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00:00:00.000 want to talk more about this i this case actually uh has fascinated me quite a bit and i think you

00:00:08.080 would have some interesting insights on it first off i want to focus on the case because i think

00:00:13.680 that it is a tragedy that this has become a sort of culture war case i couldn't imagine men outside

00:00:25.840 wearing blue t-shirts in support of Chris Watts. Of all the bad things men do, we've never done

00:00:36.000 that exactly. Although I guess we love Donald Trump and Andrew Tate, but maybe it's part and

00:00:44.480 parcel. But anyway, my point is that this is a case that needs to be judged on its own merit

00:00:50.660 and in its own context. And this sort of diffuse, I don't know, support all women. I don't like this

00:01:00.360 actually at all. I think it's very bad. It's bad for justice in the case because it can sway

00:01:06.380 juries. There is no doubt. I mean, you're not supposed to look at social media or something.

00:01:11.900 It would be hard not to in this case. So I think it's very bad for justice. And I think it's just

00:01:18.040 bad for the overall health. But let me just focus on the case right here, because I think

00:01:23.360 the prosecution really has not been doing the best job. And I think they should take my line

00:01:30.500 of attack, go all the way and say this woman is likely a psychopath who is manipulating 0.79

00:01:37.240 the medium, manipulating her doctors, manipulating people who prescribed her all of these different

00:01:44.880 medications and uh this woman acted much like a psychopath does we're we're offering these like

00:01:51.000 interpretations of like you know go to god which is apparently what she was saying when she was 0.79

00:01:56.480 strangling her children and that she felt that no one else could be a good as good a mother as she

00:02:03.240 could and so she needed to do this and she and they have these testimonies of people they they're

00:02:08.620 in heaven and is it a mortal sin to commit murder or commit suicide well not in the last thousand 0.84

00:02:15.680 years it's not you know all this just fuzzy nonsense psychopaths are very simple if you

00:02:22.980 insult a psychopath 20 years later he might like poison your coffee in order to finally get revenge

00:02:30.440 there actually in richard hare's book on psychopaths a very similar case occurred like

00:02:36.140 this so uh richard i believe his name is is it david hair or richard hair anyway hair uh created

00:02:41.980 the uh psychopath checklist he worked in prisons and psychopaths are all over prisons and all over

00:02:49.480 ceo boardrooms but all over prisons too but um he was working with a psychopath and this guy

00:02:56.000 wanted to get some leniency and he hoped the prison psychologist would write him a i don't

00:03:01.280 know recommendation letter with for his appeal or something and he did it and but he continued to

00:03:07.540 work with him and he finally uh the guy said like five or ten years later he was like well i i you

00:03:13.500 told me you're having car trouble you know i've learned to trade here in prison and i'm a mechanic

00:03:17.900 and i would i would just do it for free because you've been my psychologist for all these years

00:03:22.360 and and hair was like oh wow what a good bloke you know thanks for the gesture we all know what

00:03:29.500 happened he destroyed the man's car and actually cut the brakes to the point that hair like barely

00:03:38.080 survived an accident this anecdote is retold in his book so the psychopath remembers the psychopath

00:03:44.320 never forgets a slight and the psychopath sought revenge from prison in a pretty elaborate manner

00:03:51.600 and so it's simple like you know alfred criminals are simple or whatever bruce wayne bruce wayne

00:03:58.240 said, I think there was some sort of lashing out that Lindsay Clancy wanted to engage in.

00:04:07.440 And it might have been a lashing out against her husband, a lashing out obviously against

00:04:13.340 her children, feeling that they are, I don't know, taking up too much of her time, too

00:04:19.660 difficult, et cetera.

00:04:21.840 For normal people, the idea of murdering someone, all children are impossible. That's what you learn real quick. The idea of murdering is unthinkable. It's not unthinkable for a psychopath.

00:04:38.320 Christopher Watts was a sort of, I don't know, covert psychopath, you could say, a very boring person, a normie, a normie's normie, in fact.

00:04:49.020 He's not a charismatic psychopath like we imagine, but he was in this relationship that he was sort of clinging to.

00:04:59.220 The moment that he got a new girl who was hotter and sexier, he decided to wipe the slate clean.

00:05:07.640 And his motive is simple. He doesn't think in terms of, well, you know, we could get a divorce. I could still see the kids. I do have these responsibilities. He doesn't think in those terms. It's like a lizard that will eat its own mother if it's hungry. I mean, it's just, that's how they think.

00:05:25.740 And so now, psychopathy might be rarer in women. 0.79

00:05:29.960 I don't know. 1.00

00:05:30.760 Maybe women are better at hiding it. 1.00

00:05:32.360 I also don't know that. 0.89

00:05:34.420 But there's no doubt if this sort of personality profile occurs in men, and I want to call

00:05:41.760 it a personality profile as opposed to a disorder or a disease, I think is much more accurate.

00:05:48.340 this is not something you can cure and uh it is also maybe has evolutionary benefits believe it

00:05:55.120 or not um it evolved with us um so this is the way that these people think she has she has confessed 0.65

00:06:04.340 to this crime and she created this over determined crime scene where she actually committed suicide 0.71

00:06:10.900 thrice she took pills uh she did superficial cuts on her neck and wrists she's a nurse she would 1.00

00:06:17.980 have known how to kill herself. Then she threw herself out the window, although slid out the 1.00

00:06:24.100 window might be a little bit better. And she didn't know that the ground would be frozen and

00:06:30.140 that she would be paralyzed as a result. So she created an elaborate out. She might very well

00:06:36.660 have been manipulating her physicians. And this is one of the reasons she would know this as a nurse, 0.97

00:06:41.660 that you start complaining, this doesn't work, that's bad, that's good. You start having this

00:06:46.480 massive cocktail and you can again be the victim and you're the victim of this horrible system

00:06:52.740 uh so i think she did it i think her husband is wrong who seems to be defending her um i i think

00:07:01.940 she is a psychopath who lashed out at the world and lashed out at people around her and these

00:07:08.580 people exist and it it's just a much like cleaner open and shut case than has been made even by uh

00:07:18.720 the commonwealth of massachusetts which is prosecuting her but um i don't you know one

00:07:24.240 real quick thing um isn't it fascinating first off the google searches she was searching how 1.00

00:07:29.400 to disable an airbag i mean give me a break what she she went into psychosis for five minutes on 0.70

00:07:35.160 google murder murder murder and then she was fine oh no no murder no murder murder murder no give me

00:07:40.660 a break uh secondly even this voice that she claims to hear um it's a male voice a command 0.98

00:07:47.980 psychosis basically and it was saying this will be your last chance to kill him kill them last 0.95

00:07:55.540 chance to kill them isn't that an interesting phrase that she came up with now she might very 0.98

00:08:00.400 well i'm sure in fact that she's lying about some voice in her head um but beyond that isn't that 0.98

00:08:08.580 interesting last chance the fact is she's had many other chances to do this and she felt like

00:08:14.620 this was her last one and she had to go for it um i don't know i uh i'm not talking about the

00:08:22.300 culture war that's surrounding this i'm just talking about the case but those are my thoughts

00:08:25.700 Do you have any?

00:08:27.680 I think it's very important and very interesting.

00:08:30.320 I think you are narrowing to psychopathy in a way that I wouldn't necessarily.

00:08:35.880 I think there's a possibility we're still talking about schizophrenia of some sort,

00:08:40.540 borderline personality disorder.

00:08:43.140 Down the line, it doesn't really matter where we put the personality category bin to Lindsay,

00:08:49.680 because down the line, what matters is the evolutionary forces behind infanticide.

00:08:55.700 And your parallel with the lizard is perfect here.

00:08:59.800 Why would an animal kill some of its descent?

00:09:04.640 It makes almost no sense, prima facie, looking at it.

00:09:09.360 But it does make sense in some evolutionary context.

00:09:13.560 So there's two realities about children.

00:09:16.300 One, in sexual species, you are fatalistically bound with the partner that you've chosen.

00:09:22.660 So that's the first reality.

00:09:23.980 Your genes are, okay, they're in the next generation, celebrate, that's good, you have

00:09:28.540 representants in the next generation, but they are bound with someone you may really

00:09:33.560 hate.

00:09:34.540 So the progressive transfer from love to hatred in females or males will lead to a reconsideration

00:09:41.900 of that decision.

00:09:43.440 And you may have the personality systems in our brains may be disbalanced in a way that

00:09:49.940 our hatred can at some point supplant our love of our own genes you you hate the other person's

00:09:57.460 genes so much that you want them out more than you want your own genes in uh that is a misfiring

00:10:04.420 of evolution but it can happen because these things are not balanced finally by nature they're

00:10:09.900 just they're kind of shotgun shot into randomness and uh and whatever works across generations

00:10:17.560 That's the first aspect. The second aspect is animals kill their children because they are faced with a season that is too demanding, and they are hoping that the future is brighter.

00:10:33.800 And they are hoping that their future children with a future partner would be of higher quality and face a better environment than their current children.

00:10:43.260 so resources or delusions about resources can guide this decision that's all all around the

00:10:51.300 decisions to make babies for animals the decision to transform transfer from larva to adult or the

00:10:58.080 decision to kill for infanticide so i believe that these things have deployed here and it doesn't

00:11:05.380 really matter what what the state of mind of lindsey clindsey is i think your your hypothesis

00:11:10.720 this is realistic that she's manipulating the whole system because at some point you have such 0.90

00:11:16.040 a success for these techniques of psychic call the psychiatrist have him say that you're crazy

00:11:22.760 and then escape justice uh that at some point we're gonna have psychopaths repeatedly using

00:11:28.740 that tactic because it's been working way too much yes but i think it's possible you know our

00:11:34.480 delusions that you mentioned they are realistic i've had people in my life girlfriends of mine

00:11:39.700 that that would say these things oh it was my last chance to unlock the parallel universe key

00:11:46.080 so that something would happen they have these kinds of delusions i mean i've had some weird

00:11:53.340 girlfriends maybe not to my degree you might have had a different experience than my own well it's 1.00

00:12:03.840 it's fine i yeah mad max says that pussy must have been fire 1.00

00:12:08.000 yeah well that's the thing that is the thing bpd chicks yes um uh they are attractive yeah 1.00

00:12:20.340 a little bit of crazy goes a long way um so let me also just say this in terms of the culture war 0.96

00:12:28.720 that seems to be emerging around lindsey clancy and i i just what do you make of it now now first

00:12:39.120 off i'll even give a little leeway here although i'm not endorsing them but everyone loves a good

00:12:47.280 murder mystery and so they're on on some i know iris does such a good job cleaning

00:12:52.880 oh no okay uh we got to mute okay there we go um everyone loves a good murder mystery and so i sort

00:13:05.060 of give some some people a little leeway when they're like oh it was the husband that did it

00:13:09.740 with his new wife and i you know it's it's sort of fascinating and perhaps harmless i mean it gets

00:13:15.920 sort of harmful when you become schizophrenic yourself with all these conspiracy theories so

00:13:22.660 So there's that. But I think there's something more. What do you make of it? Because I don't quite understand it. The Karen Reed situation, that became a, and that was a more ambiguous situation, I guess. I think she did it as well. I sort of have a dark view of human nature.

00:13:45.720 But anyway, what is going on?

00:13:50.300 Why is there this outpouring of sympathy?

00:13:52.580 Sympathy, why is it a cause when it's not a cause?

00:13:56.820 It's this terrible situation that is interesting from the standpoint of the law and detective work and so on.

00:14:08.440 But it's not a cause.

00:14:10.720 Why is it a cause now? 1.00

00:14:13.260 Well, it's a cause because it's a woman. 1.00

00:14:17.360 And there's a couple of things about women that matter here.

00:14:20.700 First, the way we perceive women, we cannot attribute guilt to women.

00:14:24.780 That's just in our natural instincts.

00:14:27.060 There are studies out there in psychology.

00:14:29.120 You put the same crimes, the same facts, you put it in front of a jury.

00:14:33.760 There's seven times more chance that the man will be found guilty with the fact than the woman.

00:14:38.500 for the same facts even in a controlled experiment setting so there's something in our brain that 0.99

00:14:44.300 says women are always not guilty they are always not agentic they are always valuable because they 1.00

00:14:52.800 can still contain our babies so it doesn't matter really if she killed other babies she's still

00:14:58.340 available for reproduction so that's an unfortunate thing of nature which is that 0.98

00:15:03.640 But across centuries, our societies never really needed to punish women.

00:15:09.200 They were not really dangerous. 1.00

00:15:10.500 And if you remove guns with a knife, a woman can't really get at you if you're muscled, if you're prepared. 1.00

00:15:19.000 So there was not a point at which a dangerous woman mattered. 0.75

00:15:23.620 So we never needed to find them guilty of anything.

00:15:28.400 We always had an interest evolutionarily at forgiving

00:15:31.840 so that potentially we have a reproductive partner.

00:15:36.240 And the other thing is I have this theory of psychology,

00:15:38.680 which is the male magnet for agency.

00:15:42.140 And it happened to me. 1.00

00:15:43.740 Whenever a woman does something insane, 1.00

00:15:47.120 the whole of society will turn and find the closest man 1.00

00:15:51.440 and say, that's his fault.

00:15:53.280 Somehow it must have been his fault.

00:15:55.020 And they will create a whole scenario for why it's his fault.

00:15:59.580 They will even imagine scenes.

00:16:01.720 I've seen a whole dull reconstitution of a theory where the man, the husband of Lindsay Clancy would have strangled her, made her, made it look like suicide.

00:16:13.620 So they will create the facts that are needed to say this was ultimately the fault of a man, not of a woman.

00:16:19.900 You'll hear this casually when people say, oh, well.

00:16:25.020 basically. I don't know what this word means. Well, chercher la femme is... Ah, chercher la femme.

00:16:32.760 Yes. Yes. Cherchez l'homme. I love this. That's exactly what it is. Do I speak French better

00:16:39.320 than you? I've always thought I did. I don't think you do. Okay, go on.

00:16:48.920 So that's it.

00:16:50.200 I mean, we are inventing a man where needed to explain agency 0.97

00:16:55.420 because our brain cannot fit the idea a woman here has made a decision. 0.94

00:17:02.360 Very, very interesting. 1.00

00:17:05.780 I think there's some, I mean, real quick, just to add on to that,

00:17:09.320 I was analogizing this to Chris Watts.

00:17:13.660 I don't know of anyone who came up with a conspiracy theory about how Shanann Watts actually did it.

00:17:22.040 And Chris Watts, who much like Lindsay Clancy admitted to the sort of basically in court admitted to the crime.

00:17:29.400 But when he when Chris Watts confessed, it's actually really fascinating.

00:17:32.720 These like interrogation videos when he confessed to the police, he didn't confess to the crimes.

00:17:39.040 he basically said that uh shenan watts his uh wife killed the children out of anger and he was

00:17:46.720 so angry at her that he just killed her right then and there so he actually never officially

00:17:52.260 confessed or he never explicitly confessed to the crime now when he was charged with these crimes

00:17:59.380 he pled guilty and is now in jail uh thankfully deservedly uh but that's it's a little bit

00:18:06.540 different than saying it out loud. And he's told all these weird, different stories. I think he's

00:18:11.980 a psychopathic liar. I don't think they have any concern for truth at all. I don't know if we'll 1.00

00:18:16.920 ever actually know what happened just because of him. But anyway, I'm going on a digression here.

00:18:22.900 So here is also my problem with this case and with the culture war that is emerging from it.

00:18:32.960 So it's like, how do I put this? We, particularly millennials, have this expectation because they have grown up in the era of big pharma and Prozac and Xanax and all that kind of stuff.

00:18:53.440 they have this expectation that you like a mental illness like well just give me my pill

00:19:01.720 like that will solve it and they have this expectation that these a mental illness is like

00:19:08.360 a sprained ankle and when the system doesn't solve it they sue the system because the system

00:19:17.520 failed lindsey clancy so it's this it's the expectation i think is the problem first off

00:19:23.940 bad things can happen a b the human psyche is not just something you you can throw some pills at

00:19:34.200 and change particularly if we're dealing with uh psychopathy in my uh theory uh or schizophrenia

00:19:42.420 or BPT. There are no cures to these things. By the way, there's just no way to cure these things.

00:19:49.280 And in terms of antidepressants or SSRIs, this is a way to lower the highs, heighten the lows,

00:19:57.700 smooth the rough edges. You're just sort of like there. And maybe in some cases,

00:20:05.300 that should be prescribed. Maybe that's what you should do for a temporary period of time.

00:20:11.280 but the notion that this is some sort of solution to the psyche which it really is the paradigm is

00:20:19.480 just wrong and beyond being wrong i find it just extremely shallow you know to think in this way

00:20:28.000 like just give me a pill bro basically or like she was failed because they did it right they 0.97

00:20:33.880 didn't get her the right meds like they were giving her a bad like are you fucking kidding 0.70

00:20:39.800 me like please give me Sigmund Freud whatever problems there are with Sigmund Freud and there 1.00

00:20:44.880 are many give me depth psychology all day long over this just shallow stupid conception of the 0.91

00:20:53.820 human psyche I mean that very seriously and so you have this situation where the husband is like 0.98

00:21:00.140 I didn't marry a monster and they're they're doing civil suits against what is probably

00:21:06.120 the best hospital in america if not the world um massachusetts that's what they do really well

00:21:14.240 and it's harvard affiliated what do you want what do you what do you want they they did their best

00:21:21.160 and so there was actually one person from tiktok whom the defense was trying to bring into the

00:21:27.220 courtroom and i think the judge didn't allow it but she is a social worker who worked at mclean

00:21:33.660 for a period of time and does all these fast-talking TikTok videos about how a psychiatrist is not

00:21:43.800 with the patients 24-7 or something. It's just weird, moving-the-goalpost-type criticism of

00:21:51.820 this institution, which is a billion-dollar institution and is no doubt doing their best

00:21:58.080 and has the best educated people there.

00:22:00.700 And so it's just, again,

00:22:01.940 just to sum up what I'm saying here

00:22:03.700 is that we have this false expectation,

00:22:06.420 particularly among millennials,

00:22:08.100 that you can just solve everything with a drug.

00:22:11.000 You hit the brick wall of,

00:22:14.440 you cannot solve everything with a drug.

00:22:17.200 Bad things happen.

00:22:19.580 Personality profiles are real things.

00:22:22.680 And then this ends up in suing the institutions

00:22:25.300 and maybe even at some point,

00:22:27.600 bankrupting the institutions with all of this nonsense so it's this just horrible cycle and

00:22:34.820 i i don't know what what do you think about that and also like might we at some point get out of

00:22:41.080 this ssri paradigm of mental illness like you know these paradigms shift we had freudianism

00:22:48.620 behavioralism maybe we're due for something after 25 years of this nonsense but anyway what are 0.62

00:22:55.080 your thoughts on very important comments that you do there yes you are absolutely correct and i think

00:23:01.460 yes we are headed toward a different paradigm i think it will take some evolutionary time but

00:23:07.600 there is definitely a punishment people are being put on these drugs and these drugs don't do what

00:23:12.560 people believe they they do they think oh it fixes me it fixes a chemical imbalance that was existing

00:23:19.500 in my brain and it gets me in the right direction but i've seen people who have been wrecked by

00:23:25.520 various drugs they've been wrecked by anti-anxiety became dependent on them they've been wrecked by

00:23:31.560 ssri they've been made to be too action-taking or not enough action-taking they've been neutralized

00:23:38.640 by drugs that are anti-dopaminergic and their creativity and their drive has diminished

00:23:44.100 you're basically you're faced with the problem that there is too coarse of an access to the human

00:23:50.780 brain for what the human brain does when you think about what the human brain does it's a

00:23:55.760 thing i mean action planning desire motivation all of this is packaged into a hand controller

00:24:03.720 basically because whether you kill your children or whether you write a new opus to your orchestra

00:24:10.200 harmonic whatever you're doing it with your hands and you're doing it with your eye and your face

00:24:16.440 muscles so when you think about how you have a high resolution mind that's compressed into a very

00:24:22.960 low resolution action system and all of that complexity must be preserved with the motivation

00:24:29.080 with the will with the feelings and you throw at this a single chemical boom let's down dopaminergic

00:24:36.780 pathways. Now, you've just messed with a super fine system with a coarse hammer, and it cannot go well.

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Cherchez l'Homme

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