Chris Buskirk - Nurturing Vitality in an Age of Decay
I speak with Chris about his involvement in the Blake Masters campaign and what he learned from it about civilizational vitality, America in decline but still on top of the world, US narrative hegemony, technology, debt, the frontier, and much more.
Chris Buskirk is an American entrepreneur and writer and founder, editor, and publisher at American Greatness. His latest book is "America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay"
You can watch the whole conversation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAJHb2tX0Y
I speak to Simon about how the United Kingdom changed since he was growing up, what prompted him to speak about the changes he was witnessing, Immigration, Rotherham, Colonialism and slavery (of all colors), Polish concentration camps, black history month, homeschooling and much more.
Simon Webb is a historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and non-fiction. He’s penned over forty westerns and over twenty non-fiction books, specializing in the area of social history and journalist. He is also the host of the popular History Debunked youtube channel, where he covers spicy topics on the continuous woke rewriting of history both modern and ancient.
I recommend you check out Simon's channel here on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCREM9VRZnIJHTw-oqfwgNUQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krwdXOcllJA
You can find the full-length podcast featuring Paul Kingsnorth here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lwrCLPSq1M&t=16s
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I speak to Paul about freedom under liberalism, his conversion to Romanian Orthodoxy, the possibility of a truly secular society, transhumanism, the English people and their right to self-determination, the hedonic treadmill, London as the new Babel, what is Hell, scientism and the race for the preservation of bare life under Covid, materialism, localism, AI, technocapital and more.
Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer and former environmental activist who lives in the west of Ireland. He is the former deputy editor of The Ecologist and the co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. You can find his work on his website https://www.paulkingsnorth.net/ and his Substack, The Abbey of Misrule.
His recommended subversive is Jaques Ellul and his book The Technological Society (plus a nod to Uncle Ted, who has explored similar territory).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToVrP4hEy80
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I talk to Justin Murphy about building a platform and a career on the internet, Gen Z shitposters, academic defectors, getting married already, aging and attractiveness, fertility and pronatalism, cheating, casual sex culture, minors fornicating, Urbit, a *different kind of internet* & private communities.
You can find Justin's work at @jmrphy on Twitter, at https://otherlife.co/ and https://www.indiethinkers.org/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHpwiuPvKYM
We speak about the problem of demographic collapse, what it could look like, and how both individuals and policy can address it. We also speak about the importance of religion, secular alternatives to religious natalism culture, government policy that works and doesn’t, testosterone and sperm count decline, fertility technology like IVF and embryo selection, surrogacy, exo wombs, and more.
Kevin is the organizer of the Natalism conference held in Austin Texas, in December 2023 and the Founder of Exit Group - a fraternal organization dedicated to ending our reliance on corporate employment, so that you can’t be threatened by a politicized HR department or an “employer mandate”.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmNfxlJNznc
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I speak to anonymous Twitter poster Lomez @L0m3z about this unique moment in dissident right politics.
We also speak about Thielbuxx, the attraction of the dissident right and anon Twitter as a social project, libertarianism as a gateway, rationalism vs. intuition, “the society of peasants”, Richard Weaver & Nominalism, quietism in Neoreaction vs. localism, banning CRT, and failure in Afghanistan.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZI86wkzBj8
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Our conversation explores the topic of housing and its influence on people's lives, the supply and demand dynamics of the housing market, the problem of expanding housing supply and preserving cultural values, the impact of immigration on housing demand, the effect of open borders on non-college educated workers, negativity bias in the news, the role of the internet in shaping cultural conversations, the impact of screens and technology on children and more.
Bryan Caplan is an economist and author. A professor of economics at George Mason University, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He publishes his own blog on Substack, which I highly recommend, Bet on It.
Chapters
00:00 The Exorbitant Cost of Housing
02:01 Government Regulation and Housing Prices
04:14 Expanding Housing Supply and Cultural Values
06:39 Deregulation and Open Borders
10:55 The Internet and the Negativity Bias
45:05 Nature vs. Nurture and Parenting
48:26 The Impact of Screens and Technology on Children
54:39 Choosing Coping Strategies and Individual Responsibility
01:06:09 Underrated Thinkers
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B72iAe6MCBc
I'm joined for a second time by James as we discuss what it means to be human and why this is worth holding on to as the tide of technology threatens to sweep us away. We also speak about technology as both tool and master, the future of one religion or many, the religious wars of the future, the old gods and the new, anarchoprimitivism, the power of images, permanent hysteria, and much more.
James Poulos is a writer, the founder, and editor of the American Mind, founder and publisher of Return.life, the author of The Art of Being Free, and his most recent book:
HUMAN, FOREVER - THE DIGITAL POLITICS OF SPIRITUAL WAR
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orXQYrMUOL8
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We speak about:
Positive gamification - giving away rice, planting trees, saving power.
Dark gamification - most everything else.
Releasing the pressure of expectations on young men.
The technological revolution and its consequences.
The culture war as a world-spanning game.
Ideology as character creation in an RPG.
Back to the city after “back to the land”
Trad as an attempt to capture something that never was, and much more.
Gurwinder Bhogal is a writer, researcher, technologist, and the author of www.gurwinder.blog
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGSaYONURo
In this special Subversive episode, I'm joined by one of the most influential and observant social critics of our age, a man who has seen it all and lived to tell the tale.
We speak about crime, anarcho-tyranny, the allure of violence, the concept of evil, religion, liberalism, decadence, mental illness, identity, stigma, and much, much more.
This was one of my favorite conversations on this podcast, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Anthony's recommended subversive is Simon Leys, an essayist, and sinologist, one of the first intellectuals to denounce the Cultural Revolution in China and the idolizing of Mao in the West.
Anthony Daniels, who is probably more well known by his pseudonym, Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison physician and psychiatrist and the author of many, many wonderful books, among them “Life at the Bottom” and “Our culture, what’s left of it."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgUIFDVesXQ