Based Camp - The Progressive Mental Health Crisis

00:00:00.000 Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. Today, we will be touching on the issue

00:00:05.960 of exploding mental health rate problems within progressive women, as well as exploding lack of 0.99

00:00:16.340 life satisfaction. They actually have life satisfaction ratings three times lower than

00:00:22.260 conservative women. And we're going to be going into corresponding data that could explain this. 1.00

00:00:28.020 This is a topic that we have touched on in the past, but it is a topic with such a voluminous

00:00:33.600 amount of information around it that it is worth going into deeply with new data, with old data,

00:00:41.820 and trying to understand it. Because it's really fascinating to me. Because what we're seeing

00:00:47.200 exploding mental health issues within progressive women is we are seeing the

00:00:53.880 urban monoculture's effects on somebody's mental health and psychology.

00:01:00.020 And through that, we can... Because that largely aligns with aggressivism, right? The dominant

00:01:04.840 culture of our society. And we can understand through that, through understanding what might

00:01:10.880 be causing this, is how the urban monoculture could be hurting people. And we're also going

00:01:15.440 to go into a brief exploration that I found really interesting in a piece that I found on how the

00:01:21.400 most negative, psychologically harmful parts of the urban monoculture evolved on Tumblr.

00:01:29.620 This sounds like just, you know, hitting all my favorite keywords. I am very excited about this. And

00:01:36.580 let's, let's do it.

00:01:39.340 All right. So first, I'm going to be going over a piece called Why So Blue? Liberal women are less 1.00

00:01:45.220 happy or lonely, but why? Oh, they went there. Good, good points on the title.

00:01:52.180 Yeah. Yeah. The loneliness thing is actually really shocking as well. Young liberal women are 1.00

00:01:57.020 especially prone nowadays to reporting for mental health. This was a discovery that Zach Goldberg

00:02:01.680 made almost five years ago, pouring over the Pew data in the spring of 2020. Now here I'm putting a

00:02:08.520 chart on screen and it's looking at has a doctor or other healthcare provider ever told you you have

00:02:15.200 a mental health condition when this is the amount who said yes. I just, I love this idea though of

00:02:23.060 like the healthcare provider being say your dentist. Yeah, she has problems. And this chart is famous.

00:02:30.060 This one we've gone over before that showed that white liberal women, uh, 18 to 29, 56.3% of them had 1.00

00:02:37.060 been diagnosed with a mental health condition. Conservative women is, I think is, is not the 0.99

00:02:42.220 problem that they're seeing therapists in the first place. I think it's really hard for anyone

00:02:45.620 to see a therapist and not be diagnosed with something, even if they're completely normal.

00:02:50.400 Well, the therapists are part of the cult of the urban monoculture. It's like going to your

00:02:54.780 confessions. Like they see it as important. As I've mentioned, I've seen women who will screen dating 0.82

00:03:00.100 guys who aren't seeing a therapist. And that's like, they have been accepted with the dependency

00:03:06.500 of the urban monoculture to believe that I cannot be mentally healthy and no one can be mentally

00:03:10.840 healthy without seeing a therapist. Yes. And yet when you see the therapist, they point out how

00:03:15.240 mentally. Yeah. Ruby Ard actually had an interesting talk about this where he's like,

00:03:20.060 he wants to be a progressive therapist and then a conservative therapist. And the progressive

00:03:23.900 therapist just kept having him ruminate on his problems. Yeah. And the conservative therapist was

00:03:30.420 like, okay, here's a chart. Here's what you need to do. Here's the timeline for getting rid of it.

00:03:34.140 And he didn't even imply that the conservative therapist was certain. He just gave him potential

00:03:43.200 things he could try that were evidence-based. And it's so, but it's also so indicative of the

00:03:48.200 feminine versus masculine response to someone presenting a problem, you know, that the correct 0.98

00:03:53.020 feminine response is, oh, I'm so sorry. Tell you more. This must be so hard for you. And then the

00:03:57.900 masculine response is, okay, let's make a solution. And that that scene is so toxic by many people.

00:04:03.400 Oh, absolutely. But, but to this graph right here, one thing that's really interesting in it

00:04:07.740 is yes. Okay. Over half of liberal white women have a mental health condition or have been diagnosed 1.00

00:04:13.300 as one, but also keep in mind here that the moderates had about the same rate of being diagnosed as the

00:04:21.060 conservatives. So the white moderate women, 28.4% white conservative women, 27.3%. And this goes 0.98

00:04:28.700 down a lot in older age ranges. When you're looking at like the 65 plus is only 5.9% for those women. 0.99

00:04:35.020 Another really interesting thing is that if you look at older ages, the difference between males and

00:04:42.920 females being diagnosed with mental health issues decreases. And it also decreases when you're looking

00:04:48.440 at moderates with moderates, you see men and women being diagnosed at around the same rates,

00:04:53.840 but in both conservatives and progressives, you see women being diagnosed much more. And what's

00:04:59.460 really interesting is in progressives, you see about the same rates of diagnoses at 30 and up,

00:05:05.280 but it's 18 to 29 where you see this, the big difference. And I think this has to do with where

00:05:11.140 mental health professionals have sort of penetrated and captured aspects of these markets.

00:05:16.220 Um, like if you are a progressive guy, what I actually think is happening here,

00:05:22.680 I know this kid, that can't be what's happening. Cause the rate's not going up.

00:05:25.320 Yeah. I just think it's, we'll, we'll get into how Tumblr caused all this,

00:05:29.180 but any more thoughts on this before I go further?

00:05:31.320 I want to go further. I just want to keep going.

00:05:33.660 Further research in 2022 found that depression had surged among liberal high school girls in the 0.99

00:05:39.340 last decade and a half and much more so for them than other high schoolers, especially conservatives.

00:05:44.800 And so here we're going to look at a, another article titled why the mental health of liberal

00:05:50.700 girls sank first and fastest. And the first chart I'm going to pull up here is Pew 2020.

00:05:56.380 And it's looking at, has a doctor or healthcare provider ever told you that you have a mental

00:05:59.820 health condition? And it's just what we were looking at before, but it's done as a graph,

00:06:03.880 which I think is a bit easier to see.

00:06:05.180 The graphs are so much easier.

00:06:06.440 The next chart is depression scores by gender and politics. And what you can see here is female 0.99

00:06:12.780 liberals are absolutely at the highest here and their depression scores started to shoot

00:06:17.800 up. They were always higher, but they're about in line with male liberals. They started to shoot

00:06:21.820 up at around 2011. Was that when the, was that when the girl, whatever the believe, believe

00:06:29.120 her movement started?

00:06:31.100 Me too.

00:06:31.780 No, no, me too started much later. Let's see. Yeah. 20, 2017, but it was founded by activist

00:06:39.780 Tarana Burke in 2006. So we're talking way before that. That was a year after you and

00:06:46.400 I graduated from undergraduate. I don't know, like smartphones were taking off at that point.

00:06:52.980 I don't know. Smartphones were ubiquitous before that.

00:06:55.700 Only among rich kids. I don't know. I got my first smartphone in like 20, 2011 actually.

00:07:04.760 I'm going to check to see if Tumblr maybe did something around this time. I'll add it

00:07:09.760 in post. Look up when Tumblr got popular.

00:07:13.380 Peak terms of user activity early 2014. So it was on its way. It was on its way to the

00:07:20.020 top.

00:07:20.860 Look up when Tumblr first started to gain traction.

00:07:23.420 It was founded in 2007. It quickly became popular. So by 2011, it would have been fairly

00:07:30.720 So that's fascinating. Yes. I think this is a directly downstream of Tumblr is what we're

00:07:36.780 seeing here. The depression scores, because Tumblr was where the modern iteration of the

00:07:41.940 urban monoculture was born. Before that, progressivism had a very different like thing

00:07:46.460 it was optimizing around. Now, what's also really interesting is conservative female 1.00

00:07:50.840 unhappiness starts shooting up. Now it's still nowhere near these other groups.

00:07:54.840 You mean like relative from what it was before?

00:07:56.840 Yeah, it was a complete flatline.

00:07:58.860 They're happier now. They're happier now than it's shooting down. Like they're having

00:08:02.740 problems, higher depression rates. So it was stable from 2005 to 2014. Then it starts going

00:08:09.480 up. Conservative male mental health was stable until 2013 then started going up. What happened

00:08:15.340 in 2013 and 14 that would have caused conservatives? I don't see it as a break of the dam because

00:08:22.440 it was so stable before that. I don't know. Can you send me the graph sound off on this?

00:08:31.180 Can I see the graph thematically? I actually sent you a screenshot of a, an Instagram post

00:08:37.520 by a friend who shall go nameless that I don't know, kind of really indicates the different

00:08:43.220 experience of two girls, me and her who went to the same school, hung out, had a ton in

00:08:51.240 common, but then took very different political directions in adulthood. Just like look at

00:08:56.640 that and read the post while I look at this. Okay. So no, no, she might. What if she watches

00:09:00.480 this? Then she's not. I won't describe the person. It says back by no one's demand and a

00:09:05.180 very progressive looking person. And it says proof of life in the style of 2014 in an era

00:09:11.940 where most things kind of suck, both personally and as a human woman on earth. Maybe a little 0.71

00:09:17.340 more word art TM can help. The bar is pretty low, but always worth reaching for vampire, I

00:09:24.800 guess. And happy Venus retrograde to all those that celebrate, survive peace sign skull. It's

00:09:33.220 been a doozy, but we're going to make it.

00:09:35.180 So she lives in a scary dystopia in which women have been robbed of their bodily autonomy. Her 1.00

00:09:46.320 personal life is in shambles. She, she doesn't look as, as healthy as I remember from before.

00:09:53.140 And like, I'm really happy. I've really loved my friends and my family. I am healthier now than I

00:10:05.220 was before, despite being on pregnancy. Literally healthier now. Like my osteoporosis is reversing

00:10:10.780 despite the fact that I'm not on medication because the pregnancy seemed to help it. Like it's, it's just

00:10:15.380 kind of crazy because we had so much in common as kids. We grew up, you know, within walking distance

00:10:21.740 of each other's houses, same broad, you know, demographic background. And yet there's such

00:10:28.420 different outcomes. And I feel like the primary differentiating factor here is culture.

00:10:33.240 The primary differentiating factor is me.

00:10:36.400 Yeah.

00:10:37.900 Okay. But look at the graph. You wanted to see the graph. You see what I mean? The lines are stable

00:10:41.480 and then they start going up out of nowhere. There's clearly a triggering event.

00:10:45.900 Yeah. Yeah. Like what happened to conservatives in 2014 that made their quality of life decidedly

00:10:51.720 worse. And it wasn't, and you, you would have thought like if I, if you and I had to guess,

00:10:56.700 we would have guessed that mental health would start going off the rails, say in 2008, when

00:11:01.220 there was a recession, that that would cause people to feel like a gradual thing, but no.

00:11:05.800 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And it's, and it's not, I'm still arguing like pervasive smart and keep in

00:11:12.340 mind, like smartphones did exist before 2011, but they didn't have this great app ecospace. Now you

00:11:18.420 have Tumblr on your smartphone. Like by 2011, Tumblr has a decent smartphone app. Like you're actually

00:11:23.280 getting, I think it's downstream of Tumblr as somebody who paid attention to what was going on

00:11:28.080 in Tumblr as it was rising. We'll get to that later.

00:11:31.000 But 2014, that is, hold on. Let's just, let's ask Grok what happened in 2014.

00:11:37.460 And I'll keep going while you're asking. Okay. Okay. So now we're going to put up another graph

00:11:42.480 here that says, whenever I try to get ahead, something or somebody stops me. USA 12th graders.

00:11:49.380 So interesting here, what you see is this is actually splitting over time. With conservatives,

00:11:55.780 it's going down for conservative girls. And with liberal girls, it's going up. 1.00

00:12:01.000 But here's, what's really fascinating for boys, for liberals, it's going down. And for conservative

00:12:07.540 boys, it's going up. Whenever I try to get ahead, somebody or something stops me.

00:12:13.320 And for conservative boys felt more stymied.

00:12:16.240 Yeah.

00:12:16.960 That makes them stronger. It's like a good thing.

00:12:19.280 But it's the opposite was, was girls. 0.54

00:12:20.960 I don't know what we're seeing here. It could be like the, the sort of cool, like, oh, that society

00:12:29.720 is against me, man, that, you know, Andrew Tate was sort of promoting during, because this is from

00:12:34.440 2017 to 2021. But that's, that's interesting. External locus of control. Here, what you see is

00:12:41.420 2017 to 2021, liberal girls shoots up the internal locus of control and conservative girls actually 1.00

00:12:50.360 goes down a bit with boys.

00:12:51.580 Wait, so conservative young women lost their internal locus of control? 1.00

00:12:57.000 No, they have more of an internal locus of control.

00:12:58.740 Okay, okay, okay. So, so progressive young women had more of an external locus of control, 0.76

00:13:04.360 meaning they attributed their life's problems more to external factors.

00:13:08.880 Yes, which is shown to be correlated with poor mental health. I mean, it's really, I thought,

00:13:13.220 but here's the thing, I thought this was more core to progressivism. But if you look at boys,

00:13:17.260 liberal boys and conservative boys have about the same rate.

00:13:21.200 Here, that's, I think that's because boys aren't allowed to blame outside factors,

00:13:25.000 because they're the patriarchy. It doesn't matter.

00:13:27.200 No, no, no, no, no, no. What's interesting is they have about the same rate, and it's about

00:13:31.440 what liberal girls have. 1.00

00:13:33.520 What?

00:13:33.840 Yes, conservative girls are like way- 1.00

00:13:35.760 So conservative girls are the only ones who are like, yeah, it's on me. 0.99

00:13:38.640 Yeah.

00:13:39.320 What? That doesn't make any sense.

00:13:41.320 What it shows is that conservative girls are a better catch than conservative boys.

00:13:44.800 Yeah, apparently.

00:13:46.140 Well, it is a smaller pool. Like, that's another thing.

00:13:48.640 Yeah.

00:13:49.020 You know, there's, there's two conservative boys for every one conservative girl. And I

00:13:52.220 assume that number might be even more severe for those age or ages. What did Grok say when you asked it?

00:13:57.200 Honestly, I'm not getting anything. It said the cultural events, the ice bucket challenge goes

00:14:02.700 viral in 2014. Remember that? People dumping ice water over their head to donate money. The Grand

00:14:09.140 Budapest Hotel came out. Robin Williams died. Guardians of the Galaxy came out. That was good.

00:14:13.700 It was good. It made me happy.

00:14:15.440 There was the World Cup, the Brazil FIFA World Cup. That's not bad. There was the Ferguson unrest.

00:14:21.300 So there was some, some like police brutality concern. Gay marriage became more pervasive in

00:14:29.060 terms of legalization, but I don't see how that would make the conservatives more depressed.

00:14:33.000 Well, here we're going to get a graph that aligned exactly with the other graph.

00:14:36.920 With 2014?

00:14:38.100 In 2014.

00:14:39.320 So I will tell you.

00:14:41.420 ISIS declared a caliphate. Scottish independence referendum, but that didn't happen.

00:14:45.880 This aligns exactly with the 2011 number here. So you see between 2009 and 2013 in this graph,

00:14:54.740 I'll share this graph with you because it's important.

00:14:56.680 Thanks.

00:14:56.960 Midterm elections in the US, like nothing really happened in 2014. It was, it was not a consequential

00:15:08.040 year, really. I mean, it's sort of things churned along, but it wasn't like, oh, like new administration,

00:15:14.960 huge social change.

00:15:17.000 Okay. So here's a graph. In this graph, what you see is the other numbers line up with mean

00:15:24.360 derogation or like self-degradation is what you're seeing here.

00:15:29.180 Self-derogation. Oh, like derogatory remarks you make about yourself.

00:15:34.300 Yes.

00:15:35.020 Okay.

00:15:35.880 Liberal girls and liberal boys began to shoot up on this at around that time period with

00:15:41.860 conservatives shooting up at the later time period tied to their increasing rates of depression.

00:15:46.420 This is a cultural factor tied to something that's causing young people to say terrible

00:15:53.580 things about themselves over and over and over again. And people can be like, oh, that must

00:15:57.240 be social media. But Facebook existed long before this and was popular long before this.

00:16:02.420 When I was in college.

00:16:03.280 When did Instagram peak? Hold on. When did Instagram first take off? Because Facebook was

00:16:13.720 very homegrown. You used Facebook to make sure people weren't like fish, what catfishing you

00:16:19.860 because really it wasn't a place of idealized pictures. It was a place of here's what your

00:16:25.160 life is like. Here's what your friends are like. Instagram launched in 2010.

00:16:29.200 It could be the 2014 boost Instagram. I could see that because Instagram was more popular

00:16:35.400 with conservatives.

00:16:36.780 Yeah. I'm going to say Instagram. Instagram was really, and I mean, Facebook even had those

00:16:43.080 reports that leaked where it was like, yeah, we know these make people feel terrible about

00:16:46.640 themselves. Sorry.

00:16:47.940 I think Instagram may have been where the culture that was started on Tumblr interacted with

00:16:53.560 and infected conservative females first and then males. That would make a lot of sense to

00:16:58.160 me. No, no. I think it's more about idealization and not feeling like you're good enough.

00:17:02.760 I disagree.

00:17:04.200 Really?

00:17:05.160 Look, that happened before all of this. If you look at the nineties, everyone was concerned

00:17:10.660 about how pretty the models were and that girls not living up to that. The women who girls would 0.94

00:17:15.440 have had to compare themselves to before social media might have even been more beautiful on

00:17:19.620 average.

00:17:20.700 No, well, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It was very different and it felt very

00:17:24.360 different for me. And the reason why it did was that they were movie stars. They were in magazines

00:17:32.480 and suddenly with Instagram, it was like, no, no, no, no, these are my peers. And you have to

00:17:37.200 understand like our, our friends and colleagues who have children that are young teens, the way these

00:17:43.820 girls look, their, their knowledge of makeup is like, you're like your mom's level. They have 1.00

00:17:48.740 like 16 step beauty routines. You have to like the standards to which women hold themselves 1.00

00:17:53.940 now, if they are online, if they are on Instagram or now TikTok are insane. By the way, there

00:18:01.660 was this recent scandal with TikTok. They had a fat filter, one that made you look chubby.

00:18:05.560 I think it was called chubby filter. Sorry, Andy. And all these like Instagram and like TikTok

00:18:12.360 models kept using the filters, like showing what they would look like fat. And then it got

00:18:16.160 a lot of people mad, which I just love. I want more of that. I want ugly filters.

00:18:20.980 Hilarious. Okay. Okay. So I'm going to read here from the article that we were pulling these

00:18:24.920 graphs from that I mentioned earlier. And this is on the Tumblr hypothesis.

00:18:30.500 Phelps, Roger and Rowling take us through the dizzying events of the early 2010s. This is the

00:18:35.780 witch trials of JK Rowling is talking about here. As the social media site Tumblr exploded in popularity,

00:18:41.220 reaching its peak in early 2014. Tumblr hit peak popularity in 2014 and also vivaciousness.

00:18:49.280 Tumblr was different from Facebook and other sites because it was not based on anyone's social

00:18:52.920 network. It brought together people from anywhere in the world who shared an interest and often an

00:18:59.200 obsession. Yeah. Like affinity groups rather than your immediate friends. Like Facebook was really

00:19:03.540 your college friends and then your high school friends. But yeah, this, yeah, you're right.

00:19:08.700 Phelps, Roger interviewed several experts who all pointed to Tumblr as the main Petri dish in the

00:19:15.600 nascent ideas of identity, fragility, language, harm, and victimhood, which evolved and intermixed

00:19:23.380 there. Angela Nagel, author of Kill All Normies, described the culture that emerged among young

00:19:28.780 activists on Tumblr, especially around gender identity in this way. There was a culture that was

00:19:33.760 encouraged on Tumblr, which was to be able to describe your unique non-normative self. And that's

00:19:39.520 to some extent a feature of modern society anyway. But it was taken to such an extreme that people

00:19:44.000 begin to describe this as a snowflake, referring to the idea of each snowflake is unique. The person

00:19:50.140 who constructs a totally kind of boutique identity for themselves and then guards that identity in a

00:19:55.780 very, very sensitive way reacts in an enraged way when anyone does not respect the uniqueness of that

00:20:01.960 identity. And I saw this a hundred percent. Were you like, not from the Tumblr perspective, but from

00:20:08.840 the other side, because I was really into Tumblr in action, which was for finding crazy Tumblr posts.

00:20:14.140 I was really into exploring the crazier side of Tumblr all the time because I found it from a

00:20:19.100 psychological perspective, really interesting. And humorously, you know, I didn't see them as not

00:20:24.620 my people either. I saw the Tumblr people as it's very much like, well, like related to nerdy culture

00:20:32.220 and stuff like that. I may have had some like, oh my God, they're so silly, whatever. But like silly 0.90

00:20:38.840 people should be able to do what silly people want and there's no harm to this. Yeah. And Strange Aeons 0.99

00:20:44.860 on YouTube does so many great Tumblr deep dives. Yeah. I don't find myself associating it with

00:20:51.060 mental toxicity so much as I find myself associating it with weird fan communities.

00:20:58.280 Is this is where even the modern concept of trans identity evolved on Tumblr? Because before Tumblr,

00:21:05.480 transness was something you needed to be diagnosed with because you needed gender dysphoria. And then the people 1.00

00:21:09.820 on Tumblr who were like, oh, you're not trans because you aren't diagnosed, they were called true scum. 0.98

00:21:14.040 And this whole movement evolved that sort of harassed them constantly. And then the 2Q, it's the one that said 0.97

00:21:19.400 anyone can be any gender they want, whenever they feel like it, they basically won that war. And it's also where 0.56

00:21:24.300 the Therian community evolved. These were the people who wanted to be identified as animals and stuff like that.

00:21:29.420 Oh, right. So Therians are not furries, right?

00:21:32.620 No, they're not. It's more like trans to crossdressers, that's Therian to furries. 1.00

00:21:39.320 Crossdressers, no, they're not actually the other gender. And they're like, this is just something I like doing. 1.00

00:21:43.780 Yes.

00:21:44.180 Furries, no, they're not actually the animal. They're like, this is just something I like doing.

00:21:49.060 Thank you.

00:21:49.140 And then there's crazy ones who think that they're like actually a raccoon or a girl or something like that.

00:21:53.900 Although that seems to have really died down recently. Is it just me?

00:21:57.040 Therians? 0.99

00:21:57.960 Yeah.

00:21:58.680 I don't think so.

00:21:59.640 Really?

00:22:00.020 What makes you say that?

00:22:01.140 I just haven't seen many recent YouTube videos of them talking about their lives and howling and running

00:22:05.920 through the woods.

00:22:07.400 They're always wolves. Why are they always wolves?

00:22:09.200 I'd want to be a wolf if I was like connected to something.

00:22:13.860 No, brutal life, terrible existence.

00:22:18.160 Hungry all the time.

00:22:21.400 They look cold. Wolves always look cold.

00:22:24.480 I guess everything you eat has to be like a living thing.

00:22:27.440 Everything you eat is raw.

00:22:28.900 Yes, you're always hungry.

00:22:31.020 And again, they always look cold and they don't...

00:22:33.200 You know, it's funny that you mentioned that.

00:22:36.540 I was thinking today, like, because I was watching a video on Mormon Preppers and like all the food they have.

00:22:41.480 And I was like, why not just get more bullets?

00:22:45.440 Here's the trick.

00:22:46.880 Because they're not mean.

00:22:48.740 Okay?

00:22:49.140 They're nice.

00:22:50.160 Here's the trick about society.

00:22:53.160 Humans are made of food.

00:22:56.400 I don't want to get mad cow disease by eating humans.

00:23:01.040 You don't have to eat their brain.

00:23:02.660 If you cook them, you don't have to worry.

00:23:04.700 They're as safe as any beef or pig or anything like that.

00:23:08.120 So long as you don't eat the brains because then you're not worried about prion disease.

00:23:11.840 But humans are made of food.

00:23:13.740 You don't often think about that.

00:23:15.540 But it's a neat little trick for apocalypses.

00:23:18.320 It's one trick that doctors hate. 0.93

00:23:22.020 Oh my God, I hate you so much. 0.56

00:23:24.160 You hate me so much. 0.99

00:23:25.320 It's only been like four hours. 0.99

00:23:27.820 Aren't you resorting to cannibalism a little quickly?

00:23:30.200 That's the law of the land, Mr. Director.

00:23:32.000 Now, wait a minute.

00:23:32.820 We all had a big breakfast.

00:23:34.080 Can't you people go without eating for a little while?

00:23:36.980 Okay, okay.

00:23:38.060 Although I can tell you right away, our kids would love building traps for humans.

00:23:43.960 Yes, yes.

00:23:44.860 They talk about that sort of stuff.

00:23:46.720 All the time.

00:23:47.100 Our kid actually came to Samo. 0.90

00:23:50.220 And he's like, okay, I want to eat people like zombie vampires.

00:23:53.660 And he saw that vampires ate people.

00:23:55.780 And you were like, no, vampires don't eat people.

00:23:58.280 And he's like, well, what does, right?

00:23:59.500 Like, so he could play the right thing.

00:24:01.940 Because you scolded him for playing, eating people as a vampire.

00:24:05.900 Well, no, he was just like, well, mommy, like, a vampire is going to eat me.

00:24:08.740 I'm like, no, not exactly.

00:24:09.920 Vampires consume blood, like mosquitoes and ticks.

00:24:13.740 And I just, you know, I missed entirely what he was all about because I was deep on the lore with him.

00:24:19.700 And I was deeply annoyed that he thought that zombies couldn't go outside during the day, which is every color of wrong.

00:24:27.260 He needs to understand.

00:24:29.760 But now he's obsessed with skivity anything.

00:24:34.260 I'm deeply, deeply disturbed by this.

00:24:37.020 Yeah, he's skivity. 1.00

00:24:37.860 He's got a skivity. 1.00

00:24:38.700 So what happened with Tumblr is this was the first time it became popular to list your mental illnesses alongside your, like, gender in your bio.

00:24:49.120 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:24:50.220 Just like in our discard, people list the number of children they have. 1.00

00:24:54.260 But on Tumblr, the status was just how mentally ill you are. 0.99

00:24:58.840 Yeah. 0.97

00:24:59.220 No, it was clearly, like, a part of your status.

00:25:01.140 It was alongside your gender, you would, and then you'd have, like, flags associated with, because, you know, when you've removed identity, when you've removed a person's connection to their ethnicity and religion and history, or you've made them ashamed of it, people need to find identity somewhere else.

00:25:18.600 Well, no, in any community where they're trying to show status, there are things that you use as markers.

00:25:25.360 Like, in the nouveau riche community that tries to pretend that it's not nouveau riche, it's how much lower piano you wear.

00:25:31.380 And that's, like, there's all these little things that, like, people utilize and mental, that is so, like, such a bad sign when your amount of, it's like spoonies, you know, like, oh, well, you think you're sick?

00:25:46.740 Like, I'm on an IV.

00:25:48.940 It's like a community, yeah, where it became cool to, like, get amputations or something, and then it's like, I got more amputations than you.

00:25:55.560 I mean, literally the trans community.

00:25:56.900 But, like, I was thinking recently, the way that we relate to gender transition, given that it appears to be a culture-bound illness, like anorexia, you know, overwhelmingly in autistic individuals at that exact same age, tied to body dysmorphia, it would be the same as treating anorexia by removing people's organs to make them lighter.

00:26:15.880 Like, an anorexic person would tell you, like, this is great, like, they removed a few of my organs that I didn't 100% need, one of my lungs, maybe a uterus.

00:26:26.600 That's not how it works.

00:26:27.900 It would be, okay, okay, actually, a very good analogy would be, like, removing people's uteruses who are anorexic to make them lighter.

00:26:34.780 Yeah, especially, yeah, yeah.

00:26:36.680 Because then it's, like, additional, like, abdominal volume that you'd be thrilled to get rid of every once, that flat belly. 1.00

00:26:42.740 You also want that gap, so if you could just, like, remove, like, musculature from your thighs, you'd be thrilled.

00:26:49.260 And the anorexic people would be thrilled about this.

00:26:50.680 They'd tell everyone afterwards, this is the best surgery.

00:26:52.640 I love it.

00:26:53.040 Pro-ana is, like, a huge thing.

00:26:54.800 Like, but all the same people would be, like, that is a really bad way to handle this condition.

00:27:00.260 Yeah.

00:27:00.540 So to continue here, Nagel described how on the other side of the political spectrum there was, quote, the most insensitive culture imaginable, which was the culture of 4chan, end quote.

00:27:09.600 The communities involved in gender activism on Tumblr were mostly young progressive women, while 4chan was mostly used by right-leaning young men.

00:27:18.220 So while there was an increasingly gendered nature of the online conflict, the two communities supercharged each other with their mutual hatred, as often happens in a culture war.

00:27:26.660 The young identity activists on Tumblr embraced their new notions of identity, fragility, and trauma all the more tightly, increasingly saying that words are a form of violence.

00:27:36.500 While young men on 4chan moved in the opposite direction, they brandish a rough and rude masculinity in which status was gained by using words more insensitively than the next guy.

00:27:47.740 It was out of this reciprocal dynamic that experts on the podcast suggest that today's cancel cultures were born in the early 2010s.

00:27:57.300 And I do think that that's what we're seeing here.

00:27:59.160 This is also where the birth of what became the new right, the tech right, the MAGA Republicans came from.

00:28:03.940 As we pointed out in one of our videos for people who want to see an interesting historical documentary, the new right, the modern MAGA right, the online right, was born out of the atheist movement.

00:28:15.860 The online atheist and skeptic movement, which split into two groups.

00:28:19.640 One group was like, oh, you guys weren't actually interested in the truth.

00:28:23.640 You just wanted to dunk on conservatives.

00:28:25.380 And then the other group was actually interested in the truth.

00:28:27.300 And many of them have converted back into religions like ourselves.

00:28:29.940 But very, very interesting to note that all of this started on Tumblr versus 4chan.

00:28:37.140 Trump was first pushed by 4chan.

00:28:40.360 And when I say 4chan got Trump elected, many people are like, well, 4chan wasn't that relevant in the general election, in his first general election.

00:28:48.080 I agree.

00:28:49.020 But 4chan was super important in gaining him internet popularity and making him seen as a viable candidate.

00:28:55.360 Absolutely.

00:28:56.280 Absolutely.

00:28:56.700 And people forget what a joke candidate he was in the primaries, that all the other conservatives were making fun of him.

00:29:03.760 And 4chan memed him into, yeah, but he is the main counterculture candidate.

00:29:10.740 We have what we have now.

00:29:12.840 We have Doge now.

00:29:14.640 All of this.

00:29:15.160 And keep in mind how much the culture of MAGA still has those 4chan roots, that Elon called Doge Doge, literally like a meme coin with like a dog that was commonly used on 4chan.

00:29:28.200 Yeah.

00:29:29.380 Now, let's look at more modern evidence, okay?

00:29:32.600 Yes.

00:29:33.100 New evidence from a 2024 American family survey indicates it is.

00:29:36.900 Young liberal women are markedly less satisfied with their lives than their conservative peers.

00:29:40.720 And this is from the original article, not the second article.

00:29:42.460 Specifically, we found that 37% of conservative women reported being completely satisfied with life.

00:29:48.720 Well, only 12% of liberal women did. 0.98

00:29:51.380 So, less than half.

00:29:52.680 Back to that high school, elementary school friend of mine, then and now.

00:29:56.840 You know, me now, her now.

00:29:58.360 Would you still say you're completely satisfied?

00:30:01.240 Yes.

00:30:02.420 Yeah.

00:30:02.640 Especially vis-a-vis her.

00:30:04.080 I mean, obviously, there are so many ambitions and things that we want to achieve together.

00:30:07.440 And we want to have so many more kids.

00:30:08.680 We want to do so much more good in the world.

00:30:10.560 But that comes from a place of like a deep feeling of agency and satisfaction.

00:30:16.500 And it was what we've already done.

00:30:18.620 Yeah.

00:30:18.980 Like that we can do that.

00:30:21.160 Young conservative women were three times as likely to report being very satisfied with life compared to young liberal women.

00:30:27.080 Moreover, liberal women are two to three times more likely to report that they are quote-unquote not satisfied with their lives compared to conservative women.

00:30:35.060 And consistent with previous research, the effect of ideology on young women's happiness held up to controls for age, education, and race.

00:30:43.360 And so, I'm putting a graph on screen here that says liberal women least likely to be completely satisfied with life. 1.00

00:30:48.820 And you see it's just a huge difference.

00:30:50.840 And it goes up.

00:30:51.680 It's 12% for liberals, 28% for moderates, 37% for conservatives.

00:30:57.580 So, huge jump there.

00:30:59.380 Now, let's look at loneliness rates, okay?

00:31:01.680 So, it's not just this.

00:31:02.660 And this is in 2024, right?

00:31:04.900 So, with liberal women, 29% say they feel lonely often.

00:31:10.760 Only 11% of conservative women feel that.

00:31:13.540 And you get the middling 19% for moderates.

00:31:16.020 Do you think this is because conservatism likely tracks really highly with being a member of a church and that's built in community?

00:31:24.440 I think so, but I don't think that that's all of this.

00:31:26.940 I would assume you're actually finding the same thing with liberal women who attend churches. 1.00

00:31:30.720 Well, and I would guess so.

00:31:31.880 I think it's two factors, yes.

00:31:32.900 I think one is that there's a higher correlation of church attendance and therefore community membership.

00:31:36.920 But I would also argue that a conservative woman and a liberal woman with the same amount of social interaction in their lives would probably define the state of their loneliness differently. 0.96

00:31:50.660 And that a progressive woman would be far more likely to just perceive it differently.

00:31:54.760 Yeah, perceive it as like, this is a problem.

00:31:57.240 I don't feel perfectly satisfied or I feel like what I see.

00:32:01.220 No, no, no. I disagree with the way you're framing this.

00:32:02.880 I think that conservatives genuinely feel less lonely even if they are the same amount of interpersonal interactions because there is no status to be gained.

00:32:12.400 And so your emotions, the way you relate to your emotional state is largely due to your internal framings.

00:32:18.180 You can significantly alter your internal state.

00:32:21.820 Yeah.

00:32:21.900 And so with a conservative, there is no benefit to self-victimization.

00:32:26.580 And so they don't do it.

00:32:28.580 Liberals are trained to have this mindset through things like Tumblr and stuff like that.

00:32:34.120 Like even-

00:32:34.500 Well, they're also trained to know that if they don't feel 100% perfect, that that is a problem.

00:32:40.040 Whereas I think conservatives are more likely to understand that this state is transient or not even think about it, not even be like, oh, this is, I'm feeling something bad.

00:32:47.680 Like, ah, you know, they're just like, okay, you know, the bigger things to worry about.

00:32:52.740 Your friend, right, when we were reading her quote, like, this, like, why is she posting that?

00:32:59.240 Like, if you were feeling sad, would you post it?

00:33:01.760 Like, if you were feeling-

00:33:02.480 She's trying to post, she's, I think, she's signaling that she's a hot mess right now, that she's not happy, she's not feeling okay, that she thinks the world is terrible, and she's looking for social affirmation.

00:33:16.200 And she does have some comments on that that are like, that's my friend, and like, oh, you look great, and things like that.

00:33:22.000 So I think, I think it's, and maybe it's also-

00:33:27.200 And I'd also point out with her post, her post is, as I think, very normal.

00:33:30.500 It's not cringe. 0.94

00:33:31.900 It's not, like, pathetic, liberal, baity stuff.

00:33:35.360 It is, I consider, like, a very, I think you did a very good job of finding, like, a very average and normal post for a progressive to make that a conservative would never make.

00:33:44.260 Yeah, it's not like, it's not an unhinged libs of TikTok thing.

00:33:46.740 It's just what a, this, Simone's private friend from high school is randomly posting on, you know, a certain day of the week in spring.

00:33:56.340 And, and that's, you know, and like, what are all my posts?

00:34:01.460 Just our, our kids.

00:34:03.260 They're often ideological, well, they're meant to have agency in the world.

00:34:06.440 Like, your posts are either our kids, like, showing off, like, your family so that other people are jealous and hate their lives.

00:34:11.540 Which is more like, I, I take pictures of our kids, and I'm like, oh, they're so cute, and I want to post them, because I hate wasting the pretty, because they're so pretty.

00:34:17.560 I do the same thing.

00:34:19.720 I stick them at the end of videos, so that people are forced to form a parasocial relationship with us.

00:34:23.460 Of course.

00:34:24.600 This is non, non, non-consensual.

00:34:26.920 Going forward, I'm going to try, try, keep in mind, to take out curse words, even from added clips.

00:34:33.820 Oh my gosh, I'm, yeah, I'm sorry.

00:34:35.980 So that our videos can be safe for kids.

00:34:38.540 Well, I don't think kids need to be shielded from curse words, but I think they should be taught that curse words are, for lack of a better way to put it, like, low class.

00:34:46.300 A sign, curse words are a sign of not having enough creativity to use a turn of phrase that actually gives the message that you want, the wit that you want.

00:34:55.560 Well, I think we need to figure out ways to be vulgar without curse words, to be ideologically vulgar.

00:35:00.740 When I read, when I read Emily Post from the 1940s, this woman has the sickest burns, but she doesn't use any slang. 1.00

00:35:07.960 She doesn't use any affectation.

00:35:09.780 But, but, Simone, here's a way I can be vulgar without any, any of, I think Trump should have another term.

00:35:15.480 That's, that's, I was talking with the BBC and another UK outlet today.

00:35:20.400 I didn't say that, but I so should have said that.

00:35:22.180 I so should have said that.

00:35:22.960 I should have been like, well, you know, of course we're really excited for his next term.

00:35:26.700 I love when he sometimes drops jokes about that in press conference.

00:35:30.920 Because he knows, like, he can probably see the pulsing veins in the foreheads of some of the people, the journalists present.

00:35:40.720 No, but they're, they're manifesting this by freaking out about it so much.

00:35:44.400 And he's only, yeah, doing it in the same way that a kid in school will bully a child because that child goes, reee.

00:35:53.580 Reee.

00:35:54.720 It's really, it's hard not to when, when they react in such a pleasurable fashion.

00:35:59.980 Yeah.

00:36:00.420 No, that's what we're all here for, right?

00:36:02.260 This is why, you know, we live for the day after Trump gets election and everyone's having a meltdown.

00:36:09.120 Like, that's one of our better performing videos, of course, because everybody wants to watch the meltdowns.

00:36:13.280 And we should be watching more meltdowns.

00:36:14.900 I need to get more meltdowns.

00:36:15.960 This is a problem, right?

00:36:17.080 You know, people denying reality, saying, oh, actually, Trump, there was a huge thing of, like, people thinking that Trump wasn't actually going to be sworn into office.

00:36:26.280 There was?

00:36:26.660 Yeah, yeah.

00:36:28.620 I was a little late to do a piece on it, but I thought it would be, you know, fun.

00:36:31.260 Where people, there were all these conspiracy theories that, like, the Dems were going to, like, trick him at the last moment and they had been talking about it.

00:36:39.200 Oh, so now they like January 6th as a concept.

00:36:41.760 Oh, of course.

00:36:43.200 Of course.

00:36:44.040 When it's their January 6th.

00:36:46.220 And, I mean, they literally tried to put him into jail on, like, trumped up charges with that felony conviction.

00:36:52.800 Yeah, it was always clear they were planning to circumvent democracy.

00:36:56.700 Well, here's a fun little conspiracy theory I hadn't heard before.

00:37:00.720 Okay, love.

00:37:01.660 Did you know that the only time that CNN was filming any of Trump's speeches, they never filmed any of his speeches live, except for the one where he was shot?

00:37:13.060 No.

00:37:14.200 Yeah.

00:37:15.280 The only speech of him.

00:37:16.640 In Butler, Pennsylvania.

00:37:18.180 In Butler.

00:37:18.540 That's when they decided to go live.

00:37:19.700 Why?

00:37:20.040 Well, it was a Sunday afternoon in the middle of summer.

00:37:24.660 There isn't a lot to work with.

00:37:27.400 Or maybe.

00:37:30.100 Or maybe.

00:37:31.660 There's a lot of highly irregular stuff around that particular shooting, so.

00:37:38.800 Hey, we still have no good information on what the guy, the explanation we have is super sus.

00:37:45.100 I heard something about, like, his house had been, like, ran through when they went to check it, and it was, like, missing things.

00:37:53.760 It was weird.

00:37:55.720 I don't know.

00:37:56.720 We'll do an episode on it if we do an episode on it where we can go over the conspiracy of the Butler shooting.

00:38:01.760 But I wouldn't be, like, shocked if, you know, it was just too obvious.

00:38:09.920 Like, that roof, it's not like that roof is, like, oh, and out of the way.

00:38:16.020 It is literally the only raised location anywhere around there.

00:38:20.600 It's literally the number one.

00:38:22.680 I know, why wouldn't the Secret Service be on that roof?

00:38:25.960 It would have been the place to be.

00:38:27.160 They said because it was slanted, they weren't on it.

00:38:29.220 Oh, God forbid they slip and fall.

00:38:31.460 A teenager, yeah.

00:38:32.860 Oh, no.

00:38:33.480 OSHA would not stand for that.

00:38:36.360 Yeah, OSHA, oh, my God.

00:38:37.640 Well, this shows what happens when you put all these DEI people, you know, that was when the Secret Service was being run by a lady. 0.99

00:38:42.640 And we know that a lady was not the most qualified person to run the Secret Service. 1.00

00:38:47.000 I don't mean this in, like, a women don't know this stuff way.

00:38:50.200 I mean this in a, I know, statistically, the number of men versus the number of women in the Secret Service means it's highly unlikely that the most competent person in the entire Secret Service was a woman.

00:39:01.660 Oh, just because, yeah, if you have, like, 74 women candidates and you have 538 male candidates, we have a problem.

00:39:12.320 There's, like, no way.

00:39:13.620 Like, this was obviously DEI nonsense.

00:39:15.900 So, maybe she was trying to protect her job.

00:39:18.680 You know, Trump gets taken out and then she doesn't have to worry about the DEI cleanups because she was on the out after he came in anyway, given what's been going on within the government. 0.81

00:39:30.840 Who knows?

00:39:32.180 Anyway, I love you to death, Simone.

00:39:34.040 It has been fun chatting with you about this.

00:39:36.980 What do we do with this information?

00:39:39.180 Just, like...

00:39:39.680 Like, I think that one is noting that conservatives, whatever happened to progressives is now happening to conservatives.

00:39:46.900 Whatever happened to progressives, it's continuing to happen and get worse over time.

00:39:52.640 But the conservatives aren't just devoid.

00:39:54.340 It's not like, you know, whenever you see a progressive, you know, tell them you're sorry and give them a benzo.

00:39:59.220 It's like, actually, there's something going on here.

00:40:02.800 You need to be aware that this is happening in our community as well and fight against it.

00:40:07.640 And fight against it through focusing on, you know, an internal locus of control, promoting an internal locus of control, promoting self-responsibility.

00:40:17.640 I'd say stay away from therapists.

00:40:19.720 Like, your life depends on it.

00:40:21.260 Who would have thought that, like, we'd end up taking this very Scientology-esque...

00:40:24.800 Well, no, it's funny because modern therapy, as I often say, functions more like Scientology.

00:40:28.640 It's like Scientology.

00:40:29.700 That's what...

00:40:30.240 That's such a weird double reverse flip.

00:40:33.480 But it's so... 0.99

00:40:34.800 I had a friend reach out to me, a progressive, who heard me rant about this a long time ago and apparently thought I was being stupid or crazy. 0.94

00:40:41.980 She recently emailed me and was like, you know, I started going to work on these issues with a number of psychologists. 0.93

00:40:47.600 And you were right.

00:40:49.200 I had no idea how bad it is.

00:40:50.980 I am dedicating a big portion of my life and philosophic efforts now to bringing attention to how bad modern psychology has become.

00:40:58.260 It's the story of your life.

00:40:59.040 You're like, oh, this is a problem. 1.00

00:41:02.480 Everyone says, Malcolm, you're crazy. 1.00

00:41:04.780 Malcolm, you're delusional. 1.00

00:41:06.060 Malcolm, you need to get checked out. 0.95

00:41:07.660 Malcolm, you're lying through your teeth.

00:41:11.160 Five years later.

00:41:13.420 Oh, yeah.

00:41:14.360 You were right about that.

00:41:15.320 That was kind of crazy, Malcolm.

00:41:16.580 Or they just pretend that they always agreed with you and that you're delusional in saying that you were ahead of the time on this.

00:41:22.040 I always knew fertility collapse was a problem.

00:41:25.240 I always knew it wasn't just a developed world problem.

00:41:28.380 I always knew that this psychologist had basically become a scam cult.

00:41:32.340 I always knew.

00:41:33.520 And no, there are still good psychologists out there.

00:41:35.700 It's just, it's hard to identify them.

00:41:39.440 And I think that I wouldn't risk it with my own kids.

00:41:43.240 Now, I am somebody who was trained as a psychologist.

00:41:47.540 Okay.

00:41:48.020 That's part of my training as a neuroscientist.

00:41:50.060 I was trained in that.

00:41:51.620 I worked in that field.

00:41:53.000 You know, I am not anti-psychology.

00:41:55.960 I went to psychologists.

00:41:57.120 Well, there are also so many other interventions that would be so much more effective, like changing the context of the subject, because that's often so frequently at the root of their problems or their underlying health issues.

00:42:11.040 There are just so many other things you can do first that will likely solve the underlying problem.

00:42:15.460 And I think the problem with psychology is it often only deals with surface stuff when you can't solve that until you shift the underlying issue.

00:42:26.760 It's literally right.

00:42:27.860 Like, nut up and work out.

00:42:29.720 I think the reason why that culture has done so well.

00:42:32.380 Because people realize, oh my gosh, wait, this is suddenly working for me.

00:42:35.980 Like, I switched to intermittent fasting and I work out three times a week and suddenly I feel okay.

00:42:40.680 It reminds me of Christian science.

00:42:42.800 So a lot of people don't know this.

00:42:43.860 Christian scientists, it's like a branch of Protestantism.

00:42:47.500 It's not actual Christian science.

00:42:49.720 But anyway, when it was founded.

00:42:51.680 It sounds, I'm just picturing, you know.

00:42:53.240 It sounds cool.

00:42:54.020 But when it was founded, it had a belief that they still hold today against medical technology.

00:43:00.340 You know, no IVF, no blood transfusion, no anything like that, right?

00:43:06.100 Yeah, but in the past, theoretically, no leaching, no bleeding, no.

00:43:09.160 Isn't that backwards?

00:43:10.020 But when it was founded, the medical profession had gotten so bad with quack treatments, they likely were better off not engaging with the medical field.

00:43:19.620 It was likely an adaptive cultural evolutionary trait during its early period.

00:43:25.360 It only became ill-adaptive as science got better.

00:43:29.080 But science is getting worse now.

00:43:30.540 Like, there's a reason to distrust science again.

00:43:32.600 And in addition to that, psychology, which used to be great, psychiatry, which used to, you know, serve a purpose, is getting worse.

00:43:39.140 And I'd say that now we're back to sort of where it was in the 80s when people were doing, like, hypnosis and implanted memories and stuff.

00:43:47.740 Your kids will be incepted to hate you if you send them.

00:43:53.440 Anyway.

00:43:54.620 Love you to death, Simone.

00:43:55.680 Have a...

00:43:56.360 Oh, by the way, great study I sent Simone on this.

00:44:00.220 If you're like, well, what do I do as an alternative?

00:44:02.100 AI.

00:44:03.240 AI.

00:44:03.640 What's the study that I sent you?

00:44:05.120 It's a great little statistic.

00:44:06.500 People, they can't tell the difference between an AI therapist and a human therapist.

00:44:14.980 And also the AI.

00:44:15.840 I think they, like, the AI therapist did better in some measure.

00:44:18.640 I can't.

00:44:19.060 I didn't read the whole thing.

00:44:20.480 Yeah, yeah.

00:44:21.120 But that doesn't surprise me at all.

00:44:22.460 Because when you look at those chat apps that people, like, high school students are getting addicted to, like, my AI boyfriend, I can't quit him.

00:44:29.560 It's not the boyfriend scenarios that are even the most popular on these platforms.

00:44:35.260 The number one chat scenarios that are popular in all of these.

00:44:39.100 And not because they're trying to fob this off on people.

00:44:41.300 Well, the safer work ones, I should clarify.

00:44:43.400 The safer, yeah.

00:44:44.720 It's therapists.

00:44:46.760 This is already proven.

00:44:48.040 People are showing with their clicks that this is really effective for them.

00:44:53.080 And it's, you know, when I contrast this to people's experiences on BetterHelp, I don't know if you've watched any of the mini YouTube exposés on BetterHelp.

00:45:01.240 BetterHelp is a bad idea.

00:45:02.820 Yeah.

00:45:03.640 It's awful.

00:45:05.320 What is the exposé on? 0.94

00:45:06.800 Like, what's the ridiculousness of it?

00:45:08.760 Oh, the therapists on it are really phoning it in and not very good at all.

00:45:15.600 They will actively, like, not know anything about the conditions of the people that are asking for help.

00:45:22.080 There's just, like, a lot of people who really shouldn't be on the platform who are on the platform.

00:45:26.640 And so this is why.

00:45:28.220 Use AI.

00:45:29.340 Use Claude. 0.91

00:45:30.460 Yes.

00:45:31.400 Yeah, honestly, I don't think you even need to use, like, a therapist AI.

00:45:35.060 Just talk through things.

00:45:36.700 No, just go to Claude.

00:45:37.940 Claude would be a good AI for this.

00:45:39.540 Grok would be a good AI for this.

00:45:41.120 Yeah.

00:45:41.900 All right.

00:45:42.460 Love you did us, Simone.

00:45:43.600 I love you too, gorgeous.

00:45:46.580 What shall we do next?

00:45:48.020 Just making everything extra difficult.

00:45:52.760 Well.

00:45:53.100 At least it won't interfere with my workload.

00:45:55.420 Yeah, exactly.

00:45:56.800 But, you know.

00:45:58.380 Sick on a plane.

00:46:02.180 I showed Simone art from, art assets from the upcoming game.

00:46:05.900 And she loved every faction.

00:46:08.140 The Catholic faction.

00:46:09.720 The Mormon faction.

00:46:10.980 The Quiverful faction.

00:46:12.380 She hated the Techno-Furitan faction.

00:46:14.440 She said they looked like Voldemort.

00:46:15.680 And I was like, well.

00:46:16.880 I expect more machine integration.

00:46:20.680 This is the Techno-Puritan branch.

00:46:22.420 And it's in the future.

00:46:23.180 We are going to have a lot more cybernetics going on.

00:46:26.440 You want more cybernetics with them. 0.95

00:46:28.400 I tried to do some cybernetics and it always overdoes it.

00:46:32.020 Is there such a thing?

00:46:33.740 I guess you need the Chanel rule of cybernetics.

00:46:35.740 Just take one device off before you leave the house.

00:46:38.820 Then you'll be.

00:46:39.760 But the other factions, by the way, are looking boss.

00:46:42.660 Like, I really like it.

00:46:43.840 They're really differentiated.

00:46:45.300 I think people will have a lot of fun.

00:46:47.380 It basically takes, like, Americana and American and religious cultural anthropology and, like, dials it up to 11.

00:46:54.580 As always be dialed up.

00:46:56.540 I love it.

00:46:57.120 It's so sweet.

00:46:57.920 Yes!

00:46:58.680 Over the top.

00:46:59.720 Over the top.

00:47:01.520 Yeah.

00:47:02.080 Over the top or bust.

00:47:03.580 Right.

Based Camp - March 26, 2025

The Progressive Mental Health Crisis

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