Will Things Get Better? | Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

This episode is sponsored by and use code MP for 10% off! In today’s episode, Mikhaila hosts the evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. They had an insightful discussion with Mikhaila about how in the most prosperous age of human history, suicide and illness rates are skyrocketing. Humans are more miserable than ever. How did that happen from an evolutionary perspective? Are the challenges of modern life really that hard? They also delved into humanity’s reaction to COVID, birth control, switching genders, monogamy, and religion. Watch this episode to see how evolution shapes our lives.

Chapters

1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:50Welcomes
3. 2:35Who are Brett and Heather?
4. 4:17Their new book A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
5. 7:04Humanities reaction to COVID.
6. 10:12Hypernovelty and tools to calm our nervous system down and adapt appropriately to the rate of change going on?
7. 16:10Evolution & Religion
8. 22:04Birth Control
9. 25:19The costs of losing religion
10. 31:41What slowing down looks like
11. 35:26Getting back to nature and a need for reversibility.
12. 39:29Is there a way to tell if you see the world correctly?
13. 45:29Autoimmunity caused by rapid change and the hygiene hypothesis.
14. 50:58Are things going to get better?
15. 52:38Switching genders
16. 58:18Monogamy & Monogamous Cultures
17. 1:04:18Why serial polygamy is happening and the role birth control has played.
18. 1:11:08Junkification of the choices available to us and thinking in the long term.
19. 1:12:33Where you can find Brett & Heather