0:54 Moldbug, messy look 4:04 Question #1 7:00 Wndell Wilkie, One Worldism 10:55 Favorite Historical Period? 14:10 Sumptuary Laws 16:00 Chesterton's Fence 17:50 Raising A Child 19:10 Favorite Books? 20:44 Wars to Save Lives? 21:30 Preventing WWI Hypothetical? Look to Nicholas II 26:30 WWI Propoganda 27:47 Mencius the philosopher 28:45 Right-Leaning, means favoring Order over Chaos Democracy --> Informal Power Structures (Intrinsic Disorder) Armies, Academies, Companies --> Ordered As a Pyramid 32:07 How do you teach someone to think for themselves? 33:24 Let the child solve the problem (Most) Children are rebellious 37:57 Education Upbringing 39:02 Thoughts on writing 40:55 PBS!! ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS 43:14 Culture shift 46:38 Climate Change 50:02 1890's-1970's (The Earth Is Colder Than It Should Be) "We're in the middle of an Ice Age in a warm period" 53:20 Nuclear Power? 54:26 Power 56:08 India-Pakistan 58:20 The Spartans 1:00:00 Henry Wallace and The Ruling Class Mindset 1:02:10 2020? The Power Generator System 1:04:18 Traditional American Dream, America is Vast with Culture Social Class affects Culture 1:07:50 Changes in Power precede Changes in Culture 1:08:45 Underappreciated Culture? - Egyptians? 1:10:10 Con Man Donald Trump 1:10:45 Neutral on China 1:15:45 The Law of Nations 1:17:19 Citizenship 1:19:25 Mars Colony? 1:20:15 Lady Gaga. Johnny Neuman 1:22:30 Being a Middle Aged person. 1:23:00 Germany? 1:25:40 US Stock Market, Crypto Currency? 1:27:00 Writers who know Curtis 1:29:30 The Distributist question 1:30:00 AI and Humans 1:31:20
Moldbug on climate change: From the perspective of someone studying it, if you say it's a problem, you are important, if you say it's not a problem you are not important and you become the enemy of all who say it's important. So in the marketplace of ideas, those on the side of "important" are going to win. So the fact that the people that worry about this have won all the battles in academia doesn't tell you anything. Genuine scientific inquiry would consider the benefits instead of solely the costs.
You just watched a Scott Adams video. I'm not saying there is no upside to climate change. Sure, some cold places will be warmer which makes them more comfortable for _some_ people. The downsides to climate change far outstrip the upsides, if any.
Climate Change is not even real, and the proposed ideas for tackling it are essentially either useless (carbon tax) or destructive (spraying the upper layer with a shadowing layer to reduce the sun light) or hyper expensive. It's the green's idea of heaven on Earth, like the commies equality shit, its a perpetual motion machine, so generation after generation can poor in effort and resources so the masses can be docile. Just look at the data, look what Tony Heller has to say about it.
yeah that’s what I thought is this the big scare? was expecting something something worst than Molyneux...with that said equally uninteresting. He doesn’t suck as much as Michael but still boring
Hes a 100x better writer than a speaker. Read his books. His talks with Malice are alright. His public talks are terrible. His books and blogs are literary mana.
Unfortunately they skip over (get distracted) the question "Do you see a path to defeating the Silicon Valley Cartel?" at 0:31:00. Next time they should discuss this for sure.
Considering the cartel's relations with Big Brother (the IC)...it may shapeshift into something less obviously monstrous, but its essence will persist.
I don't believe deliberately not speaking about politics at home leads children to question what is being taught at schools. My completely anecdotal experience monitoring families and their political/ethical/social discussions between generations, I have found next to nothing is discussed. Yet the beigists continue to be churned out at an indomitable rate. Isn't this a point Malice makes often, the right is to blame for allowing the complete takeover of academia and education by the left. Parents have outsourced the education and nurturing of their children, really delegated parenting entirely, to the state, public schools, and strangers. From what I can tell, it hasn't led to a generation of sagacious, independent thinkers at the fore of an intelligent revolution. Just more of the same trite and fallacious arguments/ideas from earlier centuries.
Regarding Climate change: what does Cathedral supposed to do, historically? It would trade Indulgence papers. Donations to far left NGOs and carbon offsets are typical Indulgence papers.
1:27:23 Moldbug names a number of individuals he likes to learn from even though some of them don't like him - Scott Lachlan (can't find him Googling), Greg Cochrane, Steve Zeller (" raising boys the Zeller way"?)
Eumeswil from Ernst Junger lays out his philosophy of the anarch not the anarchist. Something that Malice might want to explore...So many nuggets of wisdom in this book that apply to today....It's not too easy a read though. HIs book Storm of Steel is one of the best WW 1 books ever written...
18:00 ish - temperature might be a linear progression based on an algorithmic or exponential increase of Co2 but that isnt the only factor, and temperature itself isnt the endgame; a single digit temperatur increase itself has non-linear effects on climate - weather, glaciers/sea level etc. its complicated and what is negative in one area could be positive in another.. but you can't question that we ARE having an impact
If it's truly uncontroversial science, co2 increases lead to increased temperatures, why were so many temperature records set in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s? At a time of less human carbon. Even with the "adjusted" data, the 1960s and 1970s were still cooler than those preceeding decades. How can this be possible with ever increasing amounts of co2 emissions?
I waited all this time to watch this so that I could dedicate my complete attention... Not one minute in and I had to stop to check how much the hairstyles have changed in the past five months 😂😂😂😂
The most frequent ads I've ever seen on a RU-vid video (why do they even make this setting possible? It's unbearable.) PLUS in video advertisements. NICE
I was at the club that night and hung out with alig, but a guy named Andrew crispo picked me up and took me to a leather party in Chelsea. I was about to go home with him when the host pulled me aside and said “don’t do this, do you know who that Is ?! That guy murdered a German model / s/m gone wrong. Do not go home with him. I dodged many bullets In the NYC years
> Canadian Greg asks: which states moved to the right, economically and/or culturally, after switching from a non-democratic system to a democratic one (in either rhetoric or substance), over a few generations? > MM and MM: nope I don't know that we're "a few generations" in yet, but I my first suggestion would be to look at the fall of communism at the end of the cold war. I don't think one can deny that East Germany moved to the right, economically, throughout 1990. Cthulhu may have been swimming left, but only after a massive jerk to the right. Has it caught up with the status quo ante? Also, is this a proof, refutation or thesis-antithesis-synthesis-zigzag of Moldbug's point?
59:12 ... Every mere coincidence is now proof of a simulation... So the idea that we "live in simulation" has gone from an interesting lens on modernity, to a coping mechanism for those to afraid to reckon with reality, to just a word to replace "conindence"... Pretty interesting... giggles, covers mouth and says "Jinx"!
Any help out here with understanding how "power precedes culture"? I've heard of culture dictating future political campaigns, but I don't think this guy is saying the same thing.
The question is wrong from the get go. Power has to swim in a culture and without a culture you are barely talking about humans. You can ofc butcher people but your power is predicated on there being someone alive to dominate. It's not true to say that politics is downstream from culture in a straight line either
An example would be the power of the Union determining the culture of the ex-Confederacy. This does beg the question of the source of the Union's culture and why that culture evolved over time without the intervention of military defeat. Some of that evolution is forced by developments in science (eg Darwin) and technology. But, those are subject to interpretation. The Cathedral plays interpreter, its interpretations following the preferences of those in power.
China couldn't dump its bonds because the US holds more Chinese debt than China does US debt. It's a common fallacy but the rest of this was great. Good talk.
@@kreek22 why? If threat of mutually assured destruction is there why would they do it? China's economy and society is far more fragile than the US. Explain yourself.
1:07:50 “Power precedes culture” does it? Aren’t there tons of examples throughout history of an idea being born on the fringes, making it mainstream, gathering momentum, and then becoming codified in law? Am I missing something here? Sounds like Moldbug & Thaddeus Russell need to sort this one out if they actually are saying opposite things
It’s Moldbug’s own coinage for the intelligentsia/ the commentariat. The narrative forming forces who determine the official story. Similar to Weinstein’s G.I.N. The elite political economic class that manufactures consent. I’m sure Curtis has lots of writing about it somewhere :)
I'd add to help you understand that the Cathedral consists of the media, "education", government bueacracy. And the Cathedral is actually where power lies. Not the government. And unfortunately it's a very uniform ideology. Conservative ideology really only offers a minor deterance and Yarven sees the Cathedral as unbeatable. The Cathedral is "progressive". Which has Christian dissident origins . Basically we live under a theocracy, where progressive ideology rules. The end game is collapse per Yarvin. And then hopefully a reset. "Democracy" is incompatible with liberty for a variety of unavoidable reasons. So Curtis sees "monarchy" , a special case of monarchy, as being able to give "ordered liberty", which is the only type of true liberty. So there is an illusion of governmental power, but in reality the Cathedral runs things . It's particularly vivid right now because Trump resists the Cathedral. And so you see the media blatantly biased and creating narrative. And certainly the "election" looks very suspicious . It's a compelling argument. A lot if it fits what we see. He's definitely worth reading . Imagine 50(states) different Monarchies with free travel between competing for citizens. Citizens as customers. Anyway, hope that helps
@@555Trout Is there a particular book of his that goes over this in detail? This concept certainly resonates with me. A lot of people can't seem to make sense of the world, because they don't look at the world through a lens that really aligns with what you just said. Though I feel sick, I knew the best shot at freedom in my lifetime is a Biden win based directly on mail in ballots which the right won't trust. Chaotic Neutral etc. The status quo won't let us be free. The status quo hated Trump but he couldn't or wouldn't beat them.
@@kinvert Here you go: www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/04/open-letter-to-open-minded-progressives/ Seems Grey Mirror , Yarvin's new site is down for some reason, but: graymirror.substack.com/ Your intuitions indicate you'll find Yarvin fascinating. Cheers
Did Curtis literally just take a bracing swig of whiskey at the start??
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His hedonic tone clearly increased throughout the conversation. I wonder - is there perhaps not just "one Moldbug" but really "many Moldbugs"? I don't mean that other people write his articles. Rather, he writes some while drunk. IF he instead tried weed I suspect he'd be far more paranoid and would feel the weight of judgements over him far more deeply. It'd be fascinating to do a "high Moldbug" interview - my money is that he'd become quiet and subdued, paranoid and quite contemplative. Who knows, maybe it can be arranged. Cheers!
