Merit & 5 Chimps
PDJ· Sep 23, 2026I regularly speak about how your 5 chimps influence your life the most.
If at least one of those chimps isn't pulling up the bar on honesty, merit, and truth without compromising, then the other 4 chimps will collectively develop the shared thinking around these values.
Intellectual dishonesty is developed from lack of discipline around self-introspection. Trusted chimps will confirm biases like no other dynamic. Suddenly your tribe can be reinforcing your brilliance when on a particular topic, you're a jaw-dropping-dumbass.
Lack of introspection comes from being in environments where friends don't stay on you about the truth and the difficult things you need to do to be healthy. Kind of like they would about going to the gym.
When I watch this post, I think about how the collective thinking around feminism has destroyed so many future families and created so much future misery. The pschological operation to convince women of something so incorrect has worked so incredibly well by appealing to power, that it has convinced a great many of them to ignore reproductive biological evolution.
Props to the bad guys.
And yet the problem is still weak men who didn't stand up to call out stupidity. Why do we still do this? Why do we still condone breathtaking retardation when some women speak?
It's the same reason that brought down Samson.
