The Winds of Change on the Internet: Have We Reached the End of the Woke Debate? Mike Solana Video

In this 15 June 2024 video of Modern Wisdom, host Chris Williamson has a discussion with Mike Solana, a writer, Vice President at Founders Fund, Founder CEO of Pirate Wires and a podcaster. A strong voice on the current raging culture war being seen on the Internet and the thought direction change happening.

To no one’s surprise, the future of American media and politics is upside down. A pervasive lack of trust leaves everyone uncertain about the rest of the year. So what does the future have in store, and what facts can we be certain about in a time of turmoil and confusion?

Expect to learn why the new app Fly Me Out is a fantastic inditement of the modern dating culture, why the tide is turning against independent and mainstream media, whether the left vs right debate is officially dead, what the future of news and media will look like, whether American colleges are really a lost cause, how taboo subjects affect science and censorship in academia, Mike’s prediction for the first Trump vs. Biden debate and more.

https://youtu.be/fiV83SojRz0

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00:00 The New App for Young, Hot People
08:13 Evolution of Internet Mimetic Warfare
18:21 The Culture War Shiny Object Cycle
26:30 What Mike Learned From Jack Dorsey
33:50 The Future of Media Companies
37:00 Are American Colleges a Lost Cause?
41:22 The Top 10 Taboo Topics
45:21 Why Conspiracies Are So Seductive
53:09 Will TikTok Get Banned?
59:32 The Existential Risks of AI
1:02:04 Will Biden & Trump Debate?
1:14:55 Where to Find Mike

Video excerpt

A new study sheds light on taboos in science confirming that race and IQ are the most taboo subject of all. They condensed down a bunch of statements into 10 most taboo topics in all of psychology. Let me read to you the top 10 from the study. 

The authors of the study began by interviewing 41 Psychology researchers to get an idea of which topics are most taboo. Using the different researcher answers as a guide, they condensed those topics into a set of 10 statements.
 
Number one – The tendency to engage in sexually coercive behavior likely evolved because it conferred some evolutionary advantages on men who engaged in such behavior
Number two – Gender biases are not the most important drivers of the underrepresentation of women in stem Fields 
Number three – Academia discriminates against black people in hiring, promotion, grants, invitations, etc.
Number four – Biological sex is binary for the vast majority of people 
Number five – The social sciences in the United States discriminate against conservatives 
Number six – Racial biases are not the most important drivers of higher crime rates among black Americans relative to white Americans 
Number seven – Men and women have different psychological characteristics because of evolution 
Number eight – Genetic differences explain non-trivial 10 percent or more variances in race differences in intelligence test scores 
Number nine – Transgender identity is sometimes the product of social influence 
Number ten – Demographic diversity race and gender in the workplace often leads to worse performance

The study authors studied 470 Psychology professors and basically found that so many professors are terrified censorship at the same time they are terrified of speaking up and out on any of these topics. Which one of those topics do you want to talk publicly about. I mean there’s some stuff on the list, like the biological sex of men and women is binary for the vast majority of people, which states a scientific. But in a public High School sports team debate, a trans woman who is absolutely destroying her competition is  not going to be okay with that topic.