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'''Eric Weinstein:'''

''No one on planet Earth is behaving rationally with respect to physics and UFOs. You have a claim that is being heard at the highest levels in Congress that we've lost control of our airspace. You either clear this thing up in an afternoon, or you call in Seal Team Six.''

'''Chris Williamson:'''

''Yeah, that's a really good point. How is it that we've got such an outlandish claim, which is being. Accepted? Not necessarily accepted, which is being received without the justified fanfare. It's like either this is completely crazy and needs to be thrown out, or this is absolutely wild and we need to do something about it. Why is it why is it the case? That's a really great point. That's a really great point. Why is it the case that this has made either—it hasn't made more fanfare in terms of people mobilizing, governments and such, or hasn't made way more criticism in terms of it being thrown out.''

'''Eric Weinstein:'''

''I don't know, why does the Diffuse proposal from the EcoHealth Alliance not get properly adjudicated scientifically?''

'''Chris Williamson'''

''I don't know what that is.''

'''Eric Weinstein:'''

''The EcoHealth Alliance is this group run by a zoologist who got $50 million from the Defense Department to help a lab in China work on coronavirus and making them more humanized. I mean, like, we should be able to adjudicate: did we start Covid? But we can't. All of these very simple things, we don't adjudicate. Look, Bureau of Labor Statistics claims that the Consumer Price Index is based on a cost of living measure. I claim that's not true. In order for that to be true, you have to take in consumer preference data, and you claim that you don't work with consumer preference data. I'm either right or I'm wrong. It's hugely consequential in terms of billions. I claim that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is completely lying that it's working on a cost of living framework, and that the academic responsible for it, a guy named Erwin Diewert, his theory of superlative index numbers is hogwash, doesn't work. It's based on homothetic preferences. That takes an afternoon to adjudicate. I claim that there is no labor shortage of scientists and engineers, despite claims that it's been going on since the 50s, because large market economies don't have labor shortages. That's a feature of centrally planned economies. There's no possible way—that's a four minute discussion. We are just lying, lying, lying, lying, as the substrate of our society. We're lying about physics. We’re lying about economics. We’re lying about finance. We’re lying about coronavirus and biological research. We’re lying about monetary aggregates.''

'''Chris Williamson:'''

''How many different hills are you waging a war on?''

'''Eric Weinstein:'''

''There's only one. It's called Managed Reality. This is all '''Managed Reality'''.''

'''Chris Williamson:'''

''What's that?''

'''Eric Weinstein:'''

''You know, I have this image of a tanker that is flipped over on a freeway, and there's bodies scattered, and people are bleeding, and the tanker’s on fire. And there's a cop, maybe a Special Forces guy with an automatic weapon who says, “Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.” You’re like, “Nothing to see?!?” There's, like, a severed hand on the pavement and you've got a tanker and it says, you know, “danger, flammable hazard”. And it's—is it about to blow? And—tell me what's going on! Like, nothing to see here, folks. Well, the “nothing to see here, folks”, is '''Managed Reality'''. We all know what that is. Policeman is actually saying, “Act as if there is nothing to see here, and move along”. It's an instruction to pretend. So we are being given instructions right now to pretend on everything. Pretend that you don't understand the CPI, Eric. Oh, okay. Pretend that you don't understand immigration and labor markets, Eric. Okay. Pretend that you don't understand physics. Pretend that you don't understand plagiarism. Pretend that you don't understand biology and gender. Well, it's—it's one hill. It's enforced pretending by a class of people that thinks that it is in a position to tell us all how to think at this level. Now, I don't disagree that that policeman has a right to say, “Move along, folks. Nothing to see”. There's a very clear reason why that person is saying that. But when you start to say that to your experts, to the Hazmat team who's telling you, you know, don't put out an electrical fire with water, when you are telling “nothing to see” to the mother who sees her child on the pavement, when you're constantly telling everybody who has a stake in something, and particularly everybody who has expertise in something, “you're a charlatan”, “you're a grifter”, “you're a fake”, “you're a fraud”, you're—it's like, shut up, just shut up. There's one hill.''

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