Breaking Free of Psyops Ep. 23: Darwin’s Secret, Malthus & the Battle Over Human Nature
Back in Canada after a trip to Istanbul, the host opens with the story behind his new Constantinople videos: why two Egyptian obelisks and the serpent tripod from Delphi ended up beside the Hagia Sophia on Constantine's orders. Then the main lecture asks whether Charles Darwin's theory was honest science or a political project. It starts with Richard Dawkins and The Selfish Gene, then sets Henry C. Carey, Lincoln's economic advisor, and William Gilpin's Cosmopolitan Railway and Bering Strait tunnel against Thomas Huxley's X Club and Herbert Spencer. Darwin's own autobiography credits Thomas…
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