00:18:53.200victim Ryan Carson stepped in between the unhinged man and his girlfriend trying to protect her
00:19:00.680but the stranger goes berserk taking a swing at him Ryan tries to push his attacker away
00:19:08.240and run but trips over the bus bench as the madman stabs the 32 year old victim
00:19:14.400his girlfriend pleads for mercy as Mr. Carson laid dying on the sidewalk the male with the knife
00:19:21.660kicks him in the chest, threatens to stab the woman companion and spits in her face.
00:19:28.180A woman can be heard yelling off camera. She appears to know the assailant and calls him
00:19:35.160Brian. I'm so sorry. My name is Ryan Thorson Carson and I'm a political organizer. Carson
00:19:42.600was a lifelong activist, most recently working as an environmental staffer for New York Public
00:19:47.920interest research group i wanted to hear your thoughts about that about the whole thing because
00:19:53.320i got two articles up here that you know they're the most recent updates that i can find so for
00:20:01.760those who don't recall uh this was a for all intents and purposes a progressive activist who
00:20:09.460a white guy active in new york active in brooklyn advocating for everything you can imagine safe
00:20:16.780injection sites blm um you know name a thing he he would probably still be very very upset with
00:20:25.460kyle rittenhouse that's a real bugaboo for them uh but he was caught on camera being stabbed
00:20:31.920by an unironic black just a completely seemingly random attack con on camera he's with his
00:20:40.440girlfriend they're dressed apparently to go out but because of these types of people they're going
00:20:47.500out dressed looks like dog shit like jeans and a blazer a very stabbable outfit yeah not to you
00:20:54.720know you don't really hear that problem guys what was he wearing yeah but i think it's even more
00:21:00.340relevant in these cases two pieces a few pieces of evidence really came to light during this
00:21:05.400One was that, of course, the irony of the ACAB, all cops are bastards, people, all the social media posts of the both of them hating cops and loving black people.
00:21:19.320Then the here's an update from the site.
00:21:24.580Girlfriend of Brooklyn activist picks wrong guy in photo lineup of murder suspects.
00:21:30.580girlfriend and key witness to murdered nyc activists delivered potentially devastating
00:21:36.580and crippling response on the murder suspect when she picked different a different person
00:21:41.020from the photo lineup of potential suspects um so the question would be whether or not this is
00:21:47.960on purpose because it could very well be that the ideology of this woman is prohibiting her
00:21:54.640from actually like fingering the guy who did this because deep down even if she's not consciously
00:22:01.960doing it she deep down believes that this this young black man shouldn't be in the system
00:22:06.800then um they got him here uh and look at the daily mail right now brooklyn teenage stabbing
00:22:14.260suspect brian dowling 18 looks downcast as he appears in handcuffs in an orange jumpsuit in
00:22:20.280court as his pastor claims he suffered traumatic he suffered a traumatic event before the community
00:22:27.840slaying community activists so he's got his pastor there another black guy and i've seen videos of
00:22:33.800this literally just saying like he had a traumatic event wouldn't describe what it was he said
00:22:39.340dowling's parents are pentecostal christians there's a red flag his father jehovah's witnesses
00:22:44.280and that the teenager knows god as if who else is a lot you know last time someone someone was
00:22:51.040stabbed in a racially targeted killing when's the last time that the pastor was allowed just
00:22:56.280to speak to the press and say no he's really religious has that ever happened um he he
00:23:03.760described himself as dowling's spiritual guide since he was a baby odd and revealed that the
00:23:08.940boy had been through a traumatic event before the stabbing won't say what it was um the child that
00:23:14.860we know is an obedient nice respectable child that's a lie i can look in his eyes and tell
00:23:20.140that something just isn't right you know well because you look in his eyes and you see dead
00:23:24.460black guy eyes um clinton win a close friend of the family added he's a good kid very humble
00:23:31.980yeah these are you know i i get into this in uh um i'm going to get in this actually in a video
00:23:37.100that i'm going to release to our gum road um in a little while about uh just on the topic of how
00:23:43.280black people treat their families um and this is something you can probably pull from any american
00:23:48.120renaissance article but one thing i noticed is like looking at the family and friends that gather
00:23:53.380around this you know man who's accused of murder it's like they'd never really have much to say
00:23:58.560about them like if my son was accused of murder i'd have a lot of detailed things to say about him
00:24:04.960if prompted but they go up to the father and the mother and the aunt it's like he was humble what
00:24:10.620the fuck does that even mean yeah yeah it's like they're talking about like a guy they know from
00:24:16.480work they don't know their own kids that's really what i'm trying to get at here yeah and you know
00:24:21.880i think also it's part of it is them closing ranks like you think they'd probably have a million
00:24:27.040things they'd probably constantly you hear them they go off on each other you know in the waffle
00:24:32.300house or wherever or in their own home talking all kinds of shit about how much they hate each
00:24:36.760other and who harmed who but then of course if it's a white reporter or a police officer they're
00:24:41.940going to close ranks and oh he didn't do he didn't do nothing he a good boy yeah like what do you
00:24:47.180mean a good boy these are things that you the greeting card statements but i'm always taken
00:24:51.580aback by how like the family of whoever the black guy is that's on trial like they don't seem to
00:24:56.920know him very well anyway that's a bit of a tangent um i'm sure everyone knows this case
00:25:01.200those are just a couple of updates the other update was that his friends immediately started
00:25:06.000a go fund me campaign to get to all his antifa friends to solicit donations just because because
00:25:13.860there's money to be had right um and of course like and we're laughing at it that's what we're
00:25:19.200doing um and then what i was hearing was the same sort of consternation the same sort of tutting
00:25:26.120that occurs on our side it's like okay are we going to be ghoulish are we going to be
00:25:31.360mean-spirited and laugh at a man who is stabbed to death and i want to hear all that's the question
00:25:40.120are you just going to laugh at a man who was stabbed to death and i want to hear your answer
00:25:44.660to that question first yes okay because my answer is the same and i don't know i'm trying to think
00:25:54.960back if i always felt this way or maybe i've gotten worse and i've i'm so far in the weeds
00:26:01.300i can't tell right from wrong anymore but i keep returning to i ask myself one question who am i
00:26:07.740trying to impress the only people who would be impressed by this are the enemies are the people
00:26:14.520who are already watching me to see how i'm going to react to this um on the other hand uh this
00:26:20.540individual on his facebook page he was full of nothing but mockery for anyone on the right who
00:26:28.500had died like he would be laughing at that ashley babbitt who got shot in january 6th like there's
00:26:34.640nothing that makes these guys happier than someone like us getting shot or because here's the thing
00:26:40.980like typically we don't think rape is funny you know we we kind of joke about it but like if a guy
00:57:45.480there's just a lot of rocks like it's not a big deal if it's uninhabitable to humans for the next
00:57:50.1005 000 years it's not a big deal there's a lot of space elsewhere on the planet okay we can we can
00:57:55.040nuke it it's all right yeah because there was this meme floating around um it was just like some
00:58:00.620interview it was with henry cavill and he's an uh he's an interview and it's like you know who
00:58:06.060should have the land israel or palestine he goes rome and i said yeah what the fuck fuck you're
00:58:16.240framing like who israel palestine like how about her majesty how about fucking you know how about
00:58:23.660france how about france takes over i don't give a fuck how about anyone except israel and palestine
00:58:28.260how about us give it to somebody who just doesn't want it and has no idea what to do with it like
00:58:32.900madagascar new zealand or something they're like no we don't want it's like no no it's yours now
00:58:37.340yeah it's like no please oh israel palace on which side how about licked and shine nigger
00:58:43.660how about fucking fucking fucking switzerland you fucking slave you ref you you you you
00:58:53.120beat you person who is trafficked let's give it to mongolia give it to fucking mongolia give
00:58:59.820honestly a second judas coin is going to the moon right now let me just say that and i say that as
00:59:07.320someone who dumped it all i do not stand to gain anything from saying this i i am not i am slippery
00:59:15.320eel hands on judas coin uh this is going to the moon because yeah give it to why not mongolia
00:59:21.380they they deserve another go at it it's been a thousand years you know like you're pissed off
00:59:27.460at china what do you think china is going to do with mongolia has is in the holiest place on earth
00:59:32.920just just just keep it interesting right who like say explain that to someone
00:59:41.420of any race they're going to want to see what happens um but yeah like my policy and this is
00:59:47.860what kind of this is the second part of my long chain of takes but i remember i started seeing
00:59:54.420some memes circulating targeting this position because my position was i i don't like either
01:00:01.380side and i started seeing like you know like you're a soy jack is with a soy face but this was
01:00:07.220like a a snoot jack it was like a pretentious self-obsessed you know you know obviously a fat
01:00:15.100ugly ape creature but he's like actually both sides are bad they took the thing that i was saying
01:00:21.640and made a snoot jack out of it they can't meet dimes do that no no no no constantine of cope
01:00:28.440and sneed they're they're fucking chud chud soy fucking snoot jack and me you cannot soy jack us
01:00:34.880you're our rule and i didn't appreciate that
01:00:37.560there's there's acting out of pocket and then there's this i do not deserve this and i honestly
01:00:48.480And to be real, though, to me, like saying that I want both sides to lose what they will tell you, I'm going to steel man the position, I think, of the people who are saying that it's like, well, you need to figure out where your self-interest lie for self-interest is against Israel.
01:01:05.500and also if your self-interest is nationalism here seems to be a nationalist cause in the form
01:01:12.680of palestine so as a nationalist you must support all other national uprisings or nationalist
01:01:19.860uprisings throughout the world it's third worldism through and through um and i don't subscribe to
01:01:26.800that i know a fucking nazbol third world is fucking bullshit argument when i hear it and
01:01:31.880i'm not falling for it again um you're not gonna because they wouldn't see themselves as
01:01:36.420nationalists anyway they do not fit into our paradigms they don't fit into our definitions
01:01:40.880um so like my self-interest is reflected neither in israel or palestine and you're not going to
01:01:49.360fucking convince me otherwise because you know you have people say like oh no palestinian
01:01:54.040ever called me a goy well they call you an infidel um they also rape their way across
01:02:00.680europe like you are not going to convince me of siding with muslims you're not and anyone who's
01:02:08.120convincing you otherwise should be you should be suspicious of frankly because they haven't thought
01:02:13.060about it through because also you have to think i think if i'm going to say this when people would
01:02:19.900say you know you need to support the palestinians why well you must amplify their message because
01:02:25.940you want to win a strategic victory as momentary as it might be against israel and chiefly i would
01:02:33.700say that what's interesting is that israel to my mind is experiencing an all-time low of public
01:02:41.160approval uh not only from the political right broadly but also the left like the progressives
01:02:49.480have been beating the drum against israel for decades now a lot of leftists are a lot of
01:02:55.820communists or they will say it's an apartheid state they hate israel because it's colonial
01:02:59.880the right hates israel insofar as it does hate israel because it's jews liberals are indifferent
01:03:07.840and we're kind of on a with an engage in a war for the liberal mind right now but the only people
01:03:12.240who love love love israel are conservatives american conservatives but you're not going to
01:03:18.620find many other groups that are really in favor of israel and i think a lot of jews know this
01:03:25.740and so so to me it's like well what does the right actually bring to the table because we are in the
01:03:31.100midst of losing this sort of narrative like like the right has been anti-israel for a long time
01:03:36.540and it's had a lot of very well reasoned and measured arguments against israel and my concern
01:03:43.340is that if we just throw in behind the arabs and say they're the champions of anti-israeli
01:03:50.260sentiment then that's just another battle we're going to lose that we will surrender to an enemy
01:03:54.940which would rape and kill us any other day of the week like you want to talk about the friend-enemy
01:03:59.220distinction most people don't understand the friend-enemy distinction we did a whole video on
01:04:03.740uh carl schmidt's you know the front the concept of the political and the friend-enemy distinction
01:04:08.180i don't think people truly have the ability to delineate between existential enemies and just
01:04:17.000political enemies i think they see muslims as like existential allies and only political enemies and
01:04:24.580in reality it's reversed like they are through and through europe's existential enemy they're
01:04:31.200like the more you the more power you grant to them it will come at the cost of europe and i
01:04:37.340see people like presenting me again with a strange framing where it's like okay which side do you
01:04:42.440want to pick if israel loses that means two million jews are going to flood into europe
01:04:47.740if palestine loses that means it's going to be seven million palestinians that flood into europe
01:04:54.260so which one do you want to pick do you want jews or palestinians or do you want the status quo and
01:05:00.460And I'm like, I once again return to neither of these outcomes are in my self-interest.
01:05:06.380And I'm curious to hear what you think about this, because what I would say to dissidents and people on dissident, right, is that these are arguments from a prey position.
01:05:17.400These are arguments where you don't even you're not you don't have a seat at the table.
01:05:21.320You are merely throwing in with an enemy, one enemy you think is better than your other enemy.
01:19:04.020um there's one tweet here by uh autumn groiper that i think summarizes as well it says you are
01:19:12.960seeing in real time why violent event denial is now prohibited on social media platforms
01:19:19.720he gives a list here chemical weapons in syria the babies taken out of incubators in iraq
01:19:25.280russia bombing orphanages migrant toddler in turkey 9-11 holocaust and now hamas killing babies
01:19:32.700There is such a thing as atrocity propaganda. There always has been. People must be able to scrutinize these claims, especially since this is often used to galvanize public support for war.
01:19:42.840I do think that is true. Like if you have noticed that, you know, questioning tragedies, questioning violent events is the most egregious thing you could do on social media platforms. I think whether or not it was designed with this in mind, it does seem to heavily favor those who have the most ludicrous stories imaginable and the biggest crocodile tears. What do you think about that?
01:20:06.860yeah absolutely absolutely yeah and then there's stuff coming from jews themselves like there's
01:20:13.000one here where this is so funny the big news was that see the funny thing about america is that
01:20:20.440a lot of democrats used to be very friendly towards jews and jewish interests until the
01:20:27.960jews that are in charge of democrats populated them with a bunch of non-whites and so now it's
01:20:35.060guys like Cenk Uygur, it's like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it's all the browns, it's all
01:20:40.580the foreigners who are in there who don't really give a shit about Jews and the Black Lives Matter
01:20:45.180movement. The Chicago BLM chapter posted on X an image of a paraglider just like the terrorists
01:20:52.420with the fluttering Palestinian flag above the words, I stand with Palestine. And the comment,
01:20:58.920that is all, that is it. BLM chapters, including those in Louisville, Detroit, and Los Angeles,
01:21:04.340also showed their support, reposting that image.
01:21:08.620I mean, it's horrendous to see that there are 33 student organizations at Harvard,
01:21:12.940which is arguably our most prestigious university in this country,
01:21:15.860who've said that they hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for the unfolding violence.
01:21:21.580I mean, it's just, it's absolutely shocking to see more and more student groups piling on.
01:21:26.260And I have to say, like, as somebody who's a member of Gen Z, who's 23 years old, who...
01:21:34.340i've just got two tweets here back to back by david weissman once from 2021 he's saying i will
01:21:41.580never stop saying black lives matter and may even get a shirt myself then there's one from just a
01:21:47.460day ago he says fuck them maybe the right was right about black lives matter it's just like
01:21:54.460watching all of the jews come up against again what once more the golem they've created of like
01:22:01.560non-whites deciding they don't give a shit about jews and jews not knowing what to do about it
01:22:05.980that's why they're ramping up the atrocity porn because they need to harangue the liberal psyche
01:22:11.440with as much carnage as humanly possible and i was even on twitter talking to some people
01:22:17.340where it's like you know say what you will about israel who was it it was this guy um let me find
01:22:24.120his name he's a canadian guy named billboard something or other anyway is this one guy he's
01:22:29.620say we will about israel but they never celebrated you know women innocent people being killed
01:22:35.520and it took me like two seconds to find an article about like israeli settlers watching a bombing on
01:22:42.560gaza and cheering it on i i was thinking about this the other day if you kind of have you felt
01:22:48.080like there's been a lot more infiltration of jews into dissident right far right spaces over the past
01:22:53.700year or so i wonder if that's related to what you're saying about they've kind of cut themselves
01:22:59.140off at the, at the knees for the left wing. They've put, they've, they've created so many
01:23:04.860problems and they've brought so many people into the hardcore left wing that actually are the
01:23:10.740existential enemies of Jews that it's become hard for them to operate. And even though the right
01:23:15.380wing contains literal Nazis, we're still moderate enough that we will accept guys like BAP, you know,
01:23:24.100guys like, I'm forgetting everybody's name there, but we, we got a fucking load of Jews over here
01:23:29.000right now that we're all half of our guys are defending on any given day so yeah like
01:23:34.580that's another topic that we're kind of probably going to get into in the future but i do notice
01:23:40.580a lot of like jews once again countryless nationless wandering around looking for a new
01:23:47.360home and i think they're trying to find it on the right and because they're being chased out by all
01:23:53.220browns you find a very let's say nuanced relationship with israel where like israelis
01:24:01.980and the zionist movement represents a sort of aristocratic vitalism in the area in the region
01:24:09.200whereas the the brown underclass represents you know the just the the gross global south that
01:24:16.200trying to like they're trying to position israel as like the vanguard of europeanness
01:24:24.520and that israelis if not for western longhouse sensibilities would be allowed to be like the
01:24:32.140savage warriors that they were during the initiation of the zionist movement so like
01:24:37.700you are seeing that that's been encroaching for quite some time and like it's another version of
01:24:45.220what we were talking about at the start like they're making you choose well do you like the
01:24:49.100cool aristocrat warriors of zionism in israel or do you like like the savage arguably bronze age
01:24:59.400mindset um terrorists of hamas and i just don't accept that framing i don't accept that i need
01:25:06.320to pick one or the other i think both of them i think neither of them are the model that i should
01:25:12.420aspire to and i think that's a a strange framing and i again i don't want to go off on a big rant
01:25:17.180here because i kind of do it no that's fine i'm on the real secret coffee hours episode but like
01:25:21.580that it's the exact same uh either or you know decision that they're prompting you with it's
01:25:27.420like well i mean if if if this is you have to like the israelis because like they're they're
01:25:33.000kind of like the awesome superheroes like i don't accept that fuck you um and anyone who's
01:25:38.720Like I said before, anyone who's giving you that prompt should be treated with suspicion because they will usually change that view when it's presented anywhere else.
01:25:48.940Anyway, I don't know what really to do about it.
01:25:51.640And, you know, we're not overly hostile to Jewish thinkers.
01:25:56.000We mentioned Jewish philosophers on the show.
01:34:30.540So if you're familiar with your Curtis Yarvins, you're familiar with a lot of the sort of dissident right figures who are more into the technocratic side of things.
01:34:41.320They're more into, I wouldn't say this is Nick Land.
01:34:44.860I wouldn't even say this is like Bronze Age Pervert, even though they're in the same kind of milieu.
01:34:48.940But there's a subset of people, the people who think that, you know, America should be run by a CEO, a tech CEO, you know, those types of people.
01:44:36.920actually put in you own territory and you own buildings and things and now it's real
01:44:43.560and it doesn't need to be one huge block of land it could be several properties scattered throughout
01:44:50.400but in aggregate it represents one holistic territory which again to bring it back to
01:44:56.680israel palestine the palestinians in the region are actually kind of spread out
01:45:01.360in different sections around that region right but they operate as one unit so you you could
01:45:07.780have a descent it doesn't need to be one boxed in area is what he's saying and then from there
01:45:13.340you become a network state after the network archipelago become a network state after you say
01:45:17.400we've got this land we're taken seriously you start trying to get recognition from other states
01:45:24.480because that's really the end goal of the network state is to take you're from like an online
01:45:28.700community to something that's taken seriously by the un and what the book shows is like that's
01:45:37.180actually not that difficult to do um he had said he's like you know what like if you get
01:45:42.560a community of like a million people he's like that's around the size of most city states like
01:45:50.160most countries in the world aren't that big it's like to have a seat at the table on the global
01:45:54.860stage not like at the level of china or the u.s but he's like you know all that like all that
01:46:00.860matters we we looked at this when we discussed um neorealism that really power is how much power
01:46:07.700people think you have power is just your ability to maintain your own sovereignty so in a sense
01:46:14.760like you being a state all you need to do is convince other states to believe you're a state
01:46:19.440and that's what's going on that's what happens in north korea that's what's going on in palestine
01:46:23.940you know they're using it through military arms but you there's other cases of this like even in
01:46:29.380like canada with the aboriginals like all you need to do to become an actual state is plead a case
01:46:35.920in a convincing way and have it accepted by other states so how can you do that this book explores
01:46:41.620that so he says like a big part of having an online um a network state probably the most
01:46:50.540important because it keeps coming back to this is having a blockchain census um he says as the
01:46:56.940society scales you have to run a cryptographically cryptographically audible census to demonstrate
01:47:03.440the growing size of your population income and real estate footprints the key idea is to populate
01:47:09.520land from the cloud and to do so all over the earth um and you do this effectively through
01:47:16.000crowdfunding and like you said this is very much an ancap thing you're like what's the ancap thing
01:47:19.960Well, you would gather voluntary taxes and just buy real estate and effectively everyone owns it.
01:47:26.700How you sort that out would be sorted out on the blockchain, according to him.
01:47:30.400You could actually assign ownership on the blockchain.
01:47:36.260I tend to be skeptical of people who kind of just wave the blockchain around as a solution to every problem.
01:47:43.360It's like, well, how do you sell this?
01:47:44.060Well, the blockchain will keep a record of it.
01:47:46.140You know, there's one example he gives in the book about how the blockchain can solve the problem, I'm paraphrasing here, but how the blockchain can solve the problem of like blurry history that, you know, throughout time, we've had a hard, difficult time accurately keeping track of events.
01:48:05.760but with the blockchain we could actually record events more accurately and you know which is true
01:48:11.100but my position is that we've never had a problem of recording events that happen events just like
01:48:19.640wars and transactions they've been recorded pretty accurately throughout time what we disagree on is
01:48:25.620intense what we disagree on is motivations and the the machinations behind the scenes but like
01:48:31.180if it's just like here's a war and this many people died or this country was founded then
01:48:36.160or this transaction occurred like we've done that with fucking parchment and papyrus since
01:48:41.080time immemorial so it's not like the blockchain isn't even solving the problem of historical
01:48:46.400accuracy because even with events recorded there's still all this other yeah smeared shit that that's
01:48:53.360the stuff that we argue about you know like no one really argues where jesus christ existed right
01:48:59.660and kids and again like they recorded in the bible the stuff that jesus christ
01:49:04.160was supposed to have done and people still disagree on that so like if that was on the
01:49:08.380blockchain there wouldn't be less disagreement about it right um he's there's a line here that
01:49:15.760i really liked is america's religious colonies succeeded at a higher rate than its for-profit
01:49:21.320colonies that's interesting because the former had a purpose um you're arguing when you start
01:49:27.260these colonies that the culture of your startup society he uses the word startup society a lot
01:49:31.640is better than the surrounding culture implicitly that means there's some moral deficit in the
01:49:37.500world that you're fixing history comes into play because you need to write a study of that moral
01:49:43.520deficit and draw from the past to find alternative social arrangements where that moral deficit
01:49:48.920didn't occur he has this line in the book that was interesting he had said that you know the
01:49:54.100the politicians or the dissidents of today,
01:49:57.640they need to have an understanding of history just so they can wield it for
01:54:41.380So I've just started playing that game.
01:54:44.080I'm like looking at these networks or thinking of a network that whether it's in stark opposition to something or just in stark favor of something.
01:54:52.900because you can build a city on the hill with one commandment you know i mean it doesn't need
01:54:58.300to be this complicated scheme and i started thinking like what would that be for for our
01:55:02.700group you know because some people it's just technology bad you know for you know anarchists
01:55:07.720government state bad you know it seems the ones with the most coherence are the ones with that
01:55:12.400one commandment so i think that's just a fun thought experiment for people to run like
01:55:17.040and then once you have enough of those separate networks then you can start
01:55:21.920creating a network of networks and seeing which networks actually pair together and that's what
01:55:27.000we were talking about with the square the circle square in the tower which is that successful
01:55:31.300revolutions are done by taking these disparate networks and finding super nodes between them
01:55:38.060that can kind of coordinate them to a common action but it's never generated from within
01:55:43.520the networks themselves the networks just have one goal to try and like be a sort of community
01:55:48.440state thing and then almost through some other force or phenomena they can gather towards
01:55:56.000a shared target a shared other and that's what a revolution is and that's why these things tend
01:56:01.300to fall apart after the revolution succeeds um and he's got a line in here that i think
01:56:07.620summarizes his position from a technological point of view he says uh god is dead and replaced
01:56:13.740by the state now the state is dead and that god used to be the most powerful force on earth that
01:56:19.940controlled people's actions that was responsible for their fears that was responsible for what
01:56:24.540they think is good and god you know we're not going to get into that but god is dead replaced
01:56:28.180by the state the state defines what you're afraid of that you feel like the state is watching you
01:56:32.060feel like the state is the moral arbiter in your life a lot of people feel this very viscerally
01:56:36.300but people also feel like the state is dead the state is in crisis no one really trusts the
01:56:40.740government so he says what is the most powerful force in the world now now he says encryption
01:56:46.020he says the network is the next leviathan a quote leviathan in the sense of thomas hobbes
01:56:53.120as the next great beast that can represent you know the human this human spirit in that sense
01:57:00.740i think there's something to that and it will use encryption and this is where the technology
01:57:05.000comes in where i think as well you know we can harness the blockchain to almost have a new type
01:57:09.640of society a new type of government now i'm sure he will say that this will eventually consign
01:57:17.060states as we know them to the dustbin of history i don't think that's going to happen but
01:57:21.660what i like about the book is it's actually it's presenting a practical model for dissident
01:57:27.240movements of any political stripe really to start to figure out what okay what's the next step what
01:57:33.080do you what what what do you move towards like we have a group we have a we believe in something
01:57:38.800Maybe we believe all in the same thing.
01:58:03.580So the thing is that re-centralization
01:58:06.400has the smallest constituency right now, but I think it's the right constituency. And the reason
01:58:10.940is, I believe, one of the things I've pointed out in the book is the helical theory of history.
01:58:15.820So the linear theory of history is we're just progressing. We're just improving. We're getting
01:58:20.200more equal. We're leveling up. Everything's getting better, and so on and so forth. There's
01:58:24.240something to be said for this. On some axes, on some measures, humans have been improving. Like
01:58:27.960our knowledge of math, for example, that is like a roughly cumulative chart. It has drops when you
01:58:33.460have the dark ages and stuff like that it's not all the way up to it but it's like up into the
01:58:36.880right okay then you have the cyclical theory of history which is and actually one of the things
01:58:43.300i talked about in the book is about the left and a right and a libertarian cycle of history
01:58:46.560but the right cycle of history is strong men create good times good times create weak men
01:58:52.540weak men create hard times hard times create strong men where it's basically like you know
01:58:56.340this is the foreturning right yeah yeah so it's nietzsche and band of spartans they go and build
01:59:00.400a great society. And then these degenerates take it down. And then, you know, we have to like from
01:59:05.360the chaos and ashes rebuild again and so on. Right. What's funny is the left has their own
01:59:09.900version of this, which is the zealous revolutionaries managed to fight the man and overthrow
01:59:16.260it. And then a Stalin like figure comes and compromises the revolution. And the new boss
01:59:22.700is the same as the old boss. And and then it comes back to this. Right. And then the tech
01:59:27.540Libertarian has a version that's also like this, which is the startup founder goes and rebels
01:59:32.220against the bureaucracy. They managed to build an operational thing that is actually much more
01:59:38.020egalitarian and it's got a flatter hierarchy and takes care of all the bureaucracy and it's
01:59:42.440actually more competitive. And then what happens is the bureaucracy encrusts this and the Libertarian
01:59:46.420founder rebuilds the state. And one of the points I make is all three of those cycles are the same
01:59:51.780cycle because it's not just the right cycle of being like strong and it's not just the left
01:59:58.020cycle of being zealous and it's not just the libertarian cycle of having an innovation you
02:00:02.300kind of need all of those at the same time to actually go all the way around the cycle to fight
02:00:06.340that establishment he's got this line here he says if the startup founders of the 2000s and 2010s had
02:00:13.740to level up beyond technology to learn business which is kind of like the startup auteur was
02:00:20.340then the startup society founders of the 2020s need to add history and politics to their curriculum
02:00:25.960he says because a theory of the left and right is necessary for nation formation you can't just
02:00:32.900start a nation without understanding the necessity of the left and the right now what does he mean
02:00:36.400by that and he describes in the book and i've heard this described elsewhere too um i was
02:00:42.780talking to john tally about this the other day yeah a lot of people have remarked that
02:00:46.360you know you know america's got a two-party system the left and the right isn't that stupid
02:00:51.380you know we've said that in canada and in canada and britain and elsewhere we think our parliamentary
02:00:57.940system is more enlightened because we have more parties when in reality all those parties seem to
02:01:04.260fall upon the left right axis you know in canada we have we still have left and right it's just
02:01:09.740some are more far far more left than others it seems that those two the two hemispheres of left
02:01:15.960and right seem to manifest no matter the political system and what does that mean so we define the
02:01:24.480left as almost the revolutionary side and the right as the conservative side and these two
02:01:30.700polls always exist but they tend to be filled with different ideologies at a given time
02:01:35.240but it seems that across time there's always a conservative side on law and order and stasis
02:01:42.180and tradition there's always the revolutionary side and sometimes that wins and sometimes the
02:01:48.200revolution occurs but then they become the conservative side and then almost by necessity
02:01:54.260it creates its own shadow it creates its own revolution to the revolution you know that
02:01:59.820interestingly enough that's what that's where you get napoleon after the french revolution that's
02:02:04.200it the shadow of the french revolution was napoleon and you see that and it's always there
02:02:10.020It's always just and I think there's almost like a natural law component to this that you can't even say is based on ideology.
02:02:17.660It's just any left and right, good, evil, black ways, just nature seems even though it seems manmade, it's more evident that nature seems to bifurcate.
02:02:31.060And I don't know what to do with that information.
02:02:32.760it's just he mentions it and he mentions that if you want to start a state you need to recognize
02:02:38.000that the left-right dichotomy isn't something you can innovate your way out of it had that's
02:02:43.840what a lot of tech guys think we're going to get rid of this two-party system no no no that's why
02:02:47.800you need to understand history and politics because if you understood history and politics
02:02:50.920you realize that the left-right dichotomy is essential to any state even if it's a new
02:02:56.780network state but you got to figure out what you're going to do about that even fascism tried
02:03:01.600to like think its way out of that hey do you remember we talked very briefly about the the
02:03:07.020book series the three body problem and this is not related to the book but we're just describing what
02:03:11.900the three body problem is it's essentially if you have two bodies orbiting each other in space you
02:03:16.500can predict how they will interact with each other they have a one-to-one reaction if you had a third
02:03:21.300body you you essentially can't calculate it it's not something that you can work on what you can
02:03:25.900do is you take the first two you calculate them use them as a unit now you've synthesized that
02:03:31.420you use that as unit c and then you can compare that to the other one but you're always ever only
02:03:35.880ever working with two units and it's kind of the same thing like you have if you had three parties
02:03:41.320what's going to happen is one of them will become subsumed with another and you're back to two
02:03:45.700parties like it's always going to wind up being one versus another exactly and and i think that
02:03:51.400an idea that kind of plagues our side even still it's like when will we get out of this
02:03:55.360old way of thinking i'm like no i think it's just it's nature it's the universe it's god it's
02:10:35.900Here's my tea sun, like globalization, deglobalization, et cetera.
02:10:40.160First is I think globalization continues online,
02:10:43.740offline, but it goes in reverse offline. So you have like physical nationalism, but you have
02:10:49.620digital globalization. And that's actually the tension of this century. It is the cloud versus
02:10:55.180the land. You have this global community of remote working, because on the one hand, you've got all
02:11:02.240these trends pushing towards total internationalism, right? You have cryptocurrency, you have remote
02:11:06.240work, you have Starlink, you have this massive global community of startup entrepreneurs and
02:11:11.260folks who are more connected than they've ever been, you know, you have encryption, which is cross borders. You have, you know, you have all of those things. You have the metaverse coming. You have billions of people with smartphones. You have transnational companies. All of those are huge pushes on the digital side for continued globalization and accelerated, in fact, in some ways. On the other hand, you have the land pushing against that, where various countries, various politicians want to retain their control over
02:11:41.240their jurisdiction they want to use the state against the network right and so it's actually
02:11:46.600more complicated than simply de-globalization this is a political axis of um you know state
02:11:53.720versus network it's kind of describing how the average person experiences having like
02:12:00.040multiple identities online he says if you take a sample of biological fluid from your body
02:12:05.800and you centrifuge it you'll see a bunch of layers that were previously mixed together that's what
02:12:10.200what a centrifuge does they all get separated out he says that's what the internet is doing to
02:12:15.860society and institutions it unbundles everything and reduces people to like a collection of
02:12:22.120identities and maximizes those identities you've seen that even with like political affiliations
02:12:27.120and fetishes and everything it says then comes the re-bundling that's kind of where we're at
02:12:32.020right now we've unbundled all our stuff that's re-bundling it he says that's where songs get
02:12:37.340grouped into playlists i liked that metaphor you know we destroyed the album but we've allowed
02:12:42.040people to create these really distinct playlists from the component parts the the articles grouped
02:12:47.040into twitter feeds he says um that's kind of the way he's looking at how we can like reshuffle
02:12:53.200these identities that still matter but kind of reconfigure them in new ways and that the internet
02:12:59.580would allow us to do that in ways that we couldn't before if we were just tied to geographic area
02:13:04.580that could be good or that could be bad but that is the reality um and i'm just going to end on
02:13:10.820this i'm going to go through this list because i think this is a good way to end on it really
02:13:14.980summarizes it very non-confusedly in case i haven't been clear so he says what do you need
02:13:22.180to be a network state here's the list of what you need full on first of all you need a social network
02:13:28.780The people of a network state form their nation online.
02:13:32.720Social rather than geographic proximity is the core organizing principle.
02:13:37.880Admission to the social network is selective.
02:13:40.720People can lose their account privileges for bad behavior, just like any online community.
02:13:45.280And he said he made a comment earlier that the network state is constant plebiscite.
02:13:49.460Like you're always trying to like monitor who is inside of it based on affiliation.
02:13:55.520The next is you need a moral innovation.
02:13:58.020A network state grows out of a startup society that is premised on a moral innovation where everyone within that society thinks some principle, whatever the principle is, principle X, is good and that the rest of the world thinks it's bad or vice versa.
02:14:13.560This is the proposition part of a propositional nation.
02:14:17.640It's up to your community, your network state to figure out what that is.
02:14:21.440A sense of national consciousness is the next part.
02:14:24.520Everyone in a network state feels that they're part of the same community,
02:15:02.340Well, the next part is you need a recognized founder.
02:15:06.600A state, like a company, needs a leader, especially early on.
02:15:10.500But a truly strong leadership comes from consent and buy-in, not propaganda or force.
02:15:15.380Hence, it's important that you have a recognized founder, one that people actually listen to and choose to follow by joining the community.
02:15:23.260And this could also be the person who sets the tone for behavior.
02:15:26.920And you'll just notice this if you're part of these communities that exist now.
02:15:30.660You'll notice that they tend to group around one person who sets the at least conversational tone.
02:15:39.160The next thing is you need a capacity for collective action.
02:15:42.300This is tightly related to the concept of national consciousness.
02:15:46.220The Puritans wanted to build a city on the hill.
02:15:48.820The Japanese, after the Meiji Restoration, replaced their previous mission statement of revere the emperor, expel the barbarians with enrich the country, strengthen the military, turning their society around 180 degrees.
02:16:01.920The next thing is you need an in-person level of civility.
02:19:18.300um i was just wondering what do you think of all that yeah i think it's pretty cool this is kind
02:19:23.300of the bones of um of how i would like to organize things look i'm in it kind of an ancap so i i get
02:19:31.560where where they're coming from with this so that's good i like it yeah and there's if there's
02:19:36.700parts that i don't like about it or i'm not as excited about it would be the technical side it
02:19:41.600would be the focus the blockchain it would be the full transparency and it would be you know
02:19:46.300the idea that on a long enough timeline i bet they would integrate ai into this i'm not
02:19:51.000you know it would come to pass that the network state would might very well have the all the
02:19:58.320negative attributes of the current surveillance state um and you gotta maybe you won't mind that
02:20:04.380as long as the state that would be one of my big critiques too is like the the reliance on
02:20:10.160technology it's like oh well what what if you are what if the group that you're part of happens to
02:20:14.420think that most or a lot of modern technologies do more harm than good then maybe this this isn't
02:20:20.860going to work but i think the point is is there's the kind of the bones of this from an organizational
02:20:25.000standpoint don't really rely on technology they're just made more convenient by technology so you
02:20:30.760could do this on paper you know you could do this with snail mail um it doesn't have to be on the
02:20:36.500blockchain it doesn't doesn't even require the internet technically the other thing i'm not
02:20:40.620really sure about is the whole unbundling and rebundling like manually like consciously i think
02:20:46.640this is similar to technology what did you lose by taking those bundles apart and is it something
02:20:52.540you're capable of putting back together it's like a child taking apart a radio and then you're
02:20:56.920hoping it works when they put it back together it usually doesn't so i don't know yeah and just to
02:21:03.020bring this back to the start this is in effect what a lot of the islamic world is doing just
02:21:09.660it doesn't need to have a blockchain you could have a decentralized affiliation network that
02:21:14.800hits a lot of these marks that does it owns the land it has its its backup data it controls itself
02:21:21.200it's not necessarily tied to any geographic area and it is just as effective and to the even earlier
02:21:27.920point this is that the germs of these intellectual movements and these revolutions also follow this
02:21:34.360And arguably, this was like America started off like this, too, as a decentralized revolutionary network that eventually didn't crowdfund anything on a blockchain, but it functioned like this.
02:21:47.100So it is possible to do this without the technology.
02:21:49.820The question is, even if you don't want to use AI and blockchain or whatever, what other technology could you plug into this to make it into a distinctly 21st century decentralized movement?
02:22:03.480you know so that that would you know maybe your opinion of internet online identities is different
02:22:09.720than this guy so you could take this framework and adopt it to a lot of different modes that
02:22:16.260that's my belief anyway that's what i hope people take from it oh that's cool and knowing that
02:22:20.120a lot of the conflicts we see in the world now kind of are between decentralized multi-state