00:00:02.000My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a great show for you tonight.
00:00:07.000We have a very special guest who I'm surprised to announce.
00:00:12.000I think we actually announced it on Friday, but we have a very special guest for you tonight.
00:00:17.000At about the half hour mark, he'll be dropping in at about 7 30 CST Central Time, and that is J.F. Gripe from the Blood Sports Series with Andy Worski.
00:00:29.000He's a biologist, he's a smart guy, and I'll give him the whole introduction once he joins us.
00:00:35.000But I have some very interesting questions to ask him from a right wing perspective about egalitarianism, about where we are in the West, about ideology.
00:02:23.000And then, as a bonus, I cleaned his clock on religion as well.
00:02:27.000And it was really, I almost even felt a little bit embarrassed.
00:02:31.000I got to be honest, because right out of the gate, the arguments that he was making, I was like, this is not when the unstoppable atheists are sending their people.
00:02:44.000The whole argument was essentially, wow, okay, wow.
00:02:47.000You know, it was this kind of like shit-libbed-tier argument: I'm just really exasperated.
00:02:52.000I guess people will come and rally to my side.
00:02:56.000And towards the end, he got into this weird place where he was just throwing out these very petty, like non-arguments that I'm sure even he didn't think would stick.
00:03:05.000But he was just trying to do anything at that point to save face.
00:03:08.000He was saying, Oh, you don't believe the polls for 2018, but you believe gun crime statistics.
00:03:59.000I have to say it's a great combination between JF and Andy because you got JF who's able to reason through it.
00:04:06.000And not like, you know, I know that was a big source of division between Andy and JF, the intelligence question.
00:04:13.000But JF is able, I think, uniquely better than most people, is able to assess arguments, restate them, and interrogate their core premise better than most.
00:04:25.000And I think he does it fairly and I think he does it well.
00:04:28.000Andy, on the other hand, I think he comes at it from more of a layperson's perspective.
00:04:32.000Expert on politics, but he comes into it just as a funny personality kind of a guy, but also I think he's able to provide understanding for people that are not totally into politics.
00:04:45.000I remember in some of the debates about atheism or some of the other ones where it's more technical, there's more finer points, and he's able to provide that element as well.
00:05:15.000I think we were all looking forward to last night World War III.
00:05:19.000I think we were all a little bit looking forward to it just to see what would happen.
00:05:23.000You know, you're going to lie to me and say you didn't at least want to see what would have happened where you saw the chemical weapons attack in Syria over the weekend on Saturday, you saw a strike by Israel in Syria on Sunday.
00:05:36.000President Trump that night vowed a strong response.
00:05:39.000He said he would make a decision in the next 48 to 72 hours.
00:06:11.000We're going to war in Syria with Russia.
00:06:14.000And I think as this drags out, we haven't seen any.
00:06:17.000I mean, we've heard some unconfirmed reports about movements of submarines and carriers and planes, but we haven't really seen anything except for the strike by Israel on Sunday.
00:06:29.000We haven't really seen anything unless something just happened a moment ago.
00:06:34.000Any concrete action by the United States or anybody else?
00:06:36.000It looks like Theresa May is still undecided as to what she wants to do.
00:08:19.000So no strike on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and so far nothing tonight.
00:08:25.000And it's interesting because President Trump has said explicitly throughout his campaign and throughout his public life that if you're going to go to war against a country, if the plan is we're going to war against Syria, what did he say about ISIS?
00:08:38.000You don't telegraph your moves to the other side.
00:08:44.000If you're Barack Obama and you say we're going to pull out at this state and we're going to do this, we're going to attack this city at this time with this many troops, he said you can't do that.
00:08:53.000He said Douglas MacArthur would be rolling over in his grave.
00:08:57.000We have a chemical weapons attack, and then you have President Trump making continuous, consistent, overt, and explicit warnings directly to Putin and to Bashar al Assad that there's going to be a strike coming.
00:09:16.000If your objective is we want to destroy as many of Assad's military assets as possible, if you're considering going to war, we want to make it so that we can attack Assad at his weakest points.
00:09:30.000Where he doesn't know where we're coming from, how we're coming, that we're coming at all.
00:09:34.000If this is your objective, and this is a reasonable way to conduct a war or to conduct a serious airstrike, right?
00:09:40.000If you want to go to war, you want the element of surprise.
00:09:42.000If you want an airstrike, you want the element of surprise because you want to attack as many military assets as possible.
00:09:48.000Does it facilitate either of these two objectives to warn the enemy repeatedly for 72 hours the nature, the scope of the attack, the timing of the attack?
00:11:04.000Number two, the closer we look at the timeline here, We went from last week saying we're going to pull out of Syria in six months to allegedly now there's going to be this big war.
00:11:15.000There's going to be an escalation with Russia.
00:11:19.000And here's, I think, a problem with the way people interpret President Trump.
00:11:24.000If you already distrust the president, if you already have a problem with him, you've already invested in this narrative that Trump is just a buffoon, he doesn't strategize, he just kind of tumbles through these situations.
00:11:39.000You wouldn't normally be willing to believe if it were just based on logic and reason.
00:11:44.000And I'll tell you what I mean by this.
00:11:46.000We're expected to believe that President Trump has been a non interventionist his entire adult life.
00:11:53.000From the Iraq War in 2003, which he opposed, the Libyan intervention, which he opposed, Barack Obama doing strikes in Syria in 2013, which he opposed.
00:12:02.000He campaigned on getting out of Syria and Iraq and vociferously, I think, not even pandering to the crowd, but these have been his beliefs for a long time.
00:12:12.000He said if you want to think like George Bush and you want to go in, you can't fight.
00:13:39.000Now, I'm a neocon because I saw a chemical attack.
00:13:42.000If you already don't like Trump, you're willing to believe that.
00:13:46.000If you already say, I distrust Trump, he's a bad guy, you're already willing to say, Yeah, that's a logical explanation.
00:13:53.000But if you're, I think, A more objective person, you would say that coupled with the warnings, coupled with some of these other things, makes it a little bit uncertain.
00:15:15.000I maintain my position that if this escalates into a ground war, if this escalates into further involvement in Syria, I'm totally against that.
00:15:23.000You know, people say, oh, Trump could totally go to war in Syria for Israel and Nick would be in favor of it.
00:16:10.000I don't believe, I strongly am of the opinion that that will not happen.
00:16:14.000And I think it's really a shame because.
00:16:16.000I think if you had any one of these people on the show, any one of these black pillars on the show who are saying it's the end of the world, and ask them point blank, do you really think a ground invasion of Syria is imminent?
00:16:27.000I don't think any of them could tell you with a straight face that the answer is yes.
00:16:36.000And trust me, it would be much easier for me to come on the air every night.
00:16:39.000It would be much easier for me to log into Twitter every day and say what people want to hear, which is, and trust me, Folks, it's so easy.
00:17:54.000And none of the Indicators that we've seen over the past three days would inform any reasonable person to believe that a ground war is imminent.
00:18:03.000Does that mean it's totally not possible?
00:20:45.000Be subject to this mental abuse for this verbal abuse online for a week.
00:20:51.000I always get proven right, but it is tough when it happens.
00:20:53.000But to get to the Michael Cohen thing, President Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, his office, his private lawyer's office was raided by the FBI over the weekend, and nobody really knew what this was about.
00:21:05.000It was actually somewhat concerning because you have this whole Stormy Daniels situation where it's alleged that Michael Cohen had Stormy Daniels sign a non disclosure agreement and paid her $130,000 before the election not to release her story.
00:21:20.000Which is bogus because a non disclosure agreement is not illegal.
00:21:23.000You know, I don't think President Trump is the first person in American history to try and suppress a bad story in an election year, right?
00:21:31.000But so, Robert Mueller, he sacked Michael Cohen's office.
00:21:36.000He went in, he busted in, he stole all kinds of documents and things.
00:21:40.000And it turned out today, it came out that the reason for that raid on Michael Cohen's office, where I guess it's just a lawless country, the FBI can do whatever it wants, they can raid the president's private lawyer's office.
00:21:51.000The reason they raided the office was to find things in relation to the Hollywood Axis tape.
00:21:57.000Remember the Pussygate tape from October 2016?
00:22:01.000They went in to find documents related to that.
00:22:03.000So, reminder, remember folks, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed the special counsel to look into collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign in the 2016 election, or just broadly Russian interference in the election.
00:22:21.000What does the Axis Hollywood tape have?
00:22:24.000Anything to do with Russia, with Russia and the Trump campaign?
00:22:28.000So far, the indictments that have been brought down by the Mueller investigation after what has it been, a year and a half?
00:22:35.000The indictments brought down have had to do with financial crimes committed by Paul Manafort four years ago, as with regards to his business dealings in Ukraine.
00:22:47.000So you have Paul Manafort, who served as a campaign manager for about 30 seconds, and his alleged financial crimes from Six years ago, that were actually shelved because it wasn't a big deal, and with Ukraine, not with Russia.
00:23:00.000You have a number of other people who were simply caught perjuring themselves.
00:23:04.000They said something that wasn't totally accurate to the FBI, and so they're basically getting thrown in jail for lying to the FBI, which is just such a goofy thing.
00:23:14.000That's because they didn't speak to the FBI with a lawyer.
00:23:18.000And now, what they're pursuing after they find that we can't find any collusion, we can't find Russia in 2016, the House Intelligence Committee concludes there's no.
00:23:27.000There's no collusion between Russia and President Trump.
00:23:30.000So now they're looking into Access, Hollywood, and Stormy Daniels.
00:23:34.000And at this point, you know, people are saying Trump should just fire Mueller.
00:23:38.000I think Mueller's doing a great job discrediting his own investigation because after a year and a half, the Democrats are amped up.
00:24:16.000The only reason Mueller didn't find anything was you were obstructing and you fired him because he was getting close to the truth.
00:24:23.000But if Trump allows him to keep digging and he continues to find nothing, then people eventually say, oh, all right, you know, this guy's a clown.
00:24:30.000And if the Democrats don't say that, the voters do.
00:27:30.000Maybe I didn't get up to the level that you were.
00:27:32.000I dropped out in my undergrad, so a little bit different.
00:27:36.000But I understand where you're coming from that the university system, I think, so often in a lot of pursuits, becomes a little bit more about the politics, about the social climbing than about.
00:27:46.000So I respect that you're all about the knowledge, all about the pursuit of truth.
00:27:50.000And so you're talking essentially about the question of biogenesis, right?
00:29:07.000I mean, that's interesting only because when I've looked into this question from.
00:29:11.000From a theistic point of view, obviously, you know, what you say about how life originates, whereas I guess the standard position is that you had to have this soup, essentially, the primordial soup, and things are supposed to randomly form.
00:29:24.000And that to me was always inadequate because I'm sure, as you know, the odds that that kind of a thing would happen would be so extraordinary.
00:29:32.000It's almost difficult to say that that kind of a thing could happen.
00:29:35.000But if it was, as you say, then that would probably solve some of those problems.
00:29:39.000But I think the bigger question I wanted to ask you because this is something.
00:29:43.000And this is something I talked about when we first met on Bloodsports a comment that you made during one of the debates, which was that you are concerned with human organization at the level above, but also below the individual, meaning you're concerned with the organization of family and tribe and race, but also of genes and all of that kind of stuff.
00:30:03.000So could you tell us a little bit what you mean by that in terms of the sub individual level?
00:30:08.000Yeah, so a lot of libertarians tend to think of the individual as a unit that.
00:30:15.000And every freedom belongs to the individual.
00:30:18.000But someone who looks at reality sees a lot of cases where this doesn't apply.
00:30:25.000For example, to me, the parent child relationship is very important.
00:30:29.000And to me, the parent child relationship, for example, is subject to protection by some concepts of freedom.
00:30:38.000And so to me, the state should not invade the liberty of the child, the liberty of the parent, but also the liberty of the ensemble.
00:30:47.000The parent wanting some stuff for his children.
00:30:51.000And so, the way I would say that I have a holistic approach to freedom, where I don't only recognize individual freedoms, because I think that we are suffering from an illusion when we think of freedom only as what we can do as individuals.
00:31:10.000It's also the kind of organizations that we can form, it's also the kind of relations that we can form.
00:31:17.000And once you have a holistic view of the world, Complex and subtle view of the world, you understand that the individual is an envelope, but it's just a physical envelope.
00:31:27.000The reality is that our brains are adapted to grab information from outside, let some people control us, let other people not control us, or fight against them when they control us.
00:31:40.000Once you adopt that view, you realize that the per libertarian view of individual freedom is insufficient.
00:31:49.000That's actually interesting to hear you say that because I think many libertarians can relate to that idea.
00:31:55.000And certainly in my own experience, that sounds a lot like how I came around to be a lot more of a conservative in terms of.
00:32:03.000Classical conservatism, in the sense that, like you said, the individual really is kind of this abstraction.
00:32:09.000It really doesn't have, I think, utility and lived reality to understand society based on just the individual.
00:32:16.000Because you're right, there is, it's not so much we're all these atomized, separate people, but we all come from parents.
00:32:23.000We all had, you know, kind of a continuity, a continuum from parents to children and then on to other children.
00:32:30.000So I think that's really kind of the basis for.
00:32:33.000A much more conservative, family oriented society, something that's much more pragmatic as opposed to kind of this libertarian, constitutionalist, autistic stuff about, you know, we have to protect the individual.
00:32:45.000And you get this crazy stuff about selling heroin to kids at the, you know, libertarian conventions.
00:32:50.000So, but, and so I guess I want to ask you this is one of the bigger questions because you and Worski obviously have come onto the scene.
00:32:58.000You're kind of glorified by the alt right.
00:33:01.000I see you guys as kind of reinvigorating that like dissident right online culture.
00:33:10.000Whether you guys came back and it got fun, it got energetic, it was memetic again.
00:33:15.000And what's interesting is, I don't think, and correct me if I'm wrong, I know Andy is not, like, a right wing conservative person.
00:33:22.000I don't think, like, 10 or 15 years ago, probably would you describe yourself as conservative, or how would you describe where you fit yourself today and how it's changed over the past 10 years?
00:33:34.000So I've been brought up in the French culture of colleges, and so I've been highly influenced by left.
00:33:42.000Writings, I've read Marx, and at some point I would qualify myself as a Marxist at some point in my life.
00:33:51.000I was really raised into this environment, and there was not much other options for me to grab because I think I've been the victim of a propaganda that would make me hate the right.
00:34:06.000It would make me think that the right is authoritarian in nature.
00:34:11.000And it's not necessarily authoritarian.
00:34:14.000And in my revolt as a teenager, the only solution I was seeing is okay, we have to fight conservatism, we have to combat this.
00:34:24.000And the only proposed solution was a sort of socialist slash Marxism.
00:34:31.000Now, it's really when I started understanding the true fundamentals of biology that I realized the Marxist world is impossible.
00:34:42.000We are evolving constantly to drain from society all of the energy we can to produce our babies.
00:34:53.000And if you don't recognize that fight, you're part of those who will be exploited.
00:34:57.000If you do recognize that fight, there's a way we can make the world peaceful and loving and caring.
00:35:04.000But it's the conservative mindset that will lead you there because you should never deny that we are all in a race for.
00:35:13.000An exploitation of the environment, and even those who don't know it are doing it.
00:35:19.000Yeah, I think that's kind of weird how there is this overlap between, because you would say that you're an atheist, and you come at it obviously from a very scientific point of view.
00:35:28.000You've described, which I find fascinating, you've described a very conservative case for families, for kind of like a Hobbesian and conservative worldview, but not from where a traditionalist conservative would usually come from, which is from a religious place or from some kind of a perennialist place.
00:35:47.000You come at it from a very scientific point of view.
00:35:51.000In the context of the debate last night with atheism is unstoppable, kind of the contrast between you and him, where a person like yourself who is secular, who is atheist, who believes in science, you can acknowledge human nature and the limits of humanity in the same way that a religious person does, even though from another place.
00:36:10.000Whereas on the other side of the equation, you have someone like AIU who is an atheist but has kind of these weird ideas, these utopian ideas about how we could design society, how we could make it so that everybody's happy and safe all the time.
00:36:25.000And so tell me, I don't understand how that divide comes from.
00:36:30.000Could you tell me a little bit where you arrived?
00:36:32.000Is it singularly biology that you came at that idea?
00:36:37.000I think that my entire involvement in YouTube is rooted in this difference that I have with Richard Dawkins on militant atheism.
00:36:47.000Even if I've not talked publicly to Richard Dawkins, I've had dinner with him and I've always admired his will and his passion that he puts into his work.
00:36:59.000However, I don't think that militant atheism is the way to go.
00:37:03.000I've always had a difference of opinion there.
00:37:06.000First, because the true atheist and even someone like Richard Dawkins, if you take him when he's the most honest about it, will tell you that he's an agnostic atheist.
00:37:18.000He cannot ultimately say that the universe is not wrapped into some system that was created by some intelligence.
00:37:26.000He would recognize the possibility that the universe is a simulation as a possibility.
00:37:31.000Not as something he wants to believe in right now because he has no evidence for it, but he has to recognize that he's what he would call a level six atheist and not a level seven.
00:37:41.000Level seven being a complete denial of God, level six being a recognition of the possibility that the universe could be implemented in some sort of God controlled system.
00:38:06.000The second reason is the nature of humans, and we see it.
00:38:11.000People who turn to atheism make less babies, and they are bound to be reduced in their representation of the populations for the next few, within the next few hundred years.
00:38:22.000We will see atheists, if not disappear, at least reduce their representation in the populations because they make about 1.7 babies per couple.
00:38:31.000And so, even if the fact that God doesn't exist was true, It's not necessarily the case that we should teach that to everyone.
00:38:44.000The brain has evolved in a certain environment, and it turns out that religion has brought many of the good ingredients that the brain needed to form proper family structure.
00:38:54.000And by removing that, we're removing a normal part of the environment.
00:39:00.000And I'm afraid that we're doing it without informed consent because those young people who listen to Richard Dawkins' videos on YouTube or to people like AIU get convinced by the idea of atheism.
00:39:13.000But have they been properly informed that their life will not be the same?
00:39:18.000That maybe there is some utility to religion that atheism is not able to compensate for at the moment?
00:39:26.000That's my problem with militant atheism.
00:39:50.000I think there is something to be said for this conservative, pragmatic approach that, you know, we have gotten to this place where we are an advanced society.
00:40:02.000And to start pulling out fundamental pillars of that society without regard for how that might affect, Our day to day lives or standard of living to go back and say, yeah, you know, one of these things that is the bedrock on which this civilization is built, it's kind of arbitrary if that is there or not.
00:40:19.000I think that strikes at the core of the difference between the real left and the real right, which is this idea of tradition.
00:40:26.000And so the last thing I want to get into this is the fun one, this is the controversial one, which we talk about on the show a lot.
00:40:33.000I talk about the difference between liberalism and conservatism in the sense that so much of Mass migration policy and so much of social policy in the United States is built on the premise of egalitarianism.
00:40:47.000And I've often said that if you demonstrate that egalitarianism isn't true, it's not real, that the whole system falls apart because the idea that you could replace this population with a different one, you know, whereas if you believe we're all equal, then you would get the same outcomes.
00:41:02.000If you believe they're different, you'd naturally get different outcomes.
00:41:05.000And so, as a biologist, as a man of science, a man of the data, and not a man of, you know, ideas like me, Tell me, what is the case for racial egalitarianism?
00:42:48.000However, it's unquestionable that more than 95% of our recognition of race subjectively refers to an actual observable genetic reality, too.
00:43:20.000Thousands of years, and it's observable.
00:43:22.000I think anybody with eyes and ears and who lives in this world understands that this is the case, but we've been so indoctrinated from school, from media, from culture that this is not the case, and I think it almost requires that kind of indoctrination because it is so observable.
00:43:38.000And so, and this is one I think one of the most often heard criticisms of this claim, which, and I'm sure you've heard this before, I'm sure you've answered it many times, I have as well, which is you go out there and you start saying race is real, race exists, race matters, there's differences between the races.
00:43:55.000Inevitably, because people have been programmed to connotate the two, you get the question so you believe that whites are superior, or you believe that one race is better than the other.
00:44:08.000How would you go about addressing that kind of a question?
00:44:12.000Well, whenever we talk about superiority, that's where my strength comes out as a moral nihilist.
00:44:17.000Because as a moral nihilist, I can talk of superiority within local domains.
00:44:24.000I don't deny that use and bolt is superior at running quick in a very small amount of time.
00:44:51.000I mean, if you reduce it to a number, of course, you will find out that white people have less dark skin and that black people have darker skin.
00:45:52.000The systems that we're talking about are so complex that even if you were to try to do it, try to engineer a society increasing IQ, you're probably going to cause all sorts of things that you didn't expect.
00:46:05.000But the reality is, We can say things about complex systems from a more distant perspective, a more global perspective.
00:46:15.000For example, we can say it's true that most white people come from ancestors who have evolved in places where they live together with almost all white people around them.
00:46:28.000And that will be a true reality that will invade all sorts of local phenomena, including intelligence, including the way they transmit culture, including the expectations they have with.
00:46:41.000From the behavior that they expect from their neighbor.
00:46:44.000And so, if you make more global statements like this, I think you come to things that cannot be denied even by the left.
00:46:52.000Well, yeah, and that's, I think that's what really kills me about this question is that here is something, like you said, that superior in terms of what?
00:47:00.000If you really get down to the question of that, I think it's really unfortunate that otherwise reasonable people can look at the wealth of evidence, which should be obvious, I think, in anybody's experience or anybody who looks at the data, but they reject it because they don't like.
00:47:14.000They don't like hypothetically the outcomes.
00:47:16.000They don't like the conclusions that they would have to draw about their fellow man, about policy, about other things.
00:47:22.000When in reality, like you said, they're very complicated systems.
00:47:25.000It's much more complicated than this one's good, this one's bad, this one's superior, this one's not.
00:47:31.000And I just really hate that there's not a national conversation on this because if what you're saying is true and the empirical evidence is there that it is, what we're doing in this country is a travesty.
00:47:42.000The idea that we would replace the native population With a completely alien population, you talk about how complicated these systems are, how different they've evolved, and so on, then that's a really big thing to happen.
00:47:56.000Your college Republicans will tell you, oh, black, white, red, brown, as long as they believe in the Constitution, you know, what difference does it make?
00:48:03.000But if what you're saying is true, it makes all the difference in the world.
00:48:06.000And so I guess the next question that was kind of a lob for you to defend against it, but you'd say, oh, you know, this guy's terrible.
00:48:16.000The symptoms that we observe right now, the people denying this, This is the effect of a new thing in society, which is social engineering by the state.
00:48:28.000And people have to realize that we are humans.
00:48:31.000We have an evolutionary history as humans of about 100,000 years, as like Homo sapiens, white Homo sapiens in Europe, let's say from Africa.
00:48:43.000And you can say plus or minus 50,000 years.
00:48:48.000But it is the first time in this whole history.
00:48:52.000That we create the systems that we've created, which is a system of state education, of paid teachers, where the parent is playing a lesser and lesser role in educating children.
00:49:05.000And this system is not necessarily good.
00:49:08.000It's not necessarily going to lead to good outcomes all the time.
00:49:12.000And I wish that people were more trusting of things that have shown that they worked for much longer than the things that we're experimenting with right now.
00:49:23.000The things we're experimenting with right now.
00:49:25.000It is to take a set of human beings who have gone through the university, college, education system to be the main teachers of knowledge to our children.
00:49:36.000And you should resist to that if you can.
00:49:38.000I'm not saying everyone should raise their kids at home, but if you can, you should at least attempt to do part of it.
00:50:06.000It's about saying, let's do what's always worked and we can refine it.
00:50:11.000We can attempt to fix here and there things that could be improved.
00:50:14.000But these kinds of designs of, like you said, state education, paid teachers, men and women in the workforce, kids are in daycare.
00:50:22.000I mean, this kind of radical change, I think it'll bring nothing but ruin.
00:50:26.000It's an experiment, it's a roll of the dice.
00:50:28.000And I guess the question, the next question I would have, because I'm sure, and people want to hear this, is so if we establish that you have these different groups, we have these different identifiable races, I'm sure people would say, how does this kind of a thing happen?
00:50:42.000How does this happen that you have such vastly different people?
00:50:45.000I've read different theories, like, you know, white people evolved in a colder climate, so they had to survive in different ways.
00:50:52.000Could you explain the genesis of these different races, the origin of them?
00:51:04.000The simplest story we've thought of is the out of Africa theory, which many people say has been debunked, but it's been debunked in the sense that we've added waves of migration.
00:51:14.000There are people coming out of Africa over the last hundred thousand years and people coming back in and people mingling in the Caucasus region.
00:51:25.000And there are even probably sexual acts with.
00:51:29.000Homo Neanderthals in Europe, or at least outside of Africa, which probably white people have inherited a good part, a good chunk of genes of Neanderthals, which don't seem to be present in African populations.
00:51:47.000And so there's lots of complexity there, but the basic idea is every time, every generation, your genome mutates.
00:51:56.000It doesn't make perfect copies of itself, and it mutates at about 64.
00:52:02.000Bases per generation, and you have about 3 billion bases in your DNA genome.
00:52:09.000And so, of course, the mutations, because they happen at random, because it's literally an error of the systems that aims at printing your DNA and copying it to your children.
00:52:21.000Of course, the people, these mutations will happen at random in Africa, at random in Europe, at random in Asia, and it's not going to be the same mutations for all the groups.
00:52:33.000And that's the seed of the difference.
00:52:37.000Now, you can have these systems, these little differences that develop between populations, be amplified by natural selection.
00:52:47.000So, because of course, natural selection keeps going on these groups and they don't really reproduce together.
00:52:53.000Well, someone in Europe will have gene ABC be modified in some way, but someone in Africa may not have gene ABC modified, but he may have genes DEF modified in another way.
00:53:06.000And the whole question is that the genes that will survive and that will thrive in that local population are those that help people survive and reproduce.
00:53:18.000And the more they help people survive and reproduce, the more they will spread fast.
00:53:25.000And you can have genes emerging in a single person due to a mutation, invade an entire village and eventually an entire country in ridiculously small amounts of time, something like.
00:53:39.000Less than a thousand years, if the gene really makes you superior for your country, for your environment, it will work.
00:53:47.000Now, the thing, the winter theory that you brought up, the idea is what are the conditions that were different in Europe that made people become different from selection?
00:54:01.000So people have thought, well, what's the difference between Europe, Asia, and Africa?
00:54:06.000One of the differences that comes up is the fact that it's colder, it has a colder climate.
00:54:13.000And the winter theory of the evolution of high IQ in the white population and Asian population stipulates that okay, there was a winter, therefore, people had to plan in advance.
00:54:27.000They had to plan a strategy for survival for four or five months without being able to grow plants.
00:54:34.000And when you think about what IQ is, when you look at the test, what they do, they test logical processes, the kind of logical processes that we use when we think about the future, when we try to.
00:54:46.000And so the reason people in Europe might be better at IQ tests may be that it may be that their ancestors were selected for being able to plan ahead, plan ahead for the winter.
00:55:00.000Personally, I'm not satisfied from the winter theory of IQ selection as a complete explanation.
00:55:09.000I believe there's more, but it's a good start.
00:55:13.000Well, I think that's kind of the trick with a lot of the Stuff is a lot of it is a little bit uncertain, but I think we basically have the overall points there, which is, like you said, the genetic variability between these different continents separated and under different conditions, geographically, topographically, and so on.
00:55:32.000So we really appreciate all the knowledge, the insight, because you know me, I'm not a scientific kind of a person.
00:55:40.000I come on and I do the politics thing.
00:55:42.000So it's great to have you to introduce that.
00:55:45.000The last question I have to ask, and you know what it is, it's not political at all.
00:55:49.000But it is something that I've been wondering about, and this is not a religious argument.
00:55:54.000I'm not trying to bust your balls and say, explain this to me, atheist, but you've got to explain to me.
00:58:08.000And then the rest of the cell is where the operations occur.
00:58:12.000Now, these single cell organisms look like bacteria, but they wouldn't be classified necessarily as bacteria.
00:58:20.000So, these old organisms, at some point, and this one is one of the mysteries of biology, but at some point, One of them started splitting its genome in two, started producing haploid cells.
00:58:34.000And so an haploid cell is simply a cell that has only half of the genome of the parent cell.
00:58:42.000Now, it's probably the case that these haploid cells at first didn't have much roles, they couldn't really do anything.
00:58:51.000But they probably, in my view, and that's my theory of the evolution of sex, they were probably shielding the main.
00:58:59.000Cells that were making actual copies of themselves.
00:59:02.000They were making full copies of their genome.
00:59:05.000And when they were failing at making a full copy, they were just making half copies of themselves.
00:59:12.000It led to non functional cells, which later became the sperm and egg cells.
00:59:19.000Now, at some point, for some reason, the non functional cells, those that had only 50% of the genome, they started recombining to each other.
00:59:30.000And this was the first sexual act, the first time.
00:59:39.000And today we have descendants of these cells and we call them plus cells and minus cells because we don't see any characteristics that they have that differ.
00:59:47.000So we wouldn't call them male versus female.
00:59:50.000So these cells, they combine themselves and they reform a complete genome out of the two halves that had been produced.
00:59:59.000We don't know if this act was between two cells of the same organism or the same cell.
01:00:08.000A brother mixing with a sister, if you will.
01:00:11.000Or maybe it was one organism that produced the plus cell and the other organism produced the minus cell and they got together.
01:00:18.000But this launched a whole branch of life that gave rise, this first act of mixing two cells gave rise to all of the meiotic eukaryote single cell bacteria, all of the mushrooms, all of the plants, and all of the animals that we know today.
01:00:38.000So essentially, every life form that you can see with the naked eye today are the descendants of this first Adam and Eve single cells.
01:00:57.000So let's ignore the mushrooms and what became of them.
01:01:01.000But it's quite fascinating, actually, because in mushrooms, you have stages of life that are diploid and stages of life that are haploid.
01:01:10.000So, unlike us, For us, we have sperm and egg, but we're mostly a diploid organism, which means that all of my body has the genome in full.
01:01:22.000And it's just the sperm and egg that have half of the genome.
01:01:25.000I've heard mushrooms don't work like this.
01:01:28.000They have stages of their life where the mushroom is constituted by diploid cells, but there's also stages of life where they form big ensembles of cells that are just like the sperm and egg.
01:01:43.000So they really just contain half of their genome.
01:01:46.000And unlike us, where it only serves reproduction, for them, it's really a stage of life where the sperm and egg are, if you will, part of the body of the mushroom.
01:01:57.000Now, let's see what happened with trees.
01:02:02.000So, the cells that were reproducing like this were single cells, and one of them had a chloroplast.
01:02:11.000So, it ate another bacteria, and that other bacteria was capable of producing.
01:02:22.000But instead of eating it and digesting it, it ate it and it kept it inside of it such that the chloroplast would just live inside the cells.
01:02:33.000And this allowed this ancestor, this little cell, to gain the property that we know of plants, which is to capture sunlight and transform it into energy.
01:02:45.000Now, this led to lichens, it led to the small plants like I have the tree of life here.
01:02:53.000The mosses, the homeworts, the carols, the cicadas.
01:02:59.000So, these little plants that exist, the ninufars also, the water lilies.
01:03:11.000And then it led to a particular branch of plants that had seeds.
01:03:17.000And so, this particular branch of plants, unlike the lichens, they were still participating in reproduction, but they were not covering their seeds.
01:05:05.000And so, bees, just out of being interested in sucking the sugar out of flowers, they were participating in the male female or plus minus system of reproduction by being the physical carrier of the sperm to the egg.
01:05:21.000And fruits are just an expansion of a part of the flower, which is aimed at providing sweetness and sugar and energy.
01:05:33.000To the newly formed zygote, the cell that constitutes the meeting of the sperm and egg in plants.
01:06:42.000And closing word well, my mission on YouTube, I continue to try to develop a System of philosophical thought that is independent from the existence of God, but that still seeks what were these good things about religion?
01:06:56.000That there has to be some good things because religious people, they produce more babies and they cover the planet Earth right now because non religious people have disappeared.
01:07:07.000And so there's something fit about the religious lifestyle.
01:07:11.000And I think that the emphasis on reproduction and existence and maintenance of existing structure.
01:07:23.000All great questions, all great points.
01:07:26.000And just tell us where my audience can find you on Twitter or YouTube or whatever.
01:07:31.000A lot of people frown me through you, so maybe that's, but we still want to let you know.
01:07:35.000You can just type JF or Jean Francois Gary Epier on YouTube and you'll find my main channel or JFJ Live Streams if you want to hear me sing.
01:08:32.000I can't really, I could never really get into it.
01:08:34.000But we appreciate JF coming on and explaining some of these things and where we find a basis for political theory in biology.
01:08:43.000I think that's a very interesting bridge to gap there.
01:08:47.000I think a lot of people may come at it that when we come on and we talk about politics, it's speculative, it's a lot of this kind of stuff.
01:08:54.000In fact, and I think JF does this very well, you'll find that political theory has a very strong basis in the way that the world works, biologically, scientifically, and all the rest.
01:09:05.000So, very great to have him on and share a little bit of a different insight.
01:09:08.000You guys know I come at it from an extremely Catholic, from an extremely spiritual, theoretical point of view.
01:09:15.000And JF grounded in zygotes and eukaryotic cells and this kind of thing.
01:10:11.000And something that's not often talked about, I think, is the consequence of our foreign policy in those kinds of ways.
01:10:17.000I think everybody understands we get into a war, it costs money, people die, you cause instability.
01:10:23.000But I think few people recognize the kind of effect in terms of migration.
01:10:27.000You know, nobody talked about how the intervention in the Syrian civil war on the part of the CIA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia directly led to the migrant crisis in Europe, with a million in Europe in one year in 2015.
01:11:58.000I will say it is the single biggest denomination in the country right now, which I was surprised to learn.
01:12:04.000And of course, there are more Protestants, but if you look at single denominations, Catholics are the largest group.
01:12:10.000A large part of that is because of Hispanics.
01:12:13.000If you keep seeing Hispanic immigration, if you see this revanchism in the Catholic Church, I think if people re embrace traditionalism, I think they will eventually find the Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church.
01:12:24.000Probably more the Catholic Church because, of course, the Catholic Church, as we know from Rome, descends from the Western Roman Empire.
01:12:31.000The Byzantine Church, the Eastern Orthodox, descends from the East.
01:12:55.000That we would have some kind of a non white tyrant rise up, something similar to what's happening in South Africa, where once you had a white ruling class, then you have a non white ruling class rise up.
01:13:16.000Ezra Klein would probably say I think it's certainly possible that the ruling class will be replaced, and I think it already has been replaced.
01:13:26.000I think the faces of the ruling class will change.
01:13:28.000Let's put it that way in the next 50 years.
01:13:31.000Spoiler alert says he'll be joining us at 7 30 CST.
01:13:34.000Actually, the central time zone is currently designated as CDT as the U.S. is in daylight savings.
01:14:13.000For all the people say I think about 4D chess, for all the people say I think about these grand strategies, these very complicated theories, I really don't.
01:14:23.000I believe in very simple tactical stratagems.
01:14:27.000I don't know if I could get behind that one.
01:17:19.000It allows these other influences in, it doesn't compete with them.
01:17:22.000And so, definitely, I don't think secularism can withstand the onslaught.
01:17:27.000Because, you know, and you look at the kind of atheists that we have, atheists don't tend to be very militant against barbarism or these kinds of things.
01:17:36.000The very fact that they don't have a moral code precludes them from making moral judgments about comparative religion.
01:17:42.000They can't say, well, Christianity is objectively better than Islam because they don't have better.
01:18:42.000Wake up, respect women, eat lunch, respect women, eat dinner, respect women, go to sleep, respect women, have a dream, respect a woman, in it, repeat.
01:20:00.000But you get the point, though, that there is this difference between, and that's kind of the electoral challenge with a lot of these states a city like Portland will drag the country, rather, drag the state left.
01:20:12.000Even though you got a lot of conservative Republican people in it, California is a good example, too.
01:20:16.000You got the most Republicans in any state, I believe, are in California.
01:20:20.000But because of the demographics, because it happens to be the most populous state, that's why that is.
01:21:17.000With the idea that if I ever were to run for office, and I don't want to, but I would never completely rule it out.
01:21:23.000But I conduct myself now expecting that there'll be a 50 year gap between the crazy, wacky stuff that I do now and any time I run for office, right?
01:21:33.000Because you can't be saying the things I say on my show about race, about people, about, you know, even silly things.
01:21:40.000You know, playing Fortnite, talking about, you know, memetic type stuff.
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