"....long airplane flights, and I started thinking, uh, they always, you know --
They always show the same movie at the beginning of, uh, these flights, and uh --
It always ends up with, "Smoking is forbidden anywhere on the plane and if you try to creep into the men's room we got smoke detectors to catch you and to try to deactivate the smoke detector is a federal crime punishable by 30 years imprisonment to find $20 million and having your balls cut off or something to that effect --"
-- and uh, I -- I started thinking there are two types of people who suffer on long-distance flights : Heroin addicts and Nicotine addicts;
But The Heroin Addicts don't really have to suffer much because they can they they can go into The John, and do up their works, and have a fix, and there's no detector that'll detect them; so The Heroin Addicts can just fly across country all the time without going through withdrawal, enjoying themselves basking in the glow of their addiction, while The Nicotine Addicts are all slowly falling apart because they got these smoke-detectors --
And it kind of makes me wonder, who does Our Government really hate more...? The Heroin Addicts or The Nicotine Addicts...? It's, uh --
I never thought about that question before uh it's just uh then I thought maybe uh maybe that's the cure for the nicotine problem which is you know The Country is getting more and more into a turning into An Armed Camp, especially California --
.....by the way I speak uh so you know my B I speak as an ex-smoker which is not the same as a non-smoker -- it's not that I never smoked I was addicted, and I'm not here to preach to those who arestill because I know how hard it is to kick; I'm just reflecting on the paradoxes of, theoreticallywe hate heroin addicts more than nicotine addicts,but on long airline flights, we make the nicotine addicts suffer more than the heroin addicts -- suppose we try to turn all the nicotine addictsintoheroin addicts so that they could have relief on these long flights?
If we could get them all off nicotine on the heroin they would not suffer so much -- this would be the humanitarian thing to do,they just go in the men's room, do up their work and there, you know.... That's civilised compared to the cruelties we're inflicting on them now --
Like, uh, one of the things I like about Amsterdam, my favourite city in Europe, is everybody in Europe -- 'all the men', I should say not everybody -- all the men in Europe say the best window shopping in Europe --
Ah, some people have been to Amsterdam and know what I'm referring to -- Uh, a lot of coffee houses in Amsterdam where you can buy hasheesh, and uh, it's great -- there you are, just sitting around drinking coffee with your friends, and buying hashish, and uh every now and then The Cop on The Beat comes in and takes a toke from somebody he recognises, and my God!Civilisation is possible on planet Earth it's just that The Dutch are the only ones who figured out how to do it!
And I was in one of those coffee shops and I saw a sign it said "No Hard Drugs Please" -- I thought "Gee,that's the essence of the Dutch sensibility, that word, 'please'! -- that's so nice, you know that compared to the hostility of the signs you see in this country as a general rule no hard drugs please and you know if you're sitting around in a Amsterdam coffee shop with friends uh smoking your hash it does bring down the tone of the establishment if you look over and there's some goddamn junkie there ready to shoot up you know it's just not classy so so I really admire the Dutch um but then I realised I've been in the junkie neighborhood of Amsterdam it's right next to the red light neighborhood which is what I was talking about before the best window shopping in Europe uh and everybody in the junky neighborhood is smoking like a what's the smoking like a fish no no drinking like a fish smoking like a chimney and so heroin and nicotine and they can be addicted to both so getting all the nicotine addicts not the heroin won't work so there's another beautiful Theory destroyed by a few inconvenient facts what has this got to do with Quantum psychology nothing I'm just getting warmed up as just what happened to be on my mind uh somebody was telling me a story about a friend of theirs desperately hunting around here for an ashtray and that brought all this back to mine uh I lived in Ireland for six years Ireland uh is famous all over Europe and so psychiatric and social worker circles for having the highest alcoholism rate of any European country and uh this is a uh a source of continuous investigation the Irish are the most uh surveyed and studied people around because everybody wants to know why their alcoholism rate is so high uh I can't seem to get off the subject of addiction uh if they can figure out why their rate is so high then that might give us clues about you know what to do about it so they're always studying the Irish and uh the people who don't drink in in Dublin uh pretend to Ireland is the biggest consumer of non-alcoholic beer in the world every Pub in in Dublin has non-alcoholic beers and uh the reason is that the pub is the center of Irish Social Life everybody goes to the pub at night that's where you meet your friends and so if you're if you suddenly you decide you're an alcoholic and you got to give up drinking your social life comes to an end or it would if it weren't for the Blessed invention of non-alcoholic beers now the alcoholics in Ireland can sit around the pub with their friends drinking non-alcoholic beer and looking perfectly normal by Irish standards uh you don't look normal in Ireland without a drink in your hand um uh the Irish also smoke like chimneys to get back to that simil I should come up with something more original but uh smoke I like smoking like a fish that's better cuz it's more confusing like uh that great graffiti I once saw in a men's room in Berkeley uh a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle makes you think doesn't it h in Ireland they have heard the news uh that smoking is dangerous and hazardous and all that but they they don't take it seriously so everybody smokes continually and when I was living in Ireland I'm I was coming back to this country to do lectures and it's like uh going from one planet to another here's a planet where no matter where you go the room is full of smoke then you come to this planet where there's no smoke visible anywhere if anybody lights up everybody starts throwing stones at them and tries to destroy them and uh then you then you notice these other differences in this country they're just starting to allow uh legal gambling in a few places a few states are beginning to liberalize all through my life it's been strictly it's been Unthinkable unamerican uh abominable the idea that the of a state run lottery or to let the tracks take uh bets off the way from the track or anything like that in Ireland every block right next to the pub there's a beding establishment and uh in this country uh until uh Thomas gets confirmed abortion is totally legal everywhere outside of Louisiana uh in Ireland it's totally illegal am I just rambling or if I started talking about Quantum psychology uh the Irish assume it's perfectly normal for everybody to drink and for some people to drink heavily It's Perfectly Normal to smoke it's abominable to have an abortion and divorce is illegal too and of course everybody knows who are the worst villains in the world it's the English and nobody in Ireland has ever doubted that for the last 800 years since the English first invaded them and they've been trying to get the English out ever since
Uh, in Amsterdam uh -- you have an entirely different culture where you can uh uh where the porno theaters are not only wide open but they have gigantic letters as big as the theaters on Broadway or Market Street in San Francisco no nothing more Broadway you got to go to in New York to see and and the these great big signs say things like Li [ __ ] inside in in English uh because most of the tourists are English
In Ireland, they have heard The News, uh, that smoking is dangerous and hazardous and all that, but they they don't take it seriously, so everybody smokes continually; and when I was living in Ireland, I was coming back to this country to do lectures, and it's like uh going from one planet to another here's a planet where no matter where you go the room is full of smoke then you come to this planet where there's no smoke visible anywhere if anybody lights up everybody starts throwing stones at them and tries to destroy them and uh then you then you notice these other differences in this country they're just starting to allow uh legal gambling in a few places a few states are beginning to liberalize all through my life it's been strictly it's been Unthinkable unamerican uh abominable the idea that the of a state run lottery or to let the tracks take uh bets off the way from the track or anything like that in Ireland every block right next to the pub there's a beding establishment and uh in this country uh until uh Thomas gets confirmed abortion is totally legal everywhere outside of Louisiana uh in Ireland it's totally illegal —
am I just rambling or if I started talking about Quantum psychology uh
The Irish assume it's perfectly normal for everybody to drink and for some people to drink heavily It's Perfectly Normal to smoke — it's abominable to have an abortion and divorce is illegal too and of course everybody knows who are the worst villains in the world it's The English and nobody in Ireland has ever doubted that for the last 800 years since The English first invaded them and they've been trying to get the English out ever since
Uh, in Amsterdam uh -- you have an entirely different culture where you can uh uh where the porno theaters are not only wide open but they have gigantic letters as big as the theaters on Broadway or Market Street in San Francisco no nothing more Broadway you got to go to in New York to see and and the these great big signs say things like Li [ __ ] inside in in English uh because most of the tourists are English English is becoming an international language in Ireland prostitution is illegal and uh which means there are no prostitutes in Ireland uh
I was in Ireland two days when I found out which part of the Quays the prostitutes all gather on uh, but the police officially don't know it. Homosexuality is illegal in Ireland uh the penalty is 20 years at hard labor still uh so there are no gay men in Ireland there's a restaurant across the street from Trinity College uh called the pink cartion uh the no I mean the green Carnation what's the matter with me the green Carnation and it's quite it's uh got a picture of Oscar wild in the window one of Trinity most famous graduates after Jonathan Swift and Samuel Becket and it big sign saying basket lunches uh but the police uh do not know of any gay bars in duin because they're illegal —
Actually there is one gay man in Ireland his name is David narus he's a professor at Trinity College and a member of the Irish Senate and he is suing the Irish government claiming the law against the sodomy that's what the law calls it the law against sodomy is interfering with his civil liberties and uh he's a member of the Senate —
I think it's the only country in the world where I remember of The Senate is suing the country itself of violating its civil liberties — of course he is not reallythe only gay man in Ireland it's just that they pretend he is until, like —
Everybody grows up within A Culture that tries to teach them that the way our Culture does things is the natural way ordained by God, it's the only rational and sensible way, and all other cultures, all The damn Foreigners are all crazy, dirty degenerate and subhuman and uh they they also —
Every place you go they also believe Tourists are A Curse invented by God to punish us for our sins —
The reason Tourists appear a curse invent by God is, uh, that Tourists don'tact the way people are supposed to act! If They come from Germany, They don't act like us They act like Germans; if They come from Ireland, They act like Irish, if They come from Japan, They act like Japanese —
They don't know The Right Way to Act, which is the way we were taught to act; and I have pondered all my life all my adult life, ‘Why do people spend so much time on the singular occupation of making life hard for other people?’; that is to say ‘Why do people put so much energy into trying to put other people down to find nasty things to say about them ways to criticise them ways to humiliate them ways to make them feel like they're one step down?”
Well, according to most standard psychological theories, people do this because they feel insecure; people who feel insecure are trying to put other people down -- that makes them feel a little less insecure because they put somebody even further down, thenthey feel okay —
That Theorysort of makes sense but then you look around and you see how much time people spend trying to put one another down and the only conclusion you can come to is that everybody feels insecure —
"Human Society consists of a bunch of people who basically have this program,
which the great New York psychologist Albert Ellis defined way back in The 50s as,
"I am a No-Good Shit." --
Ellis, I regard as my great predecessor in using Honest Language
in books about Psychology, describing the way people really thinkand feel :
"I am a No-Good Shit."
That is the basic program that most people are operating on --
The second program is,
"If I pretend hard enough,
nobody will guess I'm a No-Good Shit",
and the third program is, "The way to Do it, is
to convince everybody else that they're No-Good Shits." --
The people who become most adept at this, find An Ideology
which allows them to go around correcting Everybody Else, all the time,
which explains why there are so fucking manyMarxists in The World,
even after Marxism has totally collapsedeverywhere
outside of China,Cuba and Pacifica Radio....
Marxism is basically a maneuver to put Other People down -- you just wait for them to Say something, you got a longlist and as soon as they violate one of The Taboos, you jump : "A-ha! Bourgeois-Thinking!", uh…. "Male-chauvinism!", uh, -- whatever is the latest thing....
Now, why are people so devoted to putting one another down, why do they all have this basic program, "I am a No-Good Shit"?
Pope BOB, R.A.W,
Northern California, 1991
Well, infants are born without any culture — every infant, as Bucky Fuller once said, is born naked, hungry and intenselycurious —
And that's about it. Naked, Hungry andintensely Curious — so the principle role of parents, is to take this naked hungry intensely curious being and persuade it, cajole it, browbeat it, terrorise it, or one way or another, convince it that The Way We Do Things in this tribe is the natural way,ordained by God, and anything you feel like doing or want to do, or that seems ‘natural’ to you, if it doesn't fitinto tribal customs, you [have] got to stop itright away —
now most people have been so thoroughly conditioned by their culture that they really are horrified when they become parents if they become parents they really are horrified when they notice that their children do not have the tribal taboos firmly in place the children are born without the tabos they do all sorts of things that according to Social standards are immoral unethical disgusting perverse uh and not what not the way human beings are supposed to behave so the parents are really shocked oh my God we gave birth to a monster so so then they put on more pressure so the process of growing up from infancy to toddler to uh young child ready getting ready for school there a process of learning continually that you are in no good and you got to learn to put on this mask and act like everybody else and repeat all the social customs and then nobody will notice you're a no good and this creates so much tension that people spend most of their adult lives still trying to recover from this by finding other no good shits and and denouncing them so Human Society consists of a search and destroy mission against no good shits let's find the no good shits and get rid of them in California right now it's the cigarette smokers according to George Bush it's the pot smokers uh they talk a lot about crack babies but uh judge sweet when he uh had his Awakening or whatever it was and decided the War on Drugs was the craziest thing that ever happened to this country and started speak out against the judge swe pointed out that 70% of the budget for the War on Drugs goes to the pursuit of pot smokers so if they're so worried about crack babies why aren't they spending 70% and fighting cocaine why are they spending 70% fighting pot well it seems uh I don't know uh that has a lot to do with it probably those of you
Epstein’s "Friends" Are Far More Dangerous Than He Is - Eric Weinstein
Suddenly, an alarm goes off on the TARDIS console;
The Doctor dashes across the room
and checks the readings —
Tom :
….another Instrumentation-failure —
The Boy :
— a Gravity-bubble…?
Tom (scowls) :
No….! (Operates A Lever, performs percussive-maintenance
on The Console — another, much more urgent-sounding alarm
begins to sound, replacing the previous one) …definitely
a Gravity-bubble — pretty localised, too
from the look of it….
The Boy :
…..is that dangerous…?
Q. : ….what do you make of the most release of Epstein documents…?
— you tell me.
Q. : — oh man…. I mean, surprising
to see Steven Hawking on
there, in some ways….
…..but why, I wouldn'tknow....
what Jeffrey Epstein would want with Stephen Hawking
-- what are you assuming is
so terrible about Stephen Hawking
being in these documents...?
-- I didn't say that it was terrible...
...okay -- like
that answer :
interesting....
-- I'm surprised that Jeffrey Epstein would
have an interest in Steven Hawking
Beyond him being somebody
that is well-known influential powerful
and potentially leverageable;
which is that makes me think what
he took an interest in physics
and I don't know why --
-- and you...
Do at least you have an idea about
why he took an interest in physics-- Jeffrey?
but I don't know why I don't know
why Jeffrey Epstein was
interested in physics
---well what would you guess....?
.......there's some special mathematics there
that allows him to or the people
that he is associated with to better
be able to predict things.... to be able
to use it in some sort of a way
around financial markets; around
new technology that's emerging
to just be able to see the direction
that the future of technology
is moving in, perhaps?
--you know more
about this than me
-- well, I look -- I'd go back to this conference
that he held I think it's 2006 or 2004
called Confronting Gravity --
so he holds a conference I don't think he holds it on this island on his Island I think he holds it on uh St Thomas maybe um and this is entirely constant with an earlier meeting that he had with me where he wanted to know about what I was doing with mathematical physics and I have to say look why gravity --
Gravity is in some sense about the fabric of SpaceTime;
and if there are things about the fabric of SpaceTime
that you can unlock -- that are not contained in general relativity nor in the standard model how much power do you think is in that you saw what the neutron did to unlock the strong force um you can take out
A City with a little bit of physics --
.....I'm going to turn this around, Chris,
because we had a great Dynamic the last time,
and I want to see you play with ideas too
Um, tell me what you imagine might be
The Power beyond the standard model in general relativity
if we can already destroy all of humanity uh albe it with some com complications you have to engineer a bomb what do you think might be on the other side of the next great discoveries well I mean this gets into sci-fi and and speculation around that probably fits the next Marvel series they should use this as the as the tagline I would guess things to do with being able to move across space okay wormholes time if there are other higher Dimensions if that allows you to access if the Multiverse Theory holds uh if that allows you to access different universes and to move between them it might be Limitless power it could be Limitless power in the form of energy could be Limitless power in the form of travel um what if what if it allows you to control neutrinos in a new way I mean like people don't think about neutrinos it's very hard to send a particle through planet Earth unscathed but neutrinos do it right so in some sense if you were a a Sovereign Nation wouldn't you be focused on physics I mean here's the thing that I just don't understand I'll be totally honest about it who isn't interested in this stuff you have to be crazy to do what we're doing with physics we're running physics into the ground physics is you'll go to a Marvel movie about some guy trying to collect Rings or stones to get infinite power over the universe that's physics that's not Stones when you see somebody talking about Limitless power think physics don't think money think physics physics is the source of infinite power
and is Jeffrey Epstein sufficiently versed in physics to know that he needs to be at the Forefront of this....?
no but this is what we dealt with last time so kids if you haven't seen last time's episode I don't think it was Jeffrey Epstein I don't understand why we're so focused on this man why aren't we focused on on whatever created him like this is really weird we can't think take half of all the time you spend thinking about Jeffrey Epstein talking about Jeffrey Epstein everybody talking about and spend half of that time saying what do we what do we think about whoever was behind Jeffrey Epstein --
Whatever was behind Jeffrey Epstein is what I think cared about gravity cared about SpaceTime cared about physics and you get to use this supposed financia as a wedge to be able to to start to break this open well this is the thing if I'm looking you know there there's a picture of Lisa Randall at this conference nobody's worried about the sexual depravity of Lisa Randall this is stupid Lisa Randall is an amazing physicist he was interested in physics Jeffrey Epstein whatever he represented cared about physics
-- does that make him
more or less nervous?
well you have to appreciate I have no idea why my country the United States of America doesn't care about physics anymore it canceled the SSC in 1993 superc conducting super collider it's bet the farm on string theory which is completely not worked out we're now this is the 40 so we're now in 2024 this is the 40th year anniversary of the green Schwarz anomaly cancellation which basically handed the keys uh to The Liquor Cabinet of physics over to the string theorists and they've been uh drunk on these stories about the first Super string Revolution the second Super string Revolution um all these things that they're going to do the theory of everything and they just had a uh panel discussion at the world Science Festival with Brian Green moderating between David Gross Edward Whitten and Andy Stringer and this thing is delusional why I don't know I mean physicists I know are calling me up and saying you're right Eric I can't believe how crazy this is because they're pretending that they didn't flush 40 years down the tubes um driving physics into a ditch in other news this episode is brought to you by Shopify the reason that you started a business is not to learn how to build a website or to code or to do inventory management it's to sell the thing that you care about and Shopify helps to move all of the other stuff out of the way so that you can focus on the thing that matters most that's why we use Shopify for new tonic so if you've ever bought a can of this from our website you've bought from Shopify also they power over 10% of all e-commerce in the United States including huge Brands like gym shark so if it's good enough for them it's probably good enough for you whether you're selling scented soap or offering outdoor outfits Shopify helps you sell at every stage of your business Shopify also helps you turn browsers into buyers with the internet's best converting checkout 36% better than other e-commerce platforms right now you can sign up for a $1 per month trial period by going to the link in the description below or heading to shopify.com mowis or lowercase that's shopify.com wisdom to grow your business no matter what stage you're in thank you very much for tuning in if you enjoyed that clip with Eric you will love the full length podcast which you can watch right here go on tap it
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"I Think that The Problem with Modern Americans is that they are so timid that they don't even learn about The History of conspiracies that we have absolutely proven --"
Jeffrey Epstein and The Nature of Evil | Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman
can we talk a little bit about evil sure i haven't actually talked to you about this topic and it's been sitting on my mind mostly because everybody at mit is quiet about it which is jeffrey epstein i didn't get a chance to experience what mit was like at the time when jeffrey epstein was part of this but it's i'd love to try to understand how evil was allowed to flourish in in a place that i love whether you think maybe let me ask the question this way was it the man evil or was the system evil or is evil too strong a word because what i see is the presence of of this particular human being in the eyes of many destroyed the reputations of many really strong scientists and also weaken the ability like weaken the institution of mit by making everybody quiet like almost making them unable to say anything interesting or difficult yeah and what what is that and what am i supposed to uh we don't know why is everyone quiet about jeffrey we don't no we don't know obviously i want to scream about it too right and i probably have said too much about jeffrey epstein look something horrible happened i don't know what it is but something horrible happened and you know at the one thing that okay let's just do this the first thing i need to do is i need to get rid of this woke crap about power differentials okay in general you can talk about hypergamy and power differentials are russell conjugates of the same concept just the way particular proportions and symmetries are mathematically provable to be attractive in females to males male attractiveness is largely determined by male competence and ability to amass power and success and all these sorts of things the relationship between consenting adults is quite frankly not something i want to sort out the relationship between the sexuality of adults and minors and particularly you know there's the the the 1718 issue that's very different than 1213. we're talking about really sick depravity with respect to what it appears that jeffrey epstein was involved in at some level i believe this story is super complicated in part because i think one thing jeffrey epstein was doing was providing money encouragement and support to scientists another thing he was doing i believe was giving tax advice to very rich people i believe another thing he was doing was hooking very wealthy people up with young adult females; another thing he was doing, i think, was doing stuff with children that will curl your toes —
— so between…. so, there's an entire spectrum of different stuff, and at the moment, nobody can pull apart or deconflate anything, because The Woke Thing comes over it, and says, you know — “…..I think it's disgusting that, uh you know — a 43 year old billionaire would be partying with a 23 year old —”
right, yeah. okay, yeah —
— I don't want to adjudicatethat; I'm worried about 12 and 14 year olds that we're not talking about… but I mostly —
I don't think MIT was deep into pedophilia; my guess is that that did not happen.
I don't think that The Scientists were The Targets of the reallysick depraved stuff;
It's my guess, my — my guess is. that what you're looking at was a governmentconstruct
It may have been our government,
it may have been a joint government project,
maybe somebody else's government, I don't know —
I believe that in part, — we don't really understand Robert Maxwell —
….sorry, who's Robert Maxwell..?
….Gillane Maxwell’s Father was
very active in Scientific Publishing
I don't know where peer reviewcame from…..
I would love to run down the relationship between peer review and robert maxwell i would love to run down the missing fortune of robert maxwell and the mysterious fortune of jeffrey epstein because i don't think jeffrey epstein ever ran a hedge fund i don't think he was a money advisor the way people claimed so there's two things i want to talk about so one is the shallow conversations of woke identity politics that you're referring to seems to be removing everyone's ability no everyone willingness one of the things to talk about like what the hell is this person and how is he allowed more most importantly to how do we prevent it in the future and from the individual perspective the question for me is the same question i ask about 1930s nazi germany i've been reading way too much probably or not enough about that period currently is if i was in germany at that time what is the heroic action to take when i think about mit with jeffrey epstein what is the heroic action to take we're not talking about virtue signaling i wouldn't know what to do i would like to know what you're up against lex you're not hearing me the problem here is what was jeffrey epstein well that question might be the heroic action to take that's what i'm trying to say i'm just trying to get my first question you have to map the silence with jeffrey epstein what you're describing is a map of the silence at mit yeah well is there a map of the silence in washington state around jeffrey epstein the bay area new york city the amount of silence around jeffrey epstein should be telling you everything the number of dogs that don't bark is like nothing we've ever seen you're exactly correct but i want to know what is it telling us because what it's telling me is not some kind of conspiracy but more a disappointing weakness not some kind of conspiracy it's not some kind of conspiracy but you've got to be kidding me no you're so you're so afraid of saying the word conspiracy that you don't think it's a conspiracy i personally i just think it's people who i thought were my heroes just being weak no be of good cheer sir a cheer be of good cheer of good cheer yeah you think that there is a conspiracy i think there is a conspiracy that'd be a very impressive one that's the scale of it i i tend to believe that large scale can only be an emergent phenomena really i find this so fascinating yeah because i always see you as like a logic logic and love drive your drive your soul you're very logical you're relentless you've got a lot of love in your heart i believe that if you would review the video where is it from dubai or abu dhabi of the mysterious hit on the hotel guest you ever seen this thing yeah oh what happened it's the assassination in 2010 10 years ago of mahmoud al mabu something like that in dubai where i believe 26 separate individuals on multiple teams are shown converging coming in from all over the world on false passports pretending to be tennis players or you know business people or vacationers and all of these teams have different functions and they murder this guy in his in his hotel room and The Dubai, I guess, Chief of Police, Security Officer was so uh angered that he put together this amazing video that says we can completely detail what you did we caught you on closed circuit tv we don't know exactly who you are because your disguises and your false passports but yeah 26 people converged to kill one no i don't believe you i don't believe after cointelpro an operation paperclip and uh operation mockingbird uh i don't know whether i should even bring up rex84…..
— to not believe in Conspiracies is an idiocy…..
…….so you you have a sense that, uh,
Evil can be as competent, or more competent..?
— first of all when Evil wants to operate at scale,
it needs to make sure that people don't try to figure out Evil;
when Evil operates at scale yes from first principles you have to realise that evil must not want it investigated that's correct the most efficient way to keep yourself from being investigated if you are a an evil institutional player who needs to do this repeatedly is to invest in a world in which no one can afford to say the word conspiracy you will notice that there is a special radioactivity around the word conspiracy we have provable conspiracies we have admitted to conspiracies you have been invited to conspiracies there is no shortage conspiracies are everywhere some of them are mundane some of them are like price fixing cartels you know or trade groups are generally speaking conspiracies so the first thing you have to realize is that all of us are under a in a mimetic complex where you can be taken off the chess board by saying conspiracy theorists get done it's a one it's like a one-line proof; we don't have to listen to lex he said he was a conspiracy theorist on this show okay that is partially distorting our conversation if you want to ask me about jeffrey epstein you have to agree with me that that is a logical description of what you would have to have if you wanted to commit conspiracies is that you have to make sure that people are dissuaded from investigating yes okay but it's a very it's a fascinatingly difficult idea then because the world with conspiracy theories in the world without conspiracy theories to the sh to the shallow glance looks the same well my point there is responsible conspiracy theorizing where you look at the history of unearthed conspiracies and just like you would with any other topic just think about how different the rules in your mind are for conspiracy theorizing versus x theorizing where x can be anything right it's like if i say to you um i can say the statement that average weight is not the same between widely separated populations you'd say yeah i'd say average height is not the same between widely separated populations you'd say yeah then i say in fact no continuous variable that has that shows variation should be expected to be identical between widely separated of course eric like iq whoa whoa hold on right so we have a violent reaction to specific topics so the first thing i want to do is just to notice that conspiracy has that built into everyone's mind that's really important to state yeah that's it's very interesting at that and as a prerequisite as you're saying that would be the first step if you wanted to uh pull off a conspiracy in a competent way that's you would have to first convince the world --
i just watched the film 1971 about my favorite conspiracy of all time i highly recommend it 1971 well the film is entitled 1971 and it's about the citizens committee to investigate the fbi which was run by a student of murray gelman a physicist and broke into fbi offices in pennsylvania to steal files which allowed freedom of information requests that discovered a huge conspiracy it was a conspiracy that unearthed a conspiracy inside the federal government a double conspiracy story which launched multiple conspiracies;
I Think that The Problem with Modern Americans is that they are so timid that they don't even learn about The History of conspiracies that we have absolutely proven --
so with that done jeff epstein in my opinion represented somebody's construction i don't know scary to think about yeah well what part of the story isn't scary i in part did something which i i imagine may get me destroyed because i was more worried about being destroyed by somebody else i had a conversation with around jeff epstein right so i'm just trying to like get let it be known that i don't know anything more than i've already said now your friends at mit yeah their problem is is that jeff epstein showed up as the only person capable of continuing u.s scientific tradition you see the u.s scientific tradition is a little bit like the russian it's it's combative okay and we're a free society and we act like a free society we're a rich society and we research like we're a rich society that is historically and then came the 1970s and william proxmyer and the golden fleece awards and the idea that we have to we're paying too much and these are welfare queens and lab coats and blah blah blah blah we need more transparency more oversight everything went to hell and the national culture of u.s science was lost the thing that produced all this prosperity and security and power was lost and then jeff epstein shows up and a tiny number of funders maybe fred cavley um maybe yuri milner maybe um who else would be in this category peter thiel to an extent howard hughes would be the largest of these things which has different grant structures than the nih gave people a modicum of risk-taking ability okay well when jeff epstein showed up everybody wanted to take risk in science and suddenly a charismatic billionaire says hey i can make that work for you here's a hundred thousand dollars go go research something crazy well that money was supposed to be provided by the federal government under the terms of the endless frontier compact between the federal government and the universities and the federal government the taxpayers welched okay so that's one place to lay the blame for jeff epstein as that the the failure of the federal government to honor to honor its commitment --
yeah right
-- So The Universities became psychopathic; it's not like everybody doesn't remember what we're supposed to be doing to be moral; but The Point was, there wasn't enough money to be moral -- so it was time to, uh -- to eye each other as a source of protein as i like to say....
And in that process Jeffrey Epstein said, "...hey -- come to my world, we can do it like we used to do...!"
so in in part my point is is that almost none of your colleagues at MIT have that kind of religious commitment to science that they're willing to go down with ship science the galileo galilei thing became very important to science because occasionally you just have to say look this isn't about me and you i there isn't enough money in the world to buy the kind of legacy i want to leave to this planet this is one of the great things about science you know potentially it's worth dying for --
Q. : -- yeah: i'm glad you said it science is one of the things that is best that's worth dying for i mean i'm not eager to martyr myself but i've certainly risked my health my fortune you know i've destroyed myself economically over science and um and my my my need to oppose these sons of in chaired professorships who are destroying our system along with everyone else you
But …. I don't want 
