RadixJournal - September 23, 2026


Looksmaxxing, Equality, and Socialism

Hosted by
Richard Spencer
Mentioned
Hassan Piker Ed Dutton Botox Marx
Aronofsky’s Black Swan

Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

133.42

Word count

978

Sentence count

33

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Toxicity

6

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Hate speech

3

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Are you going to participate in the school walkout for clavicular?
00:00:07.400 I don't know.
00:00:08.240 What do we think about clavicular in general?
00:00:10.320 I haven't talked about clav in a while.
00:00:13.320 Do I like him or do I dislike him?
00:00:15.940 It's a little bit of both.
00:00:17.680 Yeah, I was going to ask your opinion.
00:00:18.940 Do you think there's a slight maybe dysgenic quality of looks maxing to the extent that?
00:00:25.700 i mean what i but what i mean to say just to be nuanced about it is like
00:00:31.120 how should i say this if you're already kind of good looking then you should be allowed to
00:00:37.600 looks max but if you're not particularly good looking you should not be looks maxing does
00:00:42.400 that make sense you can't look smacks your jeans i mean exactly unless you're gene editing those
00:00:49.600 genes are your genes. And if you're getting your legs extended to the tune of half a million
00:00:55.900 dollars, and you're now 6'3", where you once were 5'6", who is the pre-Darwinian theorist who had
00:01:05.060 the theory of acquired characteristics? Yeah. So in other words, the child is going to inherit
00:01:13.880 the traits pre looks maxing exactly unless unless of course the partner is gonna compensate for that
00:01:20.940 by her looks or whatever but again this is very reminiscent of of like pride gathering you know
00:01:26.960 it's like you definitely the admixture is is there's just a dishonest element to it that just
00:01:33.220 just that is disturbing that's all i was thinking about like that's the that's the main issue get
00:01:39.840 to an apollonian image but there there's like an inner phonic quality to what he's doing because
00:01:49.600 it's all about sort of self-refashioning and even self-deconstruction and reconstruction 0.98
00:01:58.260 and you don't in all lickly hood looks max unless you're already a nerd and ugly
00:02:06.920 looks maxing looks maxing should be like almost like an effortless endeavor like you don't you 0.86
00:02:14.960 know you shouldn't have to apply so much effort to be you know out in the open like this no you
00:02:23.260 you can just buy a new suit or something or get exactly i mean that that's what looks maxing
00:02:30.100 should be and i don't know there's an egalitarian urge to it i mean maybe we can just socialize
00:02:36.980 ozempic and socialize plastic surgery because look it's about mental health guys it's not about
00:02:45.780 a white beauty standard no it's about like i can now feel more confident in my job so you can make
00:02:52.660 all these arguments that ozempic and plastic surgery should just be socialized just to be
00:02:59.460 part of Medicaid. Maybe not Medicare. And everyone should be on it. And we'll all just
00:03:08.940 live in this new equality where everyone is super hot. Botox, just universal Botoxing 0.90
00:03:20.280 for both sexes, for all sexes, I should say. I don't know. It's sort of a horrifying 0.84
00:03:27.880 notion now there's never going to be an end you're never going to get I mean this is one thing that
00:03:33.960 I think socialists misunderstand altogether like you're never going to get to equality
00:03:38.440 even if you make everyone's income like everyone in the country's income is between like 70,000
00:03:48.120 and 100,000 so we're all like kind of middle class and no one's like that much richer
00:03:54.240 or things like that uh even if you do something that egregious like the 70s are going to represent
00:04:02.300 the hundreds and there's going to be some like weird little thing that you do to gain status
00:04:10.700 in in this communistic type environment or i should say socialistic type environment this is
00:04:16.440 Not communism as Marx imagined it.
00:04:18.460 But in this sort of, you know, Hassan Piker utopia, where everyone is basically upper middle class, so you can kind of have your lifestyle, but there's no millionaires or billionaires.
00:04:34.320 I think that's almost what they want.
00:04:39.760 It will, there will be ways for status to reassert itself.
00:04:45.040 And there will be, again, a reassertion of Pareto's 80-20 rule, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. You'll never get away from status. But even so, even in this sort of clavicular Hassan Piker-like socialism, I think that it's kind of a horrifying vision where everyone has a kind of fake body.
00:05:07.360 And so you can't use looks to assess genes, you know, to, to put my Ed Dutton hat on here for a moment, we have, we have an idea that nerds are ugly and dumb jocks are smart. Blondes are dumb as well. That's another, that's a big whopper. Blondes are dumb and good looking people. Oh, so dumb. 1.00
00:05:31.620 It's only the geeks and the freaks who know how to program computers. 1.00
00:05:38.740 These are all these, like, stereotypes that just are not true.
00:05:44.180 If you are pretty good at sports, you are much more likely to be of above average intelligence because it's showing that not only your brain, but your whole nervous system is functioning well.
00:05:59.960 so the jocks are smarter the the dweebs aren't now as Ed Dutton would point out here I'm just
00:06:08.940 channeling him at some point in the extremes this breaks down so you can have people who are
00:06:17.000 so intelligent that they're doing physics all day but they can't even tie their shoes
00:06:23.280 and they don't know what day it is and they're walking around with mismatched socks and uh they
00:06:32.700 forget to feed themselves and it's you know the type that's on the very extreme end where these
00:06:39.800 correlations just break down but in terms of like the the major you know part of the bell curve
00:06:47.040 There is a correlation with being blonde, first off, and being intelligent due to just race differences in intelligence.
00:06:55.100 There's a correlation with being a jock and being intelligent.
00:06:59.120 There is a correlation with being good-looking and being intelligent.
00:07:05.460 So, sorry, nerds.
00:07:11.420 Your myths are busted. 0.93
00:07:13.460 you're not smart jocks win 0.94