If you grew up in suburban Australia, you would be familiar with the green and gold trailers regularly appearing on our streets to mow our lawns. Jim’s Mowing has since expanded and the Jim’s Group is now the largest franchise in Australia and New Zealand with some 4,000 franchise owners turning over more than $500m a year serving 35,000 customers a day! But don’t let the blue-collar grass mowing success story fool you – Dr David Jim Penman, that’s right…Dr, is an avid student of history and how its cyclical nature is determined by biology, epigenetics and character amongst other things. Buckle up for a wild ride as we explore a huge range of topics including how civilisations are built, how to reverse their decline with epigenetics, why he is fighting the Victorian lockdown laws, and how Jim's franchises are truly a family. Show notes: 1:40 Jim’s academic history 3:10 Gibbons vs Baboons 5:00 Slow vs fast life history strategy 6:32 Genetic hard wiring and adaptations 7:35 Epigenetics 8:27 How civilisations are built 11:02 Restrictions that create productivity 12:15 Religions as cultural technologies 13:30 Where is civilisation going? 15:50 Elon Musk draws together high productivity people 16:34 Advanced peasant societies 17:20 Strictness on infants can set productivity 20:18 Using epigenetics to halt the decline 21:50 Caloric restriction in rats transferred through pheromones 23:15 CRISPR gene editing 25:00 Alternatives to Ritalin for students 26:22 Dystopian social engineering? 27:45 Victoria Australia descending into tribalism 28:38 Parallels with the decline of the Roman Empire 29:55 Giving up the Rule of Law for personal loyalties to Dan Andrews 31:00 Where Dan Andrews draws his political power from 32:20 The absurdities of lockdown laws covered by blind loyalty 34:00 Saving liberty through science? 38:12 Why Jim makes idealistic business decisions 39:50 Humanism won’t work because it’s incomplete 41:45 Progressive vs fundamental churches 43:52 10% of the population saving civilisation 46:35 The new immunisation? 48:38 Jim’s defence of Bill Gates 49:25 Jim clarifies his stance on Victorian lockdown laws 51:35 What is an unjust law? 53:10 Civil disobedience in Melbourne 54:50 The human cost of the lockdowns 56:05 The importance of mental health 1:00:50 The uniqueness of Jim’s Group franchises 1:03:30 Customers are not at the top of Jim’s hierarchy 1:06:10 Shareholder value should not be the final goal 1:09:10 What will Jim do until he dies? 1:10:45 Jim’s strengths and weaknesses 1:13:00 Jim doesn’t think about numbers – he thinks about culture 1:14:40 Jim’s message on Christianity Audio version of this episode: https://www.discernable.io/podcast/episode/2817926a/political-psychology-series-episode-2-jim-penman ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2YGNzhxSYY

Do you fall for misinformation? After millions of views, hundreds of thousands of interactions, tens of thousands of comments, and thousands of direct messages - the one thing I hear over and over is that you trust Discernable to be as balanced as possible. That we will not believe, fall for, or push misinformation. Here is the secret: be skeptical. Try to break your beliefs. John Stuart Mill said 'he who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that'. And yet when we hear opposing views, humans reflexively defend their positions as opposed to being vulnerable (a state we should prefer). So when you read something, does it feel warm and fuzzy, comforting and confirming of your beliefs? That's nice but doesn't really grow your perspective nor truly strengthen your beliefs. It simply confirms them. When you read something that makes you feel uncomfortable, challenged and squirmy - lean in to it, not out of it. This is your opportunity to grow your perspective and either change or strengthen your beliefs. My strongest beliefs about liberty, religion, capitalism, government, pandemics, vaccines...all become stronger the more I deliberately try to break them. This is called the scientific method (rigorous skepticism to correct distortions raised through cognitive assumptions). This intellectual honesty effectively vaccinates you from misinformation, and even from good accounts like Discernable you should always 'trust but verify'. The pictured Misinformation Medic website is a very simple and fun test to see what fake news looks like. https://misinformationmedic.com.au/ ---------------------------------------- **Bonus secret** even of the Australian pages out there that I love, respect and support, I am not aware of a single one that applies the same skepticism or effort to break (and therefore strengthen) their own position. There's lots and lots of confirmation bias, bless their hearts. It is for this reason Discernable will likely struggle to make any revenue as we grow - because we regularly annoy all sides of an argument. Who wants to sponsor that?! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbzLVI_kkA

Echo Chambers are Bad. Full interview with Alexandra Marshall: https://youtu.be/pXMoqNbPBAc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMb6d4ify3g

Novak Djokovic defeated the Australian Government and has been released into the Australian community. How exactly did he and his legal team pull this off? Going deep on the law and procedures of visas and migration, immigration law professional Anka Sahin sat down with Discernable to lay out exactly what unfolded, from the airport detention, to the court case. We also discussed the political machinations behind the scenes and how the Australian Government postures endlessly, finally ending our discussion on the plight of many people stuck inside the Australian migration system, often for years at a time. --------------------------------------- DISCERNABLE Our Private Community: https://discernable.locals.com The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable & https://odysee.com/@discernable Our Town Hall on Fleeing Australia and Golden Visas: https://discernable.webinarninja.com/live-webinars/7180138/register ANKA SAHIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankasahin anka@truebluemigration.com www.truebluemigration.com --------------------------------------- 3:00 What Novak did to get into Australia 5:51 This was a Tennis Australia process 7:44 Novak thought he had an exemption 8:42 Novak being detained and interviewed at the airport 10:00 Novak disclosed his vaccination status 10:46 Government exemptions on unvaccinated travellers 13:22 The initial court hearing, injunction and hotel detention 15:22 Gaps in the online court stream 16:51 Migration professionals speculated on Novak’s case…correctly 18:08 Game day – Djokovic’s lawyers lay out their case 19:11 The First Ground – ATAGI advice 22:16 The Second Ground - Failure to consider provided documents and the absence of extenuating circumstances 23:38 The Third Ground – Procedural Fairness 27:00 Renata Voracova has her visa cancelled 29:12 The result of the Novak’s court hearing 30:15 The Minister for Immigration can still cancel Novak’s visa 35:46 What is the government’s motivation? 39:40 Unvaccinated Australians are not allowed to depart their country 51:35 Mehdi Ali has been detained for 9 years since the age of 15 59:11 Anka is a polyglot 1:02:00 Music as a language 1:04:25 Anka’s nomadic work/home life and the truth about living outside Australia ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LccYXo5SFLo