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'''Eric Weinstein''': there. There was once upon a time, a heuristic that said the best way to have a multicultural society is that you have to have some load bearing fictions. Like all religions are equally problematic in all ways. There's no way that's true. Jane Jane's are not equally problematic as Jews, Jews are more problematic than Janes. And I'm able to say that because I'm Jewish.

'''Eric Weinstein''': As a result, those sharistics hardened into dogmas because they were necessary to keep our society operating. We have to believe at the moment that a jury of 12 people knows how to convict somebody based on guilt, even though the DNA evidence shows that that's not a real rubric. Okay. Well, I mean, it's a heuristic. Maybe it, maybe it works some of the time. Right? Okay. So as these sort of heuristics have been breaking down and these heuristics of the left are on top of the ones that are necessary for civil society. They, the desire to maintain this complex of ideas. Like trade is always good. No trade is not always good for all people that's, it's beyond moronic. Right, right. But it's only recently. That you have economists like Brad DeLong saying actually it's a, so, you know, the, the, what you're optimizing is a social Darwin. Darwin is a function which trade is good for you based on the cube of your wealth. So the richer you are by the cube of your wealth trade is good for you. Right? Well, Brad DeLong was also saying, and why are those everybody complaining about the trade deals we inked since they helped people in Mexico as if like American voters are gonna vote to help Mexican peasants. I mean, it's great if. Mexican peasants are helped, but I just don't see the lowest echelons of American society having as their top priority, helping Mexicans with their vote. I mean, none of this makes any effing sense,