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Religion is Declining Faster Than You Think
We discuss statistics showing the rapid decline in belief in God among Gen Z, and how conservative Gen Z splits into different ideological camps. We analyze why historic techniques for passing down traditions intergenerationally are failing, how Gen Z hides changes from parents, and why the parents' generation isn't transmitting culture properly to their kids.
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] when we're looking at you know, the extent of the urban monoculture, and we're talking about how much culture has changed recently, people see this as sort of a linear change that is linearly Going from the boomers, you know, up to modern generations, right?
It is not. It is, it is an asymmetric change. It's logarithmic. It is happening incredibly quickly right now. What has happened in this last 20 years is not comparable to what was happening in our own childhood. Mm hmm. Culturally speaking. these iterations of conservatism I see within Gen Z is really different from their parents generation.
And it means that the parents are not passing culture intergenerationally with fidelity, even when they believe they have.
Simone Collins: Yeah. Well, and also like, I think, you know, like, as you say, a lot of kids are hiding that, which is, Not helpful, I guess, in helping parents course correct, [00:01:00] but also, if the parents knew that their kids had lost their religion, would there be anything they can do?
Malcolm Collins: a lot of the techniques. That people have historically used to pass down these traditions intergenerationally are just not working very well.
Would you like to know more?
Malcolm Collins: Task item regards to that? I already did. Yeah. And in addition to that, could you um, send yourself a to do item about emailing her the, I already sent her the
Simone Collins: email. Look at how on top of things they are.
Malcolm Collins: No, I'm sorry, Simone. I'm sorry. I don't, you are amazing. This is a great way to start so people see how it is.
When I ask you to do things, you just camera, well, like you were in the
Simone Collins: middle before that we were rudely interrupted by a call. You were telling me how Chavez, Castro, and Che were doing. With, you know, like AOC and Bernie. Like, are they okay?
Malcolm Collins: They looked terrified when I first met them. So, you are chickens after communists.
And they seemed fine. They seemed fine. They were making they were complaining a lot. They were, and in a separate part of the cage. So they [00:02:00] were talking.
Simone Collins: Okay. So they're, they're okay. Were they, were they being attacked by
Malcolm Collins: AOC I don't know. They were in a different part,
Simone Collins: you know. Okay. So they're, they're like, they're, they're, they're clustering together.
Malcolm Collins: Yeah. They're not like dead or anything. Okay. I just, I don't know. Like, I'm,
Simone Collins: I'm worried. I don't want them to be like stressed out or anything. And like, they're the friendliest ones. So
Malcolm Collins: I don't know. You are the sweetest chicken mom which I appreciate because we're getting lots of great eggs which means egg everything these days.
So, you, right before this, you know, being ever diligent sent me some statistics you thought I would find interesting. Yeah! And they were so shocking, I then did a sanity test on them after you sent them to me, just to be like, come on, this can't be... So first you know, you're going to see the statistics on the screen if you're watching on YouTube.
What it shows is the share of Americans This is Americans, right? I think so. Who believe in [00:03:00] God with
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