Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad - Liberalism, an Autopsy
We speak about the evolution of online ideologies, the increasingly unavoidable confrontation with post-liberalism, democracy, the individual, ideology itself as a child of the Enlightenment, Christianity as a necessary but eroding substructure of Western culture, and much more.
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Recently unpersoned Twitter great, Indian Bronson, joins me in a conversation about the realities of being someone with a conservative temperament in a world with no guard rails.
We talk about the dying gasps of the Republican Party, Voice vs. Exit, his work facilitating remote work and other exit opportunities, and the state of love & dating in the era of hyper-liberalism. IB is both extremely eloquent and dark-redpilled on the practical matters of navigating life, so definitely worth a listen.
You can find IB's latest work on his substack: https://indianbronson.substack.com/
where his latest piece on Exit is an excellent read for anyone with subversive tendencies: https://indianbronson.substack.com/p/decentralize-to-exit
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I chat to rogue scholar Michael Millerman about what political philosophy can teach us in a post-liberal age.
We also talk about:
Having roots in Eastern Europe as a motivation for learning political philosophy
Post-liberalism as a reality beyond liberalism, communism, and fascism What does Alexander Dugin add to the conversation?
Questioning the Individual and replacing him with different other subjectivities.
“Freedom means the freedom to reject liberalism”
Going back to the roots of our tradition to understand the fruits of it
Each Ethnos and the possibility of universal political principles - does Ango-Saxon politics work in Eastern Europe?
Can everyone get a liberal education?
Infohazards in understanding political philosophy.
The Marketplace of Ideas as a filter for truth.
Eastern Mysticism and how it helps us see nuance in “the self”
Being embodied vs. being in your body - Gnosticism as a fundamental imbalance.
Michael's recommended subversives are Leo Strauss, Alexander Dugin, and Martin Heidegger.
You can find his latest projects at @M_Millerman on Twitter and his excellent political philosophy courses on Teachable at: https://millerman.teachable.com/
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We speak about the case against Western intervention in Ukraine and Russia as a looming presence in Eastern Europe. We also speak about liberal imperialism, political pragmatism, France today, and much more.
Philippe is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Cornell and a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
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I speak to Malcom about the future of the left and cutting ties with it.
We also talk about:
- Who is the working class in the contemporary West?
- Elite overproduction and the real class project of the current left: Saving the Professional Middle Class from their own uselessness.
- Commie techno-utopianism and its Experts need to be destroyed
- Poor immigrant women voting for racist parties in enlightened Sweden
- A new breed of right-wingers thirsty for insights from the old school left, from class analysis to cliodynamics.
- The app economy as a new form of tax farming
- The left's never-ending war on the Kulaks
- What happened to Anti-Globalization as the core of the dissident left?
His recommended subversive is John Michael Greer, the very prescient writer of http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/
Malcom Kyeyune is a writer based in Sweden. He is also on the steering council of the Swedish think tank Oikos, a gray eminence behind the infamous Sweden Democrats and a shitposting virtuoso @tinkzorg.
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Indian Bronson is back as the first repeat guest on the show to talk with me at length about the sexual revolution, the fallout in the present, and potential scenarios for the future of love and marriage.
We also talk about Uncle Yarv, "conservatism isn't real" and the IDW vs CRT debate.
Indian Bronson is a prolific anonymous poster, alleged Miami tech bro, and friend. You can find him on Twitter at @lndian_Bronson and on Substack at https://indianbronson.substack.com/
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I speak to the brilliant Inez Stepman about our rejection of nature in the search for Utopia.
We also speak about:
- What it means to be an anti-feminist woman.
- Demographic collapse, the fertility crisis, and anti-natalism
- Politics on a simple axis: humanity is fallen or changeable?
- Abundance as a double-edged sword.
- Technology as a way to forget about nature.
- Transhumanism and rationalism
- The desexing of sex and the death of sexual tension
- Rape, consent, and the unlucky draw of simply being an awkward man
- Women don’t know what they want and that’s fine.
- The insanity of “Catching feelings” vs. “Bringing your whole self to work”
And much more.
Inez is a Lincoln Fellow at the Clairmont Institute, a writer for the Federalist, a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum and the host of the new podcast High Noon.
You can find Inez's work on her Twitter @InezFeltscher
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We speak about the dream of enlightenment liberalism, libertarianism as useful but incomplete, the retreat to a smaller scale, Covid as not a big deal, deaths in Teslas, Orania as a libertarian paradise, and much more.
Elon Bachman is an anonymous Twitter poster and writer. You can find him @ElonBachman on Twitter.
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We discuss Trace’s evolution from Mormonism to his current spiritual beliefs, his mission trip, and the struggle to find a personal spiritual answer. We also chat about the value of community and voluntary organization within religion, the pursuit of perfection, and the struggle against emptiness and decay. We also delve into the tension between the populist right and the traditional right, the struggle to build a cohesive movement, and the fragmentation within the online right, centrism, and the potential for a more inclusive pursuit of excellence. Our conversation concludes with a reflection on the value of life, the importance of intentional decision-making, and the duty to maintain and create positive structures.
Trace Woodgrains is a pseudonymous writer and podcast producer, he is on Twitter @tracewoodgrains and he is on Substack at https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/
Chapters for the full episode
00:00 Introduction and Background
07:02 Finding Community and Reasonable Conversations
15:17 The Value of Community and Voluntary Organization in Religion
37:04 The Tension Between the Populist Right and the Traditional Right
52:12 The Potential for a More Inclusive Center
01:09:46 The Value of Life and the Importance of Parenthood
01:15:13 Maintaining and Creating Positive Structures
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You can find the full-length podcast featuring Eugyppius here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jqhu42SfoI&feature=youtu.be
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I speak to Eugyppius about the last two years of warped existence under the Covid truth regime. We speak about its likely origins, the measures imposed through a sudden global burst of autocracy, the insanity of "Covid 0", the ever-shifting narrative around the virus and how it maps politically, the vaccine and its potential effects (and non-effects), "an epidemic of the unvaccinated!", mRNA vaccines in general, mandates and Covid as ersatz religion.
Eugyppius is an anonymous Twitter poster @eugyppius1 who now runs a successful Substack and his own podcast at https://eugyppius.substack.com.
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