hello welcome to another episode of after skool my name is Mark and I'm the animator behind
this channel I just want to say a huge thank you because after skool just hit 3 million subscribers
this is a number I never thought would have been possible when I first started this channel
so hopefully I can encourage you like you've encouraged me the video we're going to watch today
is a clip from my podcast with Brett Weinstein I thought this clip was so good that I figured I'd
animate it and put it here so without further Ado let's dive in uh it's going to seem like
a strange analogy but I think we've already seen a near apocalyptic catastrophe that has unfolded
as a result of the much more mundane process of people being sold porn by an industry that doesn't
care about them that fact has messed up all of the incentives around partnering romantically
and people if you're young enough not to remember how the world was you may think that that sounds
Preposterous that somebody is defending the idea that romance as it was in movies was ever real and
that's not it there was just simply a system in which people were compelled by something
internal to themselves to partner whether they rationally thought that was a good idea or not
and it resulted in a very important powerful human process functioning correctly and the
combination of technological birth control and pornography has now wrecked all of the incentive
structures in that system and replaced it with nothing meaningful and it is resulting in people
paradoxically not being sexually satisfied as a result of their Liberation not seeing the wisdom
in having a family not understanding the nature of the creature that they have become through a
three and a half billion year process of evolution yeah it seems like in our modern world there are
two archetypes that are emerging that of the incel the involuntary celibate who just stays
online all day and the only fans model who's kind of willfully objectifying themselves and
selling their bodies it seems like these two archetypes have emerged simultaneously and I'd
love to get your take from like an evolutionary point of view like what is happening here why
have these two things emerge simultaneously and is there a way to get the traditional form of
romance back if there is to be hope for Gen Z it is going to have to figure out how to
step off this stupid treadmill and do something different and I really I'm stunned by the fact
that there doesn't appear to be a movement of gen Z folks opting out of the sophistications
or pseudo sophistications of their era I'm hoping it will merge I'm expecting it any day but I have
yet to see it I like your parallel between the incel on the one hand and the only fans model
on the other it's like an involuntarily celibate male and an involuntarily hypersexual female and
people say well what do you mean involuntary they they're deciding to have an only fans
account well no what they are doing is they are being driven to only fans or it's equivalent by
the lack of good options sexually speaking the only viable option is to monetize your sexuality
if you're beautiful enough to do it and hope to reach a large audience because effectively it's
it would be hard to find a man worth partnering with that the the society is so confused that
most men who in theory could be mates don't have the skill set nor the opportunities to
bring to the table that which would ordinarily cause them to to find a partner and so finding
many fractional Partners is what these only fans models are doing now of course for almost all of
them it is not economically VI and the result is that the market causes the exploitation of people
who are not going to get a good deal it's only a tiny number of Taylor Swifts who find themselves
extremely wealthy as a result of I'm not sure what exactly I hope people don't think I'm analogizing
her to an only fans model although it's not an entirely distinct phenomenon I see her on
stage wearing absurdly provocative costumes and I think to myself so is she really in charge or
has the system kind of enslaved her you know and it's not really one or the other she's obviously
Beyond wealthy but nonetheless it doesn't look to me like the choices that somebody who really had
achieved a level of power over their own life would be making I recently got engaged and my
fiance she has a pretty big YouTube platform as well and she's never really showed much skin she's
never you know done any of those and I asked her why she's never done that and she said that once
you do that nobody will ever take you seriously all you have to do is do it once and nobody will
ever take you seriously after that and I thought that that was such a good point and I've heard
Street interviews where people go around and say would you date a girl that had an only fans and
for most men it seems like that's a deal breaker and for women it's also a deal breaker would you
date a guy that followed girls on only fans they say oh no so it seems like this way of life is
being incentivized yet it's completely at odds with traditional romance and what could actually
connect us not only that but if we go back to porn for a second the porn industry is composed of a
bunch of different companies that are competing with each other and they're all selling the same
thing so in order to capture people's attention they are forced to compete in in the extremeness
of what they are presenting which forces them directly into taboos so they are breaking every
taboo for very mundane economic reasons and the problem with that is that the human creature is
built to discover what sex is and they discover it in part through the observation of other
people most of which is hidden but there's a certain amount that one can observe and then
they discover it through an intensely bonding Exploration with somebody else a very private
exploration that unites you in a secret kind of knowledge by replacing that natural process
of discovery with porn saturated with taboos we are actually distorting the sexual development
of the people who find this stuff early in life which is almost every male I'm I'm now led to
believe and what is very hard to say to these folks is by participating in that by consuming
that content you are destroying your own sexual mind and you are harming your future partner and
by doing that you're changing your whole life you don't think you're making a decision that's
changing your life you think you'll do it and if it's not good you'll stop and maybe you will but
the question is you can't go back to whatever your mind would have done you can't build the
relationship you would have built if you have seen so many these images and your mind has because it
has no resistance to this because it has seen it with its own photo receptors you have taken
it in as if that's a real portrayal of human sex and it isn't that's a Market Force that's not a
that's not what passion does so really I you know for many years I suffered the accusation of being
a approved for saying things like this and I'm not approved I'm not even against uh sexually explicit
content erotica is fine that's an ancient form I'm against what the market is doing to sex which I
think is extremely dangerous and it seems like the incentives plus the emerging AI could just
add gas to that fire cuz right now we have real women who are taking pictures and putting filters
on and photoshopping and whatever they can do but they're actually doing that themselves what if we
take away the human woman with the soul and just replace it with an AI that is designed to get you
to pay attention to it as long as possible and it could exploit our brains just like fast food has
exploited us there's no limit to that it can and it will and even worse than that we are already
at the point where AI can attach somebody's face to pornography who didn't consent to it and so
imagine that your sexual mind is being instructed by this profit driven industry and it gets the
ability to attach the face of your crush to these violent or otherwise troubling images
and then how exactly are you supposed to navigate a relationship with that person should they find
you attractive it's going to destroy what little of value remains in that landscape and it just
doesn't leave a path forward in which there is a an honorable relationship between men and women
and from like an evolutionary standpoint does this point towards Extinction or does this point
to maybe like people figure out a new way to breed digitally you know it takes an awful lot to create
Extinction I see that hazard in various things that we're doing I don't see it in the absolute
destruction of normal relation between the Sexes because you know it only takes a small number of
people to figure it out to keep the species going and in fact you know you can imagine all kinds of
dystopias in which uh eggs and sperm are joined in some way and technologically uh brought to
maturity or surrogacy becomes economically driven by people who want to produce children for reasons
of vanity or whatever you know so there are lots of ways in which Humanity can go forward
but from the point of view of a civilization that makes sense the importance of sexual and romantic
Drive cannot be overstated for almost all of our history as humans the desire to become
worthy of a sexual relationship has motivated men to accomplish great things it is in large measure
the fuel that created Civilization by eliminating that in incentive structure by making sex common
disgusting dangerous we are removing the thing that caused us to find this way of being and
uh I'm afraid although it's hard to predict the particulars of the way that goes wrong the general
trajectory is clear and again the right thing to do is for young people to say actually I I can see
the problem and I'm going to opt out and I'm going to interact with those who have also opted out I
don't know why that movement has not Arisen yet but when it does it will not be a moment too soon
all right I hope you enjoyed that clip with Brett Weinstein if you want to see the full conversation
you can click the link in the description or head over to before school our second Channel
and see that conversation along with many others I hope you enjoyed this one and thank you very much