DarkHorse Podcast Feminism Against Progress: Bret Weinstein Speaks with Mary Harrington on the Darkhorse Podcast
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Apr 22, 2023 
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Human Specialness and Liberation
- Bret Weinstein sees human specialness in capacities like reflection and value imposition.
- He links "meaningful liberation" as necessary for humans to express their special traits and possibly experience a form of progress.
Benefits of Constraints with Liberation
- Harrington warns that liberation through technology can erase beneficial social constraints essential for human flourishing.
- She defends "beneficial constraints" alongside freedom as necessary for human well-being, not liberation alone.
Sexual Revolution's Costly Trade-offs
- Harrington connects sexual revolution to commodification of women's bodies, following industrial and digital technology trends.
- She suggests we've 'strip mined' ourselves after external resource exploitation, causing societal tensions and harms especially for youth.