- Earlier, when you talked about criminality and creativity trends in men peaking at 14,
it reminded me of something you said, I think it was Joe Rogan,
talking about SJWs and how they create their own chaos
talking about how adolescents have this drive to change the world.
And I was wondering if those three, the criminality, creativity and drive to change the world, are linked,
and if so, if they manifest differently in men than in women,
and if they kind of come from the same area.
- Well, I think they are linked. But I'm going to concentrate more on the second part of your question.
So, I'm going to ask you guys to think about something.
I talked to a friend of mine the other day. He's a very, very smart guy.
And we'd been talking about, well, all the sorts of things that we've been talking about tonight, for a long time.
We were talking about the relative evolutionary roles of men and women.
This is speculative, obviously.
Because our research did indicate -- it's tentative research so far
that the SJW sort of 'equality above all else' philosophy is more prevalent among women.
It's predicted by the personality factors that are more common among women.
So, agreeableness and high negative emotion.
Primarily agreeableness.
But in addition, it's also predicted by being female.
And that's interesting, because in most of the personality research that I've done,
and as far as I know in the literature, at... you know, more broadly speaking,
most of the time you can get rid of the attitudinal differences between men and women,
or at least reduce them, by controlling for personality.
So, if you take a feminine man, and a masculine woman,
then, you know, the poles reverse. That didn't seem to be the case with political correctness.
And so I've been thinking about that a lot.
Because, well, men are bailing out of the humanities like mad.
And pretty much out of the universities. Except for STEM.
The women are moving in like mad. And they're also moving into the political sphere like mad.
And this is new, right. We've never had this happen before.
And we do not know what the significance of it is.
It's only 50 years old.
And so, we were thinking about this, and so... I don't know what you think about this proposition, but
imagine that, historically speaking, it's something like
women were responsible for distribution and men were responsible for production.
Something like that. And maybe that's only the case, really,
in the tight confines of the immediate family.
But that doesn't matter, because that's most of the evolutionary landscape for human beings, anyways.
But what the women did was make sure that everybody got enough.
Okay, and that seems to me to be one of the things that's driving,
at least in part, the SJW demand for equity and equality.
It's like, let's make sure everybody has enough.
It's like, well, fair enough, you know. I mean, you can't argue with that.
But there's an antipathy between that and the reality of differential productivity.
You know, because people really do differ in their productivity.
So, alright. So, to answer your question fully,
I do think that the rebellious tendency of adolescence is associated
both with that criminality spike, especially among men, and with creativity. Yes.
I think that the SJW phenomenon is different.
And I think it is associated, at least in part, with the rise of women to political power.
And we don't know what women are like when they have political power
because they're never had it. I mean, there's been queens, obviously
and that sort of thing. There's been female authority figures, and females
have wielded far more power historically than feminists generally like to admit.
But this is a different thing. We don't know what a truly female political philosophy would be like.
But it might be, especially if it's not been well examined, and it isn't very sophisticated conceptually,
it could easily be, 'well, let's make sure things are distributed equally.'
Well, yeah. But sorry, that's just not going to fly.
- Do you think in terms of the West and the SJWs, that you talked about in the last lecture as well,
creating chaos when there is none, otherwise it would be static, do you think there would be
any validity in saying that in a country like Canada, where we're pretty gender equal,
is there any merit to thinking SJWs are trying to create chaos even when there arguably is none
on a mass level obviously, if there are still problems...
- Why do they do that?
- Otherwise it would be static.
- Well, so I read this quote once, and I don't remember who said it.
It might have been Robert Heinlein, for crying out loud. A science fiction author.
That springs to mind, but it probably wasn't.
And the proposition was that men tested ideas, and that women tested men.
And I kinda like that. There's something about that, you know?
And now, it obviously is an over-generalization, but
we also don't know to what degree women test men sheerly through provocation.
It's a lot! Because, like, if you were to test someone,
you don't have a little conversation with them, like, you poke the hell out of them
and you say, okay, I'm going to go after you, and see where your weak spots are.
And it seems to me that in this constant protest and use of shame
and all of that that goes along with this sort of radical movement towards egalitarianism,
that there's a tremendous amount of provocation.
And, god, I'm going to say this too, even though I shouldn't.
But I don't believe this, but I'm trying to figure it out.
You know, I thought it was absolutely comical when 50 Shades of Grey came out, eh.
I just thought that was just so insanely comical.
That at the same time, there's this massive political demand for, like, radical equality.
And... say... with regards to sexual behaviour.
And the fastest selling novel the world had ever seen was S&M domination, right.
It's like, oh, well, we know where the unconscious is going with that one, don't we?
And sometimes I think, like... because one of the things that I've really tried to puzzle out
it's not like I believe this, right, I'm just telling you where the edges of my thinking have been going:
is that you have this crazy alliance between the feminists and the radical Islamists that I just do not get.
It's like, the feminists, why they aren't protesting non-stop about Saudi Arabia, is just completely beyond me!
Like, I do not understand it in the least.
And I wonder too, I just wonder bloody well -- and this is the Freudian in me --
is that, is there an attraction, you know, is there an attraction that's emerging among the female radicals
for that totalitarian male dominance that they've chased out of the West?
And I mean, that's a hell of a thing to think. But after all, I am psychoanalytically minded.
And I do think things like that. Because, like, I just can see no rational reason for it.
Like, the only other rational reason is that, well, the West needs to fall.
And so the enemy of my enemy is... exactly... no, what is it...
- The enemy of my enemy is my friend. That's why Islamists tend to vote liberal as well.
- Yes, exactly. Well, so, that could be the case.
But I'm not going to shake my suspicion about this unconscious balancing.
Because as the demand for egalitarianism and the eradication of masculinity accelerates,
there's going to be a longing in the unconscious for the precise opposite of that, right.
The more you scream for equality, the more your unconscious is going to admire dominance.
And so, well, that's... that's how you think if you're psychoanalytically minded.
And you know, I'm a great admirer of Freud. He knew a hell of a lot more than people like to think.
And so that's partly why everyone still hates him,
even though it's been 100 years since he's, you know, really been around.
Alright, we should stop.