In this episode, I talk about a new concept that's built on the idea of decentralized networks of people basically forming their own digital nations. It's an idea that's been around for a while, but now it's being taken to a whole new level.
00:00:00.000I've talked about in the past of this idea of artificial nations or even corporations actually forming their own nations.
00:00:07.560I'm not sure if you've heard of the network states, cloud nations, and it's basically like ultimate globalism, if you ask me.
00:00:14.180Now, I understand things are so bad, right?
00:00:16.700It's so awful. International trade, mass movements of people, migration, out-of-control governments, left-wing authoritarians and things like this
00:00:26.860have caused us to get to a point where we basically are desperate for solutions and how to fix this.
00:00:32.320Of course, we think it's to give back the nations to the ethnic natives of those lands and restore our nations once again.
00:00:39.500But that's not what we're talking about here.
00:00:40.640Now we're talking about a completely new concept that's built on technology.
00:00:44.620It's built on the idea of decentralized networks of people basically forming their own digital nations.
00:00:51.880Now, they do have plans to turn this into physical locations eventually.
00:00:56.320There's a couple of people involved in this that are tied in to the usual suspects.
00:01:00.880The Mark Andreassens, who's a venture capitalist that's well tied in with the Musks and the Peter Thiel's, the David Sachs's.
00:01:08.380And as I was preparing some of the stuff for this, actually, the New York Post did an article on this very concept just yesterday,
00:01:17.300which they titled Cyber City of the Future.
00:01:20.360How an ambitious 29-year-old plans to build Praxis, a stateless tech utopia.
00:01:26.320Dryden Brown believes we're on the precipice of a brave new world, and he wants to pioneer it.
00:01:32.520The 29-year-old has an audacious vision for a futuristic new city-state he's planning to found, which will be called Praxis.
00:01:41.160The city will be incredibly beautiful, Brown told the Post.
00:01:43.920The architecture will be a fusion of classical aesthetics.
00:01:47.900We're working on a fusion of gothic elements and space-age futurism.
00:01:53.160The architecture is going to be something you've never seen before.
00:01:56.500And here's the mandatory AI-generated images to, I guess, launch the concept or whatnot.
00:02:02.160Brown wants Praxis to be a self-governing and completely independent of any other country or state.
00:02:07.520And he claims he is in the advanced stages of talks to secure the land where he plans to found this new colony.
00:02:16.000Beyond the buildings, he has also ideas in mind for the type of people who will live there.
00:02:20.620Adding, if you were to walk through the city, you'd see people who are focused or in good shape
00:02:26.240or walking briskly with a sense of intensity and purpose.
00:02:30.380And it's like, okay, well, this kind of sounds interesting, right?
00:06:45.880Peter Thiel, city-building startup Praxis, has raised $15 million in Series A funding from a variety of crypto venture firms led by Paradigm Capital, Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda Research, and Three Arrows Capital.
00:06:59.660Praxis is also backed by Pronomos Venture Capital, where Andreessen is reportedly an investor.
00:07:05.940And PayPal mafia member Ken Harry, who Trump named as ambassador to Denmark, remains one of four general partners at Founders Fund.
00:07:14.680The venture capitalist firm that he launched with Peter Thiel, Luke Nuzik, following PayPal's acquisition back in 2002.
00:07:22.640Now, these people are warning about them from a left-wing perspective, which makes this even more funny because they call them right-wingers all the time.
00:07:29.440What it really is, is basically like a libertarian state, essentially, and there's no racial component.
00:07:35.660It's interesting, they tie in, like, the West and reviving the West and things like that in much of their writings and in their tweets.
00:07:42.480I'm talking about Praxis now, specifically.
00:07:44.820But there's nothing about preserving ethnic groups and, you know, things like this.
00:07:49.000In fact, it will be what it looks like at this point, a multi-racial, you know, intensely deracinated digital nation, at least initially.
00:07:56.740But they are looking at buying property in the Mediterranean to actually start building this city of theirs.
00:08:02.460Dryden recently pledged allegiance to the flag of the nation of Praxis.
00:08:06.400They printed out, like, passports and, like, these little membership cards and things like that.
00:08:10.720They run a magazine, all kinds of things.
00:08:12.740And kind of playing on some of these memes, meme culture, broligarchs reinvented feudalism.
00:08:19.980I don't know, it's very interesting the way that they, it's almost like that they're playing into this natural kind of opposition that seems to be occurring, a grassroots opposition of, like, reviving the West or whatnot.
00:08:34.700But now they're offering you this synthetic false version of this where basically, potentially, a lot of people can be, you know, attracted, I guess, to it because some of the aesthetics.
00:08:47.240I'm not sure it will work the way they think they will, but regardless, they're trying.
00:08:52.640So Praxis is a, you know, proposed city at this point.
00:08:56.100But as I said, they have, they're now looking at building something in the Mediterranean with a population of about 10,000.
00:09:04.660Brown has not yet to determine the location of the city and the company's vision has been called unrealistic.
00:09:09.560As of April 2024, Praxis has stated that it has 2,034 citizens.
00:09:15.120I think it was more on their website now.
00:09:16.520124 companies and that companies founded by Praxis members have an aggregated valuation of, check this out, $452 billion.
00:09:25.000I'm not sure if that's hyped or what it is.
00:09:26.680If this is some ludicrous option to attract people who are right-leaning and see the problems and then just, you know, make it, you know, it's another FTX thing.
00:09:37.820Basically, bubble, raise funds, scam it, but then kind of a, I don't know.
00:09:42.320It's too early to tell, but it's very, very interesting.
00:09:44.020I think that's, you shouldn't underestimate them, though, because I think they genuinely want to do something like this.
00:09:49.300It would basically put a nail in this idea that nations can somehow kind of restore to their former status, right, that they can be taken back by the native populations in these lands.
00:10:00.460Because now you'd basically have different economic zones.
00:10:03.680You'd have different AI-founded projects that have their now legal authority.
00:13:17.660If there was a Satoshi in Japan, okay, living in a building by themselves, if they can build a community of, let's say, 17 people and then 172, they start getting rooms together, start, you know, renting together.
00:13:33.120Eventually, they have enough money to start crowdfunding buildings or floors.
00:13:36.880Eventually, they have enough money in scale at 17,000 to get maybe little cul-de-sacs or suburbs or what have you.
00:13:42.520And going up another order in magnitude, they're actually at the scale of a very small UN-listed country.
00:13:48.020And one more, at 1,729,314 people, it's a cloud country somewhere between Latvia and Bahrain, okay, in terms of its size and scale in population and income and real estate footprint, okay?
00:14:01.500Nothing here violates any laws of physics.
00:14:04.080It's just using internet technologies we already have, like crowdfunding and social networking and, you know, VR and Zoom and all this type of stuff.
00:14:13.800So imagine 1,000 different startups, each of them replacing a different legacy institution.
00:14:19.340So, for example, at the top, there's San Francisco, and we're replacing San Francisco both with things outside it, like cul-de-sac in Arizona and Prospera in South America and Cabin, which is in Texas but also around the world.
00:14:31.480And the neighborhood SF is actually fixing San Francisco from within SF, right?
00:14:35.220So you can have the Satoshi strategy of going outside or the Satya Nadella strategy of reforming within.
00:14:40.640Either Satoshi or Satya is fine, so long as you're not Steve, who says it ain't even broke.
00:16:16.760Cul-de-sac, for example, is like a remote-optimized city.
00:16:18.960Like, if you built a normal city with roads for the daily commute, what would a remote-optimized city look like if it was built for remote workers?
00:16:25.460You totally rethink all the architecture.
00:18:05.520It's just like, well, it's something with AI and, you know, we do startups and we'll do these apps and internet decentralized crypto.
00:18:14.480Anyway, the thing, though, is that I want to focus a little bit on here beyond the nightmarish example of, like, how they're now then walk, totally walking away from what the concept of what a nation actually is.
00:18:25.540They're trying to push it as like it's a right wing thing.
00:18:28.700So Mother Jones was going a little bit lighter here, right?
00:18:31.680A Peter Thiel-linked startup is courting New York censors and plotting a libertarian paradise.
00:18:38.240At least they call it a libertarian, right?
00:18:39.780The Praxis Society envisions a Mediterranean enclave with just the right kind of people.
00:18:46.460And, of course, to capitalize the R there because they're alluding to this, right?
00:18:49.520The New York Times went a little further.
00:18:51.220Who would give this guy millions to build his own utopia?
00:18:53.960Dryden Brown wants practice to be a crypto city for tech bros and tastemakers.
00:18:59.520You can see how many times they mention here these are right wing influencers.
00:19:03.780Internal Praxis Branding Guide makes it clear that the company is part of a creepy internet subculture that has drawn reams of news media coverage as a fascist breeding ground with the American right.
00:19:15.280They dropped Curtis Yarwin in some of these articles being linked to it.
00:19:18.700Remember the Dark Enlightenment and it turns out of all these kind of Zionist Jews were tied into that.
00:19:22.840Even like Dave Rubin and the Weinstein brothers and things like this.
00:19:27.060All these people are tied into some of these ideas, right?
00:20:46.980So they're playing, they're playing on this, like a subculture of ultimately like national socialism here, tied in with all these like tech Jews.
00:21:31.060But yeah, as you're talking about this, I'm thinking, OK, jump in the video games, get in the matrix, don't get out.
00:21:37.740And and really what they're doing, it's a form of a secessionist movement.
00:21:41.680Well, no, what we need is to do it for real, not living digitally in some digital cul-de-sac.
00:21:47.440We need to take our countries back and have, you know, our our real parallel society of white people.
00:21:54.640And that's I remember years ago we were talking about that, forming a parallel society of white folks who are like minded, who one day will take their countries back.
00:22:04.200What about, you know, they talk about opting into these communities.
00:22:07.560Well, how are you going to opt out of the United States of America?
00:22:15.000But what happens when you want to have a white nationalist parallel society or a white nationalist digital community or parallel institutions?
00:22:38.160And when I see what's horrible about this is it just splits up and divides, let's face it, white people even more, because that's who's going to go for this.
00:22:46.420Mostly it's going to be mostly white people are going to be like, oh, yeah, this is cool.
00:23:04.320And this is why, like, the Facebook's already have their own Supreme Court or whatever.
00:23:07.480And I talked about this years ago now, like they're going to do, they're going to, they're going to offer us digital citizenship and stuff like that.
00:23:35.640Brown went to, Drayden Brown had went to Africa.
00:23:39.220He made some comments about how he felt unsettled there because of he was white.
00:23:43.440And then, of course, the New York Times articles and everything is like, oh, he's a, he's neocolonialist, you know, kind of views and shit like this.
00:24:36.300The New York Times and Vanity Fair and Wired and Mother Jones and all these people are like, oh my God, here's this.
00:24:43.740Do you see, do you see now the success or the strategy of taking some real genuine right-wing ideas, offering you a simulacrum, a fake version of it, a watered down version?
00:24:57.260It's never going to amount to anything that we want to aspire to ultimately, I think.
00:25:01.640Definitely not if the racial, the ethnic component is not there.
00:25:04.800But then selling it to you as this is the right-wing version of it, while it actually isn't, right?
00:25:09.980Because otherwise, okay, if they're Evola, fascist.