Big EGOs can ruin everything
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Martin van Gynning to talk about the importance of character in activism, and what it means to be a good activist. Martin has been involved in activism for a long time, and is one of the most influential people on the right. We talk about how important it is to have good character, and why it's important to have a good idea.
Transcript
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Martin, you identified something that I find fascinating, which is, you know, the biggest lessons you've learned in activism.
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It's almost that, like, activists can be their own worst enemy.
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You said character, and you said, you know, this kind of political masturbation, which I do think is very common.
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When it comes to character, though, what do you think defines good character who's made for, you know, success in activism?
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Yeah, I really think it's the most important lesson to learn, you know, because you can't do anything.
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about our enemies they're very powerful but we can change ourselves we can become
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the best versions of ourselves that's an overused phrase but it's really true I
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don't think personally only but also as an organization I think as I said
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before character for Leistung like character before talent I think the
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most important character traits is kind of humility an idealism where it's not
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about your personality and narcissism but about the idea itself and it's a big
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problem because a lot of right warriors and especially when they're when they
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are a talent intelligence good speakers they have a natural inclination to this
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bonapartism like kind of a Caesar complex and I would also say this is
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hypercharged by Nietzscheanism this idea of will to power the old man and so on
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and this makes it quite hard to create real structures on the right so for me
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the most important thing is that in a movement the idea and the strategies in
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center and everybody also the leaders have to submit to that and in our
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movement we have created this culture yes we have to be a hierarchy with this
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we have discipline but it's not just one person who's like the Sun and all the
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other planets are orbiting I think we can go inside of here orbiting around the
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central Sun so I think that's very important the movement mustn't become
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just a court of one big personality it needs to be able to bring up more faces