Bret Weinstein - The West May Not Be Salvageable 

Do you think the West is salvageable? Why or why not? To buy my books, including Thomas Paine: A Lifetime of Radicalism, check out my online bookstore: davidbenner.square.site

“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Yuri Bezmenov warned us

A war against absolute evil.

By accepting and promoting tolerance for stupidity, we create our own demise, pure "ideocracy"

“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for the west as it commits suicide.” James Burnham 1960s. And as intelligent as Weinstein is, he contributed.

Decades of aggression and corruption have eaten away the integrity and morality that once were the foundations of Western society. The Dollar became the god that everyone worshipped and served over the general good of humanity.

Defund government.

Unbreakable cycle of history, people have to keep learning the hard way.

"This degradation in the West. You do not have to be religious to appreciate it, to be appalled by it. You can feel it in your soul, in your own moral compass. Something terrible is happening to the West and a destiny awaits for it." ~Mike Jones, Journalist

Mass deportations.

It's not saveable. It's game over already sorry.

the problem, society doesn't care

Groups that see them self as superior or chosen over other groups are the problem .

Should have outlawed lobbyists along time ago. The folks at the top put us in the poor house.

I agree with Brett. He is one of a few of us that actually sees things the way they really are and speaks the truth regardless of weather the cowards want to hear it or not

1995? How about 1905, before the federal reserve?

Bret, while seemingly a “nice guy” just as Jimmy Carter is a “nice guy,” is a quintessential “slow learner Democrat.” VOTE TRUMP & MAGA 100%

You have to go to pre-feminism to go back far enough.

I totally agree with Brett Weinstein! Totally! I wish I didn't.

I left London seven years ago but alas I did not go far out enough 😢

I agree. What he said in the very beginning is exactly true. The Soviet empire collapse because it’s been so much of its GDP on internal security as well as external security. Being able to repress your own people took a lot of resources. But now with AI the Internet and all the resources we have available, you can totally repress society at an alarming level with very few people. So you don’t need tens of thousands of people who are like-minded. You’ll need dozens in comparison. Which basically means if we become authoritarian, basically it’s forever. While in the past it was only for a generation or two.

Sadly, it may too late. Western Civilization is dying.

How many commenters here heard Obama argue for "fundamental change" and said "yes"? Well, you wanted it, you got it.

Hallelujah!!!! The daily jesus devotional has been a huge part of my transformation, God is good 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻was owning a loan of $47,000 to the bank for my son's brain surgery (David), Now I'm no longer in debt after I invested $8,000 and got my payout of $270,500 every months,God bless Christy Fiore 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸..

Toynbee , Spengler , Brooks Adams and others predicted this situation , it is in many ways Faustian man’s destiny.

Concur with Bret Weinstein regarding *Degree of Risk*

Once again Bret Weinstein: a brilliant, wonderful, smart genius is speaking facts & truth ... unfortunately.

One word - Christianity. Without it all the things you love and live for will be gone.

Total disagree with this perspective. It’s not a race or ethnic separation or control. It’s a corporate captured governments control and the policies that hold global domination. Through the exertion of this domination, it’s forced migration of a few types of religious groups to migrate into regions in such a mass that it creates conflict within the new country, not racial but religious conflict

Unfortunately I have arrived at the same dire conclusion over the last ~4 years. Starting in early 2020, my assessment has only proceeded exponentially. Based on my active search of what is happening and has really happened the last ~120 years. I was triggered ~22 years ago to study real history. My deficit of actual historical knowledge. Due to my youthful ignorance, propaganda, and being fed a steady diet of mis/dis information. I was truly oblivious to reality. Slowly and painfully learning what is much closer to a real truth. The likelihood of this dire outcome has became more obvious to me. It's in the cards.

"Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power... It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishments of a central world-wide dictatorship." ~W.Cleon Skousen

Very revealing, the esoterics of 2 jews talking to one another, about a failed system, that they created, and trying to figure a way to save it, by telling the Creator, and nature, to go to hell. Funny, but not.

NOT SALVAGEABLE. THE WEST IS UNDER THE WRATH OF GOD ESPECIALLY THE USA. THE HEDGE OF PROTECTION HAS BEEN REMOVED. PRAY FOR MERCY,- ST. FAUSTINA'S CHAPLET OF DEVINE MERCY. PRAY, PRAY PRAY UNCEASINGLY.

1995??? How about 1895?

Bring back the HARD WEST!

totally agree with Bret. I'm 74 so have participated in & watched the world drive itself into 2024 (from the post WWII times) and I cannot see there is any solution to what we are watching now. It's a case of we simply will watch the collapse happen.....whatever that will look like and whenever that point occurs?

I find Bret Weinstein annoying at times, here at 1.11 he tries to define the past as race against race, this is dumb as it was tribe against tribe, clan against clan. Here in the UK we fought the French for hundreds of years and they are the same race, so stop reverting back to the whole woke terminology.

The consent of the governed was based on race as well. That's why you've lost it.

Something totally not spoken about here -, is the driver for the united states was that inalienable rights and freedom, and the morality and even the justice system they were striving for, were predicated largely on judo christian based values. Even early mass legal migrants, many had these same values, Many of these systemic values we strived for can be seen in proverbs. Like gravity, the more a moral based governance model draws to a basis of high principles as provided for in the scriptures, the ten commandments, the higher likelihood of that system having a long term success. We have become Pottersville. What we are witnessing now is a decline of values, resulting in deaths, constant lies, political power, fame, sports worship, violence and sex, predominant in movies, deceit, lack of justice, crime drugs, childless homes, fatherless homes, bribes, no need to work hard to eat, government becoming our sole provider and God, Corporations driven by stock price, and profit over Godly Values, and so much more. Map the nations. as a general rule, the higher per capita wealth, are nations that at least had their roots in Judea christian principles, the last several centuries, (though starting to run on fumes), and nations as people doing well on "per capita" basis, (Japan) though not with the same religious history, and yet influenced strongly post WWII by a nation that was. Our nation never arrived, because like Israel, when the dream of freedom, wealth, cars homes, flat screen tv's entertainment, a great education and job, became a reality for many, no longer were Godly values seen as being as much as necessary. our Society started doing what was right in mans increasing perverse own eyes, more and more - and its end becomes death and destruction. Be it murdering babies, acceptance of any number of immoral practices as the norm, ranging from divorce, to adultery, to sex before marriage, and now, its just whatever oh that's okay too.

"Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

There is no value in deluding ourselves. As I see it, the current manifestation of our hypersensitive society where feelings outweigh facts is a direct extension of liberal progressivism. Those who were part of the " enlightenment " of trying to move beyond tribal / racial identity / cult of personality group think allowed themselves to become overtaken with their self satisfaction. They moved the goalposts as it were from achievement to appeasement, where the end results mattered less than they way they felt about themselves following some activity or proclamation. Of course, all this was being done in the ignorance of basic human behavior. There is, has always been, and will always be evil, greedy, narcissist, sociopathic people among us. They have been the root cause of conflict throughout the history of humankind. They recognize the propensity for the masses to be appeased and placated, the ease with which this can de accomplished. History is replete with examples. The growth of " social media " has made this easier than ever before, and the popularity of that media is, quite frankly, disturbing. I am reminded of an old adage ascribed to a cartoon strip. " We have met the enemy and he is us.".

it could have been salvageable if ppl weren't so indentured to their ideologies they refuse to accept correction of behaviour when facts dismantle the logical fallacies of their ideologies x their excuses for harmful/destructive/counterproductive behaviour

He was a professor of biology! He's not a sociologist for anthropologist. Abd he taught at Evergreen.

The system we created & you trashed

Not as long as women vote, its not.

Sure it is. I can see many ways. Rome had this problem. See the crises of the third century.

Agreed…we are in the “Fourth Turning”… look it up

That was a really weird cut off point.

The world may not retain the level of technology in a fractured world.

I think it has happened before, and will happen again, like lemmings running over a cliff. It's part of our natural cycle. We are evil hairless monkeys

In the old days they used to drop pamphlets from aeroplanes now they just do the same thing via social media.

Too many Brets in this world Im afraid

Naaahh lineage base societies are a far better outcome , certainly it has the wholehearted support of the population

OMG, he is worried the species will perish if the hegemon does not stay on top! Wow... What ego!

All these people have most of there money in Swiss Francs. So ya they don’t give s/:; if the United States fails

Oh, must be Eric's brother.

Capitalism is NOT liberty! 😅

Lineage vs Lineage tribal warfare is what's happening in Israel/Gaza. 😢

Today's world is proof that the world he wants to return to didn't work.

The west allowed and a baited this to happen to the Afrikaner and now it’s their turn

Jack Tiscione here: The "West" in the U.S. at least MIGHT be saved by having the country split into 4-6 separate countries and having the denizens "pick" a country of their liking (birds of a feather flock together). This would probably only happen after much "drang und angst tribal conflict" where simply being able to literally live would be the primary concern. (would be great, compared to the alternative, if the breakup happened peacefully BEFORE this tribal conflict) Its' unlikely this would happen and the country would degenerate into some Mad Max sort of thing where maybe the survivors ^ 20% maybe would find safety in their own tribal group...How would food be grown...Distribution would break down... On the face of it , it does seem like a hopeless situation. I fear for my grandsons

I grew up in the 80’s/90s and I don’t think that was the peak but we were largely deluded it was. The average American was not aware the dream of the west was maintained through brutal tactics all across the world since WWII. coups, assassination, economic sanctions and hundreds of military bases etc to maintain the illusion and a standard of living that made us here in the US feel like the future was only going to get better for everyone. 9/11 broke the spell at least for me. I started looking into why it happened and who bin Laden was and as soon as I saw we created the monster we had to slay any optimism I had about how far humanity had come was gone.

Is this coincidence what happened in 1919 On January 6, the Spartacist Revolutionary Committee announced via proclamation that Ebert should be deposed and that they would be forming a new revolutionary communist government. Whilst this proclamation was being announced armed groups of communist rebels took control of key government buildings in Berlin. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were hoping for a revolution along the same lines of Russia when it had undergone its own communist revolution in 1917

Who's to blame? He's a smart guy, been around - total liberal - what are the causes and what are the possible solutions? Need more details

I think he has it exactly backwards, and that we need to stop pretending that race doesn't matter or can somehow be wished away.

Feels more like a surrender than a war.

The human species was cursed with the ability to reason and that's going to be its primary reason for its extinction.

Only bringing God and the wisdom of scripture back to our lives will save us.

Whyyy would you end clip without completing that last statement?

The irony of him saying this. They spit on our face, and then call us filthy.

Good riddens to humans .

We've given away our inheritance!

The Enlightenment fueled all sorts of good things but also nurtured rejection of Christianity which was essential to Pax Americana. But these two are not Christians and recognizing that essentiality seems unavailable to them.

Sorry what has October 7 got to do with this? We have been on this path for at least a century.

The damage is done, there's no coming back.

Talking about “the west” as a monolith in 2024 is smooth brain behavior

Grifter incoming

its always strange to me how weinstein, an evolutionary biologist, doesnt apply darwinism to everything (he should). evolutionary mechanisms are cyclical, having both positive and negative feedback loops, and deception is a tried and tested evolutionary strategy.

Bret is dim.

Utopia can only be reached over a sea of blood!

And indeed, nothing can save it, simply because in reallity theres nothing of any value, worth saving. Do you believe your worth it and the rare exception? Hardly.

Why develop a narrative without names. Specific names, specific goals and specific options must be declared. Otherwise, outcomes will always be random.

Sounds like he’s talking about total human equity AKA human extinction.

Ok, this is the most racist elaboration ever? Somehow, YOU ARE entitled to set the rules for the WHOLE humanity?????

The very last statement about delivering people to the future they are leading us to. I don't think that would do any good. I'm 46 and have been politically aware for at least 20 of those years. I have personally witnessed policy change from birth to unintended consequence. There's always an excuse, displaced blame, or flat-out denial.

Makes some points but misses the mark in that he doesn't identify the real culprit: the illiberal forces of greed, self interest and religiosity at war with democracy, equality and the rule of law. It's not West vs non-West Its liberal democracy on the one hand vs kleptocracy, autocracy, theocracy and totalitarianism on the other

Hey, you. Yeah, you. If listening to these two... gentlemen you have rolled your eyes, know that I'm right there with you.

I have good news for Americans. The whole world will starve without the Mississippi/Missouri river. If everybody else wants to eat, America will be just fine.

Bret, I stumbled across you on the Dark Horse podcasts early pandemic and always found you to be very fair and overly intelligent but we have to believe it’s fixable or there’s no point in going on. And, not a criticism, but it’s going get worse before it gets better. But it will get better.

I keep suggesting to well intentioned white rt. wingers that they need to organize and fight, which is invariably viewed as distasteful and unacceptable, and something that the Left does, not them.

I think it might be time to look back to ancient Rome when the barbarians were at the gates. The Roman empire divided itself with Constantinople becoming the eastern capitol and Rome the western. In other words, as The Enlightenment is being picked apart by those incapable of understanding it, we need to divide the country before one, we lose the greatest gift the western world has given mankind or two, that the delay of that necessary division may cause violent opposition followed by a potential civil war. Ideally, anyone capable of understanding the root justifications for The Enlightenment needs to be separated within their own nations or even between continents. One side gets western and central Europe, the other the US and Canada. Because this fundamental irreconcilable division has no way of solving itself; we're simply designed differently between those who are capable of understanding liberalism and those who don't and at the gut level probably never will or could never accomplish even if they tried.

It's too bad neither of you apparently has never read the Bible. Humanity's fate is spelled out in detail in God's book the Bible. It reveals humanity's and the earth's ultimate fate. It might behoove you to actually read it, rather than offer up your mere opinions or speculate.

Always love Bret speaking,such an intelligent outlook.❤

Since when are we interviewing people on topics they arent really qualified to talk on. He was a professor of biology! He's not a sociologist for anthropologist.

Video seems to have cut off awkwardly at the end. Where is the rest of the statement? Please don't tell me this was an intentional bait and switch type teaser slash buy my book blatant capitalist manipulation of the audience. ...Especially lame given the topics discussed

He looks radiant when he says he is deeply concerned... Do you see it? He is rejoicing at the idea of war. These both human figures are demons.

I think it's quite true that integrity and morality were not always part of the spread of Western Civilisation but I would argue that there were certainly more discernible traces of it around in the past compared to the dog eat dog approach we have today.

Things may get much rougher than we're used to. But, I don't think that necessarily means the end of our species. After all, we're a highly adaptive species. Could this be a challenge? Yes, but don't sign the epitaph too soon.

Follow the rules of evil people, and it's easy to figure out what's gonna happen.