This video was inspired by a comment

that I got on Twitter and it wasn't

really directed at me until someone

tagged me in it later on, but you get

the idea. So, let me just read the

entire tweet to you and then this is

going to be a reaction. But to not bury

the lead, basically the idea is that

that AI and the job apocalypse is going

to be the greatest man session ever. If

you haven't heard that term, the the man

session, that's basically circa 2009

when uh or I guess it was during the

recession recovery, the great recession

recovery where people realized that

women were recovering faster than men

and of course deaths from despair and

men have spiked since then. So that's

kind of the the historical framing

context. But let me just read this tweet

to you. One of the things I have, sorry,

one of the things I haven't seen many

people talk about is how destructive AI

is going to be to the status hierarchies

of male and female relations. The

political difference between the sexes

is already enormous and clearly causing

problems. So, what do you think happens

when you throw in a technology that

disproportionately impacts male jobs?

High status, high earning males,

particularly in white collar professions

initially, are going to see their status

totally annihilated. Not decreased,

totally destroyed. They'll be unemployed

with nothing to retrain into. Meanwhile,

female dominated processions

professions, sorry, actually won't fare

too poorly during the initial phases of

the AI revolution. Teaching, nursing,

caring professions, these will stick

around. If you think the culture wars

are bad now, wait until you see what

happens when some of the smartest,

previously highest paid men lose their

jobs, lose their status, have no means

to recoup it, and then have to listen to

toxic feminists spew nonsense at them

all day. That's the part I don't agree

with. They will snap. I guarantee it. It

is abundantly clear to me how few people

have thought through the ninth order

consequences of the world they are

heading towards which is why I have such

confidence in my own predictions versus

other people. All right. So the rest is

basically just like okay anyways you get

the idea. Now let's talk about this

because the historical record does show

that as men lose their jobs they are

more disproportionately affected

psychologically. They become more

depressed. They're more likely to do

harmful or self-destructive behaviors.

um they're more likely to get divorced

uh women are more likely to leave them

and so on and so forth. So that is

objectively true based on the cultural

context of what we have today. Now I am

not as worried in the long run. So what

I what I will concede is that yes this

will be very painful over the short

term. So, you know, next 5 years, 10

years, 20 years, as post labor economics

rolls out, as um as AI and robotics

ramps up, there's going to be men that

uh that are broken by this and do not

recover. Um many, however, will pivot.

And here's why I'm confident that people

will pivot. And you know, the kind of

the the thread started because uh

someone someone tagged me as in a

response to this saying that the

singularity enthusiasts don't talk about

this. And I say, "Well, typically I

don't talk about masculinity because the

internet has an immune system where if

you even mention men's issues or

masculinity, you're not automatically

branded right-wing, you're automatically

branded farright." So, I am the furthest

thing from far right. I am like a

radical centrist, moderate progressive.

That's how I identify. Moderate

centrist, progressive. Um, but you know,

it it it is folly to say that like men

don't have issues. And the more you deny

that an issue exists, the worse it gets,

so we might as well start talking about

this.

All right, that's the moral

grandstanding. Now, the objective data

shows like, yeah, there's a lot to be

worried about. However, when you take a

big step back and you look at masculine

needs, when you look at masculine

energies, and when you and and

specifically how it orbits around

psychosexual issues, because masculinity

and femininity are fundamentally still

about procreation and about generation.

Now, the energies themselves have become

abstracted away. And so, I'm talking

about things like thema and the animus

um and the masculine archetypes of

warrior, king, magician, and lover. Now,

if you're not familiar with all this,

this is all the work of Carl Young. So,

Carl Young uh through his uh work and

his genius and his constant

introspection and thousands of

interviews with people, he realized that

there are four archetypal masculine

energies or what he just called

masculine archetypes. I call them

masculine energies because they're

basically like kind of a platonic form

of like what does the ideal male look

like. So, there's the warrior king, the

magician, and the lover. And each of

those archetypal energies provides

something. And I also ground this in

evolution because one of the one of the

criticisms from neuroscience and

psychology is like, well, you can't

point at a part in the brain that that

encodes the archetypes, but of course,

you can't point at a bra at a at a

region of the brain that encodes

anything other than the neoortex. And

it's like, it's all encoded in there

somewhere. Um, but so let's talk about

these archetypes in the in the grand

scheme of things. At the highest order,

there is the sacred nest and there is

the wasteland or the arena. And these

are the archetypes that I am adding to

the conversation. So, and while I am

adding them in these particular names,

they exist in plenty of other

traditions, both philosophical

traditions, wisdom traditions, spiritual

traditions. So, I'm just giving it a

name that is more in line with the

Yungian uh I don't I don't know if

orthodoxy is the right term. Anyways, so

before humans, there is the wasteland,

there is the arena. The wasteland is a

place where no life can live. That is

basically the moon or you know the well

not the bottom of the ocean. Life can

live at the bottom of the ocean but the

moon or the high desert you know the

Arctic uh or Antarctic plains where it's

just too cold no life can live. So in

that place the archetypal energy is the

void. However, in the rest of the world

where you have competition you have

what's called the arena. So the arena is

the is the first uh like existence of

life and competition. So the definition

of competition or struggle in this case

is you have to have volition, you have

to have plurality and you have to have

scarcity. If you have those three things

in a system then you will have struggle

and so the struggle to live the survival

of the fittest and that sort of thing.

Everything follows from that. So that is

the substrate upon which all life has

generated

in that environment. The things that

survive are the things that are selected

that are able to survive. Now when you

look at humans in particular, humans

have several strategies for survival.

Some call it uh the free energy

principle where the whole point of

intelligence is to reduce surprise. Um

which is okay. That's that's one part.

Um but that's not that's not the entire

survival strategy. Sometimes the

survival strategy is reacting

immediately and killing something.

Sometimes the survival strategy is

seduction where you go out and you find

someone who is compatible and that sort

of thing. And I will uh place the like

upfront caveat. I am talking

predominantly about masculine energies

here. There are feminine energies um but

I am less familiar with that as that I

am not female and um I understand the

male's role more clearly. So with that

caveat out of the way, so then what

happens?

Our predecessors, our our primate

predecessors formed nests and this is

and this actually goes back before that

before we were even primates and

mammals. The sacred nest. So there is an

archetype that I call the sacred nest

which is basically this is our den. This

is our safety zone. This is the area

where nurturing can occur. Um and so

that is in in the case of birds it is a

literal just little nest. Squirrels have

nests. They have little hollows. uh bats

have their their caves and and their you

know slices of bark behind tree trunks

and that sort of thing. So there is this

archetype of the sacred nest. Now when

you look at humans in particular,

evolution made use of the man or the

masculine energy, the male type, the

male phenotype. Now one way that this is

used is to provide a boundary between

the sacred nest and the rest of the

arena. That is kind of the first uh like

order of the day that is basically

saying you're going to defend the nest

against uh predators, against poachers,

against uh you know com uh uh other

competing men. Um and that is your role.

So that's the warrior energy that is

that came first. And now of course the

warrior energy has been subordinated

into professions like police, like

soldiers and that sort of thing. With

that being said, um the man still has

that role in the home. So the man like a

a woman feels safer in the home when

there is a competent man who is able to

provide that boundary between the nest

the home and the rest of the outside

world. If a strange person comes to the

door the man is the one to respond. Um

if there is an an emergency if there is

a catastrophe and you need to either

leave home or hunker down that is the

warrior energy that says I'm going to

put my life in the line to protect you

and the home and you know the offspring

or whatever. Um so that is that is an

archetypal energy that is imbued into us

by evolution and of course many men have

lost touch with that because um we have

pathized the warrior energy recently and

and it is very unhealthy. I will say

that like if you look at the Andrew

Tates of the world where they say you

know I'm going to give you warrior

energy. I'm going to give you forthright

aggression and you don't have to be meek

and mild. That is a natural reaction to

suppressing warrior energy for too long.

It is not a mature uh expression of

warrior energy. It is not a healthy

expression of warrior energy, but is a

it is a um inevitable response to a

culture that has pathized warrior energy

for too long. So that's one. Now there

is nothing about losing a job because a

job takes place outside of the home. It

is about bringing resources to the home

which that that's the king energy. So

the king energy is about abundance,

fertility and that sort of thing. So the

provision of prosperity, but there is

nothing about losing a job or having a

job that prevents men from embodying the

warrior energy, which is basically your

woman feels safe. The ability for a man

to make a woman feel safe is the number

one most attractive thing um that a man

can have. And the reason is because

everything that goes into it,

confidence, competence, strength, all of

those things go into uh the ability for

a man to make a woman feel safe. And

that is what women want most in the

world because the world feels unsafe to

women. Now this you might say Dave that

sounds like you know blah blah blah

you're being too universal but you have

to remember where humans came from where

we started. We started as paleolithic

tribes where the world was very large

dangerous and very spooky. There were

tigers, there were bears, there were

snakes, there were alligators, there

were other neighboring tribes. The world

has always been very dangerous. Um it's

just that we live in a very comfortable

delusion right now that the world is

very safe. I actually gave a talk to

university students and I I I made the

illusion to like the um nature is red

and tooth and claw. And and some of the

students unironically said, "Nuhuh.

We're so much more peaceful now. We have

evolved." And I said, "No, we have not

evolved meaningfully in the last

thousand years. When society breaks

down, people become vicious. People

revert to more, you say, primitive

ways." But it's not it's not an

evolutionary regression. It is a

behavioral regression. And so talk to

any woman. Um they like most women have

to move through the world in a way where

they are putting their safety first in a

way that men do not have to think about

that. Um and the smaller the woman, the

more she is conscious about physical

safety at all times. Therefore, one of

the most archetypal energies a man can

offer a woman is that warrior energy

which is you are safe with me.

So then the second energy is the king

energy. So the king energy, the way that

Young described it is offers

consecration and fertility. Um but it's

more primitive than that. It's more

primal than that. The king offers um the

consecration which is like you know kind

of what dad does. Like dad says this is

the rule. Okay cool. So providing that

law, providing that structure, providing

that order. Um but beyond that is it is

also the provision of prosperity. The

reason that kings existed in history is

because we need to coordinate. We need

to have a decision maker and and the

decision maker sends the soldiers off to

war to say, "Okay, you go protect the

realm, but then also we're going to

manage the prosperity. We're going to

manage the farm, the livestock. We're

going to make sure that everyone has

enough to eat." Now, this is where I

will concede that if machines take all

human jobs, then your ability to earn a

wage to then feed your family goes away.

However, I am confident because of the

work that I've been doing on post-labor

economics that there will actually still

be a large role for men to play as the

bread winner. And that is that you will

transition from a wage slave, and I use

the term, I don't like the term, but

like wage slavery is a thing. That's

what that's what we live in. And the

idea that wage slavery is the best way

to meet the king energy is kind of

absurd in the long in in the grand

picture. Um, so what we will transition

to is instead of being a wage slave to

make your make ends meet, you'll become

more of a hedge fund manager for your

family. You'll become more of a venture

capitalist for your family. Why? Because

we're going to be getting multiple

revenue streams from things like

investments, from UBI, from universal

basic capital, from sovereign wealth

dividends, and that sort of thing. And

you'll still have that as a way of

saying, "Hey, you know what? I'm going

to go I'm going to go find a way to make

a little bit of extra cheddar for my

family." you will always have a way to

make more money. It will not necessarily

be through employment. It will not

necessarily be through conventional

labor contracts. But this is an example

and this is why I felt the need to

respond to this this tweet is because

yes, for the last about 200 years, I

mean really for for the majority of

society, it's only been about a hundred

years. But for the last 100 to 200

years, the primary way to be a bread

winner for most men was to go get a wage

labor contract of some kind. That is not

historically true. That is a modern

short-term aberration and we will go

back to more traditional and I I don't

like the word traditional because of the

associations. But I think we will go

back to a more primal way of embodying

these energies. So the king energy is

again it's about fertility, it's about

prosperity, it's about providing law and

order. Um you know the man makes the

rules and that's not to say that like

men should only make rules and women I'm

not like full red pill. um any domestic

partnership today is like it's a

negotiation and it's about who gets to

make what decisions and how decisions

get made and that sort of thing. With

that being said, like in my personal

example, I'm 8 years older than my wife.

I know a lot more about how the world

works and I'm a lot more experienced and

therefore it's just like I most of the

time the decisions default to me because

it's like hey, you know, I'm the one

who's ultimately going to take take

responsibility for these things and that

is another way that men can provide

containment to women. Now, there are

plenty of relationships where where um

ages are more equal or in some cases the

woman is older and it can be harder to

balance those energies, but that's a

different that's a different uh

conversation. So, the third energy is

the magician energy. The magician energy

is um more the more primitive or the

more primal version is the shaman. So,

the shaman is the one who understands

the mysteries of existence. So again,

when you look at where humans evolved

from, we came from examples of where,

you know, you were on the coast, you

were a tribe on the coast, or you were a

tribe in the rainforest or on the

savannah. And the world is very

mysterious. The stars in the skies had

no obvious explanation until the last

couple hundred years. Uh, you know, the

the coming of the tides, we knew that it

was roughly associated with the moon,

but we had no theory of gravity until

the last couple hundred years. And so

the magician is the masculine curiosity,

the masculine desire to understand the

world. Now this is the most directly

related to the free energy principle

which is to reduce surprise. One of the

best evolutionary strategies that that

evolution has come up with is double

down on curiosity, double down on

understanding, double down on

intelligence for its own sake. Because

the more intelligent that humans became,

the more exploits we found to protect

the sacred nest. The entire purpose of

intelligence was to serve the sacred

nest. This is one of the things that I

have learned in all of my readings and

all of my meditations and yes all of my

psychedelic trips is that the purpose of

the man in human uh in in the human

species is all in service of the sacred

nest. The warrior energy is to protect

the sacred nest. The king energy is to

um is to control and and provide for the

sacred nest. The magician energy is to

understand the rest of the world so that

the world does not surprise you because

surprises are bad for the sacred nest.

And so the magician energy um a lot of

people associate that with um with STEM

today like ah that that's the scientist.

You're the inventor, the innovator. Not

necessarily. It's the one who

understands. It's the one who sees

behind the curtain of reality. So

whether that means religious and

spiritual, whether that means technical

and scientific, whether that means

philosophical and embodied, all of those

are the magician energy, which is the

masculine urge to just understand how

does the world work. That's why that's

why you see the memes online like the

masculine urge to monitor the situation.

We have an instinct and by we I mean

men. We have an instinct to watch what's

happening in the broader world because

that is that is where our attention is

primarily cast is outside of the nest.

So yes, stuff happening in Iran doesn't

necessarily apply to us directly, but it

is within our information domain. It is

with within our information horizon. So

we got to monitor that situation. We

monitor the storms. We monitor politics

and all that kind of fun stuff. That's

why newspapers exist in the shape that

they do. And that's why the archetypal

image of the man reading the newspaper

in the morning to be wellinformed that

is the magician energy being enacted on

a daily basis. And so the and again none

of this is to say this is exclusively

the domain of men. That might be implied

but that is not how it works. Um what

I'm talking about is the traditional

primal or the most correct word is

atistic. So adivistic is basically the

embodiment of like ancient or or

primitive instincts and um experiences.

So the adivistic purpose of all this is

again to protect the sacred nest. And

the final uh masculine energy is the

lover. This is the this is the the

hedenist. This is the one who um pursues

pleasure. So uh in the form of food,

drink, women, uh all those things, good

experiences, that is the final energy.

And again, whether or not you have a job

doesn't impact your ability to really

enjoy a good time or to uh to be sensual

and have those positive uh let's say

interactions with your woman. Um and if

you have all of those energies and you

embody them and you develop those

energies, you will have a good

relationship with uh your woman and then

you will whether or not you have a job

is irrelevant to those outcomes. And

also those energies help you uh find a

better place in the world. Uh so you

know for me and just in particular as a

as a personal example I make a living by

embodying mostly the magician energy

which is understanding the future. Um in

a more uh primitive setting I'm I'm kind

of the one scrying, right? I'm I'm

looking into the crystal ball and saying

this is where this is where fate is

leading us. So I'd be more of a

spiritual leader. And in fact, in the

broader context of the meaning economy

or the attention economy, that is what I

provide. I say, you know, the the the

tribe comes to me, all 187,000

subscribers. The tribe comes to me to

say, Dave, what does the future hold for

us? What should we do? How should we

prepare? And that is me embodying the

magician energy to like basically make a

living, but also to add value back to

the tribe. So, with all that being said,

yes, in the short term, then the then

the renegotiation, the economic

renegotiation that we're about to go

through, the uh rights negotiation that

we're that we're going through. So, this

this is a little bit tangential, but

there I've I'm seeing more and more

people in the AI space talk about

gender, so I figure might as well lead

the conversation. So, um people the

women are coming to this realization as

well, which is like, wait, why why

aren't we producing as many children?

What what does feminism have to do with

this? What does the economy have to do

with this? And for me, my view is that

feminism is a natural result of

capitalism and democracy. And it is not

the cause. It is not the driver of these

things. But when you take a step back,

one of the bedrock values of democracy

is equality before the law. Now, that

was established 250 years ago um with,

you know, the the the Declaration of

Independence and the Constitution. Um

the French also kind of started that. So

the idea of a constitutional republic or

a constitutional democracy generally

holds equality before the law. Well, it

took us a couple hundred years to really

figure it out. Why? Because slaves were

not equal before the law and women were

not equal before the law. So the

democratic experiment has taken two and

a half centuries to really figure out

what equality before the law really

means. Um you know, do does does

everyone get an equal vote? Yes, we

figured that out. Does everyone get

equal economic rights? Yes, we figured

that out in the late '7s. So now that

women can get the same level of

education, the same level of economic

autonomy, then we are going through a

necessary and inevitable epochal

disintegration of the old patriarchal

power structures. Now that is because of

the twin forces of democracy and

capitalism which are centuries in the

making uh to basically say hey yes we

understand you know the patriarchal

social paradigm but the patriarchal

social paradigm was economically

inefficient and so when it when we

decided that it was economically

inefficient and it was mostly to keep up

with the Russians let's be honest

because the Russians the Soviets were

saying we're not like the west our women

are equal our women are able to get an

education and they're able to contribute

and they're able to um to make a living

and get and and all that fun stuff. And

so the West saying they basically said,

"Well, me too. You know, we're not going

to we're not going to do that." And so

JFK released the presidential report on

the economic status of women in 1967,

I think, is when it came out. Um

although I think he was dead by then.

Anyways, it was by JFK. I don't remember

the exact year that it was released, but

basically that was the United States

response to Soviet communism, saying

women are equal and they and we

realized, well, if another nation allows

half their population to get educated

and enter the workforce, we are going to

be at a structural disadvantage. And so

the combination of capitalism and

democracy said, "All right, it's time to

give women full equal rights and

economic rights and that sort of And

what we're dealing with the surge of

divorce rates, the decline of birth

rates, all of that is a natural and

inevitable consequence of that one

apocal

probably. We we will find a new uh

civilizational equilibrium. But it takes

time. It takes decades. It takes

sometimes hundreds of years, especially

when the paradigm that just broke was

patriarchy, which was implemented for at

least, I don't know, minimum 5,000

years, probably much longer than that.

um basically since the dawn of

agriculture if not earlier. So yes, we

are going through a um a a once in a

species reckoning. And that's not to say

that like the women are going to like

cause dire vengeance and you know like

what what this tweet talked about like

how did he word it? Uh and then have to

listen to toxic feminists spew nonsense

at them all day. um you know that that

is that is uh what I would say is that

kind of reaction is a reaction from a

place of weakness. That is that is a

reaction that is not inhabiting those

masculine energies and understanding how

we even got here and and you if you

don't know where you are and how you got

here, you have no clue where you're

going. So yes, um these conversations

are going to be very important and

they're going to be very critical to

understand to create a soft landing

zone. Now what he's predicting I think

is absolutely going to be true. Why?

Because not everyone's going to believe

what I believe and not everyone's going

to understand what I'm trying to say and

I'm not going to articulate it and I'm

not going to be completely right either.

And even if I am right about the history

and how we got here, uh, society and

civilization is emergent and divergent,

meaning that people are going to take it

a bunch of different directions. There's

already blue pill and red pill and white

pill and black pill and purple pill.

There's all these different pills that

you can take. Um, and so one of the

things that comes with freedom, speaking

of consequences of freedom and

individual liberty, is the freedom to

live how you want. But that also

presents the problem of choice. So the

pro excuse me the problem of choice is

basically in a highdimensional choice

space or or or uh option space it

becomes harder and harder to make good

choices. In a lowdimensional problem

space basically lowdimensional is you're

hungry so you need food. Uh you have one

answer you have one one direction which

is find food. If you're thirsty get

water. That's a lowdimensional problem

space and a highdimensional problem

space which is how do you orient towards

capitalism and democracy and gender and

religion and science and all of these

other things. Each one of those is a

highdimensional space. So how you orient

towards all of those is why we have what

I call epistemic tribes which is a tribe

a tribal value that says here is a

readymade template of how you orient

towards the entire world. Here's how you

understand what is true what is knowable

and what is false and what is not. And

to you in tribe A, X, Y, and Z are

absolutely true and A, B, and C are

false. And if you're in tribe B, it's

reverse. X, Y, and Z is false and A, B

and C is true. So that is where we're

heading towards. And yes, it will be a

disintegration.

And as I have talked about uh quite a

lot is artificial intelligence and

robotics are a forcing function. So

technology historically has always been

a forcing function for these

disintegrations. And this is not the

first disintegration that we will be

going through. So this is not the first

disintegration we've gone through. Um

when when uh 200 plus years ago when the

first industrial revolution ramped up

and then the second industrial

revolution ramped up after that when

most people were farmers they said

you're destroying our entire way of

life. Um and we adapted. Now, you might

argue not for the better because cities

were disgusting and the jobs were worse

and now the capitalists control

everything and we don't even control our

own productivity and we don't control

our own property. And you know that's a

that's an argument to be made that uh

you know basically going that everything

after switching from nomadic lifestyles

has been a worse lifestyle. And there's

actually people that study this. So,

what I'm referring to is the observation

that uh that hunter gatherers or nomads

tended to be physically healthier,

physically happier, they didn't live as

long um because one bad season and you

freeze to death or you starve or

whatever. And so, even though the

lifestyle of the nomad and the hunter

gatherer was more optimized for the

human body, the hunter gatherers still

all became they either died out or they

joined the um the agrarians because

better food supply. But then that

introduced them to zooonautic diseases

and backbreaking work that our bodies

are not optimized for. So basically

since the younger dus we have been

living in a less and less optimal

lifestyle. Even sitting here in an

office talking to a camera being

completely by myself is not optimal for

the human body. Um I we shouldn't be

sitting all day. We shouldn't be alone

all day. But here we are. And you might

say, "Well Dave, technology created all

that." Yes, but we created the

technology. That's a little bit of a

side tangent. So anyways, um I think

that's enough to throw at you today. I

have no idea how this is going to turn

out. Um because again, conversations

about masculinity usually devolve into

you're far right. And I'm like, no. Um

and most people can't get beyond like,

well, feminism says this and Andrew Tate

says that, so I don't expect this to do

any better. Um and this is kind of what

I said on Twitter, which is the Overton

window is not ready for this

conversation. Um, and I don't think it

it might never be ready for this

conversation. This might always be a

niche conversation that basically says,

um, only those who seek it out will ever

have this conversation. Um, maybe that's

true. I don't know. We'll see. All

right, I'm done. Cheers.