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00:00:00.000 is that whole idea of drinking apple cider vinegar when you wake up and it improves your

00:00:07.020 metabolism or something is that just like an old wives tale or wasn't jordan peterson like eating

00:00:14.280 bacon and drinking apple cider vinegar and then he died he claimed that the apple cider vinegar

00:00:23.120 like put him into like a coma for like days or something wow but was he only doing vinegar

00:00:31.640 basically oh he was i think he was on a carnivore diet that his weird daughter put him on she calls

00:00:38.520 it like lion diet where you only eat beef and salt like you don't even eat other other not lions

00:00:43.900 it's literally just like beef and salt and then he said and i i i had like a sip of apple cider

00:00:51.540 of vinegar and i was like comatose for three days that is he literally wow he's really neurotic 0.63

00:00:59.240 i i definitely i i'm more or less a believer in the primal diet i know you are a pete

00:01:07.460 aficionado or a member of the pete cult um rfh but i'm uh more of a i the primal diet always

00:01:17.740 made a lot of sense when i read about it it's been a long time like 15 years ago it appeals to

00:01:24.760 i would say right-wingers and racists for very obvious reasons um i i have a paleo background

00:01:31.940 myself that was like the first thing i got into um but there's actually quite a bit of a lot of

00:01:38.820 overlap between the two even if the macros are very different in what they believe the you're

00:01:45.280 eating a lot of kind of the same foods and both of them really demonize um well i guess people

00:01:51.400 call it seed oils but when i was paleo we called it vegetable oil right so they're both very against

00:01:57.020 that and they're both very pro coconut oil yeah that is that is interesting i mean it does there

00:02:03.500 is a right-wing quality to primal dieting in the sense that you're trying to get back to like a

00:02:10.660 hunter-gatherer type you know way and yes it so it is kind of inherently conservative

00:02:18.740 yes um so i popular libertarians as well definitely um you know that's where this

00:02:28.880 high protein thing came from the libertarians did the high protein thing they birthed yeah 1.00

00:02:34.640 rfa or rfk rather it kind of that's why everything's protein slapped onto it now

00:02:40.040 it's like um there's like a whole like politics of meat that like radfams have been talking about

00:02:46.280 there's a whole book called this since like the 70s but yes the the whole like protein

00:02:51.480 obsession absolutely is very conservative and right-wing in nature yes because boomers like 1.00

00:02:59.760 to grill so they they like it appeals to them it's pandering to them and then as i said there

00:03:07.480 there is something a kind of libertarian alt-right not necessarily even christian not christian i

00:03:15.140 would say right-wing mentality where you sort of like the idea of like going you know the way of

00:03:22.520 the ancestors basically and that is the primal diet yes it's also very rebellious which they

00:03:29.180 like too because the government was telling you don't eat red meat vegetarianism is good so they

00:03:35.380 love being like no i'm gonna eat bacon all day yeah there there is a lot to that there's no doubt

00:03:45.720 about it um we were actually talking uh last night about this the conservative brain and how

00:03:57.160 And I think I've joked about this before a few times, but how conservative, you know, sometimes these cliches are accurate.

00:04:07.440 Like when people say, oh, like conservatives, they're just 10 years behind.

00:04:11.120 Or, you know, I remember saying this back when I was blogging for TakiMag or AlternativeRight.com or something where it was like conservatives will oppose something and then they'll lose in their opposition and then five years on they'll claim that it was a conservative thing all along.

00:04:33.560 So civil rights, best example of that. All of these voters who came to the Republican Party precisely solely due to opposition to desegregation, they obviously oppose civil rights.

00:04:51.220 national review opposed it although in a bit more tenuous manner and they lose this battle

00:04:58.000 and then five years later national review is like well you know the conservatism of mlk and

00:05:04.680 the civil rights act is truly a libertarian document when you think about and it's not like

00:05:09.620 they're entirely wrong but it it's just this like self-serving way in which they act and think and

00:05:19.040 gay marriage was another one so they were just like laughing oh gay marriage what's next you're 0.99

00:05:24.460 gonna marry your dog or whatever and then they lose the battle and then five years later it's

00:05:29.000 like we need to bring gay citizens into the communion of marriage like you know it's a 0.94

00:05:35.080 conservative policy like that we always support it they're they're just they just always do this

00:05:40.800 like every issue is like this actually with conservatives and i but i i think there's

00:05:48.280 something much deeper going on as well that i can't fully explain because what we were talking

00:05:56.100 about are more recent trends so i'm old enough to remember because i've been an adult for 27 years

00:06:04.740 29 wow three decades of adulting it's the yeah i'm still bad at um filling out forms and so on

00:06:15.280 But anyway, so I can remember back in the early 2000s when, like, anti-vaccination ideology and JFK conspiracy theories, if you held those views, you were 100% someone who lived in, like, Whitefish, Montana and owned an independent bookstore.

00:06:44.480 or like made your own granola or you know we're like a former hippie i mean it was it left coded

00:06:53.640 like without even any question jf the jfk the phenomena that when it was really intense was

00:07:00.120 with oliver stone's movie in the 1990s it was 100 liberal coded and vaccination stuff that came out

00:07:09.140 with jenny mccarthy and uh it was you're like a you're a cool slightly weird suburban housewife

00:07:18.680 or something and you're in like i'm not vaxxing my kids why would you do put chemicals into their

00:07:23.580 body what else you know do you feed them corn syrup and cornstarch like it was so left-coded

00:07:30.660 and then 20 years later all of these things are right-coded and i don't it's it's so many i mean

00:07:38.640 these are all anecdotal examples but it's it's so consistent that it has to be getting at something

00:07:45.820 deeper another thing like we're all everyone here is old enough to remember the obsession with blue

00:07:52.740 hair you have died okay gotta mute guys automatically who is that okay you're

00:08:03.160 automatically muted when you come in you gotta mute um but blue hair was the the symbol of being

00:08:15.860 an sjw or leftist i i i'm not even exaggerating right now i think if you see someone with blue

00:08:25.060 hair and a nose earring she's almost coded as maga now don't you like don't you think

00:08:32.880 like there's something about being like 10 years behind the trend that's just very consistent and

00:08:43.860 very conservative i don't know if i accidentally muted you rfh but yes or you did there um

00:08:53.480 yeah i mean this has been like a discourse with liberals a lot lately just in terms of like

00:09:00.520 clothing in particular it's it's like almost like they they've switched like you see conservatives

00:09:07.480 now dress as liberals did like 10 years ago kind of kind of hipstery kind of alt

00:09:14.260 like tattoos yeah tattooed weird hair weird things when you see someone like in because i

00:09:24.620 graduated from high school in 1997 so this has been wow so old but um that was when tattoos

00:09:32.020 which had been basically the provenance of of criminals military super weirdos

00:09:43.760 or drug users like you didn't have a tattoo that wasn't a thing and even when you saw sports

00:09:50.660 figures like the nfl games no tattoos and now it's ubiquitous if not universal in fact but like

00:10:00.480 a guy wearing jeans and like an untucked shirt who has tattoos up his arm or something 20 years ago

00:10:08.760 that man is a liberal hips hipster taking his cues from like williamsburg uh brooklyn that is

00:10:16.180 now when you see that man you're like oh wow he's a trump tard 0.96

00:10:19.860 it's yeah it keeps it's everything now that it's not edgy anymore because 20 years ago too

00:10:28.280 having any sort of visible tattoo it precluded you from any sort of office work yeah but you

00:10:35.400 could not get hired in many places having any sort of tattoo like that on you that's why it was like

00:10:40.580 people in the military people in prison like it you didn't have that it really like

00:10:47.120 it really limited your options employment wise and like your your economic social mobility

00:10:54.740 now that they're everywhere and it's normal to have a tattoo is like my last job i worked at

00:11:00.800 like a fortune 400 finance company and all my zoomer co-workers had tattoos and it was fine 1.00

00:11:06.880 like visible tattoos and this was normal and it's almost like weirdly conservative coded and i know

00:11:14.300 the tattoo craze is very widespread but it's almost like conservative coded or something in

00:11:22.860 a certain way like you have a little like artsy tattoo and that means that you live in the burbs

00:11:30.360 and you go to um go to a mega church or go to a church called like fresh life or something

00:11:38.720 and but then you also were like skeptical of trump but when rfk got on board well i was all in

00:11:47.420 yeah like you're that type of person it's like conservative coded to be tattooed

00:11:53.820 like i think we're there yeah because now that it's become so over saturated it's everywhere

00:11:59.660 now they jump on board because they're never leading the way with anything they're never like

00:12:06.060 at the forefront they're never edgy they're never forward thinking i don't know like they never take

00:12:12.200 a risk they're they're more risk averse they're less high in openness so now that tattoos are

00:12:18.900 accepted and common and the liberals they move on from things and the conservatives now they

00:12:26.540 discover and they're like oh and they think it's cool yeah it has to be oversaturated and in a way

00:12:33.460 the trend has to be over and then they jump on it and you were saying like the the the big five

00:12:40.540 personality traits so ocean openness conscientiousness extroversion uh agreeableness

00:12:48.260 and neuroticism i believe and so it's one of these psychological things where they're i mean i'm even

00:12:54.580 kind of skeptical of this stuff like sam vatkin talks about like the whole field of psychology

00:13:01.340 is sort of suspect or it's it's like the whole field is kind of like we're putting words on

00:13:08.680 things but we have no real knowledge of causality you know it's like you know i'm diagnosing you

00:13:15.580 with bpd disorder well okay but where what is what is going on exactly is there is that a gene

00:13:23.360 is that you're sort of finding categories

00:13:28.160 that get codified in the DSM

00:13:30.540 and kind of projecting them onto something,

00:13:33.220 but in a rather, I don't know,

00:13:35.800 like a somewhat dubious way.

00:13:37.800 Why was I saying this?

00:13:38.820 Oh, Ocean, the big five personality traits.

00:13:41.040 So we sort of think of these big traits

00:13:44.300 as you know them when you see them, basically.

00:13:48.040 And these are heritable to some degree,

00:13:52.160 also cultural um but they they're kind of like ways of describing personality

00:13:58.500 and the lack of openness does seem to be

00:14:02.880 a clear component of being right way i mean i think that's like the big problem yeah i think

00:14:10.980 that's probably the biggest one of the big five that that probably has the most yeah like polarity 0.72

00:14:19.140 between um liberals and conservatives because it's all like the disease metaphor is this right-wing

00:14:26.560 rhetoric what i mean by that is that if you look back at like discussions of communism

00:14:32.860 and things like that it was always it was always about like the disease like there's like a red

00:14:38.340 like virus and it's going to get into your schools it might affect your kids

00:14:43.540 has it affected the president maybe we don't know like it's that that kind of metaphorical thinking

00:14:49.440 of the disease the invader into the common body that's how right wingers think so they they they

00:14:56.760 do they are sort of like an immune system basically and they have these like walls build a wall what

00:15:02.620 is the most powerful meme of trump at least 2016 build the wall what did it mean we have no idea

00:15:09.580 but it just means what it means it's like outsiders beware basically and so they just

00:15:17.540 lack this openness I mean for better for worse I'm not even necessarily bashing them for this

00:15:22.300 it just is what it is but it also means that they are reactive against any sort of new trend

00:15:30.020 or new idea so it's like the JFK oh yeah right you know tell me another one yeah JFK was

00:15:37.800 assassinated by the cia okay and then 20 years later they're like listen man i've got to tell 0.76

00:15:45.140 you like jfk was killed by the cia and it's like we know like not only that jfk jr is going to trump 0.65

00:15:54.660 their allies and he's alive yes right but it's like hey man like you know there's this new thing

00:16:03.600 it's called putting ink into your skin you use a needle you decorate your body it's like

00:16:10.000 kind of like tribal and badass and it's like yeah dude i've heard of a tattoo before you 0.99

00:16:16.500 fucking idiot like there's just some degree in which that i mean that that gets my criticism 0.99

00:16:22.820 conservatism is and like tucker and the like neo alt-right or whatever where they they reach 1.00

00:16:30.720 they're they're so far behind on the timeline but when they get to like your tweet from 10 years ago

00:16:37.980 they think it's new and then they steal it they think they invented it they think they discovered

00:16:42.900 it yeah yeah and it's like we we taught we discussed this and we're actually now over

00:16:50.320 this thing and it's less it's not really relevant now and so you're just like i i don't know i it's

00:17:00.320 a very weird mentality i think i don't know i just i don't think i was born with a conservative

00:17:06.360 mentality i i understand how i have these very strong kind of hard right wing tendencies like

00:17:14.560 deep in my personality to like root for the overdog or against the underdog or only the

00:17:22.060 strong survive i'm kind of that type but i i don't think i inherited the conservative mentality at

00:17:30.020 all it just doesn't vibe with me and i find people who are lacking in openness annoying yeah actually

00:17:38.080 i think it's they just have like a completely different neurology like they've done like

00:17:44.180 brain scans on liberals versus conservatives and like conservatives have like more active

00:17:49.020 amygdalas like threat detection they have right they're more sensitive to their disgust response 0.98

00:17:55.260 so and you you probably do need people like that in your population to be fair you can't have

00:18:03.040 everyone just be like this really open-minded like you know edgy type person that's just like

00:18:11.240 wanting to change things all the time you obviously need like a consistent steady group of

00:18:16.480 people but i also don't really want to hang out with them or converse with no and i'm not going

00:18:23.420 to pretend that their epiphanies are somehow groundbreaking as well yeah chris yeah i sometimes

00:18:32.740 from what it's worth problems kind of disentangling the right way and left way elements of my

00:18:38.320 psychology and somewhat silver struggles but also i was going to say uh you know ed dutton

00:18:44.300 who's ironically a conservative points out in one of his books that openness of those five

00:18:50.460 personality characteristics. Openness is the one that's most strongly correlated with

00:18:55.900 intelligence. In fact, sometimes when they present the ocean system, they actually say,

00:19:03.380 they describe that trait as openness slash.

RadixJournal - April 01, 2026

A More Private Equity

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