On this, our 345th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss immigration, AI, and rawness. First: a new Harper’s article chronicles the effects on local people of the mass migration across the Darién Gap in Panama between 2021 and 2025, and what has happened since the number of people coming up from Colombia has dropped to a trickle. The reporting on the ground is excellent—human and honest—while the political analysis is naïve at best. Then: what is it to be raw, how is it inherently human, and what is its relationship to grief, and to AI? ***** Our sponsors: Cozy Earth: Head to https://cozyearth.com and use code DARKHORSE for an exclusive 20% off on home and sleepwear. Puori: Clean and safe supplements, lab tested and guaranteed. Go to http://Puori.com/DarkHorse for 32% off grass-fed whey protein with a subscription. DarkHorse code works on all products! SaunaSpace: deep radiant heat from red and infrared incandescence—detox and decrease pain, reverse screen fatigue and improve your mood. http://Sauna.Space/DarkHorse for 10% off sitewide. ***** Join us on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com Heather’s newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3AGANGg (commission earned) Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net Thumbnail Courtesy Getty Images: John Moore / Getty Images South America ***** Mentioned in this episode: Minding the Gap: https://harpers.org/2026/09/general-interest-minding-the-gap-belen-fernandez-jasmine-liu/ Fernández – At the Edge of Empire: https://harpers.org/archive/2026/10/at-the-edge-of-empire-belen-fernandez-panama-immigration-towns/ Heying – Raw: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/raw Crawford, Why We Drive: [can you create an affiliate link for this] https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Drive-Toward-Philosophy/dp/0062741969/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y-PChdMBwHIDKvANAvihY7QLld0SKDGsAFdX8CZrjpTCa4LSx-TBsJo41Sl6JPbm-Ag2zIDy2woM-RCOjRAS0caXHPTH9ozjlifRrjsqc9Q.XcCZSCGXxdZVue61CBJ8YSVti4Emu5qyMkb7a1mFUiw&qid=1790800365&sr=8-2 ***** Timestamps: 00:00:00 Boredom Makes the Time Go Slow 00:03:57 Sponsor: Cozy Earth 00:07:35 Sponsor: Puori 00:09:22 Sponsor: SaunaSpace 00:12:05 Fat Bear Week: The Prepper's Mascot 00:16:40 Back to the Darién Gap 00:18:52 Invasion or Migration? Both. 00:24:24 How America Carved Panama From Colombia 00:30:33 Is a Boom Now a Right? 00:35:41 Where Did the Aid Organizations Go? 00:40:53 The Surge Was Too Fast to Be Organic 00:44:41 Why There's No Road Through the Darién 00:46:31 Great Reporting, Bad Geopolitics 00:51:00 Mayorkas, HIAS, and the Chinese Camp 00:52:10 Deport Only the Worst of the Worst? 00:58:09 This Is All of Us 01:02:12 Migration as Osmotic Pressure 01:06:15 The Feminization of Systems 01:10:01 Raw: Unprocessed, Unfiltered, Unclothed 01:21:02 The AI That Couldn't Lace a Wheel 01:27:27 Speedometer vs. the Wind in Your Hair 01:33:16 The Rawness of Grief 01:35:41 Why Can't Sociopaths Fake Grief? 01:39:59 Real Grief Is Raw. AI Is Cooked. 01:42:34 Playgrounds With Nails Sticking Out Support the show
