Tyler is fired up, and not wanting our listeners to think we only condemn women's lack of agency after last episode, we have what amounts to a lengthy rant on the degeneration into a total lack of agency across all of Western society. Social thought patterns in modernity are plagued by a complete unwillingness to assign accountability to the actual doers of actions. Everyone is always looking for "causes" and/or distant reasons (i.e. bogeymen) to shift the blame to.

As we've discussed numerous times already, "the system" is everyone in society, not distant and isolated figureheads or anthropomorphized entities like "government" or "corporations". The whole of society consistently chooses to take voluntary, daily actions that are driving us rapidly towards collapse and self-enslavement - all while constantly complaining about the direction and lamenting an imagined inability to do anything about it because it's always claimed to be coming from some distant "causer" of everything... i.e. whatever anyone's favorite bogeyman is and never the common people actually doing the direct actions.

Nothing will change for the better until everyday people are willing to take accountability for their own contributions to everything they complain about and stop outsourcing their agency to some distant abstract concept or bogeyman. Until then, expect to see people running as fast and far as possible from responsibility for their own actions and instead only ever exercising their drive for power by living vicariously through herd reactions to the "current thing" on the internet.

We finally weigh in on the latest current thing: the Lindsey Clancy trial. Not actually the trial though - the reactions and the reactions to the reactions. We discuss how the constant need to maintain moral high ground makes rational and honest discussion of sensitive topics impossible in the public square... then we have exactly that discussion in relation to the entire Clancy phenomenon. We also explore the counter-narrative as the narrative, as we love to do, and address the (in our view, astroturfed and intentional) damage the almost entirely female pro-Clancy reactions are doing to feminism and women's social "progress". No other modern event has caused such a significant and instantaneous shift of the Overton Window in relation to feminism and women's rights.

Evolutionary-adaptive and nonadaptive causes of infant attack/desertion in mammals: Toward a systematic classification of child maltreatment

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pcn.13096?

Fitness tradeoffs in the history and evolution of delegated mothering with special reference to wet-nursing, abandonment, and infanticidehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016230959290011R?

Corrections:

Around 17:10 Tyler says "one woman can make one baby" - one baby at a time is what was supposed to be implied.

Joel's audio, per usual, gets completely wacked out for a few minutes about a third of the way into the episode, but what's he's saying was too important to cut. So enjoy the laugh. We'll get him sorted out eventually.

In this episode we move forward from our prior talk on population reduction and make our first classification of a group of people that's badly in need of reducing: excess "elites".

We use a talk about Hassan Piker and his capitalist merchandizing of socialism from the comfort of his $3mil house to explore topics including the economics and social implications of the rise and decay periods of society, what most people with a socialist grievance are actually grieving, accepting the world as it is (our favorite topic), and the importance of being honest with yourself about what underlying desires are actually motivating your life choices.

Shoe0nHead's video on Hassan:

https://youtu.be/YejsikLDLF4?si=zP0wx8BB9pEj3XCZ

Universe 25 rat utopia experiment:

https://www.the-scientist.com/universe-25-experiment-69941

Grievance Studies Affair (hoax papers for peer review):

https://www.fire.org/news/podcasts/so-speak-free-speech-podcast/grievance-studies-affair