2 chapters across the catalog
The hosts discuss the perceived "degrading intellectual content" of modern hip-hop and news media like CNN. They suggest that stupidity is weaponized to control the masses, often paired with the introduction of new drugs like ketamine to neutralize smart youth movements. This is compared to the 1960s use of LSD to disrupt the counterculture and political activism.
Harry Laughlin of the Eugenics Record Office is discussed for his efforts to use mathematical formulas to predict genetic traits and promote the breeding of the "fit." This leads to a discussion on "dysgenics," a term popularized by William Shockley, which posits that the "less fit" reproduce faster than the intelligent. Shockley's 1970s interview with William F. Buckley Jr. is cited as a key moment in the public debate over racial intellectual differences.
