Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
My guest today is Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist, associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, and author of many books, including (most recently) 'Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech'. We spoke about how consumerist culture limits fertility, the status games that parents play with their children, how the blank slate view of human nature makes parenting more difficult, and why it's adaptive to lie to ourselves about our true motivations.
In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about whether polyamory only works for a subset of the elite, and debated the merits of its normalisation.
2:27 Fermi’s paradox theory and runaway consumerism.
10:23 Are there individuals who are resistant to limbic capitalism?
13:47 High status symbols and birth rates
17:04 Contraception’s impact on runaway consumerist status signalling
22:07 Refrigerator mothers and tiger mothers
24:56 Private schools
28:58 Is status seeking among parents inevitable
30:10 Sexual signalling among partners who are parents
37:23 Concern trolling
41:01 Heat maps and the leftist ideal
46:18 Polyamory
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My guest today is Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist, associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, and author of many books, including (most recently) 'Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech'. We spoke about how consumerist culture limits fertility, the status games that parents play with their children, how the blank slate view of human nature makes parenting more difficult, and why it's adaptive to lie to ourselves about our true motivations.
In the extended part of the episode, we spoke about whether polyamory only works for a subset of the elite, and debated the merits of its normalisation.
2:27 Fermi’s paradox theory and runaway consumerism.
10:23 Are there individuals who are resistant to limbic capitalism?
13:47 High status symbols and birth rates
17:04 Contraception’s impact on runaway consumerist status signalling
22:07 Refrigerator mothers and tiger mothers
24:56 Private schools
28:58 Is status seeking among parents inevitable
30:10 Sexual signalling among partners who are parents
37:23 Concern trolling
41:01 Heat maps and the leftist ideal
46:18 Polyamory
MMM is sponsored by 321 - a new online introduction to Christianity, presented by former MMM guest Glen Scrivener. Check it out for free at 321course.com/MMM. Just enter your email, choose a password and you’re in — there’s no spam and no fees.
The MMM podcast can also be found on Apple, Spotify, and all other streaming platforms: https://linktr.ee/maidenmothermatriarch
Follow Maiden Mother Matriarch on social media:
Twitter: twitter.com/maiden_podcast
Instagram: instagram.com/maiden_mother_matriarch
TikTok: tiktok.com/@maiden_podcast
#LouisePerry #GeoffreyMiller #MaidenMotherMatriarch
