Stable two-parent families and other civic bonds are essential for individual flourishing and the overall health of society.

“marriage not sexual satisfaction is the most appropriate goal for love children and adults flourish in stable two-parent families the broader community is best served by stable marriage and family”

Children from married, two-parent families experience superior educational, social, and emotional outcomes compared to children from non-intact families.

“kids are more likely to flourish you know educationally socially and emotionally when they have the benefit of married parents”

Societal order and stability depend on inherited stories and traditions that provide a bulwark against destruction.

“I worry about what happens when the square is denuded completely and that's why this discussions an item you to in particular a ride on the cusp of this because this is this is where I think a lot of us ah even if we really wanted to believe we basically can't”

Modern society lacks a narrative that validates the long-term meaning and civilizational value of raising children, leading parents to feel like their domestic contributions are insufficient.

“I think that's probably because our society culturally does a bad job of providing narratives that create sort of long run macro meaning in parenting.”

The current dating landscape is contributing to societal instability by eroding dependable pair bonds and community cohesion.

“and the behavioral aspect of this i think is interesting in terms of its externalities for other parts of our society not just dating as such but also how are we holding communities together how are we holding promises into the future how are we bringing forth children into the world are are we goin”

Modern social media usage is creating a substitute for genuine interpersonal relationships, leading to a decline in authentic social connection.

“A lot of this stuff is a lot of this stuff is absolutely it's a substitute for attentive attuned interpersonal relationships by people from people who love you.”

A decline in social interaction and civic participation among young people is contributing to significant societal problems and a sense of alienation.

“one of the things I've been you know consistently concerned about is the decline in sociability among young people”

Modern society is suffering from an infantilization process where adults are encouraged to behave like children, hindering their capacity to address serious challenges.

“the one issue I feel very passionate about and resent that it's never actually discussed in its own terms is the way that we're infantilizing our society and the way that adults are encouraged to behave like children”

Modern society's focus on neoliberal individualism and celebrity has negatively impacted communal mental health by forcing people to compete for status in ways that contradict human nature.

“the big change is the economy like we've become these kind of neoliberal profit obsessed celebrity obsessed individualists”

Modern society is fracturing into a state where people feel disconnected and believe they do not need one another, leading to a breakdown in shared community.

“Now, the scariest part of what I heard today was the fracturing of society creating people who truly don't believe they need one another >> or they don't care about the impact they have.”

Louise Perry views individual agency as a trait that follows a bell curve distribution rather than a universal human quality.

“I look I think increasingly that agency is more like a personality trait than is like a an essential quality of human beings I think that it's on a bell curve”

He argues that significant IQ disparities between racial populations are largely the result of natural differences for which no one is to blame.

“So if we acknowledge that for the most part we've discrimination is illegal, being racist is socially stigmatized. Uh and uh what we see the the outcomes and the disparities that we see are just largely the project product of natural differences for which no one is to blame.”

He asserts that differences in cognitive ability between ancestral population groups are factual and statistically documented.

“He basically says there are human differences there are differences between populations that descend from Northeast Asian ancestry from subsaharan African ancestry from northern European ANC he says they're just differences that's in the data”