Bret Weinstein and Heather - Darkhorse Podcast

[jon-nyc]

Best comment on Weinstein post:

[jon-nyc]

Imagine thinking that a conspiracy theory with tens of thousands of conspiracists killing innocent Americans could operate for years without a single turncoat.

[kluurs]

Bret needs to find a hobby.

[jon-nyc]

Bret has more theories. I guess a shredder would have been too suspicious.

[Klaus]

Bret Weinstein used to be a mostly reasonable and interesting person.

What is the process that turns a reasonable and interesting person into a lunatic conspiracy theorist?

[Mik]

Clearly money.

[Klaus]

Money? But he seems to believe his own shit.

Can you use money to corrupt yourself? Maybe...

[Doctor Phibes]

@Klaus said in Bret Weinstein and Heather - Darkhorse Podcast:

Money? But he seems to believe his own shit.

"The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made."

[Horace]

Word on the street is that he and his brother no longer speak. When you've lost Eric Weinstein...

[Horace]

"The easiest person to deceive is oneself". Human minds are not truth seeking machines. They are survival machines. Ironically, Brett could actually speak intelligently about that. But he was financially devastated by the fallout from the Evergreen incident. He and his wife lost their careers and got a trivial settlement.

[jon-nyc]

I think it’s a not-uncommon trajectory, though he took it to an unusual extreme:

1- Someone strongly identifies with a social or professional group, 2) they experience rejection, status loss, or perceived betrayal from that group, 3) they reinterpret the group as corrupt or illegitimate, and finally 4) hatred ir critique of the group becomes central to their identity.

Sometimes the group generalizes to ‘the system’.

I dare say there’s a whiff of this in a former Fox News personality who gets mentioned here at times. General Flynn is another. But they come in all walks of life.

[Doctor Phibes]

A friend of my brother's went off the Covid conspiracy cliff. He went from being a witty, charming guy who was great fun to hang out with to somebody who just talked incessantly about one thing. If you'd have asked me to name a likely candidate for this among people I knew, he would literally have been last on the list.

[Renauda]

I have friend who went off the C19 deep end as well. Not all that surprising though, since was the sort who would never follow Dr’s advice or orders. Had continuously high cholesterol but refused to take his prescribed statin; even after suffering two strokes, the last one leaving him blind in one eye. Anyhow, he was dead set against the C19 jab. Yes, he came down with it and, yes, he ended up ten days in hospital during the Delta outbreak.