Spree Psychology
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Summary
In this episode of Radix Live, we discuss the recent shooting of a grandmother in Texas, and the lack of trust in public transport in Finland. We also talk about the recent mass shooting of 19 children and 2 teachers in a small town in Texas.
Transcript
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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are around the world.
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I went out last night, I was going to have some beers with my Scottish friend.
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And I went to the only place where I could get London Pride, which is these beers here,
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And I popped in just for a second, just for a second to get the beers.
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And I normally lock my bicycle, even though I shouldn't have to.
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What is the point of living in a country that is boring, that has no castles,
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if not for the fact that it has a high level of social trust.
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I normally lock it, but I just popped in just quickly.
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one of these cans sort of somehow hit in my bag and opened in a very small hole
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So I had to walk home like this every few seconds going like this.
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And then by the time I got home, I consumed 20% of the beer in that can
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I hang large pieces of crooked wood over the windows.
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Finland is now, or Northern Finland is now an unsafe society.
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And, you know, I might as well be in Chicago, to be honest.
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There, there still is some trust out here where I live.
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You can, you can leave your car unlocked, even running.
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You can't, you can't, you can't do that in near the graveyard in Finland.
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That's, that's, that's in no, that is unfortunate.
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The two, those two related problems of bicycle theft.
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And, and then as I say, the beer breaking open.
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So I had to walk along drinking like an alcoholic.
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Well, I think in theory, no, but in practice, absolutely.
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So young, young, young, young, young people will tend to,
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at this time of year, we'll say there's like a beach,
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And what we're moving on to is just a more extreme kind of criminality.
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We're streaming live on YouTube and Odyssey, of course.
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But it is via Odyssey that we are taking your super chat.
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So please join the discussion if you would like.
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we already have an interesting one on Ukraine by Yehuda Finkelstein,
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get on track right away and just talk about what happened in Texas.
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So I think we've had a couple of days to process this matter.
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19 children and two teachers were killed in a small town outside of San
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Texas called Uvalde by an 18 year old named Salvador Ramos.
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He also shot his grandmother in the face before engaging in this heinous act.
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but so he went on an absolute rampage and as disturbing as it is,
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these kinds of things have become a part of American life in the same way of
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or cheeseburger on the 4th of July and doing fireworks and trick-or-treating on
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it is ultimately exceedingly rare to die in one of these incidents is a lot
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But it does have a kind of omnipresent feel to American life.
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I don't know what it would be like to be a child today and to,
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whether it's rational or empirically accurate or not,
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but to at least think about your school being attacked by your own classmate.
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This whole trend was started of course with Columbine in Colorado that shocked the world in 1999
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with Harris and Klebold and they seem to have set a kind of standard or started this horrible trend.
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And I was actually looking back at that incident last night and you have all of the,
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the now kind of telltale signs of the spree shooter.
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men seem to be a little more psychotic around that age,
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the promotion of what they're doing on the internet,
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but there were certainly telltale signs that they were using the internet to talk about what they were going to doing,
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Harris and Klebold actually made home videos of their exploits,
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but it almost seemed like a rehearsal of what they would ultimately do.
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And so a lot of these images of those two characters wearing black trench coats,
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those aren't images of the actual event itself,
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but of videos they made that were kind of fictional reenactments.
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but we had like water balloons full of ketchup and water or something.
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And we were firing guns and blood was splattering everywhere.
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I got shot and I fell into a pool and then I slowly drowned.
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fantasy reenactments of eighties action movies,
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when I think there is a great deal of theatricality and,
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One interesting tidbit about Salvador Ramos that I read is that he was an
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he was not engaged in any kind of mental health therapy or anything like
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the day before he actually went on a website that I'd never heard of called
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I believe is what it's called where you can randomly live stream to
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or something like this where you just kind of randomly connect with a
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And he connected with a young woman in Germany and he talked about buying all
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I've just killed my grandmother and more there's more is going to happen.
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that is totally anonymous yet strangely intimate and deeply personal and
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But so all those Ramos was not quite to the level of Klebold and Harris from
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And he too engaged in a kind of boasting about the event or,
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there was a certain theatricality to what he was doing.
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some of these various sparse reports that we hear,
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he mentioned to some of his colleagues at a Wendy's where he worked that,
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So there also just seemed to be a kind of hint of theatricality and narcissism,
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what do you pick up on some of the things that I've said,
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do you disagree with my kind of portrait of it as there's,
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it's not necessarily a crime of passion where you snap,
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you want a husband walks in on his wife engaged in an affair.
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but there's also a level of lashing out at the world and theatricality,
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in the journal of psychopharmacology published last year on a domestic mass shooting incidents in America.
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but there were 35 instances of survivors who have then gone to prison.
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And those survivors have been interviewed by psychiatrists and by psychologists.
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these academics interviewed the various psychiatrists and psychologists,
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And in 28 out of 35 instances of these survivors,
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So the largest amount of them was basically schizophrenia.
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And what schizophrenia involves is extreme paranoia.
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And one way that they deal with these persecutory delusions,
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So they will kill somebody because they are afraid that person is going to kill them.
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you feel you're persecuted in a sense by the entirety of society.
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And you have to show society that you're not going to be persecuted.
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so wrapped up in this idea of persecution and being persecuted that you then in a,
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in a moment of trying to stop yourself from being persecuted almost,
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you go and kill a load of people because those people embody the society that is persecuting you.
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that society is still going to persecute you even more now that you've done this.
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So you've taken out your rage of being persecuted.
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if you look at some of the people that they found here,
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the borderline personality disorder was a number of them and a general persecutory complex.
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So you therefore want to assert your power and what better way of doing this than killing a load of people in the easiest way possible via killing school children.
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then you realize that you're going to be persecuted more.
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And the second is a sort of a narcissistic injury and a response to that.
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And I think that was what we saw perhaps with that.
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damaged his sense of self-importance by refusing to have sex with him.
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So I think he was lashing out at the Stacey's and Chad's or Betty's.
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you lash out at society in some form because it's persecuting you out of a
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So I guess there's sort of narcissistic dimensions to that as well.
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And these things aren't independent of each other.
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schizophrenia can cross over with aspects of narcissism.
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That dog is increasingly the bane of my existence.
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he does have probably a very vague sense of consciousness,
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the schizophrenia is very significantly heritable.
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I think that's a big part of it because why would there be more of them?
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Because there's just more of these crazy people around because,
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the environmental components to schizophrenia and okay.
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particularly in childhood that develops into encephalitis can,
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make things go wrong and bring about schizophrenia.
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is weakly correlated with developing schizophrenia.
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the pressure placed upon you of being foreign or something like that.
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And it's very strong cannabis and it's done at a develop,
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it might feed a certain kind of persecution complex where you're not empathizing with your neighbors and,
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the kind of like Pollyannish view people have of marijuana,
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particularly the marijuana that's being smoked now,
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So those are the kinds of things that are involved.
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that it's more than just raging against the machine.
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and then the problem is that immediately it brings in this gun debate.
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And I think that this is concerning because the guns,
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It's like what schools were like when I was a kid in England,
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42 year old Scottish pedophile walks into an infant school and,
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The United States has the more guns than people,
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as has been repeated very often as the highest number of guns per capita above Yemen,
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I seriously doubt that you can buy an AR 15 style weapon in Finland at age 18.
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I've no idea about the specifics of what it is.
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the gun aspect if you want to finish up on this psychology.
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they did a detailed analysis and that is the conclusion.
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You get people that have got paranoid disorder or borderline personality disorder,
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the majority of the cases where they've had information,
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it's almost certain that the reason why there's rising schizophrenia,
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So schizophrenia seems to be some new genetic mutant development,
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which is not a debate in Britain because we just can't,
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it's all immediately gets into the newspapers and whatever,
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I don't want to be part of this protection racket,
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or at least I don't want to be fully part of it.
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and hunting and being an outdoorsman and so on.
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But the kind of gun culture that has developed really over the past 20 years,
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and especially over the past 10 is just simply bizarre.
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they don't like it when you call them assault rifles,
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but owning military grade rifles that you would never conceivably use for
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hunting and going out to ranges and not even working on marksmanship,
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just bizarre and seems to lend a lot of credence to the,
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You're firing an assault rifle at a dummy and a range.
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in terms of the libertarian argument about a monopoly on violence,
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they're going to start shooting off people who make them get vaccinated or
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giving away all guns to the state assumes that the state is competent.
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It assumes that the state can force law and order and everything will be
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you shouldn't be allowed to have serious guns that you can defend yourself
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they're also showing that they're not prepared to defend you.
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as that's happened with the black in the black lives matter hysteria,
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you've got women ringing the police and saying,
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and you actually have both sides of the debate lashing out at the
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there is video and testimony of the parents desperately wanting to go
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save their children and being restrained by the police from doing
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but I would only defend those actions in the context of the police storming
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But what we have is the police never went into the room and they considered it
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but a barricaded suspect or something like this that they were going to
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negotiate with while they waited for more than an hour while he was
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that was just how you can justify the Valde police.
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and they never went into the room was actually the,
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it was a statewide agency that actually solved the issue.
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So we just have radical incompetence and cowardice,
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and you get to wear a uniform and carry a gun and people let you get on
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That's why they do it because you're taking a risk.
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a collapse in the norms to which we're used in society,
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where we can't trust the police because they're infiltrated by cowards.
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infiltrated by incompetent ideological nonsense,
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then people even more than ever need to have a weaponry because they need to be able
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to defend themselves because they can't rely on the police to do so.
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And that's an argument that is more convincing to me now.
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as you're seeing the gradual South Africanization of parts of the United States,
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don't we need to prevent them from buying assault rifles?
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or we need to have assault rifles in order to shoot them when they attempt to attack us.
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You have a society that's degenerating into chaos because of spiteful mutants in part.
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and therefore people need weapons to defend themselves in that chaos of that zombification that we've got.
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No one's defending themselves from spree shooting.
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is that we have a rising number of seemingly of these schizophrenics,
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part of it could just be social contagion that goes on every so often where,
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they are in Finland very careful about who has a gun license.
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Now the next thing that the counter argument I'll get then is if you really want to have a gun,
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you'll be able to get hold of one illegally or whatever.
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like even for something like serious drink driving,
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which evidence is that you're one unstable kind of person.
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they should want to know if you're going to have a gun license,
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have you been diagnosed with a serious mental illness?
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have you had to spend time in a mental institution,
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And it should preclude you from having a gun license.
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they don't have background checks and you can easily buy a gun at a gun show.
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I could go into the second amendment itself if you want to,
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Who do you think will start is telling me that felons can't own guns in,
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and that should preclude him from having a gun.
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a type of mental illness and deep solely social alienation that might not be
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the fact is a lot of 16 year olds are kind of screwed up and don't know who
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they are and are alienated and bullied or what,
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like if you're going to engage in self-defense,
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unless you're fighting off a drug cartel or like an invading army,
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the best gun for self-defense is a pump action shotgun.
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the safest gun that you can use for self-defense.
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you are absolutely endangering everyone around you.
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we're not in a mad max scenario where we need AR 15s.
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And you're not going to win against the government.
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you might win against the Evalde police because they're the incompetent boobs.
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But if the government wants to do something to you,
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at that elementary school could have overpowered the Evalde police.
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a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,
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the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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the right of the people to keep and bear arms and,
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I don't know if you listen to my monologue on this,
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but so the original draft of the second amendment was actually a free
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whereas the words like nation and state and country and federalism,
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they're kind of mixed up from what you use in Europe,
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these state militias that actually did eventuate into the police force.
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that they could be used by the federal government to stave off,
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say the whiskey rebellion or go to Canada or something.
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there was a controversy and like Patrick Henry was on the side of the free state.
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So he wanted to maintain the police forces in the state so that they wouldn't be used abroad or,
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And a lot of his motivation seemed to be that if you,
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if you send the militia outside of the state to go invade Canada or something,
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So it was a political compromise based on power relations.
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and also like you don't have a God given right to a rocket launcher or a,
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So this notion that there's a like inherent God given right to one of these firearms is,
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My understanding of what you just read is the founding father's view is that the police should be allowed to have guns.
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And I said that like in England or like in England until relatively recently,
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Now you get police with guns all over the place in the UK,
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I would want to codify gun rights in a sane way.
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I do think that being an outdoorsman and so on is,
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I do think you have a right in some way to defend your home.
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but you don't have a right to own a stinger missile or go out like Scarface with two machine guns on each arm firing away at an intruder.
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a pump action shotgun is certainly the best home defense device.
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can be codified into law that you have a right to do this.
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This is part of being an American is that you get to go hunt stuff.
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the kind of gun culture that they are now engaging in is bizarre.
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And I don't think you quite grasp it because you don't live here.
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I've made strenuous efforts to not have to move to America.
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it's almost like you believe there's like a BLM riot in every neighborhood on
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And then just the ideology around the second amendment that,
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I don't know where this is possibly coming from.
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the ideology itself kind of emerged in the 1970s to,
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I don't even think the NRA is necessary at this point.
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the mass of Republican voters are fanatical about this issue.
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the unionists wanted the IRA to destroy their guns and they wanted to film them doing it.
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And the IRA didn't want this because they felt it was,
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it was humiliating to have to destroy their guns.
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It was a sign of their disempowerment and it was bad enough that they should have to destroy their guns,
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but the idea that they should be filmed doing it,
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I think there was some sort of negotiation that it was done in front of various witnesses,
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the ability to hold these guns has become symbolic of the government is not touching me.
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the guy of me being autonomous and of me in watching my,
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my once proud land being destroyed and changing beyond recognition and no longer being as important as it was.
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And therefore means I'm no longer as important as I was.
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they're not going to bloody well take that away.
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what we think of as conservatism arose in the 1970s and arose post segregation.
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And basically was the people who lost the segregation battle creating the religious right and the gun culture.
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I don't think they can be divorced from these things.
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they've been humiliated in the sixties with the,
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the Southern Baptist convention endorsed the Roe v.
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there was this pro-life movement led by former segregation,
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it's a kind of losing the real battle and then adopting these symbolic battles and saying that,
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We humans are all of us evolved to fight for power and prestige and status.
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how much little things that really aren't in kids,
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in the general scheme of things seem to matter.
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if one of my children gets like a larger slice of cake,
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It's as if I like dispossessed them or something.
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we almost have a hundred bucks of super chats here.
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was the recent statement by the 99 year old Henry Kissinger that Ukraine must
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that of an elder statesman or merely that of a very elderly man.
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I more or less agree with Kissinger and I was saying,
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I was calling for a German solution to the Ukraine question.
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there is going to be much more Russian sympathy in the Donbass region and so on.
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and that the Western half could be a part of NATO and we would just reenter the cold war.
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as someone who's reaching a reasonable solution.
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I understand why a Ukrainian right now would say we will see nothing.
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looking at it as a non Ukrainian and non Russian,
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I think dividing the country is a sensible solution.
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I don't want to see a 10 year guerrilla campaign or something like that.
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if you can't find real English beer in the Arctic where you live,
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I'd like to be able to find old English 800 here in Northern Finland.
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I can find London pride and Kentish ale and this one shop,
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My daughter probably won't let me have her old one.
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it's increasingly complicated because I like shopping at little because it's the
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only shop where you're not being overcharged severely,
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They just have things in for a bit and they don't have them anymore.
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You don't have little in America or anything like it,
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Harold are modern depictions of pre-Christian Germanic religion intentionally
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designed to make whites feel like savages that were civilized by
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I do think that there was a kind of symbolic messaging in the Northman.
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the protagonist antagonist both killed each other before a volcano.
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it was a kind of sacrifice to Vulcan or Yahweh.
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there was a kind of subtext of the rise of Christianity in the Northman.
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I do think that there is a kind of depiction of that.
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no doubt the Germanic religions were a bit rough around the edges.
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It was the Romans that portrayed them as particularly savage.
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it's Roman propaganda with regard to Celtic religion and also with regard to,
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We really kind of don't know much of anything about the Germanic pre-Christian religions.
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we can get there is probably something like Hinduism.
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the modern day major pagan religion that has survived is,
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would have probably things in common with aspects of that.
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Is it time to regulate internet and video game use by children and teens?
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Much as societies regulate alcohol and tobacco consumption for young people.
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should a computer game basically not be allowed to involve,
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there should all be puzzle games like dizzy and the yoke folk.
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I'm not necessarily against the depiction of violence.
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fantasizing about violence makes you less violent.
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you get it out of your system as it were in that way.
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I think absolutely it's time to seriously regulate the internet,
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but the very least you should regulate it among your own family.
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they don't need to be just endlessly discussing politics in the most toxic manner possible.
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the problem is these crazy fucks don't have a war where they can go and blow off some steam.
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that it's good to have some psychopaths within the society?
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but certainly people that have some psychopathic traits,
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but the flip side of being able to have sub clinical psychopaths is that you will have some psychopaths.
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which is such a harsh ecology and where cooperation is so important,
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I sub clinical psychopaths with high IQ because the,
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And so we're going to get more psychopaths and more schizophrenics and more,
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I think what he's doing is suggesting what we're going to see in the future.
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I was actually stressing the theatricality and narcissism of the spree shooters.
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I'm sure there's Facebook live streams of suicides and mutilations of all
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we're basically living in a Bosch painting at this point on the internet.
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our government's crazy and thus we can't have healthcare or thus we can't have gun control
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It just seems to be an excuse to be a conservative.
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of not offering an actual solution to serious problems.
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but I don't really have a dog in the fight in terms of gun control,
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but don't guns prevent a lot of violent crime each and every year.
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a guy robbing a liquor store and the manager has a gun or a person,
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And these are promoted on social media and people feel good about them for good
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It's good to stop a crime and to be dedicated like that,
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wacky wing of the conservatives that we just need more and more guns so that
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that is just total silliness and removing a lot of these guns.
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I just don't understand how someone could possibly make the argument that more
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some of the things that people like Ted Cruz are promoting,
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there are other solutions to these problems outside of arming everyone.
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most mass shooters bought their weapons legally at gun shops and pass through
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There is no background check that would have stopped this.
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I think not selling AR 15s would have prevented more deaths and having an age
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this blip in personality from the late teens to the mid twenties of being higher
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Cause that's when your frontal lobes are fully developed.
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that is very true of the young man who goes through a kind of psychopathic
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That's also when schizophrenia emerges in that time of life.
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So doesn't it emerge around the time of 18 to 24 or something?
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Richard is the only solution for school shootings to either a arm,
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all elementary school teachers or be higher arm security to change schools
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Militarizing school seems the only watertight short term solution.
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We got another one in here to stop lone wolves and to maybe raise the age to 25.
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why can't it be that you have to be 35 to own a gun?
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we saw local police acting like buffoons and cowards.
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Those are the types of people who are going to be at a militarized school.
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there are thousands of public schools and private schools across the country.
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We can't just like dedicate the entire army to these groups.
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you're merely making this a matter of taste or something to have a militarized school,
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And it's just easier to not allow people to have AR-15s than to militarize the school because of our God-given right to own weapons like this.
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these conservative solutions just keep getting worse and worse.
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but big guns with lots of bullets are fun to shoot and I love them and I don't hurt anybody.
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I will be more than happy for you to assuming you pass the relevant background checks,
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Like you can go play flag football or take up CrossFit or something.
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They're just all these ways of like expressing,
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Just get in your Bentley and drive through the countryside with your mistress,
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And honk the horn loudly when you drive past the field of horses.
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What you just said about Northeast Asians and the ecology of being,
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I've always wondered how Northeast Asians got their high IQs and as opposed to
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cold winter's theory and so on predicts that the colder it is,
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then the harder are the problems you have to solve.
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you have to be able to cooperate with other people.
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And there's a stronger level of group selection and you have to be able to
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the personality in that cold ecology is pro-social and intelligent.
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So that's what you have with the Northeast Asians now.
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so that's why they have high intelligence and they're very,
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very pro-social and they have a very small gene pool.
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Now what you get with Europeans is slightly lower intelligence because it's
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slightly less pro-socialness because there's less extreme selection for
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because there's less need to be a strongly adapted to the ecology.
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What that then means is that you get just by genetic chance,
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Now you can't have that among the Northeast Asians because the flip side of
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those people that have moderately psychopathic traits,
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And that may well be to do with being evolved to a very,
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any semi auto gun can be as high or higher capacity than an AR 15.
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if Fox news offered 50 solutions to stop school shootings and none of them are gun control,
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then how do you expect there to be a two third super majority in both chambers of Congress to codify the second amendment?
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There are a lot of things that are problematic.
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we're just at this impasse in terms of gun control and abortion,
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you certainly can like convince people to move on from this issue.
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the other aspect of this is just the Supreme court.
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who found a right to abortion within the 14th amendment,
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they found this individual right to a firearm within the second amendment.
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but it is interesting that both of those cases,
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they both are using this kind of interpretation of an individual right from an amendment that was not written about those things at all.
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The simple answer is that we can't get anywhere because conservatives are really obsessed about this issue,
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that constitution with the knowledge of the world is the way it was at that time.
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I like to keep them right here at this hour long.
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if you want to take a course by ad on the origins of religion,
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do you want to talk a little bit about your course?
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it's a brilliant course where it will be a series of seminars on the origin,
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it looks like it will be me and two other people.
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we need some more sign up because it's going to be awesome.
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And thanks in particular to those who offered super chats.
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And we will see you next week with another exciting discussion.