RadixJournal - The Religious Origins of the SJW

00:00:00.260 Donald J. Trump is now President of the United States.

00:00:07.360 I am so sorry to my world. I am so sorry to my world.

00:00:19.360 SJWism is not simply a variation on liberalism or leftism.

00:00:24.500 It's best understood as a replacement religion,

00:00:27.520 one that is flourishing in our putatively secular age.

00:00:32.760 Traditional religion succeeded in making populations more evolutionarily adaptive,

00:00:38.500 more fertile, cooperative, and willing to out-compete others,

00:00:42.800 all of which are conceived as the will of the gods.

00:00:46.800 SJWism, by contrast, is a death cult that aims to lose. 0.98

00:00:52.080 Among other effects, the rise of the SJW marks the return of heresy,

00:00:57.520 as a religious and political concept,

00:01:00.720 as well as the doling out of quasi-death sentences to those who think evil thoughts.

00:01:07.380 One cannot understand current controversies around social media deplatforming and cancel culture

00:01:13.380 without inquiring into the evolutionary origins of the SJW religion,

00:01:18.660 which undergirds and legitimizes these phenomena. 0.67

00:01:21.380 In the end, the West's collapse into clown world

00:01:26.280 is due to the impact of industrialization on the human environment

00:01:30.400 and the end of Darwinian selection.

00:01:33.260 One surprising result is the birth of a new intolerant religion, 0.99

00:01:37.940 which shares much in common with monotheism,

00:01:40.800 but is dispensed with God.

00:01:44.320 Ed, how are you? Welcome back.

00:01:46.580 Hello. I'm doing okay. How's it going?

00:01:50.060 Good. Well, it's been crazy for me recently,

00:01:53.880 but it's been crazy while quarantined.

00:01:56.460 Maybe that's the title of an autobiographical essay I'd write about the last two months.

00:02:01.620 That will be the title of some bad novel that will be published if you're not long after.

00:02:07.700 Yes. But things are doing well. I'm healthy. I'm glad you're healthy, too.

00:02:12.200 I hope our audience is healthy and staying safe.

00:02:15.600 So let's talk about SJWs.

00:02:20.720 You wrote a provocative work that delved into the history of heresy,

00:02:27.940 delved into the history of religion and its evolutionary function, you could say.

00:02:34.480 And so I think you really deepened our understanding of SJWs.

00:02:39.440 I think a lot of people have, you know, tweeted out SJWs is like a religion,

00:02:44.700 but to actually understand it properly as such and not just use it as a slogan,

00:02:49.540 I think that was very important.

00:02:52.220 So I do want to get into the depths of this.

00:02:54.480 But before we do that, let's just talk about this new thing

00:03:00.300 that seems to be something that's new on the left that didn't quite exist in previous decades

00:03:09.580 and now seems to dominate the left.

00:03:13.720 And that is the burgeoning of woke culture and the social justice warrior

00:03:20.640 and the blue-haired feminists screaming at you while you're watching YouTube. 1.00

00:03:29.480 I mean, we're roughly the same age.

00:03:34.060 This kind of thing seemed to exist maybe at universities 20 years ago,

00:03:40.100 but it's really been over the course of my adult lifetime that it's come to dominate the left.

00:03:49.860 Do you think it, at least ideologically, had its origins in universities?

00:03:54.480 Yeah, it's a movement that's primarily associated with the sort of middle class,

00:04:02.920 I suppose you'd say, for want of a better term, upper middle class mainly.

00:04:06.040 And I think it, and those people tend to dominate at universities.

00:04:08.860 And I think it did have its origins at universities.

00:04:11.240 Even when I was at university 20 years ago, that woke culture thing,

00:04:16.180 the whole, these concepts were very new.

00:04:18.420 I had a friend who I'll talk about in a future essay I'm doing for our group

00:04:24.060 who was transsexual, and that was the first time in the year 2001

00:04:30.480 that I heard the term safe space.

00:04:32.700 That was absolutely the first time I heard it.

00:04:35.240 And I mentioned to other people this concept that the head of the LGBT society,

00:04:40.860 as it was then known, of course, the acronym grows and grows and grows,

00:04:43.500 but the LGBT society had used this concept of safe space.

00:04:49.260 And all of these concepts were absolutely on the fringes of university life

00:04:53.640 when I was there, idea of safe space.

00:04:56.260 University lecturers then would openly say to you,

00:04:58.940 I am here to challenge your ideas.

00:05:01.040 This is the purpose of university.

00:05:02.320 Your ideas will be challenged.

00:05:03.340 If you don't like that, sod off, go somewhere else.

00:05:06.220 The purpose of university is not, it's not to say they weren't biased towards the left.

00:05:09.500 They were biased towards the left, particularly in humanities departments,

00:05:12.180 but they certainly weren't biased to the same extent.

00:05:14.480 And there certainly wasn't this woke culture and this anti-free speech culture

00:05:19.000 and this kind of dominance at all to the same extent.

00:05:21.900 I mean, I remember somebody who's now a member of parliament in the UK, actually,

00:05:25.700 writing an article for the student newspaper condemning the LGBT society

00:05:30.200 called Stop This LGB Madness. 0.69

00:05:33.060 And he talks about how it used to be just about gay people

00:05:36.160 that wanted other gay people to meet,

00:05:37.460 and now it's become this crazy, very prescient article 0.92

00:05:40.720 with all of these monstrous, absurd ideas,

00:05:43.300 anti-freedom of expression, anti-freedom of association,

00:05:45.820 all totally pulling it apart.

00:05:47.980 And the people there, the people that were this minority group

00:05:50.520 that were the LGB, were absolutely bonkers about this

00:05:52.880 and went to the student union and demanded the newspaper retract the article

00:05:56.780 and fire him as a student.

00:05:58.480 And they just said, no, absolutely not.

00:06:00.340 No way.

00:06:00.760 It's freedom of speech.

00:06:02.180 Now imagine how different that would be now.

00:06:03.740 And so, yeah, I think it started there.

00:06:06.960 That was a nascent movement, circa 1999.

00:06:11.560 It was gradually replacing what was still there,

00:06:14.700 which was that students get involved in communism, basically.

00:06:17.660 Right.

00:06:18.220 In the more traditional far left.

00:06:20.820 And now it's gradually displaced.

00:06:23.080 In the 80s, students would be out campaigning for the minors.

00:06:26.380 And it's displaced that.

00:06:31.020 It's almost very substantially displaced that.

00:06:35.380 Yeah, I mean, due to our age,

00:06:37.180 we missed the 60s revolutions on campus.

00:06:40.920 I remember when I was at the University of Virginia in the year 2000,

00:06:45.080 I believe there was a big anti-globalism protest, effectively.

00:06:51.900 I can't even quite remember what it was about.

00:06:54.140 But basically, that had gone away.

00:06:57.640 But I think what's peculiar about it is the moralism aspect of this.

00:07:05.560 And I think it's also what's peculiar.

00:07:07.820 I mean, moralism is always there on the left.

00:07:11.040 But it went away from pragmatic demands for working class people

00:07:18.000 or the third world or anti-colonial struggles.

00:07:21.180 And it became about getting in the heads and reforming normal people.

00:07:28.860 So it's not so much we need to empower the minors

00:07:32.440 or we need to empower the Algerians or the illegal immigrants. 0.98

00:07:37.440 It is that you are evil and you don't even know that you're evil 1.00

00:07:42.060 and we need to change you.

00:07:43.560 It had this moral impulse to it, which really does make it peculiar among the left.

00:07:50.560 I don't think you would find that among revolutionary communists.

00:07:56.260 They might want it to crush the bourgeoisie.

00:07:59.280 I think there is an ideological connection.

00:08:03.280 They do talk about altering the minds of people.

00:08:06.100 They believe that everything is a matter of environment, for a start.

00:08:10.060 And so, consequently, they do believe that you can remake man,

00:08:13.400 which is empirically inaccurate, but that's one of their dogmas.

00:08:16.900 And so they do believe that you can remake man in a different way.

00:08:20.500 Where it's changed is the issue that you virtue signal about, if you like.

00:08:27.060 When my parents were at university, it was women and it was the working class. 1.00

00:08:31.980 And then it moved on to race.

00:08:34.340 And so that's when there's a fundamental separation,

00:08:36.700 because then you're militating in favour not of people just in your own society

00:08:40.600 who are downtrodden, but within your own society.

00:08:43.540 You're now on people from other societies, people who have other interests.

00:08:47.760 And that's, I think, the fundamental change.

00:08:49.500 And then, as well, you start militating in favour of people 0.70

00:08:52.340 that are basically mentally ill and saying who are just abnormal 0.59

00:08:56.160 and saying that they should be understood to be normal.

00:09:00.240 And it goes so far that you start questioning, I mean, even concepts such as truth.

00:09:04.920 It goes that far.

00:09:05.980 And the communists didn't do that.

00:09:07.980 So you've got this situation where people aren't really even working

00:09:12.920 in their own interests because it's such a confused mishmash of things

00:09:16.400 that you've got, for example, homosexuals campaigning 0.72

00:09:18.500 campaigning in favour of fundamentalist Muslims being allowed to come to the country 1.00

00:09:22.140 who hate homosexuals. 0.99

00:09:24.080 So you've got something that you could argue, you could possibly even argue 0.89

00:09:27.400 that for people that are working class, communism or whatever is an adaptive thing.

00:09:33.140 It's in their group interests.

00:09:34.960 They are a genetic section of the community.

00:09:37.840 The heritability of class is quite high.

00:09:39.460 And so it's in their group interests for there to be socialism or to be communism.

00:09:43.820 Those that are middle class, it's not in their group interests, 1.00

00:09:46.900 but it's in their individual interests for there to do those things.

00:09:51.360 And once you get to the level of importing entire new countries into Europe, 0.72

00:09:57.200 the damage to the group interests of these people is so strong.

00:10:01.820 Everybody's group interests, everybody, is so strong that you're doing something

00:10:07.360 that's maladaptive in a way that I think you could argue that perhaps even communism

00:10:11.260 wasn't.

00:10:12.860 Yeah.

00:10:13.460 And we had that chap on our show the other day that, I mean, there's a lot of evidence

00:10:16.380 for this, that in a lot of ways, okay, communism undermined things that were adaptive,

00:10:21.380 but it did so, such as the monarchy, such as religion or whatever.

00:10:25.000 But it did so in order for people that weren't at the top of society to get to the top of

00:10:29.720 society and thus in an evolutionary context in which being at the top means that that's

00:10:35.740 where you get children and your offspring survive.

00:10:37.980 That's where you've got to be.

00:10:39.120 So that's the adaptive thing to be.

00:10:40.540 So you undermine religion to get there. 0.67

00:10:42.200 And once you get there, then you kind of create your own religion once again, your own 0.95

00:10:45.200 system.

00:10:45.600 That's what Christianity kind of did, really. 0.78

00:10:47.380 So you've got something that could be argued even with communism to be adapted, but with

00:10:51.020 this thing, it's something that's maladaptive.

00:10:52.860 It's just totally maladaptive to anyone's interest to the extent that you encourage people not

00:10:58.280 to have children.

00:11:01.200 So it's something that's like, it's different.

00:11:03.720 It's a change that reflects, I suppose, a certain percentage of the society almost going

00:11:10.800 mad in a way that they weren't if they wanted to be communist.

00:11:13.680 And then that starts to reach a tipping point and spread.

00:11:17.740 So that's, I think, the difference between what was going on with my parents or your parents

00:11:20.840 were at university and the seeds when we were.

00:11:25.960 Yes.

00:11:26.600 Yeah.

00:11:27.100 And also the, again, before we go into the history of religion and so on, just the moralism

00:11:33.100 angle to it and the desire to cancel.

00:11:35.940 And again, I don't think that this is totally unusual.

00:11:39.540 There's, you know, slogans of eat the rich and obviously revolutionary communist cancel

00:11:46.920 people on the most basic of levels in the sense of murder, kind of the ultimate cancellation.

00:11:54.400 But this cancel culture of someone expressing something that is not with the times, something

00:12:04.600 that might very well have been with the zeitgeist even 10 years ago or so, but something that

00:12:11.580 is kind of not going with the flow right now and to destroy his life and livelihood just

00:12:20.900 immediately, a death sentence.

00:12:24.440 And there's really, it's very difficult to come back after being cancelled by these people.

00:12:30.820 It is very much the equivalent of murdering someone for heresy in previous ages.

00:12:37.380 And the thing is that the other difference as well, and this is, again, what I mean, that

00:12:41.040 this is a maladaptive form of religion.

00:12:43.960 This is what I mean, is that when they used to have heresy trials in England, they did everything 0.76

00:12:48.920 they could to try to persuade you to recant.

00:12:51.640 You were given chance after chance.

00:12:53.480 There was a case in England in about 1540 or something, no, 1565, of a guy called John

00:12:59.140 Marsh.

00:13:00.120 And everything was done to persuade him to recant.

00:13:03.060 And people were sent to him to prison to try and persuade him to recant.

00:13:07.780 And bishops would go, everybody, and he was just utterly obstinate.

00:13:10.660 He just wouldn't, he just wouldn't recant.

00:13:12.820 Even when they were about to burn him, he was given a final chance to recant and be untied

00:13:17.160 and taken away, he wouldn't do it.

00:13:19.600 And so that's the difference, in a sense, with heresy.

00:13:22.620 With heresy, it was a formal thing.

00:13:24.820 You've done this heresy, retract your statement, and in doing so, submit to the dominance of

00:13:32.640 the church.

00:13:33.640 Whereas, as far as they're concerned, it doesn't work like that.

00:13:36.240 The fact that you've said it, you're not even a heretic.

00:13:38.660 You're an unbeliever. 1.00

00:13:40.020 You're worse. 1.00

00:13:40.540 You're an infidel. 1.00

00:13:44.200 And you must be just utterly destroyed. 1.00

00:13:47.140 You are just in league with Satan. 1.00

00:13:49.600 You're worse than a heretic. 1.00

00:13:50.620 You're a witch. 1.00

00:13:52.040 And so it's a whole different thing. 0.99

00:13:55.940 Yes, absolutely.

00:13:58.340 So let's talk about your understanding of social justice warriors and how that relates to the

00:14:08.180 history of religion and religion's evolutionary function, which I think is often something

00:14:14.260 that we obscure.

00:14:16.400 Maybe even particularly religious believers like to think of it as something totally disconnected

00:14:25.040 from human evolution and from the pragmatic needs of a people and so on as something that

00:14:31.660 is ethereal and universal, et cetera.

00:14:36.440 But actually, religion does function within the context of group evolution.

00:14:41.700 And, you know, let's be frank, the quest for dominance and power and flourishing.

00:14:49.540 So we know if we look at what is it that makes something likely to be adaptive?

00:14:54.360 Well, the first thing is that it has a reasonable heritability.

00:14:56.940 Well, we definitely have that with religiousness.

00:14:59.100 So the heritability of there's lots of different traits that make up religiousness, but the heritability

00:15:03.380 overall, that means how much of it is genetic, is about 0.4.

00:15:07.080 So we can say about 40% of the difference, the variance in religion is to do with genes.

00:15:12.720 Secondly, something will be...

00:15:14.380 Real quick, what are you referring to there in terms of taking on the religion of your

00:15:19.600 parents or are you talking about religious zealotry or emotional?

00:15:25.360 Religious impulses, how strongly do you believe in God?

00:15:28.420 Have you ever had a religious experience?

00:15:30.400 Things like that.

00:15:31.120 It's kind of the markers of religiousness.

00:15:32.680 Indeed, having had a religious experience was found to be 0.66 heritable in twin studies.

00:15:37.540 So it's very highly heritable.

00:15:39.060 So the first thing is that it's got a heritability.

00:15:40.900 It's got a heritability.

00:15:41.740 The second thing is that it's associated with mental and physical health.

00:15:44.640 Is it associated?

00:15:45.140 Because if it is, then that shows you that it's adaptive and it is associated with mental

00:15:48.440 and physical health.

00:15:49.220 Correlation between religiousness and health is about 0.3.

00:15:53.900 Thirdly, are there identifiable parts of the brain that you can stimulate in order to make

00:15:59.900 someone more or less religious?

00:16:01.200 Yes, there are.

00:16:01.880 So that demonstrates that it's the case as well.

00:16:05.660 Fourthly, and most importantly, is it associated with elevated fertility?

00:16:09.960 Yes, it is.

00:16:11.480 Clearly.

00:16:12.240 It's therefore got all of the significant, but strongly so.

00:16:15.760 So therefore, it's got all of the key markers that make something, an adaptation, something

00:16:21.540 that therefore evolution can work on that's been selected for over time.

00:16:26.760 Now, why has it been selected for?

00:16:28.480 Well, at the individual level, it's also associated with pro-social personalities.

00:16:34.700 It's also getting on with people.

00:16:36.020 This is important as well.

00:16:36.960 So why has it been selected for?

00:16:38.940 Well, at the individual level, if you've got this little homunculus on your shoulder telling 0.99

00:16:41.920 you to be moral and to behave, or telling you that you're, you know, don't worry, it's

00:16:46.720 all going to be okay at the end.

00:16:47.800 And then you're going to be lower in mental illness, basically, suicidality, things like

00:16:52.060 that.

00:16:52.320 And you're going to be more pro-social.

00:16:53.740 So you're going to be less likely to kill yourself and get too stressed and get ill.

00:16:56.700 And you're going to be less likely to get cast out by the band.

00:16:58.820 And secondly, at the individual level.

00:17:01.600 So therefore, and other people will like you and get on with you.

00:17:04.220 So it will be selected for the individual level.

00:17:06.140 At the sexual level, having a mark, religiousness will become a marker of an insurance policy 0.87

00:17:11.140 that you're a pro-social person, that you have access to a community that has resources,

00:17:15.360 that you get on with people, that you can move up the hierarchy, you can get resources,

00:17:18.480 your genes will pass on.

00:17:19.420 So it's sexually selected for, it means you're a moral person.

00:17:22.460 It means you're not going, the woman can trust that you're not going to love her and 0.63

00:17:25.320 leave her, and the man can trust he's not going to be cuckold.

00:17:28.200 Religiousness will be that marker. 1.00

00:17:29.820 And then thirdly, at the group level, there are these computer models and whatever.

00:17:32.980 Religiousness is associated with ethnocentrism.

00:17:35.700 And ethnocentrism being vicious to the out-group, but cooperative to the in-group is associated

00:17:41.200 with dominating in-group models.

00:17:43.480 So therefore, it's group selected for as well.

00:17:46.320 And also, of course, it inspires the group to believe it's of eternal importance and

00:17:51.660 God's on its side and all this.

00:17:53.440 Right.

00:17:53.800 All these ways in which religiousness should be selected for, because we can see that it's

00:17:59.900 an adaptation and it evidently is selected for.

00:18:03.480 And so what you...

00:18:03.960 Let me...

00:18:04.960 Go ahead.

00:18:05.700 Finish your thought and then I'm going to jump in.

00:18:07.660 Under Darwinian conditions, what would happen is that religiousness would become the genetic 0.94

00:18:11.400 norm.

00:18:12.720 There's all kinds of variations in it.

00:18:14.260 But the collectively worshipping a moral God and so on, or gods, would be the genetic

00:18:19.420 norm.

00:18:19.800 And it would be associated with other genetic norms.

00:18:22.280 It's like health.

00:18:23.720 Right.

00:18:24.020 Like what things we have to have children, like fertility, whatever.

00:18:27.380 And that's what I think has happened and consistent with that.

00:18:30.300 Atheism is associated with the opposite of these things.

00:18:33.540 Yeah.

00:18:33.660 Let me jump in real quick, because when I was a young adult, the big thing on the internet

00:18:40.200 was new atheism.

00:18:42.440 Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, et al.

00:18:46.320 were taking part in this.

00:18:48.220 And one of their memes was that religious people tend to say that religion can make a bad person

00:18:55.200 do a good thing.

00:18:56.060 So someone who is a drug user and down on his luck and his life is going nowhere, he finds

00:19:03.420 Christ and then he kind of learns to become a good person.

00:19:06.580 And there's obviously a lot of evidence of that that can happen.

00:19:10.920 But Hitchens and Dawkins would talk about, no, the power of religion is making a good person

00:19:16.900 do a bad thing.

00:19:18.080 So the power of religion is turning an otherwise normal human being into someone who's going 0.95

00:19:23.280 to engage in an inquisition and torture of a heretic, or someone who's going to go to 0.85

00:19:28.400 war because they think God is on your side, and so on.

00:19:32.360 And my take on this, I guess some people might find it a bit amoral, but yes, that is the power

00:19:41.780 of religion, in fact.

00:19:43.300 Dawkins and Hitchens are getting at the power of religion.

00:19:45.680 It is to make otherwise normal people do extreme or important things.

00:19:53.220 But that's its power, and that's why religious groups will win and dominate, is that you can

00:19:59.520 organize a band and say, no, we're not just taking this territory because we need more

00:20:07.140 wetlands or something.

00:20:09.440 No, we're doing it for God, for the gods.

00:20:12.680 And that ability of religion to give supernatural inspiration to power seekers, and to basically

00:20:21.660 say, to have kind of a commander who isn't ordering you and doesn't have a whip in his

00:20:26.580 hand, but has a supernatural whip in his hand in order to channel society to dominate others.

00:20:32.400 That is the most powerful thing in the universe.

00:20:36.300 And so it's kind of like Dawkins and Hitchens are, in a weird way, kind of getting at religion,

00:20:43.440 but then missing the whole point.

00:20:45.980 And what they're putting forth is like, we should all be end of history, boring, individualist

00:20:51.840 consumers.

00:20:52.400 And, you know, look, there's maybe some virtue to that.

00:20:58.700 But at the end of the day, it's the societies that feel like they are channeled by a divine

00:21:04.980 will who are going to win.

00:21:07.440 And that's what matters.

00:21:09.340 Right, precisely.

00:21:10.080 And when you talk about the end of history, that's a very good point.

00:21:12.760 There was an incredible decadence after the Cold War, an incredible sort of arrogance to

00:21:22.740 think that, OK, this is it.

00:21:24.060 We've done it.

00:21:24.520 It's all solved.

00:21:25.720 That was an appalling book, The End of History.

00:21:28.060 Francis Foucault, was that his name?

00:21:30.280 Yes.

00:21:31.180 And to think that that's it.

00:21:33.200 That's it.

00:21:33.680 And now we can just enjoy ourselves. 1.00

00:21:35.540 What a ridiculous way of thinking. 0.99

00:21:37.040 Of course, no basis in reality at all. 1.00

00:21:39.700 And they are.

00:21:40.240 You're quite right.

00:21:40.740 They just missed the point.

00:21:41.700 They missed the point completely, which is, yes, it can make people do very, by your

00:21:45.380 outsider standard, very good things, very bad things.

00:21:48.420 But that's not the point.

00:21:49.600 The point of it is to make, is to ensure that the group who is religious dominates. 0.95

00:21:54.640 That's right.

00:21:55.420 And that's what, and there are, there are all kinds of variations in that, but that's

00:21:58.620 what overall it does.

00:22:00.120 And so that's why religiousness becomes associated with these, these normal things.

00:22:05.700 And it's a bunch, you have a bunch of, a bunch of, of adaptations that are, that are,

00:22:10.940 that make up religions, such as pattern over-recognition.

00:22:13.900 That's one they tend to see evidence of God everywhere, such as obeying your leader, such

00:22:19.120 as group consensus, in-group, out-group attitudes, whatever.

00:22:22.280 And they all come together, and this idea of a God being there, that's pattern over-detection

00:22:28.580 to some extent.

00:22:29.940 And so, and they come together and they make this, this highly adaptive thing, which then

00:22:34.020 gets selected for.

00:22:35.200 And that's the other marker, of course, that it's something that's adapted, is that you

00:22:38.520 get it in all cultures.

00:22:39.540 And you do get it in all cultures.

00:22:40.820 There isn't a single social, tribe or whatever that we know of that doesn't have some kind

00:22:46.820 of belief in spiritual reality.

00:22:48.040 So, so that's where it comes from.

00:22:50.780 And then, of course, the problem comes, what we're seeing, I would suggest, with the SJWs

00:22:55.880 is you're seeing a breakdown of normal Darwinian conditions, which has been happening for a

00:23:02.820 very long time.

00:23:04.120 And that breakdown has then consequences which are bigger than the sum of its parts in terms

00:23:09.720 of it then undermines institutions which further uphold those, those Darwinian kind of ways

00:23:16.140 of thinking, and they get undermined.

00:23:18.760 And so then you get a complete collapse into just chaos, really.

00:23:22.860 And from this, you get the beginnings of a small number of people that have a sort of

00:23:27.100 death wish.

00:23:28.580 And this can start to spread.

00:23:30.880 Yeah, let's talk about this, because I think, to go back real quickly to the idea of the end

00:23:35.980 of history and so on, I think on one level, the SJW phenomenon is just an excretion of the

00:23:44.480 end of history.

00:23:45.020 We're all, you know, happy.

00:23:47.440 I mean, granted, you know, wages aren't keeping up and so on, but through credit card debt

00:23:52.580 and whatever, we're all kind of satiated.

00:23:57.880 And there's no new revolutionary frontier. 0.97

00:24:02.800 And so we need to engage in all this kind of tedious nonsense like gay rights, tranny bullying 1.00

00:24:10.860 and schools or, or, or, you know, you could take this further, like the left has kind 0.90

00:24:15.760 of lost its revolutionary impulse.

00:24:18.940 And it's just going into these rather mundane and tedious and kind of unimportant things.

00:24:24.840 But I think it's bigger than that.

00:24:26.780 You could go ahead.

00:24:27.300 Well, you could argue, yeah, in terms of a kind of pyramid of needs, once one set of

00:24:31.920 needs is met, then you move up the pyramid.

00:24:34.140 And something like the rights of minuscule and irrelevant or formerly irrelevant sexual 0.68

00:24:40.480 minorities would be very, very high up that pyramid of needs and would therefore only become

00:24:45.920 relevant in a time of, as you say, total satiation.

00:24:48.860 But the problem is that that period, and this is not the first time this has happened, although

00:24:52.640 this is the first time in history that this has happened to this extent, that we have

00:24:56.000 been this, as you say, satiated to this extent.

00:24:59.480 But what happens is that when a society is in decline, and there was a very interesting

00:25:03.640 book by Sir John Glove on this, you see the same things again and again, because the

00:25:08.500 period basic needs are met.

00:25:11.700 And therefore you start to see, you start to see people talk, people, first of all, they

00:25:15.400 start questioning the religion.

00:25:16.500 So you see the rise of atheism and of other religious ideas and whatever other than the

00:25:21.680 main cult of the group.

00:25:23.060 Then you see them questioning the things which are upheld by the religion, and the religion

00:25:26.880 tends to uphold patriarchy, because it's patriarchy, it's the group that's more patriarchal,

00:25:31.800 that will tend to be the more ethnocentric, positively and negatively, and therefore will tend to dominate

00:25:36.120 other groups, because men will be more likely to internally cooperate, i.e. be positively

00:25:40.480 ethnocentric if they can be sure that their children are theirs, they won't be fighting over 0.67

00:25:43.860 the women. 0.81

00:25:44.160 The patriarchy ensures that that is the case.

00:25:46.820 So therefore the groups become more patriarchal as they rise.

00:25:49.760 As they become satiated, the patriarchy starts being questioned.

00:25:52.700 You see the rise of women.

00:25:54.020 When Baghdad collapsed, you have female lawyers, female judges possibly. 1.00

00:25:58.480 You see a complete collapse in patriarchy.

00:26:01.260 You see a collapse in restrictions on sex.

00:26:03.520 You had sociosexuality in the collapse of Baghdad, in the collapse of all the people in Rome, 0.94

00:26:08.540 Greece, in all of these societies.

00:26:09.880 You have lack of fertility.

00:26:11.860 People don't want to have children. 0.69

00:26:13.180 When they're really rich, they just become materialistic, and they stop thinking of the

00:26:16.340 future, and so you have not breeding.

00:26:18.760 All these same things happen.

00:26:21.300 It's just that we reached this greater height, if you think about it, almost like a catapult.

00:26:27.020 You know, if the degree to which we developed is the sort of elastic band of the catapult.

00:26:33.740 Ours was a much longer elastic band, and it was much, much tighter, and it let go.

00:26:38.140 It flew up so much higher, and we have therefore so much farther to fall, so much more quickly.

00:26:46.320 Yeah.

00:26:46.720 And that's what's happening.

00:26:48.920 And I think that the SJW is part of that.

00:26:52.120 Yeah.

00:26:53.180 So, I agree.

00:26:56.200 But let's go a little bit more into what we could use like a Freudian term, a death instinct 0.77

00:27:05.300 of the SJW, because it's not just silly leftism.

00:27:09.260 Even though I think SJWism, you could kind of combine with a kind of, you know, I think

00:27:15.140 it's called, you know, Caviar Gauche, or, you know, the limousine left, or whatever word

00:27:20.960 where you have a bunch of, you know, upper class people who don't actually want to change

00:27:26.380 the status quo, but just kind of want to take part in their silly little charities and causes

00:27:32.700 and so on, that aren't really going to question anything, and certainly not their own wealth

00:27:37.500 and status.

00:27:38.840 But I think there's something bigger with SJWs, where they're not just, you know, giving

00:27:43.640 money to the humane society, or something like that.

00:27:45.820 Something that you could say is a frivolous cause, but it's something that I don't think

00:27:50.220 anyone has any problem with.

00:27:51.580 You and I most likely support those things.

00:27:55.020 But it's that death instinct, that desire to kind of engage in almost like institutional

00:28:02.140 revolution, if this is coming from academia, just to use the power of the institutions in

00:28:08.220 order to undermine society, and make our societies clearly less able to flourish and reproduce.

00:28:16.860 That's what's kind of different about the SJW.

00:28:20.440 Yes.

00:28:21.140 So I think we should distinguish the SJWs from previous, let's call them replacement religions, 1.00

00:28:27.600 or even just religions.

00:28:28.640 So something like Christianity has parallels with SJWism in the sense that it starts among 0.74

00:28:36.340 the middle, the lower class, or actually maybe the middle class, that's where a lot of these 0.90

00:28:40.300 things come from.

00:28:41.380 It starts among the middle class, and it's a way for the middle class to attain power, 0.91

00:28:47.380 but they virtue signal or whatever, even under the point of death and sacrifice, but they

00:28:50.820 virtue signal.

00:28:51.620 And this gives them attention, and it makes them want to be like them, and it kind of

00:28:58.580 empowers them.

00:28:59.980 And it's a way of getting their group, the people that genetically like them, more power,

00:29:06.500 which it does.

00:29:08.000 And you see the collapse of the old Roman system, and you see the rise of the middle 0.99

00:29:11.380 class.

00:29:11.960 You see this as well in the West with Protestantism.

00:29:15.120 It's the middle class that was where Protestantism was most developed.

00:29:18.960 And these people, through virtue signaling and whatever, overtly being Protestant, gain 0.52

00:29:26.600 social contacts and whatever, and it helps them to become rich, and they become rich, and

00:29:31.780 they gradually start to displace the traditional, more kind of group-selected, more kind of novelist

00:29:36.100 of liege upper class.

00:29:37.600 And you see this even, and because they've got God on their side, they're more fertile,

00:29:42.160 they believe children, everything's to do with God, God's will to have lots of children,

00:29:45.920 all this kind of thing.

00:29:46.560 They end up being more fertile, they end up breeding the people that are higher up 0.64

00:29:50.120 than them in the social hierarchy.

00:29:51.740 And so this is an adaptive thing to do.

00:29:54.020 And it's using these kinds of ideas of looking after the poor, and basically virtue signaling,

00:29:59.120 champagne neutralism, shall we call it, in order to attain this status.

00:30:04.980 And that's happened throughout history.

00:30:07.340 You could argue that was happening in the Roman Empire with Christianity, you could argue 0.95

00:30:10.980 that was happening among the Greeks.

00:30:12.040 This is a bit different, because it's fundamentally destructive to humanity.

00:30:20.660 And in the whole history of mankind, it's been very, very rare.

00:30:25.180 There have been groups like that.

00:30:26.760 I mean, in the early church, you had Gnostic groups that regarded the world as an utterly

00:30:30.760 appalling place, the province is the devil, we shouldn't have children.

00:30:35.840 And those people, of course, were just dismissed as completely mad, because they were a tiny

00:30:41.020 minority of society, and society itself was so adaptive and had institutions to make it

00:30:45.280 adaptive and was genetically adaptive.

00:30:47.320 There were so few people like them that they weren't able to reach the tipping point, which

00:30:51.680 is about 20% of people thinking like that, for other people to start to join their group,

00:30:57.500 which we know from psychological experiments happens.

00:31:00.140 Whereas SJ Dunbaruism, that's the uniqueness of it, is that we've never got to a point before

00:31:06.000 where they've been able to get this much influence.

00:31:08.240 You've had nutty groups that are anti-capitalist and anti-life before, but the nature of the

00:31:14.760 society, society is so genetically wholesome, if you like, that they haven't been able to

00:31:19.420 gain any power.

00:31:20.760 Now they have.

00:31:21.320 That's the difference.

00:31:22.220 And I put it down to, as I discussed before, that with the collapse of Darwinians, under

00:31:25.760 Darwinian conditions, you have 50% or so child mortality, 90% of people that were born

00:31:31.060 never had children.

00:31:32.800 90% of people never had children.

00:31:34.880 And it's been shown for a, because 50% child mortality, 20% don't have kids, don't marry,

00:31:41.220 whatever, ugly or poor, and 20% that watched all their kids die before they do.

00:31:47.440 So consequently, 90% of people effectively don't pass on their genes.

00:31:51.560 20% do.

00:31:52.720 These are the most healthy and adapted people to these Darwinian conditions that we were

00:31:57.980 under until about the Industrial Revolution.

00:32:00.580 With the Industrial Revolution, they collapse.

00:32:02.500 Child mortality collapses from 50% down to currently, it's about 1%, possibly even a bit

00:32:08.180 less than 1%.

00:32:09.260 And there is a relationship, a significant relationship between the mind and the body

00:32:15.080 in terms of mutational load.

00:32:17.200 So what was happening every generation was that these sick children would die out before

00:32:22.460 they could pass on their genes.

00:32:23.840 They'd have poor immune systems or whatever.

00:32:25.840 They'd have high mutational load. 1.00

00:32:27.500 If you've got high mutational load of the body, you'll definitely have it of the mind, 1.00

00:32:30.280 because the mind is 84%, perhaps, of the genome.

00:32:33.500 It's a massive target mutation.

00:32:35.880 And so with the collapse of child mortality due to a bit of medical innovations and better

00:32:42.500 standards of living, you then have more and more of these people that have these maladaptive

00:32:46.400 ways of thinking.

00:32:47.220 We've got evidence for this.

00:32:48.400 of them securely rising, depression, schizophrenia, autism, lots of other of these traits.

00:32:55.040 And these are associated with SJW, particularly depression, particularly, with SJW ways of thinking.

00:33:05.040 There was a study that was published the other day, or some data that was analysed the other

00:33:09.920 day, which found that 56% of females in America who regard themselves as liberal at age 18 to 0.84

00:33:15.280 29 have been diagnosed with a mental illness by a doctor, which is overwhelmingly depression.

00:33:20.920 And so they have these maladaptive ways of thinking, which would have been washed out,

00:33:25.680 purged under the previous Darwinian conditions, such as that you should put the good of other

00:33:30.920 people's families before your own, other ethnic groups before your own, that you shouldn't 1.00

00:33:35.960 have children, that you should behave like a man, that you are a man. 0.97

00:33:40.780 And all of this just genetic garbage, I mean, these maladaptive mutant genes that would have 0.98

00:33:49.080 been washed out, filled up and built out. 0.98

00:33:51.100 But you get these people, my colleague Michael Woodley calls them spiteful mutants, because

00:33:55.100 we are so, we are like bees.

00:33:58.280 We are such a eusocial species that we are strongly influenced by all those that are around

00:34:03.940 us.

00:34:04.180 And this is why if someone that you're with a lot is maladaptive, this will make you maladaptive.

00:34:10.460 Your genes will be expressed optimally.

00:34:12.560 For example, depression is contagious in that way.

00:34:15.900 And so, therefore, these spiteful mutants start to undermine these structures we've developed, 1.00

00:34:21.720 like religion.

00:34:22.720 What does religion do?

00:34:23.820 It makes that which is adaptive and it makes it the will of God, so you're more likely to

00:34:28.440 do it.

00:34:29.440 Take away religion, undermine it, destroy it, then you're less likely to do these adaptive things.

00:34:35.060 Um, you're less likely to be ethnocentric because religion tells you to be ethnocentric.

00:34:39.140 So you have this whole house of cards that can be brought down by large and large numbers

00:34:44.380 of people spreading maladaptive ideas.

00:34:47.420 And when those people become too high a number, then, of course, they have a power to them

00:34:52.860 and people start to move over to them.

00:34:55.960 And this is what we're seeing.

00:34:57.660 And this is the difference.

00:34:58.700 And this is what's happened in the last 20 years.

00:35:00.420 They've gone from being nutcases on the borders of normal discourse to being a tipping point

00:35:07.540 of, let's say, 20% on university campuses that openly think like this.

00:35:12.260 And then people move over to them.

00:35:15.020 And that's what's happened.

00:35:16.360 So we've basically got, for the first time in history, a death cult that has serious power

00:35:22.300 in our country.

00:35:24.520 And this, this might very well be unprecedented because not that death cults, literal and

00:35:32.720 figurative didn't exist, you know, throughout history, they, they obviously have.

00:35:37.680 But if the spiteful mutant really is a new phenomenon, it is an end of history phenomenon.

00:35:46.160 A spiteful mutant would, at least, you know, a class of them would not exist previously just 0.97

00:35:53.920 simply due to child mortality and, and, and the dangers of, of being alive in, in ages

00:36:01.240 previous to our own.

00:36:02.340 So this, this might very well be something totally new in human evolution.

00:36:07.680 I mean, we were talking earlier about my book, uh, which is feminism and the fall of the

00:36:11.600 West.

00:36:12.040 And in that, I look at the way that which hasn't been published yet, by the way.

00:36:16.020 So just for our listeners, uh, yes, you'll be able to buy it soon, but not, yes, yes.

00:36:22.240 And look, that book, which I'm currently working on.

00:36:24.540 So I look at the way that which is in many ways spiteful mutants.

00:36:28.600 Because what were the witches doing?

00:36:30.420 They were, they were by virtue of being single women that were able to make money and whatever 1.00

00:36:34.260 they were, they were undermining the patriarchy.

00:36:36.520 Secondly, they were often quite nasty people that would go around cursing people and being 0.93

00:36:40.920 generally unpleasant.

00:36:41.800 So in a very limited form in their village.

00:36:44.260 Not to mention flying.

00:36:45.760 And also the flying orgies and all that stuff.

00:36:48.720 Disconcerting, yeah.

00:36:49.820 Very disconcerting, upsetting to people.

00:36:51.560 Imagine trying to do your farming and there's all these people on troops talking about like

00:36:55.140 mosquitoes.

00:36:56.080 So, so yeah, so this sort of thing.

00:36:57.920 So they were the spiteful mutants of their time, but they were a tiny, tiny minority and

00:37:03.100 the vast majority of the people were highly genetically adapted anyway, including even

00:37:08.480 them to a certain extent.

00:37:10.080 And so consequently, they had no space to, to, to have any, any impact at all on the

00:37:15.260 society.

00:37:15.700 The, the, the institutions of society to upheld adaptive behavior, religion, were robust.

00:37:21.620 And if people like that manifested and managed to live into adulthood, they would, and they

00:37:25.380 behaved like that, they'd track them down and remove them.

00:37:28.880 So, so with these new spiteful mutants, you, it's those, it's, it's those people, but magnified 0.98

00:37:35.700 God knows how many times, because they're way more maladaptive than these witches. 1.00

00:37:39.560 I mean, they're way more spiteful. 0.99

00:37:41.100 They're way, way worse.

00:37:42.300 A, because they tend to manifest at the top of society rather than the bottom.

00:37:46.520 So they have more influence for that reason, because Darwinian conditions are harshest at

00:37:52.700 the bottom of society.

00:37:55.100 And the, and therefore evolution collapsed first at the top of society.

00:37:59.240 So you'd expect the buildup to be more in a sense, in some ways at the top.

00:38:03.740 And so, so they're much worse.

00:38:06.600 It's, it's, it's, it's maladaptive things that would never, ever have come across, come

00:38:10.560 have been manifested to anything before, such as antinatalism, such as actually thinking

00:38:15.300 we as a species shouldn't exist in us.

00:38:18.540 And that's happening to a society, which is itself maladaptive, which is itself not as

00:38:23.360 robust mentally, psychologically as the society of 400, 500 years ago.

00:38:27.780 Um, and it's a society in which therefore they are able, therefore it's less, it's less,

00:38:32.700 it puts a front and therefore they're better able to undermine its institutions and spread

00:38:36.680 their madness.

00:38:37.460 So yeah, and that's, it's a complete new thing because we've never been this, had

00:38:42.200 a mutational load as a people that's this high.

00:38:44.680 Wow.

00:38:48.080 Well, like the Mike experiment, like that, like that experiment where it took away.

00:38:53.000 Explain that.

00:38:53.440 I know what you're talking about, but explain that for our listeners.

00:38:55.640 In 1967 or something it was in the university of Maryland and John Calhoun and he set up

00:39:00.920 a utopia for mice, took away predation, selected them for illness, made sure they were all gently

00:39:05.480 stiff and whatever, made sure there were no parasites.

00:39:07.840 And so you have a utopia for mice.

00:39:10.260 What you have is exactly what's happened to us.

00:39:11.980 So first of all, the population spikes up huge growth because there's no infant mortality

00:39:16.120 or whatever.

00:39:16.680 There's no predation.

00:39:17.960 Then the growth starts to slow down.

00:39:19.940 As you see with us, then the growth starts to fall.

00:39:22.860 The population starts to fall.

00:39:24.320 They're not having as many babies as they used to have.

00:39:26.540 And when that was noticed, it was noticed that there were these interesting changes.

00:39:30.160 Mothers were behaving maladaptively. 1.00

00:39:32.820 They were throwing their offspring out of the nest too young so that the offspring weren't

00:39:36.260 socialized properly.

00:39:37.320 That could be akin to the undermining of, you know, institutions that are useful, religiousness 0.71

00:39:41.260 or education or whatever.

00:39:42.860 And then you've got more and more of these males that were these just these autistic 1.00

00:39:46.260 weirdos that were effeminate and didn't do anything and didn't fight for territory and 0.98

00:39:50.040 didn't do anything other than sort of lick each other and drink water. 0.97

00:39:53.180 They were known as the beautiful ones.

00:39:55.840 And then eventually, so you've got more and more females that then weren't interested in 1.00

00:39:59.540 men.

00:39:59.960 And then those that were had to pest them for sex and they weren't interested.

00:40:03.840 And then eventually, they got into Japan.

00:40:05.980 And so eventually, you had a situation where all the males were these beautiful ones. 0.99

00:40:08.680 All the females were these butch, lesbianicious weirdos. 1.00

00:40:12.580 And and and then eventually they had no more children. 1.00

00:40:16.300 They just died out.

00:40:18.140 And that's what that won't happen to us because we are our own John Calhoun.

00:40:22.280 We are our own scientists upholding our society.

00:40:25.620 And so our civilization will go backwards and then evolutionary conditions will be reimposed.

00:40:32.680 Reimposed.

00:40:34.760 I hope so.

00:40:35.520 we are our nation.

00:40:36.820 We are our nation.

00:40:54.460 So.

00:40:55.220 We'll be right back.

00:41:25.220 We'll be right back.

00:41:55.220 We'll be right back.

RadixJournal - April 27, 2020

The Religious Origins of the SJW

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