Decoding the Gurus

The Passion of the Jordan and the Wisdom of the Bret

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Feb 9, 2024
Checking in on old pals Bret Weinstein and Jordan Peterson, we find Jordan facing challenges with his clinical license while Bret cracks the code behind the Chinese evolutionary lineage. Topics discussed include contradictions in guru behavior, the impact of China's one-child policy on gender ratios, the discrepancy between ideas and delivery, internal struggle and resistance, creating opportunities in problems, and reflections on controversial traits of the guests.
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Border Encounter Sparks Evolutionary Tale

  • Bret recounts noticing Chinese migrants who wouldn't engage with him and builds an evolutionary narrative from that observation.
  • He links that field impression to an essay he wrote about China's sex ratio and the one-child policy as a possible lineage strategy.
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Group-Selection Leap On Sex Ratios

  • Bret interprets China's male-biased sex ratio as a potential lineage-level strategy to produce surplus warriors for expansion.
  • This leaps from demographic facts to unsupported group-selection claims without mechanistic evidence.
INSIGHT

Vaccines As Geopolitical Split

  • Bret connects IGG4 claims and vaccine distribution differences to a geopolitical theory of population susceptibility.
  • He frames vaccines as potential tools to create immunological divides that could advantage some nations over others.
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