Next Decoding Material: Curtis Yarvin
Added 2024-10-24 07:19:02 +0000 UTCWe are doing a two-for-one set of gurus next with Curtis Yarving and Peter Thiel before heading into left-wing wonkery.
For those who want to play along, here is the Yarvin material we will be looking at. We also get to hear from Francis and Konstantin! Yay!
Comments
Yes. Very common term used by children of communist parents. Mainly baby boom generation.
Martin Birch
2024-10-27 16:48:26 +0000 UTCPS - anyone here in the US ever hear of a “red diaper baby”??? My ears are bleeding
Melissa Eldridge
2024-10-27 14:53:10 +0000 UTCWHAT AM I LISTENING TO?? Even the sound of his voice makes me want to die - why are they letting him talk and WHAT IS HE TRYING TO SAY AHHHHHHH ☠️
Melissa Eldridge
2024-10-27 14:52:14 +0000 UTCStill, you've got give a libertarian credit for being able to see that libertarianism (which is what he means by 'freedom') is incompatible with democracy.
Sonje Finnestad
2024-10-27 01:46:50 +0000 UTCYes, my experience of old communists - the few who are left - is that they continue to be very careful in all sorts of ways. And they do use the word "progressive" in that way.
Sonje Finnestad
2024-10-27 01:37:20 +0000 UTCHe 'explains' everthing at such unnecessary length. Do these guys not feel insulted, being talked down to like that?
Sonje Finnestad
2024-10-27 01:34:12 +0000 UTCThe hairdoo is very AGP
KBDaxio
2024-10-26 18:42:17 +0000 UTCYeah, he swings wildly between knowing and referencing obscure thinkers I have never heard, and shocking gaps in his basic knowledge. The one that hit me was when he claimed that the term “progressive” dates back to Communists of the 1930s without realizing that there was a whole Progressive Movement that elected two very non-Communist presidents, and then a Progressive Party about a generation earlier.
Noah Heck
2024-10-26 11:31:09 +0000 UTCHa. My mother always wanted to name her son John, but after marrying my father she had to give that up. She’s 89 and I think it still bothers her.
Martin Birch
2024-10-26 02:50:29 +0000 UTCYour family? Communists? The John Birch family?
Dada de Broglie
2024-10-26 02:44:54 +0000 UTCHave to say I liked his descriptions of his grandparents and 1930’s communists. Very much like my family and their friends, including the reluctance to discuss their old affiliations even after 50-60 years. Still concerned who could be listening. And many used progressive as a euphemism for communist.
Martin Birch
2024-10-26 01:04:40 +0000 UTCThat Manscaped ad was something else.
Linda Sears
2024-10-25 22:35:08 +0000 UTC“I am Richard II, know ye not that?” ~Elizabeth I
Dada de Broglie
2024-10-25 21:21:08 +0000 UTCCrazy how he invented the “red pill” term. Must be all of those old books he reads. The Hero as Blogger.
Dada de Broglie
2024-10-25 21:02:45 +0000 UTCThis Francis guy is like a Tocotronic member from the upside down
mobitobi
2024-10-25 20:23:09 +0000 UTCHe definitely ate too many ‘soggy biscuits’ in the dormitory of that private school he went to
Mark Francis
2024-10-25 16:01:35 +0000 UTCI confess this guy bothered me so much I had to skip around rather than listening straight through, so I could be wrong (to quote the great sage Peterson), but was he arguing that Elizabethan England was a time to look back on with fondness? Because Elizabethan England was kind of a bloody mess if one was a Catholic. And Shakespeare was a man of his day, so it is no wonder he was a monarchist, and had he not been sufficiently praising of the monarchy, he would have found his head on the chopping block.
Linda Sears
2024-10-25 12:22:36 +0000 UTCIt feels like whatever this guy possesses that can be called intelligence it’s a very vertical slice.
Sam Morris
2024-10-25 09:45:25 +0000 UTCI can’t stop thinking about idiocracy. I can’t see him, exactly as he is as President Camacho’s closest adviser.
Sam Morris
2024-10-25 09:25:24 +0000 UTCEw, he‘s so smug
mobitobi
2024-10-25 09:16:03 +0000 UTCWow, this guy tracing his path of discovery to the dark enlightenment... it's just an endless stream of strawman arguments knocked down by logical fallacies. Diagramming this would be both hellacious and amazing.
Bill Ellis
2024-10-25 09:03:57 +0000 UTCI love it when just a simple reiteration is enough.
Sam Morris
2024-10-25 08:56:53 +0000 UTCVery, very softly. Who’s going to be chosen and how is succession going to work? Are a couple of sitters. If it’s me, chosen as king that is, can I stick him in a reeducation camp?
Sam Morris
2024-10-25 07:34:28 +0000 UTCNever before have I understood the idea that reading might not always be a good thing. He’s like stupid John Gray. All the right references for an interesting conversation but at least with John Gray he has the decency to pull his conclusions out of a hat.
Sam Morris
2024-10-25 07:33:49 +0000 UTCDid they? I got half a hour in and they've said like 3 sentences between them
Z
2024-10-25 07:01:13 +0000 UTCHe has the same pattern as other gurus where he will create a baseline that sounds calm and carefully reasoned, but then smuggle in absurd arguments in the same tone of voice. Like the teacher telling the student he must be a nazi, or what would Elizabeth think of Hitler. And because the rest of the speech made him sound like he thinks things through, you'll give him the benefit of the doubt for those terrible takes that get sprinkled in.
Z
2024-10-25 06:59:25 +0000 UTCWhat a smug, self satisfied prat. I actually have no idea what his point was, except, maybe, modern liberal democracy - bad, and only people like him are smart enough to see it.
Aaron Holder
2024-10-25 06:46:42 +0000 UTCI may be fat, but I am clever enough not to point myself gut first into a social situation.
Noah Heck
2024-10-25 03:28:57 +0000 UTCThe gut hanging out under the shirt in the beginning… I’m fat too but yeesh
D
2024-10-25 01:27:55 +0000 UTCOkay. He has provided his evidence for experts being corrupted by using the lab leak. I had to wait til the end to hear that wacky reasoning.
Linda Sears
2024-10-25 00:28:04 +0000 UTCHe uses the lab leak as his “evidence” for experts being corrupted/untrustworthy and why a monarchy is a better system than democracy.
Linda Sears
2024-10-25 00:24:11 +0000 UTCI know that ad hominem attacks are never a useful way to engage with an idea, and will accept dutifully if not enthusiastically if this post needs be deleted, BUT My god is this guy a fat, self-satisfied, stupid, mendacious bag of shit.
Noah Heck
2024-10-24 21:55:56 +0000 UTCI recognize that sensation. Your description is exact.
Anne Stephens
2024-10-24 21:08:27 +0000 UTCYarvis has been popular lately and seems like an awful dude
Tobias nilsson
2024-10-24 17:41:56 +0000 UTCOh it’s just so great to see Francis Foster!! Just made my day!
Julie
2024-10-24 17:16:58 +0000 UTCJeez another anti modernist romanticizing the past, with a very loose definition of oligarchy and monarchy
Mark Francis
2024-10-24 16:53:49 +0000 UTCI lot of waffle to sugarcoat fascism
David Noble
2024-10-24 15:51:53 +0000 UTCI was completely ignorant of this guy until today. It was bliss. What a tool. I’m not sure I can make it through an hour of the sound of his voice 🤢
Nell Van Vorst
2024-10-24 15:04:55 +0000 UTCapparently he has proven himself as a computer programmer, even as a theorist in that field, or so I've been told by a programmer friend.
Augustin Cambau
2024-10-24 14:33:49 +0000 UTCHe’s smart? This interview made me think of ‘Idiocracy’
Sam Morris
2024-10-24 12:37:41 +0000 UTCI felt my brains seeping out of my ears listening to this.
Sam Morris
2024-10-24 12:12:24 +0000 UTCBlanket statements like “experts become corrupted” without any proof or explanation bother me. In addition, isn’t reacting to progressivism/liberalism by becoming a traditionalist not uncommon? I don’t see that as a red pill, world changing awakening moment.
Linda Sears
2024-10-24 12:12:03 +0000 UTC"Marketplace of Ideas" at 1:06:00. Christ.
Jack
2024-10-24 11:12:44 +0000 UTCI've been wishing for a Yarvin decoding for a while, but I'm finding out listening to this interview that he's not even very good at playing the deep-thinking royalist. Just another smart edgy boy with many names to drop
Augustin Cambau
2024-10-24 09:45:13 +0000 UTCGod he's painful to listen to. The massive speech he builds off the back of 'the teacher telling the student if you don't agree with this you're a nazi' I don't remember this lesson in Government and Politics or History. Maybe I was sick that day.
Rufus Evans
2024-10-24 09:31:43 +0000 UTCBlast from the past. Where he belongs.
Philip
2024-10-24 08:28:30 +0000 UTCIt's so fucking exhausting listening to this pretentious asshole. I need a break.
Jack
2024-10-24 08:24:14 +0000 UTCIf it makes you feel any better they sort of push back against this guy the whole time. Albeit softly
Richard Haas
2024-10-24 08:24:00 +0000 UTCBtw when is this episode dropping?
Richard Haas
2024-10-24 08:23:15 +0000 UTCJust listened to this. This guy is great at not answering any questions. Almost as bad as Peterson…
Richard Haas
2024-10-24 08:23:06 +0000 UTCLooking forward to this! These two with JD Vance as their candidate are basically the intellectual ballast for the new technofascist worldview. As Thiel wrote, "Freedom and Democracy are no longer compatible" in an article few years ago. It's a weird but influential and scary movement.
SHOUNAK SARKAR
2024-10-24 08:16:52 +0000 UTCHaha was just about to say
Níall Faughnan
2024-10-24 08:15:14 +0000 UTC6 mins to crawl into Plato's cave, is that a record?
Jack
2024-10-24 07:45:57 +0000 UTCHalf the point of DtG is to help with that. Chris' algo suffers so yours doesn't have to.
Unfitforpurpose
2024-10-24 07:42:35 +0000 UTCYay! Thank you.
Violet
2024-10-24 07:25:08 +0000 UTCI have to admit I dislike giving Triggernometry views. They're so obvious in their grifting.
Níall Faughnan
2024-10-24 07:24:11 +0000 UTC
