Table of Contents

Since each episode is sort of like a chapter in a book, I think you should see these in order. Here they are:

(By the way, at the bottom of each Chapter page is a PDF of its transcript.)

Chapter 1 – How the West was Lost

Chapter 2 – Defining The Problem

Chapter 3 – Garbage In, Garbage Out

Chapter 4 – Dmitry

Chapter 5 – Benthamite Principles

Chapter 6 – If We’re So Dumb, How Come We’re Rich?

Chapter 7 – Is Everybody Happy?

Chapter 8 – The March of Science

Chapter 9 – The Box That You Can’t Think Outside Of

 

Chapter 10 – So Why Am I Really Doing This?

Chapter 11 – Those Enlightenment Values

Chapter 12 – Fake History

Chapter 13 – Sometime Around The Year Zero, Greece

Chapter 14 – Sometime Around The Year Zero, RomeĀ 

Chapter 15 – Sometime Around The Year Zero, Christianity

Chapter 16 – That Lost Millennium

Chapter 17 – The Way We Were

Chapter 18 – The Renaissance That Wasn’t

Chapter 19 – The Reform(ul)ation

Chapter 20 – Therefore I Am

Chapter 21 – Slippery Slopes

Chapter 22 – Sugar & Sex

Chapter 23 – Gods and Parameters

Chapter 24 – Philosophes

Chapter 25 – Scientism

Chapter 26 – The Utility of Nations

Chapter 27 – Problems With The Logic

Chapter 28 – American Exceptionalism

Chapter 29 – The Head and the Heart

Chapter 30 – Allons Enfants

Chapter 31 – Romance and Peace

Chapter 32: Approaching The Cusp

Chapter 33: Fake Science

Chapter 34: Non-Fake Science

Chapter 35: The Universe

Chapter 36: Life Itself

Chapter 37: Intelligence

Chapter 38: The Hypersocial Animal

Chapter 39: This Cambrian Moment

Chapter 40: Herding Humans

Chapter 41: Trust

Chapter 42: The Glue of Empire

Chapter 43: Natural Moral Law

Chapter 44: Being of Two Minds

 

Chapter 45: Marshmallows & Dopamine

Chapter 46: XX, XY

Chapter 47: Mother and Child

Chapter 48: Pair Bonding

Chapter 49: Manly Virtues

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Chapter 50: Summarizing Science

Chapter 51: Utopia/Dystopia

Chapter 52: Between The Wars

Chapter 53: From We To Me

Chapter 54: Fake Everything

Chapter 55: This Endless Moment

Chapter 56: New Morning

Chapter 57: Ebb Tide

Chapter 58: Dopamine Nation

Chapter 59: A Slight Pause

Chapter 60: Writing A Sonnet

Chapter 61: Whole Wheat Bread

Chapter 62: Democracy: Who Needs It?

Chapter 63: Short of Utopia

Chapter 64: Postmodern Derangement Syndrome

Chapter 65: Dialing It Back

Chapter 66: So You Say You Want A Revolution

Chapter 67: Crawling Back Up The Slippery Slope

Chapter 68: A Strong Woman Is An Oxymoron

Chapter 69: Love Is Good

Chapter 70: Sex Is Bad

Chapter 71: God As Default Setting

Chapter 72: What Else Is Left To Say?