20 The Rising Trend of Toxic Compassion 2:38:10 The Letter Churchill Received From His Father 2:44:40 Why the UK Makes Eric Angry 2:55:37 What’s Next for Eric

@user-rg7sg6kp1p

5 ай бұрын

I'm a simple man. I see Eric, I watch.

@kungfujoe2136

5 ай бұрын

narrative storytelling ...sounds like simulation theory to me

@codydog1700

5 ай бұрын

I like Eric but on Joe Rogan, his TDS was a bit too much.

@mikaeldarander3458

5 ай бұрын

So, if Eric wasn't such a coward (imagine Zlatans personality) he would not have the need for pubkic therapy by proxy e.g, podcasts to get closure. Interesting to listen too, thanks😊

@Eric-vy6wd

5 ай бұрын

If it's Eric or Bret, I'm in....

A linguistics professor at Harvard was lecturing his class the other day. He said, " in English, a double negative forms a positive. However, in some other languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative ." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

@jimjamjerry

5 ай бұрын

Hahaha

@MrNickEarly

5 ай бұрын

Solid hilarity right there

@aquachonk

5 ай бұрын

An old joke, much circulated, not Harvard.

@JohnDeanMusic

5 ай бұрын

​@@aquachonk just take the joke!

@BlackJesus8463

5 ай бұрын

lol

523 days No Alcohol 🥇

@ChrisWillx

5 ай бұрын

You're an animal. Congrats

@wombatburrito5896

5 ай бұрын

Congrats buddy I’m three days in

@theunluckycharm9637

5 ай бұрын

5 years sober off of heroin I now ride a motorcycle and am happy.

@tje8346

5 ай бұрын

Congrats man!! You got the power!!

@natekidwell

5 ай бұрын

Congrats. I'm almost at 8 months which beats my old record by 7 months.

I don't think Eric is arrogant. I believe he just thinks at a higher level than me and probably most of this audience. He doesn't disparage his colleagues, but actually defends them. He is open to being wrong, but requires evidence, and is willing to defend science with mathematics and data. I admire someone who is willing to openly discuss the many topics this interview touches. I also think Chris is amazing at asking for clarification and dumbing down the responses for those of us that don't have the background or IQ of these two people. New fan of both.

@realestatesuzzi

18 күн бұрын

Indeed, a real scientist. That is how scientist are suppose to be. '

@user-bi8ge4xy1j

12 күн бұрын

That’s right….. his IQ is…. Outstanding.

@RafaelAguilar1987

12 күн бұрын

I didn’t know Eric, but he seems to speak from wisdom. When you know know so much and yet make an effort to find simple words to explain is humbling. I don’t completely agree with his opinion but because of that I think I have seen things I’ve been missing.

@michaellolesi4496

10 күн бұрын

The arrogantly brilliant Always need 😢to remind those/others to STAY whithin YOUR educational LANE..... BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T GO THROUGH THE crap schooling I have to be recognised by people l grew to despise.....

@solasolandra4175

10 күн бұрын

he comes across as having a MASSIVE ego...

I majored in Psychology. My favorite experiment was the Arch experiment: How someone who stands firm against the rest within a group over time will attract them to his side.

@DrBrainTickler

3 ай бұрын

Well, that's only if they are allowed to be heard. In our current social atmosphere, especially here on antisocial media, the rebel geniuses have no voice and aren't allowed to work so they are slowly being murdered by destroying their health through sabotaging their ability to socialize and make money. The experiment you're mentioning does not scale.

@shanejones578

3 ай бұрын

And this no longer naturally takes place…

@TheHandThatWipes3406

3 ай бұрын

​@@shanejones578 careful with using absolutes

@shanejones578

3 ай бұрын

@@TheHandThatWipes3406 oh believe me, I’ve been trying 24 years now you think I’m one of these spineless cowards?

@leslielearnorth

3 ай бұрын

Really!!? That explains a LOT BUT Also gives me hope

I swear no other podcast host/interviewer gets quite this level of upbeat, relaxed energy from Eric- it's great to see.

@gps9715

5 ай бұрын

Yeah this was the best I've seen Eric. He's usually quite frustrating to listen to. Lots of word salad and empty pontifications. This was much more enjoyable.

@dildofaggins731

5 ай бұрын

How so ? Jk 😊

@mattk8810

5 ай бұрын

@@frankcooke1692he is known to be very smart and very involved in deep shit. He is a great philosopher that struggles to dumb down his speech

@earthian3658

5 ай бұрын

I would beg to differ. I really enjoy the way Lex gets him to open up get along.

@JacksonTaylorandTheSinners

5 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. He seems to really enjoy showing him how smart he is. They have great chemistry.

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

@karolisz815

4 ай бұрын

Jiddu Krishnamurti ☝️🙏

@DrBrainTickler

3 ай бұрын

Well then, I am the healthiest unhealthy person within this Romanesque dumpster fire emulation.

@brendawilliams8062

10 күн бұрын

@@DrBrainTickler😂

I don’t follow either of these two men religiously (even though I like them both), but man it’s hard to quantify just how much I love them together in conversation. They just have some special level of chemistry. Never step on each other in response or expression (even through extended pauses, which inadvertently end up punctuating certain times), always bounce things back and forth in a very entertaining way, somehow always ask for further clarification or exploration almost in lockstep with when I would personally ask the same, and very eloquent speakers that use detailed and colourful language. without it feeling like it pomposity. I’m watching this for my second time after watching a few weeks ago. Lucky to have free access to such quality ❤️

@rickelpers1820

3 ай бұрын

This is a respectable conversation you hardly ever hear .

@debslagel1132

3 ай бұрын

I follow Chris and can tell you, this man in any interview I’ve seen is like this with everyone. He’s amazing and well versed in many subjects. If he isn’t he does his research or asks questions in a way to find the answers that maybe he couldn’t before. I find many of the conversations he has is interesting even if I don’t know much about the topics 🙌🏼 ❤️

@SuitedPup

15 күн бұрын

Having just watched snippets of this episode so far and about to begin watching it in full, I’m impressed as well by your breakdown and genuine, heartfelt complimenting and appreciation of others work that you find value in, thanks for contributing and spreading the positivity 🙏

@brendawilliams8062

10 күн бұрын

Agreed

@katjamoltgen5456

3 күн бұрын

Well spoken

I finally got to the end of the interview and didn't regret it. Eric is probably the most underappreciated, humane genius of our times. Much love and respect from Türkiye. ❤ And Chris, keep up the great work, brother.

@DrBrainTickler

3 ай бұрын

That's probably true but you should also acknowledge that the smartest people of every era have always been oppressed, sabotage, economically terrorized and ostracized to the fringes of society, usually dying alone in their early to mid-40s... The smartest people alive currently, you don't even know who they are.

@DanielFBest

Ай бұрын

Yes, I agree. He's brilliant and original, and yet so full of humility.

@treeglass

4 күн бұрын

I agree with you sir.

Harvard is done being respected.

@RealziesCuts

5 ай бұрын

🦊

@12coco100

5 ай бұрын

"The worlds biggest mass murders come out of Harvard University"

@FazeParticles

5 ай бұрын

Academia needs to be regulated. Sounds weird but the lack of regulation gave birth to critical race theory and DEI.

@mr.cantsay

5 ай бұрын

​@@FazeParticlesI'm sure the regulators hate the easy votes.

@007bbox

5 ай бұрын

I suspect they don’t seek approval from strangers online

“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.” - G.K. Chesterton

@Joey-bj5lq

4 ай бұрын

Like being civil...

@Ratinevo

4 ай бұрын

@@Joey-bj5lq And forgetting that we are autonomous thinking individuals, not piles of sh!ts. They don’t understand anthropology at all.

@Rishabh-Dev

4 ай бұрын

Like taking moral and Ethical values for granted. Sure shot recipe for decaying civilization.

@user-ih5jr8rt5q

4 ай бұрын

civilization is human domestication not a good thing, ever

@AlyThree3

4 ай бұрын

@@Joey-bj5lq If we go by history... it was never really civil. LOL

I am a long since retired physics and Math teacher and my knowledge is limited. Listening to you is mesmerizing and wakes us up. I never could imagine what you say about Harvard and the like.

I learn more from Eric W in one hour than I probably learned in 4 years of college. Thank you Mr. Chris for having this guy on. I wish there were a stronger word than the words thank you.

@dqf9830

12 күн бұрын

This is sad

"I don't know how to react, the world doesn't make sense anymore" (rough quote) - oh... that hits hard. I really appreciate hearing an adult and informed conversation. A rarity nowadays

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq

4 ай бұрын

Sex with animals, I swear it that a foreign lady I internet-dated admitted to me that his father had done it, I was so shocked, the Adams Family.

@davidingham3409

Ай бұрын

The world never did make sense.

@KatJ3st

22 күн бұрын

Indeed

I had the privilege of meeting Eric at a cafe last year. He was so humble and spent almost an hour talking to me and my group of friends. Funny enough, we talked about how we attend a Latin Mass Catholic Parish. God bless Eric.

@CC-uq4hu

4 ай бұрын

He’s so clever and I love his wise eyes…what colour are they? I bet green

@soonerbmama6727

4 ай бұрын

God bless you all.

@josephlebard2061

4 ай бұрын

Jesus said no one comes before God except me , why do catholics pray to deities such as mother Mary, Peter, etc. That, to me, is non Christian do you not have fear for your soul . Lord be with you .

@jadioris

4 ай бұрын

He’s humble in many ways yet so incredibly arrogant as well.

@smeuchel

4 ай бұрын

​@@josephlebard2061 they do not pray to them they pray for their intercession. There is a difference. Think of it like asking a friend who works at city hall to talk to the Mayor for you.

So true all of it. I’ll never forget when I was seated in my car stuck in traffic on Washington Boulevard in LA between Lincoln and the beach when an elderly male was chased through the cars by a soldier that looked like he came out of a sci-fi movie. He was huge and was in military gear carrying a weapon I’ve never seen before. I instantly thought I was in the middle of a movie shoot. The elderly man fell right in front of a truck next to me and the soldier reached him aiming the weapon in his face. I then thought what if this is not a movie shoot (I certainly didn’t see any camera crew) but a terrorist attack so I panicked and manoeuvred my small Prius between the two cars in front of me and managed to escape the scene. As I was driving I saw multiple police cars approaching the scene I left behind so I thought it was all taken care of. After I arrived at my friends home I called the police who told me IT HAD NOT HAPPENED!!! WTF?? I called every police station I could think of and they all gaslighted me and denied I had seen what I had seen. It was bizarre to say the least. The next day I called the hotel that was right there and the guy who answered said there was a lot of black cars and seemingly undercover police or secret service/FBI. What I do not understand is why did they have to gaslight me that I never saw what I saw. It could easily been explained with FBI CAUGHT A bad guy. No one ever did. Bizarre. I was quite shocked and traumatised and I think the public has the right to know what this was.

@chrismullin8304

Ай бұрын

The cops are left in the dark regarding those sorts of black SUV apprehensions.

@laneneal3510

3 күн бұрын

😮

This is such a great conversation. It's great to see Eric so relaxed, so much of what he says is thought-provoking. In many interviews I've seen, it comes across that he is uncomfortable and frustrated. His process, voice, and ideas are so valuable and he articulates them so well, often unpredictably.

I’m 48, and Harvard hasn’t been the “shining city on a hill” since affirmative action sunk its dirty talons into Harvard. Now, DEI makes the old affirmative action look conservative.

@BenMJay

5 ай бұрын

“When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

@williamh.gatesiii8183

5 ай бұрын

Most affirmative action went to white women.

@Michael-qy1jz

5 ай бұрын

People are NOT getting this as a whole, and there is a 99.99% chance my comment is ghosted or erased, but>> This Warfare with woke, DEI, gender pronouns, open boarders and all this other stuff is there to BRING DOWN our institutions and our trust as subversion & demoralization programs run rampant in the west, mainly America. We may see the U.S implode and split, which is the GOAL of international Oligarchs/Corps.

@q__________

5 ай бұрын

I don't agree with DEI. BUT, People are celebrating the glorious dismantlement of "DEI" at Harvard, but there doesn't seem to be any "DEI" actually being dismantled. Seems like the only tangible impact is the further chilling of political speech critical of Israel This is what actually happening. The people fighting for free speech became the first ones to silence it. Both the right and the left are frauds. One thing is clear: Don't criticize Israel in America.

@BrownOpsLeak

5 ай бұрын

All according to plan

What the hell, I would never have trusted my advisor to defend my thesis instead of me - it's not his role to be the expert in what I did. That's insane

@likwidsun2303

5 ай бұрын

I don't think Eric it fleshed it out here, the way he has in other interviews. My understanding is, they shut him down, not because he did a poor job on his argument, but because they didn't like the subject. They do not believe it speaks well of physics to indulge in what they consider to be the fantastic…? (this is my, very poor interpretation of what occurred.)

@knowahnosenothing4862

5 ай бұрын

@@likwidsun2303 String theory is a religion and the gatekeepers it's zealots, my take.

@vandogtrailer6701

5 ай бұрын

​@@likwidsun2303 Eric did receive his PhD from Harvard. They didn't shut him down by not giving him the degree. I think it's important to listen to what he said about the two faces of Harvard to understand why they handled it like that.

@joseaguirre744

5 ай бұрын

Physics is a pseudoscience.

@boburanus69

5 ай бұрын

@@knowahnosenothing4862 Most of what we discuss right now in physics is religion. Quantum this, teleportation that, worm holes, spacetime, all of it is a belief held by people who can't bigger picture.

Am from Africa, am so zoned in on this man Mr Eric Weinsten, yep he would restore Harvard for the scholars

Listened to this over 3 days… and uhhhh Eric is utterly, bewilderingly brilliant. What a pleasure listening to him. A true pioneer of thought. Well done to Chris, too, for orchestrating an excellent conversion that I shan’t forget soon.

Could we just have Eric on every month? He seems to be one of the only people spreading sanity.

@jpthinks

4 ай бұрын

I concur

@capitalofcambrom

4 ай бұрын

He's incredible, I could listen to him for hours and hours (and in fact just did haha)

@DEANMORGAN-ej9du

4 ай бұрын

He is great! He does need a dose of his brother. Brett is better at explaining things to dummies like me

@78dancosta

4 ай бұрын

He's great but he would be even better if he hadn't spent SO much time in academia. He's become unable to speak in a way that isn't condescending.

@drts6955

4 ай бұрын

He's full of shit. But definitely interesting to listen. I can't believe he's still banging on about his theory about the CPI being fixed. He had a friend and economist on his own podcast who explained to him why he was wrong about it. And he's acting like that conversation never happened

"I don't know how to react, there's no part of this world that looks sane to me" - this cuts deep 🖖

@Foreverfallen88

5 ай бұрын

Hurts real good though yeah. Almost like one of JBPs many comments when he's failing to hold back the tears. Realize real life.

@memyselfandi8544

5 ай бұрын

Because everything you have been taught about the world, was a deception. The secular reality is very compelling and alarming. But it’s a diversion from truth.

@doesntno

4 ай бұрын

None of us are sane anymore. Why is our society and government like this? Why won't we all together stand up and shout "ENOUGH OF THIS!"

@systemicsystems703

4 ай бұрын

You live in a fantasy, snap out of it!

@disposabull

4 ай бұрын

@@doesntno Our leaders have deliberately created a hell world, an inverted reality to enslave us in delusion so they can destroy Western freedoms and rule over us. It's about power and control.

Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night… gratitude to all involved in hosting this amazing conversation

@billyaiello9022

3 ай бұрын

Exact same tune that came to mind. Great conversation indeed.

@leslielearnorth

3 ай бұрын

Too bad is tearfully lonely couldn’t reach out and keep each other company…. There’s a lot of us….

@adrianneve5136

Ай бұрын

Garcia (and Hunter) would have loved this conversation

@dermotmeuchner2416

9 күн бұрын

I’m more in a Brokedown Palace mood b

@dosesandmimoses

9 күн бұрын

@@dermotmeuchner2416 well. What shade of dark are you looking for? How grateful do you need to be reminded of? I can only say be careful what you wish for.

I Totally agree w Eric about certain people who should NEVER be around our children!

I wasn't planning on watching a 3 hour interview, even with Eric, but the video started and I didn't move for 3 hours.

@MsElke11

5 ай бұрын

I was mesmerized too by the obscure language in the first hour, and then Eric started playing the blues and I felt like i found my soul brother.

@wojecire

5 ай бұрын

This is how I felt precisely

@shannamcdonough9588

5 ай бұрын

When I recently heard him - I was like this is one of the smartest person I've ever heard - glad he is not afraid to speak up - against some very dumb violent people

@JP.Danny007

5 ай бұрын

Almost hypnotic!!

@danielcillie1856

5 ай бұрын

​@@shannamcdonough9588he makes me feel smart and then very dumb again, especially when he says stuff like the 42:17 that goes over my head.

I was spellbound for all three hours. Incredibly thought-provoking. Thank you all!

@RMHeemstra

4 ай бұрын

Yup.

@dredrotten

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, some people can waffle on for a long time.

@dermotmeuchner2416

9 күн бұрын

@@dredrottenyou listened through.

The reason we have Trump vs. Biden is because we don’t have a media that does its job

@anitakephart3851

12 күн бұрын

One reason, of many....

Sublime. A complete pleasure to listen to. Interviews/discussions like this give me hope

The very first time I heard Eric, I thought he was just pissed off. However, 40 plus years working in engineering made me want to hear more. Now I realize we got lazy with our thinking…or scared to speak when we realize (feel it in our gut) that something is wrong, we just go along to get along. I throughly enjoy hearing his thought process on various topics. Chris, your methods of getting those thoughts flowing is terrific. Thanks to BOTH of you for great conversation.

@justsayin3600

5 ай бұрын

My first time listening to this podcast. Eric is brilliant.

@brendansullivan3408

5 ай бұрын

Sounds like a charlatan to me. I know his cv. But seriously. On other episodes he thinks physicists should work to exit this planet wtf. And all the cheerleaders... I mean all these comments. What a joke. He expresses a couple good thoughts.. e.g. bashing modern acedemia and weak majors, string theory, etc. However I must say, he says what he wants and doesn't seem to worry about upsetting people.

@nedhill1242

5 ай бұрын

lol! Eric is arrogant beyond belief. I have seen him for a few years. He always thinks he’s the smartest person in the room. At some point in every podcast he interrupts the person whose podcast he is on to tell him let me tell you what you’re trying to say or let me tell you why you’re right for the wrong reasons etc. etc. He thinks he’s the smartest person in the room, brilliant, while at the same time thinking he is equally aggrieved & victimized. I’ll take his brother Brett any day of the week and twice on Sundays over Eric!

@brendansullivan3408

5 ай бұрын

We fight the good fight. I want someone that says all the sensible stuff without all the wacky stuff.

@nedhill1242

5 ай бұрын

@@user-ze8zo5uv2s Bravo! That is some first-class sarcasm, my friend. It’s a dying art, but I love when people know how to use it effectively!

When Eric said he didn’t know why they are guarding the exit to “limitless energy “, I thought, “I have an idea why.” Those with great wealth and power are likely very comfortable with and quite fond of the current structure of our society. And such knowledge would completely disrupt that.

@sunshinewalker6074

4 ай бұрын

Maybe, they have found the key and send everyone who could replicate the work, off into String Theory so that only they have the power? Jeffery was just keeping Tabs on who what working on what so that " they" would know who was getting close and needed a nudge " funding" away from discovery ?

@leslielearnorth

3 ай бұрын

Yup. It’s very simple.

@donaldrobertson1808

2 ай бұрын

I agree. Karl Marx was quite prescient in the predictions he made. But his proscriptions were monstrously wrong. Marxism & subsequent extensions to his philosophy is vile in every way. Being implemented as a form of governance has always led to catastrophic amounts of death, misery, bleak arrested development, dysfunction, & ultimate societal collapse This being stated & out of the way, his prescient predictions included that bourgeois capitalism is such an efficient powerful system of innovation that it would ultimate reduce industrial manufacturing processes would ultimately be reduced to information which has no cost. They will be able to manufacture goods so cheaply & abundantly that the price of their products would fall so low that they wouldn't be able to afford to pay their employees which render the masses with no money to pay for their practically free products. The economic model of bourgeois capitalism would collapse ending it as a viable system. Thus it would lead to its own demise However, the owner class would not go quietly into the night. This is because they never were truly interested in manufacturing products more efficiently to be more competitive to make a profit. It was the profits with the power that they brought to this class that was most important. It was even more important than the vast luxury & material comfort there wealth brought. They would never willingly give up this power, doing whatever were required to retain it. To move beyond the old economics of scarcity into a new era of abundance, the workers would have to engage in a violent revolution to overthrow the owner class & seize control of the means of production After deposing the owner class, & whatever means of governance & police enforcement that supported them, they would then set up a dictatorship of the proletariat which entailed establishing an absolute dictatorship by seizing all power & nihilistically murdering anyone who could possibly challenge them Next they would begin carrying out the communist revolution by removing all remnants of the old bourgeois order. This is when communism would become violent in a pathologically sick manner, becoming much more bloody & genocidal than what had already occurred during the workers revolution & the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat I don't see how it would be possible for a better more "just" & "equal" system to emerge with people being selfless to the point of voluntarily sharing all material wealth equally from such a morally depraved violent system that does not value individual freedom, individual life, or objective truth at all Up until recently I didn't think that Marx's prediction that the owner class would never willingly give up power was correct because I didn't like the idea of engaging in a violent overthrow of the government & bourgeois capitalism that I thought would be unnecessary. I still don't like the idea of engaging in violence & am willing to avoid doing so until the point of being violently attacked or being enslaved by having all rights & property stripped away with no possible way out in order to avoid such enslavement. You can be assured that such enslavement would quickly be followed by the slaughter of a large percentage of the enslaved population If we were to survive the end bourgeois capitalism & any attempt of the owner class holding on to power then the ensuing era would become interesting. Let's say that cheap limitless fusion energy & virtually full industrial automation led to the end of scarcity & bourgeois capitalism. We would then have an economics of abundance that would no longer require never ending increases in growth & consumption of resources in order to keep the economy healthy & providing employment & growth opportunity for most people. This would usher in the opportunity of ushering in a steady state economy that would require consuming an ever increasing amount of resources. TBC, growth in production would be achieved by becoming ever more efficient using the same amount of resources. With limitless cheap energy we could recycle much of our resources. We would still need to consume new resources but not an ever increasing amount of them. With the advances we could make in material science coupled with limitless energy we could minimize the amount of environmental damage incurred obtaining whatever new natural resources that would be necessary each year. TBC, in a steady state economy the amount new natural resources need each year would remain constant. We would also be able to afford mining near earth asteroids to obtain rare elements There would be a few serious social issues that would need to be overcome. How would this post bourgeois capitalist system be structured. I believe that we would need to make it as free & decentralized as possible. If we turned to centralized power, to implement such a new economy we would be assured that such power would end up crushing the individual, most of mankind, all freedom, human thriving & happiness. Perhaps it would crush humanity all together. We need to return to a liberal that provides true freedom as intended & has done so quite during various past eras. But it would do so much better than before avoiding the known mistakes & limitations of the past. How this could be achieved one could only speculate on at this time The other problem would be what to do with all of the unemployable people who would no longer be needed in the workforce to create abundance. An open ended BMI system will never be sustainable in the long run. Possibly BMI for life could be provided in exchange for reproductive sterility. Only people who earned a living by working would be allowed to reproduce. This would provide a one time massive reduction in Earth's human population over the course of a single generation. Be repulsed by it if you wish but it wouldn't involve such massive unwanted death & much less misery than what the monstrous course that our current global elite seem to have embarked on by culling the population through disease, poisoning by way of vaccines, possibly mass starvation by invoking artificial famine, economic collapse by restricting total energy use, & quite possibly the outright slaughter of populations. This would also involve depriving everyone of all freedom. This future of early death & misery that these monsters in the global elite & governing class have planned for us must be avoided by all means. It is vile, disgusting, inhuman,, & unnecessary for humankind to survive well into the indefinite future. It would probably be less likely to achieve its goals than if were to quickly go full steam ahead freeing people to work in groups among others as they wish & to engage in free discourse sharing information freely to maximize innovation & with system incentive guiding us on as straight forward of a course as possible towards developing cheap limitless energy & virtual industrial manufacturing automation to arrive at abundance, environmental sustainability, & a permanent greatly reduced risk of groups going to war with each other by no longer needing to fight over reduced resources

@jacinda1385

Ай бұрын

No invention will benefit the world of man, until I get the money for it in my hand. - Capitalism.

@badlaamaurukehu

18 күн бұрын

Remember 'Brasil'... This guy is Robert Dinero.

If I could get passed the YT AI content moderation, If I could get passed all the cynics, If I could get passed the sea of voices, I would send to Eric, a loving man, my sincere love in return. There were so many moments in this talk that moved me, as a 65 year old white man from New Zealand. Wonderful podcast Chris; you have much to feel proud of.

@marsis63

13 күн бұрын

I am 65 y o white woman from Washington state. Your post expressed how I experienced this podcast also. ❤

One of the most brilliant, riveting, intellectual powerhouse conversations I have heard in a VERY long time. Chris, Eric the chemistry you two have is quite rare and unseen these days. Please do another long format interview soon!

This conversation started off so good and then got exponentially better.

@TheWisdom3

5 ай бұрын

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

@SubvertTheState

5 ай бұрын

I would say it got better in a linear progression.

@eliteexcavationpros

5 ай бұрын

thought it would be put me to sleep, half way through and i’m getting coffee

@doglifehub

5 ай бұрын

Edward Witten would disagree, and he's a genius.

@jimbeam4736

5 ай бұрын

@@doglifehub But he would be too polite and soft spoken to even mention it.

Dude this conversation is intense! The long pauses to give each other room to think and to see who will talk is poetry like. Well done bro!

@antirealist

5 ай бұрын

I and many others have noticed these tendencies of his but am very surprised at how few see it and how many just buy into his "genius" at face value. I like the general ideas this guy brings up but he comes off as such a conceited "I know things neither you nor anyone else knows" narcissist that I can hardly stand listening to him. Mr. Weinstein: Stop pausing for dramatic effect so much as if we're just hanging on every word you say. You're not the smartest, richest, wisest, sexiest, most educated, most interesting or most accomplished person who's been on this podcast. Also, many of his sentences are just empty and lacking in genuine content. He simply hints at possible things, gives cryptic responses, or just babbles incoherently. Yes, he makes some interesting points but a lot of it is incoherent rambling and, I'll chance a guess, confabulation. Again Mr. Weinsein: You're just one of many who may have some interesting perspectives and ideas to present but that's it. Just say what you mean, give your honest opinion without all the theatricality, and have a real, genuine conversation.

@andrejm77

4 ай бұрын

Nah, it's so pretentious from both... made me uncomfortable way too many times watching this podcast. Still it was great show.

@___Truth___

4 ай бұрын

@@andrejm77 You’re way too used to noises. Silence & clear words let alone clear thoughts will help you.

@teIezet

4 ай бұрын

@@antirealist when exactly did he claim those things you mentioned? are you basing all that on the fact that he makes long pauses?

@vargas0897

4 ай бұрын

​@@antirealistOn what did you base your conclusion that he acts this out and it is not genuine? Do you know him personally?

Thank you for the band recommendation, Sleep Token. "The Summoning" was so good! I was not ready for such a change in pace halfway through the song!

@AdmiringObserverR

5 күн бұрын

Is this the one that he said the member got doxxed in?

The bit where he talks about how we could decide obvious questions within minutes or days if we chose to is profound.

@brendawilliams8062

10 күн бұрын

Eric obviously doesn’t feel obligated just philosophically interested

People are realizing that what they've trusted in is falling apart.

@1x93cm

5 ай бұрын

by design

@user-ic1lo9wh5f

5 ай бұрын

the most crazy part is that they trusted it in the first place

@scotttheurer1791

5 ай бұрын

@@user-ic1lo9wh5f exactly. Everything changes..and nothing is forever...Harvard? So thats one very small representaion of a huge country..and frankly Harvard doesnt understand anymore what really makes up this country. Im not of a place "of priveledge" but that doesnt mean I don't have the ability to think, reason and progress. Harvard....whatever...

@charleswalker2484

5 ай бұрын

You're still trusting someone like Weinstein then you're in for another rude awakening

@dougg1075

5 ай бұрын

It was all a lie. The central banks run our world

DEI, eliminates merit and is anti character based. It focuses everything on identity as opposed to character. I am convinced we will look back at this time and see it as being very racist, sexist, and bigoted. The recent lawsuits against DEI and ESG are going to be a wake up call for companies and universities. It has promoted people regardless of their merit or character. An unearned position is insane. The fact is it encourages quotas and anti talent hiring. We already have countless examples of it cost businesses and entertainment billions.

@aftermath4096

5 ай бұрын

There isn't going to be any wake-up call. DEI nonsense is just a reflection of two underlying population-level philosophical beliefs: Collectivism vs Individualism.

@imaginalex5850

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, and by listening to this guy, you are actually listening to the hypocrites running this show and these theatrical companies

@OneManCanStopTheMotorOfWorld

5 ай бұрын

@@imaginalex5850 where in the fuck did you pull that stance from?

@chrisschey7818

5 ай бұрын

Character is everything.

@kahner93

5 ай бұрын

So I assume you're also against legacy admissions in colleges and nepotism within the workplace, correct?

Absolutely brilliant, This turned up on my feed and out of boredom I suppose I pressed play. I was going to leave after 3.30 mins but carried on for a while . Have just got to the end, that was one of the most interesting, engrossing podcasts Ive seen for a while and the quickest 3 hours I've ever known. Thanks, liked and subscribed.

So far, despite Eric being an economist, I have never heard him speak about the world economic system. Is there a reason he never puts this very important component of modern society into his discussions?

Eric is one of the most brilliant minds of our time. Please bring back the portal. I for one, am listening. Thank you, Chris. These discussions are invaluable to our world view.

@IanG-tu1mb

4 ай бұрын

lol

@DrBrainTickler

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, even though this is slightly watered down wisdom. There is a lack of existential intelligence and a hint of a myopic tendency.

@CountMeOut33

3 ай бұрын

right…

@TheLuminousOne

3 ай бұрын

please, stop with the fawning 🤦🏼

@douglasborgstrom2023

3 ай бұрын

@@TheLuminousOne since i posted that comment,i i have decided im not really a fan

The fact that it goes quiet for a few seconds sometimes only adds to the intensity and enjoyment. Both people take in what the other is saying, and give their best articulated response. I love that, and I listened all the way through

@TheMrBigJeff

5 ай бұрын

I was starting to think it was just me: the silences, often times throughout this conversation, literally felt deafening. I had to check the video was still playing multiple times when they paused for so long: I wanted to know what they said next and… they were just thinking and it was really gripping. Ramble ramble - I liked your comment; happy days fellow travellers 🙏🙌☀️

@ecatcheshire9741

5 ай бұрын

Allows me time to process what was just said- much more easeful to listen to and allows more depth in the conversation and the listener

@digitalperson108

5 ай бұрын

Two very intelligent humans interacting.

This is like listening to Plato’s Gorgias. Soon we will all be convinced by Eric and agreeing with everything he says…

Best 3 hrs I've spent in a very very long time. Fascinating!

I got my STEM PhD from Harvard in 1993. I was pretty cynical about the place by then. I left Boston shortly after and never looked back. That it has reached this point of dysfunction is not a great surprise. You could almost see where it was going even back then. I should also say that it wasn't just me. Virtually all of my peers were of the same opinion.

@kimphilley621

5 ай бұрын

I am very glad you watched this. 1993 you and all your peers shared this opinion. I wonder what you all may have done in that intervening 31 years to have kept this woke stupidity from happening.

@pyhead9916

5 ай бұрын

Boston is in fact a dysfunctional city!

@mibli2935

5 ай бұрын

@CdawgAMVsFilmEditing : Can you please expand on this statement a little bit more? "Education will become a waste of time at a traditional place of education". I can understand that AGI may kill traditional lectures, it might make studying certain subject to be obsolete, but how can it make education in general a waste of time?

@alanbland1976

5 ай бұрын

​@@kimphilley621 the people that graduate from a University/Collage have no obligation to maintain that place after they are gone. Even if they wanted to, they have effectively no influence over it.

@jamess.2491

5 ай бұрын

MIT alum, definitely disappointed in what's happened but nowhere near to the degree of Harvard.

Eric's discussion of the power of music and prayer and the link between them really moved me. I study music history and culture for these exact reasons. The way we think, talk, socialize and even entertain ourselves is rooted in spirituality, even if we don't immediately see or feel it. There is power in the mundane, even things we don't associate with being spiritual, religious, etc. Even if you don't believe in a higher power, you can find the transcendent in the simplest things. The art and culture we make and the spiritual practices we engage in are so deeply and beautifully linked.

@GaZonk100

4 ай бұрын

today's spirituality is manifested in DEI which is basically christianity without the God. . .

@sallyharrison8265

4 ай бұрын

Very moving . He is not an atheist, I could see God's Grace wash over him. Interesting.

@vijaz5559

4 ай бұрын

This is the same guy who whines at elon about why his video with tucker carlson isn’t trending 😂😂😂 ya’ll sheep

@jdaze1

4 ай бұрын

Finding the TRUE God of creation requires removing yourself from all distractions and that includes music which plays on the emotions and feelings of man. God communes with those who seek his wisdom and knowledge ABOUT who he really is thru the mind and thru the wisdom hidden within the words that seriously falable men tried to put in writing. Those that seek these writings long enough eventually find the hidden truth within all the distractions and hyperbole. Over the last 3k years that has been very few. As God calls them the "little flock". This truth has NEVER been mainstream nor known by the masses, intellects, scientists, religions, politicians, the Pope, the Kings, the universities, the monks, the Budah, etc. Only the very few that seek the TRUTH about God while knowing one must separate fact from mans fiction ever get close to understanding the cosmos and the true meaning to life and death.

Thank you Eric! So affirming to hear you say that teachers should stay away from our children. I’ve been saying this to my daughter who has a 14 year old daughter who thinks she’s a boy. All encouraged by her school and teachers. It needs to STOP!

In the second last chapter, Eric is talking about Multi-ethnicity versus Multiculturalism. Multiple ethnicity's united through the English culture and flag is not the diversity that has been fostered or imported for the last 15 years.

If you didn’t come from TikTok raise your hand ✋🏽

@langermain

3 ай бұрын

Good one.

I'll listen to any conversation you two have. Please keep having them

@paulg451

5 ай бұрын

It's wonderful

I'm on the hill. Nice to meet you Eric. I see the sincerity in what remains unsaid for safety. The silence is deafening.

Love this episode and Eric and Chris. I just found them both and I am addicted. One small note regarding Churchill’s father’s letter, although it was a sad moment in young Churchill’s life it may have been the reason he was able to stand toe to toe to Hitler. From my life, some of the harshest comments motivated me to change or at least to be strong enough to stand tall against comments made by others.

"it's a spell" that's the most real thing that has been spoken is years. Eric has the big picture reality perspective which allows for human nature to be human and thusly make sense, most others have removed humanity from their equations.

@monaskulllll

5 ай бұрын

Hahahaha 🤣

@aldebaranredstar

4 ай бұрын

Agree!

The extended pauses created by these two are absolutely lovely

@linkawaken

5 ай бұрын

My gf pointed that out while listening over my shoulder. I think to some extent, it is Chris mirroring Eric

@zachminarich577

5 ай бұрын

As a great interviewer should!​@@linkawaken

@BarryFranks

5 ай бұрын

They turned me non-hetero.

The guest is very smart. I’m glad that you guys allow the short pauses and silences. I hope he does go on to save the idea of universities and prestige. I feel like I’ve given up on them

“The purpose of a university is training and research.” Mic drop

"Lying, lying, lying is the substrate of our society." Nailed it.

@MrRmann1234

5 ай бұрын

A hallmark of Marxism.

@wikingkrig5801

4 ай бұрын

Agree with him. Im sick of it

Chris is good at taking a challenge despite not matching Eric's knowledge.... lot of hosts would simply skip this kind of discussion due to that level difference.

@nyahhbinghi

5 ай бұрын

Chris knows a lot more than Eric and is probably the wiser of the two

@gregorypeterson9

5 ай бұрын

They both are very knowledgeable but in different areas. It doesn't have to be a competition just suppose to be a conversation.

@nyahhbinghi

5 ай бұрын

@@gregorypeterson9 Eric is obtuse and non-committal. Chris can be that way too. Neither brave enough to take a true stand like some brave others do, but at least willing to stick their necks out a little bit. Good on them.

@RandallNewman

5 ай бұрын

I sometimes lose where Eric is going because of the way he talks about multiple perspectives at the same time. Chris is more explicit. I appreciate both.

@aaad3552

5 ай бұрын

All I see is him giving opanions.

I’m a Centrist leaning Right. I’ve seen society going left since the sixties. For me it’s been predicable. It maybe impossible to redirect the path we’re on.

@dahof2789

Ай бұрын

Come on man, take a position on SOMETHING. Passivist

When he touched on atheist who don’t believe in religion it really resonated with me. As I was in my music class I was learning of its history and how religion shaped many of our music today. That is to say religion is in all of us. Whether we like it or not. Does not make your religiously affiliated to any religion but it will always be a part of your essence. We cant escape religion because so many systems within us and our society was created through religious practices over centuries.

the only thing that keeps us from doing the right thing is our need for comfort

@hypno5690

5 ай бұрын

Far from it.

@jbc242424

5 ай бұрын

I mean... well... there's also Intelligence, know-how, awareness, alacrity, habit formation, blind spots, exhaustion, fatigue, fear (which is why we seek comfort), illness, **dishonesty**. There's a lot to it and it ain't easy.

@bobhill-ol7wp

5 ай бұрын

@@hypno5690 cool

@TJ-kk5zf

5 ай бұрын

power

@Flexible_photon

5 ай бұрын

And what do you think the right thing is?

I am stunned. I was going to go to sleep, just wanted some background noise, now I'm 1/2 awake, sloppy with my words, but I can't stop thinking. I am so lucky I stumbled upon this interview, discussion. I was that kid, why why why? I have to listen again. I want to know how neutrinos get through the earth unscathed, gain a better understanding of power. I forget the exact term, but Eric's "departure" from string theory to "geometric" something. Discussion about Harvard has me thinking, hell, all of it has me thinking. Then when the guitar came out, well, I started lessons when I was 11. Rough times at the moment, I needed a serious jump start of the mind. Gentlemen, Thank You Both.

@lufran3346

4 ай бұрын

Thanks

@MicheleKaiser-io2dx

4 ай бұрын

Isn't it great when one sentence triggers everything to fall into place like dominoes? Very cool experience!

@stoneskull

4 ай бұрын

never give up!

@AkamiChannel

4 ай бұрын

Geometric unity. Instead, look into John Baez, Cohl Furey, the octonions, and the Klein quartic.

@user-ol4rt4bs4o

4 ай бұрын

15:12 15:25 15:30 16:08

Curious about this ”no coffee in the morning”. Is this depending on when you wake up? Or when does the ”timer” start?

Thank you for this conversation Chris and Eric! ❤ Modern Wisdom is Self Knowledge

I grew up in Germany and Austria. No form or document ever listed "Gender" (Geschlecht), it was always "Sex". Gender was only used for declension of words to express different grammatical categories such a case, number and gender (male female and neutral)

@zimzob

5 ай бұрын

Same in English but after people stopped using elaborate euphemisms for coitus and “having sex” became a common expression, making “sex” from a noun to a verb, typical Anglo-Saxon prudery meant “gender” became the euphemism for the noun “sex”, heretofore a word that never required euphemism. Women’s studies came out of literary departments, and adopted the linguistic term “gender” for the idea of socially constructed sex roles, which do comprise additional identities beyond binary sex itself, just as linguistic gender has neuter, and in some languages, more categories. This confusion allowed certain ideas to tunnel into public consciousness.

@hypergraphic

5 ай бұрын

I find the word "GeschlechtsVerkehr" entirely too funny when transliterated: Gender Traffic 🤣

@cblondesreport

5 ай бұрын

@@hypergraphic ..that is hilarious. Additionally I haven't "heard" that word in like 30 years :-)

@DailyPolemics

5 ай бұрын

@@zimzob Hah hah, I posted a video a while ago called "the academic appropriation of gender" inspired by this exact thought. I'm going to assume that I just met one of the 13 people who have watched it, rather than admit that maybe others have had the same thought. 😄

@aldebaranredstar

4 ай бұрын

This is absolutely correct-gender is a grammatical term; however, look up a sociologist called John Money. He’s the one who developed the theory of “gender” in the 1950’s as a “social construct,” as behavior, as opposed to sex, which is obviously biology. If you look him up in Wikipedia you’ll find out a lot of very remarkable information, including what happened with twin boys, and how he interfered in their lives to encourage one to be raised as a girl and the other a boy. it did not end well- very sad actually.

I love the pause moments ! It shows patience, mutual respect and reflection. These dudes are not bs-ing, they're vibing and getting to places.

@PtotheMtotheK

3 ай бұрын

I've seen a lot of people give Elon Musk crap for doing this same thing when going back-n-forth in conversation. Simple people just blurt out crap and don't understand why other people pause and think before speaking.

@soeinspast4096

3 ай бұрын

lmfaooo

@Sweethands4

3 ай бұрын

It actually just shows that they have gone through media training, and are very careful about what & how they present to the unknown audience.

@zaccrisp9988

Ай бұрын

Never thought about it like that begore, is this common? ​@@Sweethands4

This is a great cast. First-timer to Modern Wisdom, long-time follower of Eric. Great platform and convo had forward movement.

Great interview, its about time these conversations are happening. Status quo needs fixing in the intellectual word. Things are moving to slow and unorganized.

Usually I don't listen to long podcasts, but this was absolutely fascinating! I was hooked from beginning to end. Managed reality has now caught my attention. Big Thank you to both of you.

@randlecarr3257

5 ай бұрын

Start listening to more long form podcasts. There’s really no way to explore the complexity and nuances of any serious topic in less than one hour

@sunso1991

5 ай бұрын

Chris Williamson is great and Randle is 100% correct. treat it like listening to someone fascinating at a party there is so much to think about and discuss in a calm long form interview dont let short form destroy your mind and brain chemistry

Incredible conversation, I could listen to you guys chat for 3 more hours, thank you Chris and Eric

@AntiNeoFascist

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, Eric claiming nobody wants to listen to this must necessarily be relying on specific meanings of either the word 'listen' or 'wants'.

@clintbillton2161

5 ай бұрын

Everytime i hear a ad its like a knife stubbing my brain!

@Borrelaas

5 ай бұрын

I love listening to Eric

Compassion comes from within - it’s noticeable when grief comes or anger is transmuted. It’s a beautiful gift being in the presence of compassion.

We need a Eric and Bob Lazar convo asap

We need a podcast with you guys every 6-12 months. The depth of knowledge and insight comprised within Eric is extremely fascinating. Love hearing his unique perspective on current events occurring within society and around the world as a whole.

@justsayin3600

5 ай бұрын

For sure! I can tell by your comment, and other comments there are many intelligent people viewing this.

@masonics2927

5 ай бұрын

@@justsayin3600 Appreciate. Grateful to be amongst other intelligent individuals such as yourself. 🙏🏼

I genuinely think you TWO speaking together has become one of my favorite things on KZread. Thank you for this!👏👏

Question for Eric: Its impossible to choose i feel. Some things that makes me feel good, is something like "beginning is the word", and some jesus quotes when heard from certain people it seems, when i think about it, few ones have been guests on Lex Friedmans podcast. anyway... There are so many bible versions, so i cant choose which one to decide on to read. Which one would you recommend?

Wonderful. Enjoyed every minute especially the second half. BW is one of the most brilliant guys on the planet. I really like the fact that he doesn't speak a mile a minute and chooses his words carefully. Thank you both!

"Get the crazy people who do not understand human development away from our children" This may be the most poignant moment of this discussion. I aspire to understand what Eric is speaking about and I am as confounded as he is as to why everyone seems to be focused on the wrong things in life.

@pugsymalone6539

4 ай бұрын

Because the majority of people have their every waking moment squandered or monopolized by work and various government requirements. People are consumed by the urgency of now.

@blackjackjester

4 ай бұрын

I followed almost everything he said... Except when it came to sex and gender. Gender can be separated from sex, but then it also loses its grounding in principle. If gender is expression, then it is equally sensitive to cultural norms - eg Scottish skirts. But it isn't a skirt, it's a kilt. If it is just culturally presenting on the gendered style spectrum, then it is little more than personality and style, which is individual, not measurable in a meaningful way. And when it comes to sex, it's more about how the exception proves the rule. Sex is binary because we can discretely identify the exceptions. A car doesn't stop being a car just because 2 wheels fell off. But I also completely disagree with the mind/body incongruence argument. You can't be born in the wrong body because nobody chooses that, and the two develop inexorably from each other. If you are uncomfortable with being a man, the best you can do is present as a woman... That's something else... It's a fantasy. We all tell ourselves false stories to get through the day... But going so far as to not just picking a unique style to your own, but choosing the stereotype of the other is... Well... Something is not right.

as a recent Harvard grad, I nominate Eric as the the prez

@slowjamcdub

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 sure you are😂😂😂

@Rocket9944

5 ай бұрын

How was your experience at Harvard?

@markbrown1609

5 ай бұрын

college is college, beer bongs, girls, girls, books, and more girls.@@Rocket9944

Managed Reality is RIGHT. Very nice to see Eric show how smart he is

“There isn’t much physics left.” Warning shots have been fired.

When you two get together it's magical. Keep doing it.

I crave having this sort of conversation among peers or anyone for that matter. I have skated the fringe and when it happens it’s usually unexpected. Simply enjoyable. Chris is intelligent and an amazing conductor of the information flow and Eric is a chasm you can get completely swallowed by so maybe I’m not capable of their depths, intelligence etc. but I just want to experience in the slightest what I experienced internally while watching this episode. I want to be able to generate that feeling of wonder and connection for myself (in conversation) and others and not need to watch it somewhere. Anyway, Really great to watch. Brilliant commentary and interaction by both men. Thank you.

@RichardHarlos

4 ай бұрын

I couldn't have said it better myself. Truly lovely comment. Thank you.

@anomietoponymie2140

4 ай бұрын

Me too, me too. I wish I had understood this earlier and dedicated my life to it. It's too late now, not enough years left and so many other time-consuming things to learn like, at the moment, Hebrew. So far, I see no candidates among my children and grandchildren to carry the torch on. My husband was a physicist but he was only very smart which isn't smart enough.

@Bankerstello

4 ай бұрын

Easily the best comment on here! Like everyone here - COULD NOT AGREE MORE! well said! Thank you

@One-Ring-To-Rule-Them-All

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same (similar as I cannot express myself so eloquently, English is my 3rd language). I live in a small town and it is very difficult for me to have an intellectual conversation with somebody. Most people I know shut me down very quickly and say "you think too much". And that is it. Thanks to KZread I can at least passively participate in interesting debates 😊

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq

4 ай бұрын

1:22:39: Creating spaces to freely discuss anything, in a sense these are symbolic spaces, indeed very necessary for a healthy society.

What about traveling through space by frequency? Tuning into the frequency of the locations you want to travel to?

The part that he's saying about the nature of the university, and the purpose of the university, is something I'm going through right now. I've been presenting my original research at conferences and the older professors do feel challenged by what I'm putting forward. They don't disagree, and they are complimentary, but they are definitely feeling challenged

2:10:00 It's called a Latin Mass! As a Catholic I loved hearing an "atheist" talk about the richness of prayer. Great conversation guys.

@TheGringoSalado

5 ай бұрын

Amen! The NO (which I attend regularly), is oriented around entertainment and the laity involvement. TLM is oriented around God, and when we have the proper orientation Mass becomes about us in the most profound way.

@smeuchel

4 ай бұрын

​@@TheGringoSaladoone wish I have is to have experienced The Church prior to Vatican II.

@TheGringoSalado

4 ай бұрын

@@smeuchel you can. SSPX FSSP Institute of Christ the King, Benedictine Monastery.

@jelink22

4 ай бұрын

I agree. Chris doesn't know about Vatican II and the shifting from the Latin mass to the local vernacular, including English.

@TheGringoSalado

4 ай бұрын

@@jelink22 and how the mass changed from God oriented to laity oriented, which has had disastrous consequences.

"Explain it to me like I'm a golden retreiver." Chris is kinda like a Golden. In the best of ways. Love you both!

@meganmarie2173

5 ай бұрын

This guy is so arrogant, he talks in riddles and circles also....

@laughingliberaldad

5 ай бұрын

Maybe you're just not bright enough to understand@@meganmarie2173 🤷🏻‍♂

1:35:22 Eric why do you say nobody wants to listen to or hear this? I think this is absolutely the most interesting conversation personally, it explains the rest of your mind. The idea that you can sit and debate complex ideas most humas haven't the slightest idea or understanding, that's the other side of things.. please, continue the thread!

Brilliant on all levels. Fantastic interview. The host - brilliant, the guest - brilliant.

I thoroughly enjoyed the dialogue between the two of you. The questioning back and forth is refreshing.

This is probably the 4th or 5th podcast I've watched with Eric, and for some reason in all the others I felt I didn't fully understand what he was saying. The first 20 minutes of this episode really helped me understand his cryptic, metaphorical way of speaking about certain subjects. I totally get it now. I watch Brett and Heather stuff all the time, and have for years, but THANK YOU CHRIS for allowing this man's intellect to find it's verbal footing. Well fucking done sir.

@heidi22209

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@Schachtens

5 ай бұрын

It helps to hear it a few times to get into Eric's way of thinking. Every time I get some more out of each sentence.

@fenrifegads5571

5 ай бұрын

It's called pilpul and it's not a good thing.

@Schachtens

5 ай бұрын

@@fenrifegads5571 not at all. Did you try to listen several times to him in a podcast?

@fenrifegads5571

5 ай бұрын

@@Schachtens Why on earth would I want to listen to a J? Your rabbi would be ashamed of such weak pilpul, moshe. You can't just say "not at all" and have that be it. Do better.

I’ve listened several times and thanks for posting 👍 Eric is such an insightful intellect and an exceptionally articulate and conscientious guy. He’s as genuine as Christopher Hitchens. We need The Portal back Eric! 👍

Great interview! Eric clearly gets unsettled around the gender discussion and starts to get into his own ideas when confronted with Chris's point that there is a settled binary even if it is misunderstood at birth by the doctors. There are people who believe they are in the wrong body, yes. The problem is they are trying to change the hardest part of their body, which is everything but the brain. The brain is more malleable than the body, we can help people out of their conditioning but it will also require us to undo a lot of state laws that went crazy with it as they linked it to shock treatments...not our greatest day. I enjoyed the emphasis on Type 1 and Type 2 error, too bad we didn't have an ROC Curve before we started on this path, it would have saved a lot of lives.

"Sharing the atmosphere with a bunch of idiots with powerful toys" this quote punched me in the gut

@MsElke11

5 ай бұрын

He should have just come out and say "They want to destroy humanity".

@mmerrydeath6673

5 ай бұрын

I think that just before that he answered the question of why Epstein was interested in physics.

@condor-yz6bo

5 ай бұрын

@@mmerrydeath6673 well for sure, Epstein at least recognized there was something to gain from it. Really makes you think

@mmerrydeath6673

5 ай бұрын

@@condor-yz6bo I can't help but speculate that it means the people he worked for already know the answers to the questions they suppress.

@condor-yz6bo

5 ай бұрын

@@mmerrydeath6673 I wouldn't say that because they would use it instead of hiding it. I think the physicist he was talking about holding back physics isn't nearly half as smart as Eric thinks he is.

*As a Yalie, allow me to interject: Yale Alumni Contributions have been driven down year after year since the late 1980's, primarily due to the Alums being **_embarrassed_** at being associated with our Academy. I was a STEM student at Yale (for my professional degree - I made no attempt to finish a terminal degree), in the 1978-1981 period. At that time, Yale was, to paraphrase Weinstien, both a terrible place, and a slice of heaven, both at the same time.* *When I was there, the "invisible side of Yale" was the exclusive domain of the so-called "Secret Societies" - places like Skull and Bones. The academic side of the institution was just beginning it's flirtation with with today's Leftist ideologies, but they were still very much a fringe minority and they were mocked mercilessly. Today, the roles are reversed: the STEM academy is completely subsumed (in reality, not on paper), by the Humanities department. So, the people with no interest nor ability in STEM are running it [into the ground], while the people who have these scientific gifts are second or third class academic citizens who have to go along with this if they want to graduate with anything more than a quarter million dollars in debt. I have several friends who refused to pay for Medical or Legal training for their children, as they no longer believe there Is any such training available. Concurrently, all but one of the people in my class have moved into a non-clinical position, or else, gone into a niche corner to practice - so-called "Boutique Practices", where people like Dr. Gay can have no direct nor indirect effect on their lives.* *We have such a serious shortage of physicians in this country that Medicine as a field has been atomized and credentialized, to allow non medical people to cover some small area of medicine for them. For instance, Respiratory therapists are the ones most likely to place an airway outside of the OR, and they have full prescribing rights as well, provided they stay within their credentialed scope of practice. There are dozens of variations on this theme, from Surgical "technicians" to "Physician Assistants", to "Nurse Practitioners". We as a society have effectively killed the **_practice_** of Medicine, by replacing the _"Art" of Medicine with "Evidence Based Medicine (essentially a a methodology of turning practice into a flow chart), while relegating the actual science of Medicine to the PhD researchers, in toto. The result is severely undertrained, underinformed, questionably competent MD/DO (they recently became legally identical) graduates. This makes the shortage worse, and the circle goes round and round.* *Yale has been a laughingstock for a very long time now. Harvard, despite Dr. Weinstein's belief, has also been a laughingstock for a long time - just not as long as Yale. If you go into a university library system that carries "The Crimson" [Harvard Alum Magazine], you can see the changes starting to take place, gaining momentum, and finally reaching the point of adverse Absurdity in the 2010's.*

@Ewil.Bluetooth

5 ай бұрын

Did you call people who pointed out the dangers with giving ground to the Humanists, conspiracy theorists? I mean at any point before the 2010s.

@AnonymousSquirrel123

5 ай бұрын

@@Ewil.Bluetooth Yes actually. As any of my friends, victims, or wives will attest, I have been railing bout this since at least 1980, when "DRG's" became a substitute for professional judgement. I was careful to keep my concerns at a low volume until I could graduate, but the worry was already there and in loud stereophonic sound. The group cries didn't become loud enough to be universally heard and discussed until the 2003-ish destruction of medicine was made official through the fully implemented credential system. This forced everyone to have a "specialty" if they wanted to use their license to practice, and that credential requires (a) renewal by examination every 10 years, and (b) that every practitioner (not just MD/DO practitioners) follow the ridiculous "Evidence Based Medicine" structure. EBM is a blight on medicine, society as a whole, and on every individual it has maimed or killed - while proving cover for an EBM Based killing through practice norms set by EBM. People forget quickly how fast things move: in the 70s and 80s, extreme trauma patients were supposed to be fitted with pressure suits ("MAST trousers" - you'll have to look it up to believe it) - when they were bleeding fast, or were more than a few minutes from the nearest trauma rated emergency room. Those MAST pants killed a LOT of people, and it did it in several different ways - ALL of which were fully obvious before their use became the standard of care. MAST pants are museum pieces now, but there are many things just like them in medicine now, and these have more protections, and will be used far longer than they would have been when "professional judgement" was the standard of care. In our attempt to "fix the horrors of medical training, and ostensibly in the name of Patient Safety, we deliberately cut medical training (post graduate training, aka Residency) by more than 2/3rds. And the result, which was obvious from the moment it was conceiver, is now ours to try and avoid. Good luck with that, as practitioners trained the old fashioned way are dying off, retiring, or getting new careers that have less stress, abuse, and regimentation - with similar or superior rewards.*

@heribertorivera6519

5 ай бұрын

Wooow!!! 😮 It's sad what's happening and disappointingly true.

@jeffswingdancer8302

4 ай бұрын

The absurdity is now on steroids. A Canadian university announced it was going to "decolonize" engineering and start the process with a two-row wampum treaty with Indian tribes. Comedy ensued as tribes in New York state were referenced. I guess they don't have a competent history department. A peer-reviewed journal described efforts to develop "feminine glaciology. I tell people about these bizarre developments, and they believe it's the work of isolated wackos. The bad news that this is the current state of universities in the English-speaking West hasn't sunk in yet.

@Milestonemonger

4 ай бұрын

​@AnonymousSquirrel123 I enjoyed reading your comment. Well said, and well written.

I think I just need to learn more about this guy. Studied theoretical physics, did not like the M-theory environment, opted for particle physics and eventually left bc of all the bs that does not belong in science. Just too many people choking science to extinction. It is such a relief to hear somebody say it and also say it in a way that is true and real and honest. No claims just things everybody can witness. It is the right discussion to be had. It is actually about becoming conscious of the human strategies that prevent real science to happen. Maybe it is even about the emotional part of human that does not help the intellectual part but tries to "save everybody" buy choking them. Interesting stuff.

@Magic-mushrooms113

Ай бұрын

What about the claims about the eco alliance?

You can't afford to lose your universties, you can't afford to lose your news media, you can't afford to lose your political parties OH YES YOU CAN, THE SOONER THE BETTER , you can't afford NOT TO.

Its not just a Managed Reality, its an Engineered and Agendized Reality. And its not only in certain areas or sectors, its everywhere we look. The only reason we accept it, is because we believe we're powerless to affect it. So we operate in the framework of the reality we're given, or presented with, and that's the only one we can actually work in and with. We try to fix our place in the reality we're given, believe to be true, and are ultimately forced to live in, whether we like it or not. A refusal to participate results in a partial disassociation and dislocation within it, but it doesn't actually have a benefit, other than realizing and preserving your own sanity, in an absurd, engineered, manufactured, managed, often incomprehensible and uncomfortable reality.

@fancygiraffe3340

4 ай бұрын

It's civil rights law being weaponized and reinterpreted to force equity. It's the federal government shoving dei everywhere. The founders explicitly stated how to stop an overreaching federal government. Do not comply with them. You could fix all of this by just repealing civil rights law. Conversely you could test this out by electing T and letting him use executive orders to end the reinterpretation of policy as he did (too late) before. Conversely simply forge a new society that does not have any desire to participate or interact with the old order. So yes, refusal to participate does have merit.

@blackjackjester

4 ай бұрын

It's central planning. The goal since the end of Reagan is central planning. Eric alluded to it. Managed reality, managed economy. It's the death of creativity, the death of truth, and the death of real progress. Some call it the fourth turning. But I fear it will take another 100 years to emerge from.

@robertbizzarro8586

4 ай бұрын

Doomed we are.

@MissBeeeBeee

3 ай бұрын

I think it’s a cult.

Describing the despicable support of antisemitic events, anti-intellectual, anti-scholastic behavior of Claudine Gay as mere “fallout” is quite the opening hot take! Harvard is supposed to be the gold standard. Now it’s a laughing stock. Talk about destroying brand equity by the billions.

@kadourimdou43

5 ай бұрын

Sadly it’s the logical trend for a hateful ideology.

@DrBrianKeating

5 ай бұрын

And Harvard is Ground Zero for intellectual persecution, suppression of academic freedom and punishment of heterodox ideology no matter how rational.

@moldyzucchinis3251

5 ай бұрын

also the multiple fraudulent data scandals as this is all happening, including a leading professor & researcher being exposed as a sham

@andrewofaiur

5 ай бұрын

Can't help but think there are insidious forces at work proactively seeking to undermine the legitimacy of our most trusted institutions

@meltingintoair7581

5 ай бұрын

The scientific, empirical materialist metaparadigm is responsible for the corruption of academia. It’s a radical worldview that abandoned an authentic exploration of reality ages ago. Only a rational idealist intellectual revolution can offer the way forward. Godel’s incompleteness theorems should have been the point at which we made the shift to rational idealism because they logically proved rational idealism. But even to this day, the meaningful interpretation of Godel’s work totally mistakes what the theorems say and this mistake is exactly in the direction of the opposite of what they say. The theorems are presented as evidence of empirical materialism. It’s maximum irony.

Bravo Chris. This was a feeling good watch and it seemed like Eric needed some comradery, a boost, and an outlet. It humanized Eric in a way that I have never seen. It's wonderful to watch great minds. Thanks for all the hard work. Keep on keepin' on.