#195: Hanlon’s Sledge Hammer (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

2023-10-11

In this 195th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. In this episode we discuss the attacks on Israel by Hamas on October 7. We discuss values: Old Testament versus the West. We discuss frontiers, both legitimate and illegitimate, and terrorism. We discuss land rights and first peoples. We discuss the “Coalition Slicer-Dicer” and the perverse incentives of those who would keep us at war, keep us sick, and keep us from talking to one ano...

In this 195th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode we discuss the attacks on Israel by Hamas on October 7. We discuss values: Old Testament versus the West. We discuss frontiers, both legitimate and illegitimate, and terrorism. We discuss land rights and first peoples. We discuss the “Coalition Slicer-Dicer” and the perverse incentives of those who would keep us at war, keep us sick, and keep us from talking to one another.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Bret on terrorism and the Charlie Hebdo attack in 2015: https://www.salon.com/2015/11/15/lets_not_get_it_wrong_this_time_the_terrorists_won_after_911_because_we_chose_to_invade_iraq_shred_our_constitution/

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(02:50) Sponsors

(09:57) Efrat Fenigson Israel conversation

(16:30) Putting aside lineage (race)

(30:10) The attack and response

(37:15) The two sides

(45:57) Frontiers

(52:40) Slow Israeli response and conspiracy theories

(01:07:10) Israeli force moved and Hanlon's razor

(01:17:00) Broken alliances