Is Racism Necessary? The 348th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

On this, our 348th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss migration, race, and the West. First: the Mercator projection is unsatisfactory, and there’s a new map available, but no map of the globe can be perfect. Every home should have a globe. Then: what do we do with things in which the first step is neutral or good, but it seems inevitable that we end up in a dire situation once the first step has been accepted? Examples include abortion, lobbying, advertising, informed consent, EULAs, and utopianism. Another example may be racism: we should not be racist, but we should retain our ability to see difference, and note when people who are showing up on our doorstep are not interested in collaboration, or in the experiment of the West.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Scientific American on maps: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mathematical-impossibility-of-making-a-perfect-world-map/

Šavrič et al 2019 (Equal Earth): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2018.1504949

Muckraker documentary: https://www.muckraker.com/articles/replacing-europe-documentary/

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 No Chance of It Being Prime
00:05:24 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:07:10 Sponsor: Mars Men
00:11:24 Sponsor: Branch Basics
00:13:57 Kicking Ass and Taking Names with Maps
00:21:24 The UN Adopts Equal Earth
00:26:25 Every Home Should Have a Globe
00:34:03 Is the West at War?
00:37:57 Abortion and Where to Draw the Line
00:46:34 The Lobby and the End of the Republic
00:50:49 Advertising and the Orwell Department
00:53:33 Informed Consent and Fake Blood
01:01:34 Secularism, Utopianism, Liberalism
01:08:39 Is Racism Necessary?
01:13:58 Racism vs. Xenophobia
01:17:51 Colorblind and Not Allowed to Notice
01:23:13 The Danger of the Drifter
01:26:46 Mama Bear Energy and Oxytocin
01:29:27 Cosmopolitan vs. Multicultural
01:35:14 An Honest Discussion About Migration

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