Identifying Friends and Gatekeepers | Guest: The Distributist | 12⧸19⧸22
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In this episode, I sit down with the Distillist to discuss the current state of the conservative movement and how it relates to the rise and fall of the far right. We talk about how the right is losing ground to the left, and the role of social media in the process.
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hey everybody how's it going thanks for joining me this evening got a great stream with a great
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guest i think you guys are really gonna enjoy i'm sure most of you who are watching the channel
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here are already aware but if you don't know the distributist is an excellent youtuber one of the
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old school guys around here you should definitely check out everything he does he's got a sub stack
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he's got a channel he's got a couple other things i'll let him plug here in a second but dave thank
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you so much for joining me man i think you got the uh the mute on there dave sorry about that yeah
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the pretty much the only thing i don't have is time enough to update all of those things so
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yeah feel free to check me out i do usually a weekly podcast kind of not happening this week
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because of christmas stuff but i'll be back in the new year and uh yeah i'm glad to be here
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absolutely man really appreciate it so the thing i wanted to talk to you a little bit today about
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there's a lot going on i think more and more people are kind of aware of the shifts that are happening
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on the right the attitudes with you know kind of the republican uh mainstays the usual approach people
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are looking for different answers and they're going different places a lot of them are landing
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in you know channels like yours or mine and i think a lot of people want to understand kind of what's
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going on because there's a lot of contests a lot of people challenging hey who should be a part of a
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movement who should be able to talk to who who should be engaging with someone is someone a bad
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influence all that kind of thing we've got a couple of different uh dustups that have happened on
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on the internet over the last yeah you know few weeks we had the rob dreher uh with with charles
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haywood and then we kind of had uh uh jordan peterson coming out against anons we had a lot of people
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kind of pushing back against people who might generally land in our sphere and you did a really
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good thread that i think kind of speaks to some of this so so maybe you want to open up with that a
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little bit well actually i would like to talk a little bit more i think about sort of the problem
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first oh sure yeah yeah so i mean the thing is is the right has sort of an issue and i think you see
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this with the jordan peterson i don't know do are we calling it a collapse right now because the guy
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seems to have fallen off the deep end his appeal is kind of draining away i don't know really what
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the audience is well i shouldn't say that i do know what the audience for peterson is and the audience
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he's trying to build is conservatism charles haywood had this name for it he called it scrutinism
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named after roger scrutin roger scrutin was a genius and he had this really raw primal poetic energy
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but his sort of demeanor his short his sort of intelligent way of doing fusionism is dead and
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you can't repeat it and there's no way that these people like peterson can portray themselves as
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anything other than just tragic figures destined to lose these you know peterson has seemingly no idea
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what time it is he doesn't understand the political dynamics he's dealing with and so all he can do is
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just sort of be perpetually outraged and spin off this kind of performative verbiage that this
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communicates this profound sense of weakness i don't know i don't really know who's on in the market for
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this stuff and i think this kind of creates a crisis on the right because the the people who i think
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people were looking to to organize something new and different are just sort of outright failing
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and it all sort of centers around this issue with determining friend versus enemy now this is
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something that's very much abused right schmidt said politics is fundamentally friend enemy by which i
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think he meant that politics on a long enough time period devolves into friend and enemy people
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organize their political identities around that distinction and that's what drives it but
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you know you can't just say politics is friend enemy i hate you therefore you're a political
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enemy that's a sort of like a boneheaded way to go about doing things and and you know there there's
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also this this other way i think people are discovering right now is uh we can't do what the left does
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so for the last well basically since the 60s at least and probably even before that the the american
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left has had this process by which it defines good and evil by how how close you are how much you
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advocate for moral degeneration or just general amorality kind of like antinomian behavior generally
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and then it defines friend enemy that way and it just plays politics straight up the right can't do
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that the right is not trying to just degenerate everything into a political game the right's trying to
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de-politicize things and it's trying to create things that are actually lasting and solid and
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that you can trust and because of that the the question of of determining for an enemy is more
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complicated it's not just who's on side it's not just oh or is he spouting the proper political
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platitudes is he is he pure enough uh that kind of leads you to this whole fortune attitude whereas if
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you're not constantly talking like kanye west you're an enemy so i mean this kind of opens up this
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interesting dynamic and i think the only thing people really have determined so far is that the
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current leaders and i'm very much thinking of people like rodriguez and jordan peterson have
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completely failed in their attempt to deal with politics as it actually occurs in the 21st century
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and you know i guess it's a starting point now what are your thoughts maybe i should ask that
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no yeah i i think that's probably true i mean it's very difficult to watch someone like peterson
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kind of fall into this i i wonder do you think because you know he's someone who's for so many
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people kind of opened up a lot of things and helped them through difficult times and did have a
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impact on people in a positive direction maybe in even in a more way i guess you could call it right
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leaning direction but for us i think we would just call it you know a healthy direction but at the
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same time do you think he's aware of what he's doing when he's reconstructing scrutinism or trying
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like does do you think he understands that this is a failed project or do you think that he was just
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completely unfamiliar with kind of this tradition beforehand and feels like he's got a kind of
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created out of whole cloth and isn't really you know it doesn't have the context to understand
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where he is in the moment well i think i think that i think people mistake it jordan peterson had
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kind of a hint of the old world about him and he had kind of uh but i mean basically in his pre-breakdown
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years he had a sort of vitality about him where it was clear that he was going to stand his ground
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and that kind of gave him what i want to say is it kind of gave him a wisdom that he couldn't
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ideologically justify in himself uh you know jordan peterson had completely swallowed the liberal
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story about how politics works and to my knowledge he's never addressed that he he doesn't he he still
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thinks that there's you know it'd be worth it to ask him why he thought previous iterations of
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conservatism failed but he he still thinks that that progress is going to come around there's going
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to be a great moderation uh there's going to be some kind of way that you can create an ideological
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movement to the right in the same way that the left has ideological ways to the left
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i i guess you know to my knowledge he just hasn't asked the right questions or he was never really in
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a mind frame to really question preconceptions about the world that was presented to him in the 60s 70s
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and 80s and that he built his academic career around and so he's sort of wielding these instincts
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that are fundamentally more wise than he is or or has a right to be i should say and yeah that's kind
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of that's my take on peterson i guess the only question is why are people still listening well like
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i said i think a lot of people feel like they kind of owe something to peterson he opened things up for a
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lot of people he was seen you know as a thought leader for a time and so i think there's a lot of
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momentum to you know for the people who think that you know the institutions that think that he is going
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to kind of open things up for people or is going to be a force to be reckoned with long term i think
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it takes a while to kind of burn that credibility down and while i think it may be easier for some of us
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in this sphere to kind of spot that the momentum is dying down i think for the mainstream it still
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looks like he's got gas in the tank right he's still an intelligent guy he's still exploring things
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that a lot of people hadn't thought about i like the way that you kind of phrase that that he's
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carrying a wisdom that otherwise maybe hadn't earned or wouldn't otherwise apply and so that's
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still captivating to people in a way right i'm sure he's earned it in his own life by raising a
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family you know being instructing young men caring for principles standing his ground in that way he's
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earned it but there's there's no ideological justification for it it not to try to use another
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tired analogy but i always i always think of this as sort of like the picard principle like you know
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picard is this uh man of from star trek next generation he's this man of the old world he he is this
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this spinning image of this imperialistic french or or english uh leader gentleman and he comports
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himself as such and he reads moby dick in his spare time and whatnot and but there's there's no way that
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a society of of post-scarcity could generate that kind of man or justify his morals that he obviously is
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implicitly carrying forward and so you know picard is this this sort of anachronism you have to imagine
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that he came out of a time machine in order to in order to be the kind of person he was in in a
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world that was secular basically immoral and and and post-scarcity there would be no hardship to
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generate that kind of energy in him and peterson is very much the same way he just he's arrived i
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guess in a time warp from the 50s and the thing is is that nothing about the macrocosmic society works
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the way his his his explicit political theory says it should and so he's kind of falling back on on
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deeper emotions and i think that kind of failed him i think the whole and not with peterson the big
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barrier was the whole anonymous accounts thing i said i haven't paid attention to peterson very closely
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and because of that i'm i'm kind of i don't know exactly why people are angry at him other than him
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like his murder of the english tongue in his conservative manifesto uh yeah i i assume it
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has to do with the attack on anonymous twitter accounts right yeah yeah no it was he came out
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very uh aggressively against uh anonymous twitter accounts which is very confusing i mean i get the
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idea right like the theory is okay well i had my real name and i went through this cancellation and i
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stood my ground and i put my reputation on the line and if everyone else would just do that
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yeah then like we would be able to win this thing and this uh this attitude is pretty genuine actually
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like for people who think this is a show or like like this is actually pretty genuine and something i run
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into all the time when i'm talking to mainstream conservative figures like that i've heard this many many
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times from people who you think would know better like well if we can just get every person to have
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the courage of their convictions and speak the truth in their in their everyday interactions
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then like we'll just turn this whole thing around and for a guy i don't know how the how does the
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conversation end there because for for anybody who who knows how modern workplaces work that's just
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not how it works like okay like peterson he can get basically defrocked as an academic and then he
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gets then he just gets a two thousand dollar a month or probably more than that like twenty thousand
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dollar a month patreon yeah and just makes videos and like then becomes like a millionaire off of
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that like that's not an option for most people like you stand out against the system you're going
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to get your your opportunities are going to be absolutely destroyed and the activists come after you
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and you're not going to have a patreon to fall back on this is this is an incredible risk i mean we are
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all taking here doing this and light anonymity is the only thing protecting our families i i don't
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understand how those things occur to people i think a lot of them have been really removed from for a
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long time a lot of these people are professionals and you know they're again i think they're being
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honest i think they're being genuine in some cases but like i think they're just so far removed
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from you know hey i make my living you know you know telling people what i think even though it's
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often very controlled anyway but they're less likely to agree to to realize that i think but
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you know they think oh well i do this and and it's not a big deal and yeah i know there's some people
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getting canceled here and there but i think they're just so far removed from kind of the day-to-day life
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of someone making you know 40 50 grand a year whose entire life is going to get completely destroyed if
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they get laid off from their job like you said they're not going to have the option to go on a
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speaking tour and write a best-selling book and you know that that's the thing peterson you know should
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know better he lives in a country where you know the trucker protest these people have their lives
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destroyed have their bank accounts shut down you know the they're they're not just their bank account
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the bank accounts of their family bank accounts of people who who supported them like he understands
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the in theory you know the consequence for this but he did the same thing when it came to the
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truckers right he told them to just go home right in the middle of what like when it comes to standing
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tall at the end of the day he just says well actually maybe we should back down and let the
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government do whatever they want you shouldn't really stand up and by the way now that you've
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exposed yourself and your life is going to be destroyed and the government's going to come
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after your bank account oh well you know i'm going to go sell another million books or something right
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yeah and if they their lives were destroyed that would kind of be more crest for the mill
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in terms of peterson's success and i i don't want to imply that you know i don't know i can't look
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into his soul and say he's a bad actor but but the incentives of conservatism are essentially to
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whine about tragedy while doing nothing to build anything in its wake and you know the figure
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that's kind of standing in the background of this process in my own mind who had a much larger impact
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on my life than peterson was roger here who was just i mean who's instrumental in my conversion back
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to christianity living in a blue state and and kind of trying to find a middle ground between sort of
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the i i i don't know i don't know what the most delicate words are to say but kind of the the bland
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stupidity of 2000s evangelicalism and my distaste with secularism progressive secularism of my my home
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state and you know dreher was like this bridge to that but then at some point he just you realize
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that like his entire career is spent selling these these reactions like he's he's chicken he has no
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solution he just sells he's kind of like oh the sky is falling the sky is falling you know who i don't
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know who can afford to listen to this or who likes this stuff but any solution that comes up he he doesn't
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like you know i remember listening to rod dreher describe curtis yarvin as like this sort of weird
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internet villain and he obviously hadn't read the guy um you know that's how i that's how i first kind
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of came across the name of men just mole bug back in the day and uh what's so strange is that i guess
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i don't know how much you how you want to segue to this but in rod dreher's case the inciting instant
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that people are really reacting to now is dreher is essentially instrumental in organizing a
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cancellation campaign of of a prominent teacher at a classical christian academy for for basically
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very little for for basically profanity for online profanity and for being mean to not other anonymous
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people online under a pseudonym and you know i i you know i don't know what to say to this i know a
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lot of my friends i i i reacted incredibly negatively to this and i i don't know again it depends on how
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much people know about this and but you kind of wonder what how how does this person's world exist if
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he's going to take down this person for shit posting and even potentially according to dreher
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possibly scundled this entire school because he he perceives these this sort of profanity in the
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shit posting as the trojan horse of white supremacy how is any kind of institution ever supposed to
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function uh the second a person sins and specifically sins against the the enemy that you're trying to
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guard against you're going to cancel them and destroy their entire legacy and put them on blast
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and humiliate them and destroy their crowdfunding oh you know i don't know i mean it's it's impossible
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to imagine what these people are thinking and i to me i don't know this is there's a point where you
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just have to understand these people as being detached from reality and it's tragic it's tragic and
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i think we're all kind of looking for responses right now what what's very clear to me is that
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people like rod dreher cannot continue to be touchstones for any serious people who are looking
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for anything other than to slow down progressivism for a few years or in rod dreher's case actually
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accelerate it because i guarantee you he's been broadcasting the danger of white supremacy
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infiltrating christian academies for the last two or three weeks now if people take this line like
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they teach a new generation of evangelical kids that there's a secret plot afoot to smuggle in
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nazism into their school and that the best thing they can do is to witch hunt all of their teachers for
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white supremacy like what are these kids gonna i mean like and what do they get they get all the crt is
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also bad you know and you should like the founding fathers well let me tell you what's going to
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happen these kids are going to go to college and then they're going to learn that by any standard
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of the word our founding fathers were white supremacists and they're going to learn that
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from experts who are fans of ibrahim x kendi and then all of the witch hunting you're directing against
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these people with minor transgressions online they're going to be sent back and they're going to
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witch hunt you and everyone can see this everyone who can see this who isn't these these thought
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leaders in the conservative movement and i'm at a loss at what to say to these people because i
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haven't located anyone who will actually defend this approach to the problem of politics in the
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it's in search of its own justification as far as i'm concerned because it just it's insanity
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well i think it might be self-evident to us and maybe many of the people who are more familiar
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with us but we do have some more people coming in who might not be familiar so it might be it might
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be behoove us to speak a little bit more on to why this is so ineffective or why this is so dangerous
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because i think you know i i look at someone like jerry and i didn't really know you know rob jerry that
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well i wasn't i mean i heard of him i you know read one or two things here there but i wasn't super
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familiar and and you know when you see a guy like that who is supposed to be like some kind of like
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thought leaders or supposed to you know have some some kind of understanding kind of where we're at
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and pushing back when you see him completely just not understand why like it's so much more important
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for him to purge anything that might get like a bad article from the new york times than it is to
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actually push back against the thing that he says is so dangerous and so you know it's so likely to
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corrupt like it's very clear that the non-existent threat of like he said like some kind of white
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supremacy flanking him from the right and taking over christianity is far more terrifying to him
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than progressives doing and winning the battles that they've been winning for decades and it's
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just really hard to understand how someone can be completely caught up in this idea and and and
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while it it may be more prevalent among like maybe leaders like jerry like people in this kind of bubble
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i think it does exist to a certain extent in in kind of the wider maybe people who are you know
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moderately right and don't understand maybe kind of what's going i think they can fall into the
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storyline very easily well i mean the the thing is is you know i i don't exactly know how much i
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want to get into the weeds on dreher because sure i i'm probably one of the few people who's just like
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read practically everything i've drew her has ever written and you know i can't piece together
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i mean a lot of it's incredibly personal and there's a dimension to this that can't help but touch
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on dreher's personal life story uh but that's probably not appropriate to get into but with
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dreher like you said it's ironic because his entire career is whining about how the left is coming for us
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and we're all going to lose and the sky has fallen and blah blah blah blah blah blah right he should be
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the one who's aware of how this works but he seems to be blithely unaware of the process involved
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and this latest drama with the the classical christian education and this this this errant
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teacher who got canceled demonstrates this uh dreher doesn't seem to understand well first of all he
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has a story about himself that because he spends a lot of time whining about the left like impotently
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he's he's like doing something about it like the fact that he's complaining about them and decrying
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them is doing something about it and him you know taking active steps to crush somebody inside his
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own community like that's just him being fair so like he whines about the new york times for five
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articles and whines and whines and whines and sells books on it and you know then someone says a bad
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word on the right and he destroys their entire life and like that's no it balances out right uh it doesn't
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at all right you you you've essentially destroyed an entire avenue of of right-wing uh resistance an
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entire cell of it and all you've really done for the new york times and uh the rest of the left wing
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is provide them with a really interesting clown roger here doesn't know this but i was actually
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amazed to learn about this but in 2016 i was amazed to hear my progressive friends talking about roger
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uh you know these are like deep blue state progressives like they would never watch my
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youtube channel uh they would never read american conservative or anything else like that or national
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review even or watch fox but they're all talking about roger and you're like wondering like why are
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they all talking about roger well it's because he's one of the on on a few shows most prominently
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el chapo trap house he's this clown that they bring up to to laugh at like traditional christians
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and how they whine impotently and so they're all laughing at him because he's having a hizzy
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fit over the new york times and he's just whining while while rome burns around him basically and this
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is a joke for them and it's funny i mean it's basically like watching uh the the the the the you
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know the famous meme of the sew kind of non-binary person screaming when trump is uh elected or
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sworn in well that's roger here for the left i mean he literally is that person to these people
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and uh that that's the role he plays he thinks he's doing something but he actually is only carrying
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out the the wishes he's basically an entertainment product for the cathedral and apparently he is a
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foot foot soldier in their ideological expansion yeah that's the most horrific part there is like not
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only is he willing to kind of like play the clown or you know to to to be you know they they can all
00:26:23.360
stand around and and mock him as he as he cries impotently into the sky but not he takes breaks in
00:26:28.960
between that to go hunt down the wrong thinkers on his own side right so the old like you said the only
00:26:33.680
active because i mean a lot of people say well why aren't you guys doing something why aren't you guys
00:26:37.460
doing something so i don't want to always you know i don't want to just bag on him for that but like
00:26:41.000
the time he does actually take action it's only to destroy someone to his right right and this is
00:26:46.920
where charles haywood comes in right because charles haywood of the worthy house who's been on this
00:26:51.900
uh channel before he writes this or he talks about no enemies to the right and this is dre really takes
00:27:00.340
issue with this right he says that you know haywood is a terrible influence he's trying to destroy
00:27:05.380
christianity and bring you know all these terrible you know tax into that thing and uh there there's
00:27:11.280
this really great for anyone who didn't catch it great back and forth with um with charles haywood
00:27:16.640
i believe dc miller is dc miller yeah yeah is it daniel miller yeah i think it is i think that's right
00:27:22.240
yeah and so so uh over on i am 1776 and i think um i think haywood makes some really powerful points
00:27:29.900
there multiple times right he kind of kind of explains why all of this is is theater uh at the
00:27:35.760
end of the day for dreyer why this is going to be you know completely impotent and complete
00:27:39.640
misunderstanding of the scenario and also something in which i don't i don't know if dreyer's maybe he
00:27:44.140
did address it i haven't read all of this stuff around this but you know talks about what why didn't
00:27:48.220
you just go to this guy in private right like if you're really that's a big question writer never
00:27:52.560
answers that question right because and this is the thing like there is an actual dialectic to be had
00:27:57.900
here because like i said like you you can't and this is i think where haywood's actually wrong
00:28:04.040
and i'm not saying that like to kind of morally posture like rod dreyer but you can't just say
00:28:09.860
no enemies to the right and leave it at that that's how you get fortune and like we're not trying to do
00:28:15.060
the same thing as the left is doing we're not trying to dissolve everything real into a political
00:28:20.300
conflict that will devour everything whole because we benefit from chaos if you're trying to build
00:28:25.840
something you have to have moral standards and you're going to have to gatekeep and you're not
00:28:31.680
just going to have to gatekeep on ideology you're going to have to gatekeep on a variety of different
00:28:36.280
properties and so there's this fundamental asymmetry here but because of this because of this fundamental
00:28:43.480
asymmetry and because there needs to be a balancing act between political realism and and and basically
00:28:51.020
fostering a moral community inside your own moral community prudence is primary and there was this
00:28:58.820
absolutely no display of prudence on the part of dreher or any of these people who went after
00:29:04.860
this individual we can call them tolius for for for purpose uh you know again like i said in my podcast
00:29:12.320
if this had been a marital affair if this had been him shouting i want to kill you at a sports game
00:29:19.240
if this if this was him even tagging this like writing graffiti on the side of a bridge or something like
00:29:25.320
that i would have never heard of tolius's name living in my blue state if that had been the case
00:29:30.700
and those are all moral transgressions and of course you know using profanity and being mean
00:29:36.520
and that's not behavior of becoming a christian gentleman and we need to correct that
00:29:42.180
but guess how we decided to correct it we decided to correct it by essentially feeding him to the cathedral
00:29:48.740
we decided to correct it by by making him an example both of uh well both of white supremacy
00:29:56.280
that the cathedral loves that our enemies love and also of how weak we are and how able how easily we
00:30:02.500
will be we will be to infiltrate be infiltrated by the next generation of their white supremacy witch
00:30:08.020
hunters and i i again i don't know what to say to this it's just we can't afford to have leaders that
00:30:16.740
are this clueless i suppose and uh you know this is a again i think rodry hers is kind of done at this
00:30:26.060
stage there's no way to kind of incorporate unless he learned something from this but he never answers
00:30:31.280
any of the questions that are brought to him by haywood or any of the people that objected to how
00:30:37.560
this was handled uh he he just emotes and he also copies one of the least favorite i this is actually
00:30:44.320
i think i i remember the moment where i i i said to myself okay draher just has to go away now
00:30:50.100
and that was the moment where people this is before haywood stepped onto the scene people called draher out
00:30:57.260
for being you know uh they called him out for being cruel and for being unmerciful and and for being
00:31:06.560
and for being unfair and and and draher he copies this from from progresses and that what he does is
00:31:15.940
he superimposes himself as a judge into the role of the victims he's like yeah i feel like where
00:31:23.220
things are unfair going on everyone yeah this guy totally is who i canceled he was being unfair to
00:31:28.520
everyone he was being unfair to our school he was being unfair to us when he went and did this to
00:31:33.040
all all of us so here here roger hurry is acting as the inquisitor and the second his judgment is
00:31:40.100
called into question he does not defend it as just he puts himself in the shoes of a hypothetical victim
00:31:46.300
of tolius's because again this is all anonymous online there is no victim coming forward with a
00:31:52.600
grievance and starts moralizing about how hurt he is by by by the actions of his victim
00:32:00.260
and i mean i don't know i mean this is exactly the behavior i've come to expect from shit libs
00:32:07.320
in my home state and and to see it now kind of repeated i guess he learned this in when he lived
00:32:14.020
in a blue state this this kind of behavior it's just frankly disgusting and uh again i'm not so sure
00:32:21.420
what comes after it i guess uh probably nothing there's there's really no way to to resurrect this
00:32:27.720
conversation and it's conversation that needs to happen unfortunately yeah i feel like there's not
00:32:32.820
a whole lot of following still with jerry i don't think he i don't think he moves the needle a whole
00:32:40.080
lot especially at this point but i do want to get to kind of our last one more gatekeeper this one
00:32:46.820
will be a softball so the this can you know the last two uh this one will be very easy but i think
00:32:52.660
it's worth mentioning because i do hear all the time so let's talk about someone like james lindsey
00:32:57.000
right like yeah like like like this one will be much easier because it's not coming from from your
00:33:03.140
moral tradition or anything so so i think it'll be a lot easier to address but but it's worth saying
00:33:07.340
because a lot of people will tell me because you know lindsey came after a lot of us uh you know
00:33:11.980
saying oh you can't you can't listen to these near reactionaries any of these people like they're
00:33:16.360
super dangerous it's the end of the world if you listen to them it's it's the return of all the
00:33:20.460
deep dark things and so he warns it tries to warn a lot of people away from kind of this sphere
00:33:26.440
how a lot of people ask me why can't you guys just you know figure it out why can't you guys just work
00:33:32.020
together don't we under aren't we all on the same side here uh why why is lindsey gatekeeping so hard
00:33:38.380
against kind of the the post-modern you know right or whatever well i'm glad you brought up james i was
00:33:46.040
afraid you were going to bring up david french but i'm really glad you brought up james lindsey
00:33:49.800
because and now i have an opportunity to close out my discussion of rod dreher with a compliment to
00:33:57.100
rod dreher because the last good thing i'll say about rod dreher is that rod dreher prevented me
00:34:01.700
from becoming james lindsey because james lindsey was very much the kind of person i was in what was it
00:34:08.680
like 2009 or whatever or 2007 did you wield the blade did you is there is there a video of you
00:34:15.020
probably i was in the anime there might be videos of me wielding you know burn it now making a video
00:34:21.360
holding a katana i'm not going to say there there are who knows it's the internet right um but uh the
00:34:27.480
the you know kids don't do the weebu thing you don't want those videos out there not even once just
00:34:33.240
saying but uh yeah i mean james lindsey i don't know this is there there's a common thread in between
00:34:42.900
james lindsey and rod dreher and that i can tell james lindsey went to college at a certain time
00:34:49.860
uh i'm pretty sure he's the same age as me because he's occupying a certain role just like rod dreher
00:34:56.840
is occupying a certain role in rod dreher's case charles haywood was right to point out that the role
00:35:02.520
dreher wants to fill is roger scrutin unfortunately that role is no longer open
00:35:07.160
for james lindsey the role is a little harder because i can't think of anybody who currently
00:35:14.680
embodies it in print but the role he wants to occupy is that of the good uh non-progressive in
00:35:23.960
college now old fogies like me who are older millennials will remember this time before 2006
00:35:32.120
in college where there is this like place you could be you know this sort of pendulet kind of
00:35:40.200
uh place like bill maher sort of place this sort of uh andrew sullivan type place you could be on
00:35:47.180
on college campuses where you could kind of be a gadfly and libertarian and you didn't you didn't do the
00:35:53.660
whole progressive thing you like south park you know south parks were they were always going after
00:35:57.880
the progressives another great example is um their episode of on immigration uh south park you re-watch
00:36:04.800
that one it's really good uh it indicates how the the liberal mind works but uh this this role was
00:36:11.400
like i want to be the good anti-progressive and and that's obviously how james lindsey developed his
00:36:17.540
identity and his entire career is trying to design a place where that's still a thing where you can't be a
00:36:25.580
good anti-progressive in the modern order and that's just not going to happen and so his idea is that
00:36:32.400
we we we can somehow excise wokeness by cutting out the authors he identifies as being crt or postmodern
00:36:40.980
or whatever the buzzwords are and uh the the the the problem here is um again there's a meme about
00:36:54.040
this so i probably i'm not telling you anything you don't know but for the benefit of the audience
00:36:57.720
what what james lindsey doesn't know is that this world that he wants to occupy this role he wants
00:37:02.820
to occupy basically died in the 80s and 90s because of changes that were made and that he approved of
00:37:09.820
in the 60s and 70s specifically the advent of strong civil rights laws and there's that whole meme where
00:37:15.580
it's james lindsey's 8 000 point and wokeness is obliterated by the civil rights act and all of these
00:37:20.820
authors who he's raging against like you know derrick bell and the likes these are all old i mean
00:37:27.000
derrick bell the developer of crt i think i'm remembering the right name but he he was an old
00:37:34.220
hat civil rights lawyer from from from like way back in the 70s like he was on the ground doing this stuff
00:37:41.960
the the original creators of the civil rights movement approved of affirmative action which was
00:37:47.520
racially essentializing and it embodied none of the classically liberal principles they they say
00:37:54.780
that were were were de facto before 2012 so the problem is is that james lindsey has to construct
00:38:02.020
a fictitious history of the 20th century before 2012 and a fictitious story about how crt became
00:38:11.900
prominent in in the academy like you know how did you know does james lindsey ever give me a convincing
00:38:17.940
story about how this happened it just seems like okay well everyone's brains fell out of their head
00:38:23.380
and they started adopting this post-modern neo-marxism for no reason whatsoever and now we're here
00:38:29.940
that's not how the conversation went on i i was in berkeley in the early 2000s i remember california in
00:38:37.100
the 1990s that's not how the stuff became popular and to pretend like you know this the sister didn't
00:38:44.700
happen is you know he's he's trying to literally create a historical anachronism yeah it's a it's
00:38:52.220
it's comedic at this stage yeah i think there's like you said there's the certain time where you
00:38:57.920
could have been born or gone to college where like you can believe this story because you like existed
00:39:03.500
and kind of the uh you know the the interim where like things didn't feel the identity you know you
00:39:10.860
can believe that identity politics just kind of spawned out of nowhere right like oh you know a few
00:39:16.500
years you know all of a sudden the left figured out identity politics could generate a lot of power for
00:39:22.140
them and so they just took that up and you can you can pretend like there was just this happy 90s
00:39:26.820
point where like none of these issues existed we kind of reached the utopia that you know civil rights
00:39:33.400
legislation had offered everything was working fine now this stuff was like building up in the
00:39:37.860
background and then all of a sudden like identity politics and wokeness just kind of explode onto the
00:39:42.820
scene and and in that i think i think there is a certain time in which you could believe that if
00:39:49.000
like you said you you went to college at a time were born a certain time watch certain tv shows that
00:39:53.420
kind of thing but for people who are unfamiliar for you know i think both of them are the audience is
00:39:59.000
probably familiar but for a second like why is wokeness like why is kind of this current iteration
00:40:06.080
of progressivism a natural uh and kind of the natural flow of civil rights legislation why is this the
00:40:13.400
consequence of kind of the civil rights legislation well it's because this i mean it basically is civil
00:40:19.520
rights and that's that that's sort of the dumb way of putting it is that it's it's the strong
00:40:25.020
implementation of civil rights the the more important way to think of this it's because of
00:40:30.460
the failure of the civil rights movement because the civil rights movement was not just against
00:40:36.000
de jure segregation or against specific laws in the south it was essentially a a religious promise
00:40:44.620
and you know king very much embodies this and that's another figure that we you know that's not
00:40:50.320
really remembered accurately in my opinion but uh it was a religious promise that america would be an
00:40:57.340
integrated country and that race wouldn't matter the problem is is that this promise is basically
00:41:03.340
failed i mean it's failed it's almost all realistic levels and so this platitudinous stuff that comes out
00:41:10.440
of the 60s how there will be equal opportunity it kind of devours itself because the the idea of equal
00:41:16.600
opportunity regardless of what the reaganite conservatives said the idea was equal statistical
00:41:22.880
results because if there are unequal statistical outcomes then how can you say there was equal
00:41:29.560
opportunity unless you're implying that there could be some like foundational inequality and of course
00:41:35.900
our entire our entire post-civil rights thinking denies the possibility that they could
00:41:41.740
ever exist and and and this is this is uh you know there there's a reason this this this this kind
00:41:51.520
of stuff this this james limsey perspective it it it can't really survive in a dialectic against these
00:41:58.400
hard questions if you ask people hard questions about equality of opportunity eventually people will
00:42:04.420
realize that this concept is bullshit and they'll discard it absolutely or they will become full progressives
00:42:10.960
or those are asking deeper questions about enlightenment values like i think you and i eventually did
00:42:16.440
but but you can't you can't maintain the the reaganite dinesh de sosha view of equal opportunity
00:42:23.100
that is unsustainable based on the facts we've observed on the ground and trying to convince yourself that
00:42:29.660
we're just a charter school program away from implementing this or or that if if the people administrating
00:42:36.120
chicago or new york who are all disciples of william buckley that this problem would go away is nuts and
00:42:42.860
everyone knows it's nuts and it's insulting to the intelligence of other people to claim that that's the
00:42:47.920
solution and so we you see in people like james lindsey and people who i most recently tried to convince
00:42:55.100
uh talk out of this perspective adam and sitch from the youtube channel adam and sitch uh they're
00:43:02.320
essentially selling people a faulty product it's a car that basically like in their bubble what they're
00:43:08.600
saying makes sense but it makes sense basically because they're misrepresenting the claims of
00:43:12.980
their opponents they're misrepresenting the history in the case of progressivism they're presenting like
00:43:17.820
this like it's some kind of weird mind virus that came out of nowhere and was not the product of a
00:43:22.780
specific problem namely the inability to institute a proper racial integration and they're still manning
00:43:29.360
the the critique of it coming from the right and uh the the issue is that there's just so much of our
00:43:35.920
of our moral system has kind of been built up around triggering on these hate facts or these kind of
00:43:43.400
pronouncements that sound wrong and so these these these moralizers uh james lindsey despite himself can
00:43:49.740
become a moralizer and kind of selectively remove key facts out of the conversation and and with those
00:43:55.820
facts removed it looks like he has a case but those facts can never be introduced into the conversation
00:44:02.340
otherwise their arguments collapse and from history we know that they do not survive so again what are
00:44:10.980
you buying when you you buy james lindsey's ideology you know ultimately nothing ultimately you're buying
00:44:18.420
an argument that is degenerate and will double collapse it on itself the second you take it outside of
00:44:23.820
the reservation of a few hashtags and you know a youtube channel that curates it's the questions it asks
00:44:29.640
so we've touched on the three major gatekeepers i wanted to do you did talk a little bit about david french
00:44:37.480
i don't know if you want to waste any time on on french at this point it's uh he's just he just he hates
00:44:42.800
the right he hates the people of the right he hates the values like i don't even under i'm even almost tired
00:44:48.600
of making the conservative case for a joke anymore because it's not he's not even bothered to make
00:44:53.200
it a conservative case at this point it's just a screed after screed about the right the question is
00:44:58.840
you know who are these people's audiences and i i think french and dreher kind of share a similar
00:45:05.240
audience i think dreher is it's much more surprising why dreher's audience is still on board because they
00:45:11.600
seem to understand the notion of the metastasizing left this isn't some kind of static force that's pushing
00:45:18.420
in a direction it's a historical process but you know these people do have audiences i guess but
00:45:24.920
it's becoming increasingly boring to debunk this stuff uh french like i said i'm i you can just say
00:45:33.240
the word and you already know the argument against it he's become his own self-parody and maybe i think
00:45:38.640
dreher is going to become a similar self-parody in 2023 i don't think he was there before i think
00:45:44.960
people were still holding out this hope that there would be a middle ground uh for both dreher and
00:45:50.740
peterson but i think as we what we've seen is that there there basically isn't any and that you know
00:45:58.340
because the problem isn't even that they want to have a more moderate version of the right wing
00:46:03.460
it's the fact that they just refused to engage in certain types of questions that are being brought
00:46:09.340
against them and that's a common feature of of all of these characters is that you know for instance
00:46:15.880
i'm gonna name an elephant in the room right like i built my entire youtube channel basically around
00:46:21.580
the the idea that i would take seriously the objections of the alt-right but i didn't think
00:46:28.520
race was ultimately important that was the first big video series i made i guess the sexual revolution
00:46:33.300
one was the first but that was one of the first big video series i made and uh it prominently
00:46:39.820
features into my appreciation from people like moldbug so in many ways you could say that i'm being a
00:46:45.580
moderate like i'm trying to i'm participating in a dialectic where i'm not taking the most extreme
00:46:51.120
right-wing position i could be if you conceptualize right-wing positions that way i'm trying to save
00:46:56.820
a piece of liberalism or i'm trying to make it work in a way by by by engaging by by seeing how it
00:47:04.420
engages with reality uh but but i think what what sort of fundamentally differentiates me from these
00:47:11.000
locales if i can speak in my own defense i take the objections seriously and in in all of these
00:47:17.880
instances with david french with draher with lindsey with peterson there's like these obvious retorts
00:47:24.720
and they they just don't answer them they exclude them from the conversation because they can because
00:47:30.620
in this instance pc works in their favor or wokeness works in their favor so they can control the
00:47:36.300
dialectic that way and they can exclude those questions from being brought to them and then
00:47:41.000
they can continue just they can continue on the grift in a time warp and pretend like pretend like
00:47:48.260
everyone isn't thinking those questions implicitly every time they read their source material
00:47:52.240
read their new material and and i guess this is this is sort of the place we are right now these people
00:47:58.740
have to become irrelevant not because they're moderates but because they refuse to try to
00:48:05.060
prudentially integrate their moderate values into the facts as we see them occurring and they refuse to try
00:48:12.000
to take their moderate ideology and answer actual questions that we have before us do you want lasting
00:48:18.360
institutions that are not progressive if you do you're going to have to deal with the fact that
00:48:24.180
triggering on the left's buzzwords will destroy those institutions full stop do you want to actually be
00:48:31.200
able to speak freely in the academy well if you do you have to acknowledge that this moral framework that
00:48:38.260
james lindsey wants to copy over from the 70s isn't going anywhere it collapses in on itself and
00:48:45.460
you know without that kind of engagement these people are just useless uh and you know it's it's
00:48:52.600
hard it's a shame too and i know i'm rambling a little bit here but it's a shame because this is a
00:48:58.460
conversation like i said we need to have we we can't just become a moral purity spiral spiral spiralers and
00:49:06.480
there needs to be a synthesis with the previous age you can't just reinstall the 19th century or you
00:49:14.580
can't just reinstall the 9th century if you're a pagan there are certain developments that have
00:49:19.860
happened technologically that we need to react to and take on board and i i feel like the the sort of
00:49:26.660
there's sort of this dark corollary to the dreher's and the david french's and the petersons of this world
00:49:33.100
and the dark corollary is that there's nobody who's actually bringing these objections
00:49:38.040
forward in an intellectually serious way how do you police proper behavior in a political environment
00:49:45.380
when the natural instinct is just to reflexively play the last game back at it you don't want
00:49:51.580
christian leaders that are just casually dropping racial slurs online that that's a huge problem
00:49:56.820
it's not a problem that indicates you should essentially instigate a cancellation campaign
00:50:03.520
for the benefit of your enemies uh but but it is something that weakens you and so does sort of
00:50:09.880
deferring to this immoral power analysis machiavellianism is true in a sense but once once you convince
00:50:18.020
yourself like you know a friend of mine online who will go unnamed here that that everything ideal
00:50:24.840
all idea ideological or religious is just pretense for machiavellian power then you've essentially
00:50:32.480
excused yourself from from actually participating in in real politics because all all politics is the
00:50:39.960
advocacy for certain beliefs and ideas that are that are idealistic and not simply power games
00:50:47.060
and and if you and if you are a player who doesn't believe in that that doesn't believe in your
00:50:54.140
religion you are an essentially uh you essentially are castrated in a spiritual sense you're you're
00:51:02.120
you're the soul of your people or if your group has no life in it there's no generative force there's
00:51:08.480
nothing that's holy about it i know i'm using religious language and then mixing it with machiavellianism but
00:51:13.940
that's a huge problem and the thing is that these total lol cows prevent that deeper conversation from
00:51:22.000
actually happening and that's what's really frustrating about them yeah i think that's important
00:51:27.940
because even you know even the italian elite theorists or at least one of them mosca says that
00:51:33.480
you know political theory or political formulas you know the people do have to believe in them like
00:51:38.200
the leaders they're given their power they can't just be naked justifications for power they they do
00:51:43.200
actually need to have sway ideological weight with the people and with the those that are actually
00:51:49.400
implementing them if they're if they're gonna mean anything if they're actually gonna motivate people
00:51:53.880
so i think that's important to keep in mind but we've talked a lot about gatekeeping so let's try to
00:52:00.080
spend a little bit of time before we have to go to the super chats on friends so part of the part of this
00:52:06.480
was about friends right so you did a great little thread uh on like how we should treat friends how we can
00:52:13.400
identify friends how friends should interact in a way that you know is you know even if we don't agree
00:52:20.000
on everything or if we're trying to hash things out we do so in a productive way that makes sure that
00:52:24.920
we can kind of move the ball forward so like what what are some of those tips for people who are saying
00:52:30.520
okay well we want to avoid this nasty you know gatekeeping but we also want to be able to kind of move
00:52:36.380
people towards a particular idea how do we identify friends how do we interact with them that kind of thing
00:52:41.820
well this is um i i don't does anyone remember when the the whole friends like the the f-r-e-n-s
00:52:49.960
word became so popular on the right it seemed to really pick up steam after 2021 but i i feel like
00:52:55.740
it must be older right uh but at any rate like i kind of use it colloquially to mean sort of internet
00:53:02.620
ally who i've never met in real life i guess and uh well okay i mean so so the the big thing
00:53:11.800
with the whole friends thread this was my attempt to address this issue about how you identify people
00:53:17.480
who are who are worthy of being uh like you know allies basically is friends basically the ally like
00:53:26.440
everyone in the progressive space talks about allies this and allies that i think friends might be the
00:53:31.400
right-wing version of allies and of course it's much more difficult to be an ally to the right because we're not just
00:53:38.200
playing pure politics here charles haywood said that the you begin with the end in mind and the
00:53:45.320
end is the total victory of the right over the left with the total destruction of left i think he
00:53:50.040
that's how he put it to me that kind of begs the question about what is left and right
00:53:55.880
from my point of view what we're really fighting for is we're fighting for the the the political ability
00:54:03.960
to create um space spaces or or areas where people can be remoralized and re-territorialized
00:54:12.520
so we want to modernity is corrosive to the human form and to human and to the human spirit and and
00:54:19.800
because of that uh people need to find meaning and truth in in things in in in things that they actually
00:54:27.080
should believe in and so when we talk about who's broadly allied with this project we're talking
00:54:32.600
about people who believe you know maybe some machiavellian allies notwithstanding we're talking
00:54:38.200
about people who believe in higher powers and and who understand that at least in the moment
00:54:45.880
the pursuit of communion with these higher powers or the pursuit of a strong moral system
00:54:51.080
that that would commend a proper human life it's going to involve a degree of separation and a
00:54:56.840
degree of independence that that our current globalized leaders just do not want and to not
00:55:03.080
like and in fact feel as threatening to their ultimate power because it is because independent
00:55:08.360
human populations mean that they are not in need of managerial control and if those independent
00:55:15.800
human populations look like they're healthier and better than than the highly managed victims
00:55:22.840
of the global american empire and their homogenized pods then that creates a political problem for our
00:55:28.280
enemies so that's kind of my starting point uh but but really at this stage what the right needs to
00:55:34.600
do is it needs to make it needs to be it needs to be able to make promises and keep them it needs to be
00:55:41.560
able to give and receive loyalty and and needs to be able to hold a line against the progressive forces
00:55:49.000
that want to tear this apart and i i can't really go i am probably not appropriate for me just to go
00:55:54.440
through all the 20 points in my yeah sure but but this this is the core of it and so like what do you
00:56:00.760
what is the minimum thing you need to be able to you know give a promise and and have someone else
00:56:09.240
respect that you'll keep it or to receive a promise from someone else and and feel confident
00:56:13.800
in it and more importantly what what is the minimum you need to feel loyalty to a person
00:56:19.400
and we talk about caesar a lot uh on these in these spheres because we we know history and we know
00:56:26.280
sort of the cyclical view of history and that seems to suggest the only solution to our problems
00:56:31.640
is some kind of uh monarchical source of power that can crush the oligarchy
00:56:36.360
what what do you need in a caesar well you know does it need to be the same religion as you does
00:56:43.640
it need to be uh the same value system as you i mean minimally in a sense right he needs to know
00:56:48.520
what a good value system is and what a value uh bad one is and he doesn't need to be hostile to it
00:56:54.440
but but also more importantly you know he needs to a friend in order to be a loyal friend that needs to
00:57:01.720
have a certain level of prudence and a certain level of um of knowledge about what's actually
00:57:09.000
going on one of the sort of essential tips i give in the 25 tips is and this sort of applies to the
00:57:15.320
drear situation i mean we have to enforce moral standards and we're going to have disagreements in
00:57:20.040
between us uh but but if you and but if if you're interested in the project of of not just getting
00:57:26.200
devoured by the the global leviathan you're going to have to respect the fact that you can't turn your
00:57:34.120
disagreements into cancellation campaigns in the language of the enemy so if there's a cancellation
00:57:39.480
campaign going on against i don't know pagans or pickup artists which are two groups that i've
00:57:46.440
had frequent problems with or people who worship race you know to bring back the 2017 alt right
00:57:53.240
these are groups that i've had serious problems with in the past uh but but i'm not going to jump
00:57:58.760
on the bandwagon of attempts to destroy their lives for non-crimes uh even though i would have political
00:58:06.040
problems with them otherwise and furthermore when i express my political problems and this is really the
00:58:11.320
kicker i'm going to use a different language than theirs so if i feel that people are being unjust
00:58:18.040
individuals based on their background i'm not going to call that racism i'll call it the older word the
00:58:23.240
more correct word which is bigotry if i if i think that uh there's a problem with people getting obsessed
00:58:29.640
with you know whiteness i i'm going to say that's like you know that's purity spiraling i'm not going to
00:58:35.720
call it white supremacy right or i'm going to call it sort of like uh you know uh phenotype obsession
00:58:44.440
the the the issue is and you know our enemies know this human brains politically in the ordinary
00:58:50.760
instance they our moral systems are designed to trigger on language they should trigger on substance
00:58:57.240
and action but we can't process that so we trigger on action so we don't think of the actions that are
00:59:03.800
implied by racism we just think that racism is the bad word so let's kill the racist and that's what
00:59:09.880
makes the equivocation the left does so useful to disintegrating these things and so like a minimal
00:59:15.720
burial barrier we will need is to kind of not use left's language not have their ant smell and and if
00:59:25.000
they're going to make the case that somebody is evil first we'll be the ones to enforce our own rules
00:59:30.920
and second of all that case will not go on in the language that they choose nor carry the consequences
00:59:37.240
that they wanted to nor play into the same narrative that they're trying to spin on the macrocosmic level
00:59:43.560
and and that's sort of minimally necessary for leaders in this circle that so on true human health
00:59:50.120
are what we need so when i heard haywood say no enemies to the right this is kind of what i heard and
00:59:57.080
maybe i didn't understand what he meant but but i think it was somewhat close to what you were
01:00:01.560
saying i guess i can always ask charles next time he's on but but but when i heard him say that this
01:00:06.600
is the kind of thing i had in mind is that it's not that we would never have disagreements on the
01:00:10.920
right in fact he specifically says in his response in that discussion hey actually there needs to be a
01:00:16.040
way for us to do this but it needs to happen behind closed doors it needs to be a one it needs to be a
01:00:22.360
personal thing there needs to be a correction you know that kind of thing i think his point was like
01:00:26.680
we're not going to waste time chasing the boogeymen of the left right like we're not going to focus
01:00:32.920
using the language of the left hunting down the enemies of the left for them if there's someone to
01:00:37.720
our right that we disagree with we're going to correct them you know in in a different language
01:00:43.240
in a different way rather than you and we're not going to waste the majority of time pretending like
01:00:48.760
those people are the most dangerous thing to you know the united states of america today right we're
01:00:55.240
not going to do that so that that's how i saw what he said but maybe i misunderstood i know i'm sure
01:01:00.920
that's what haywood means that yeah okay i mean this is i think this is sort of a generational thing
01:01:05.880
like you you know i i don't consider myself one of the old bogeys here but i kind of am because i
01:01:10.920
remember 2016 and 2017 and if you were sort of circulating around hard right spaces online
01:01:18.680
in those years uh you know people were using no enemies to the right and they weren't
01:01:27.000
they weren't meaning it in the way that you just said right there they were hard purity spiraling
01:01:32.440
and uh you know that's the kind of purity spiraling that works if you're on the left
01:01:37.320
because of what the left is and because the left has power but and i know i know charles haywood
01:01:44.280
he means what you just said and he is because he is a very nuanced and potential person he he yeah
01:01:51.000
but but there's there's danger in in the extremes of these things and uh i'm always kind of cautious
01:01:58.840
when these things get meme-ified because the problem is that eventually your your high iq meme is
01:02:06.760
going to become a low iq meme i mean we see this with friend in me all the time yeah i think that
01:02:11.160
schmidt abused endlessly to mean that you that any ideology is bullshit uh that's not what schmidt
01:02:18.440
meant uh it was something more nuanced it was about sort of sociologically how humans can
01:02:27.080
conceptualize politics and what politics sort of realistically becomes in the limit it wasn't to
01:02:34.200
say that you should be a nihilist or that you know your personal you know enemy because you know he did
01:02:40.120
you dirty and in pool that one time is is equivalent to like adolf hitler or something like that like
01:02:45.400
it's it's not that so i'm always very cautious you know that these meme-ified and then sloganized
01:02:53.480
versions are going to become kind of um turned into low iq versions of themselves yeah no i think that's
01:03:02.040
they're exactly right i always go you know schmidt is that friend enemy distinction is so important
01:03:06.600
and there's a lot of subtlety to it and so many people just throw it out there that they don't
01:03:11.000
understand that like schmidt had different definitions for the private enemy and the public
01:03:15.000
enemy and just everything else that's involved in that is it's it's like you said the meme-ification
01:03:19.640
of those things can become very dangerous uh but let's i think we're stacking up some super chats
01:03:25.320
here let's go ahead and pivot there so i'm not keeping you forever uh let's see here oh actually
01:03:31.800
while we're doing this you just remind everybody uh where they can find your stuff oh uh yeah so my
01:03:38.120
youtube channel is called the distributist and my sub stack is called uh letters from fiddler screen
01:03:45.000
and i have a podcast that's roughly the same name that airs on my youtube channel i'm in the process of
01:03:49.800
of reorganizing this stuff so hopefully um i'll have more together in the coming year but yeah that's
01:03:55.560
it excellent yeah make sure to check all that stuff out guys and by the way if you want to listen to
01:04:01.560
this just in the podcast uh there's now the podcast up with the blaze so if you go over there all your
01:04:08.040
major uh platforms will have it and if you do subscribe to the podcast just if you can leave a rating and
01:04:15.000
review that definitely helps you appreciate it there all right so we've got one that came in
01:04:20.040
before we started so i don't think i can put up on the screen but i'll go ahead and read it out for
01:04:24.200
everybody here it's um sorry i'm going to butcher this man uh foremost sully form a soul something
01:04:32.360
to that effect but thank you very much five uh dollar says i want to say you uh want to say to your
01:04:38.840
viewers that i met dave pursuing a mutual hobby uh where he didn't expect to be recognized
01:04:44.600
so don't feel alone so uh a friend spotted in the wild dave uh yeah um i have some nerdy hobbies i
01:04:52.760
engage in occasionally in real life and i i guess i guess if you catch me in one of them uh guilty as
01:05:01.000
charged i guess okay can i can i like pull a like a warhammer game out of you are you playing the
01:05:07.080
tabletop or you just are you i have actually only played it like once oh man this is a different board
01:05:12.440
game but yeah all right if you ever if you ever if somehow we ever meet we'll have to figure out
01:05:17.240
how to get get one of these on the table oh yeah yeah that'll be really hard it takes like a whole
01:05:21.800
cart to bring one of these armies around it does yeah we'll we'll play a small points game it'll be
01:05:26.520
all right all right uh let's see here we've got uh falling outside the normal moral constraints for
01:05:33.080
two dollars thank you very much wishing you both a very merry christmas thank you very much man
01:05:38.280
merry christmas to you as well very excited here uh for everybody to enjoy the christmas rig might
01:05:44.520
try to put a kind of a casual friend stream together after christmas did that last year and everybody
01:05:50.120
really enjoyed it that was a great time so might be able to get some people together for that but
01:05:54.280
thank you very much we appreciate it uh let's see have uh belisarius for five canadian for peterson to ask
01:06:03.480
the question to abandon anonymity or to ask the right to abandon anonymity is to ask the right to
01:06:09.720
perform a political bonsai charge it's just not practical for most people uh yeah belisarius i think
01:06:16.840
that's right again especially in the situation you are in a place like canada it's just absolutely
01:06:22.680
financial suicide if not legal suicide to to do that kind of thing and so asking people in general to
01:06:29.640
step out of this and it also you know that that limitation also or that also limits people's
01:06:35.560
ability to speak freely right there's certain things that are just not going to be expressed
01:06:39.240
ideas that are not going to be exchanged um some of the most important twitter posters that i know of
01:06:46.440
right now people who are really exploring interesting ideas are anonymous posters who are able to do so
01:06:51.480
because they can still work their day job and that kind of thing uh so i i i'm totally against it i i
01:06:56.680
don't understand that attack at all other than then he doesn't want people to hurt his feelings i guess
01:07:02.520
i'm done asking myself how peterson got to these conclusions i'm asking who's buying this
01:07:08.440
yeah i i'm i just don't understand who these people's audiences are
01:07:16.760
let's say here shane phelps friday you guys have a similar way of talking
01:07:21.240
talking and talk about the same things i used to think you were the same guy thanks for the quality content
01:07:25.640
i don't know i don't think i've often been confused uh with the distributist but uh fair enough you
01:07:32.200
know i did i mean to be fair um i did get started on this because i was watching your videos um you
01:07:37.480
know i i was i fell uh down the rabbit hole of uh that this guy sargon of akkad started talking to
01:07:44.200
some guy the distributist on one of his streams and uh that then i i fell down that rabbit hole so uh if
01:07:51.960
if there's any similarities it's only because i've probably consumed far too much of dave's content
01:07:56.280
at this point well i i i think you you have mastered this uh this way of concisely expressing ideas which
01:08:04.120
i just can't do i i i never i've always like oh this will be a small sub stack essay never has happened
01:08:10.920
and but yeah uh and also you have a much clearer way of speaking i have this nasal uh thing but never
01:08:16.840
been able to get around it so well i appreciate it but i i like the verboseness too i i think that the
01:08:21.960
you know you know we each have our our ability and yeah i can i can do 10 minute videos but you're
01:08:27.240
you're doing you know 40 minute videos that i want to watch every minute of because they're they're
01:08:31.320
very interesting my favorite one i think is still the the one uh where you have the uh uh pulp fiction
01:08:38.440
and went through the different types of love of thank you that was my favorite video i like not to my own
01:08:42.840
horror but that's my personal one though i'm like for my salon too it's like no one ever watched it
01:08:47.160
but thanks man i mean i'm obviously you go i'm a huge fan of your work so and also also i should say
01:08:54.520
congratulations on the new job too oh thank you no no i appreciate it no very yeah wild times uh we
01:09:01.400
we live in interesting times to be sure but i appreciate it uh let's see here uh dave monahan for
01:09:07.080
uh ten dollars here i lost it with dreher the hundredth time he complained about something he
01:09:12.360
heard on npr why is he listening to npr when it's obviously enemy because that's where his real
01:09:18.520
loyalties lie yeah say saying you saying you listen to npr because you like the stories in the jazz
01:09:26.120
it's like saying you read playboy to read the articles at this stage yeah i mean like
01:09:31.720
i guess someone probably did read playboy to get the articles at some point in human history
01:09:37.080
but you know i want to meet that guy because i got some questions for him right do you i i did not
01:09:44.120
listen to a lot of npr but i did catch at some point i don't know i was driving around it was
01:09:48.520
during like the 2016 protest and or the 2016 election and the left is protesting and going
01:09:54.680
crazy everyone forgets there was wild protests by the left during this time right like there's there's
01:09:59.640
straight up riotous type protests and like they're breathlessly uh uh reciting like poems
01:10:06.280
about uh standing up to donald trump and how they're gonna save like on on news radio right
01:10:11.160
on public news radio like it's activists you know reciting these poems about how they all gathered
01:10:16.920
in the capitol building and yeah joined hands it's just like yeah i don't understand how anyone is
01:10:22.200
is still consuming that i understand i mean like i'm i don't know i'm probably not older than you
01:10:29.160
but i come from a blue state npr used to be a lot better than it is right now i don't believe you
01:10:34.840
a lot better i don't believe you really it might be true but i i don't know yeah okay i mean i think
01:10:41.560
this is like the media used to be fair right like this is like you might be fondly remembering it
01:10:46.600
because you're okay listen to old episodes of car talk okay well car talk is fine i'll give you car talk
01:10:52.040
yeah and and you know okay look i really dislike garrison keeler but prairie home companion was a
01:10:58.520
damn good idea and if there ever is a well i think there will be this is inevitable that there will be
01:11:05.400
a counter-progressive art scene that it already has actually been emerging in blue areas a
01:11:11.800
counter-progressive art scene but it's very very early days when this becomes more developed something
01:11:17.320
like prairie home companion will have to be developed because that is a brilliant idea to
01:11:23.240
recapture the energy of what an early radio show would be and to recreate that uh i've seen several
01:11:31.160
of them live and there's kind of a magic there even though you know i have contempt from it because it
01:11:36.760
it mocks the values that it essentially thrives on implicitly and and and so there's always sort of a
01:11:43.720
poison pill in in the food hidden there like a piece of glass hidden in your delicious meal
01:11:49.720
somewhere and you're always looking for it but i mean i can't tell you that that's a that's that's
01:11:54.920
a piece of culture that you know we're kind of missing in the american spirit fair enough here
01:11:59.800
speaking progressives had to take it you know speaking of uh pieces of culture we're missing here
01:12:06.200
today uh today your warhammer lessons video got me thinking is there a chance of the trad codex series
01:12:12.600
returning under the sunset stream format yeah that was a great series any chance that we'll see that
01:12:17.880
picked up uh well i i'm kind of choking on the last one that i i recorded half of one before my son was
01:12:24.920
born and i never returned to that one in the series so uh that one has to get made first but i'm i'm just
01:12:33.240
kind of killing myself trying to get the substack essays out right now so i'm gonna have a lot more time
01:12:39.960
in mid-january and i'm hoping to get all of this stuff off my stack so to speak uh so hopefully i'll
01:12:47.400
have a really productive january in terms of the blog content but uh first of all you know i have to get
01:12:53.800
around a 50 hour work week that's not blog related and um you know this unending series of toddler colds
01:13:01.480
that does slow things down uh yes yeah so someone free dave from the shackles of of this so he can
01:13:08.280
make excellent content here actually speaking of here we got a good joke but it's a good one here
01:13:13.000
bolero 393 for five dollars now the order is going to the blaze will dave announce his taking an hour uh
01:13:19.320
an hour slot on ewtn opening for raymond auroria is that how you say that properly oh boy i i would need to
01:13:27.960
work arroyo is how i usually get pronounced i mean i'm a huge fan of no i don't i used to watch it uh
01:13:35.720
and i don't really anymore uh but but i know i really respect the content they produce anytime etwn
01:13:42.520
i really hope it does not get invaded by uh you know it doesn't suffer the same fate as npr does
01:13:48.520
because that would be a tragedy but really i i do want content like that to stay strictly religious
01:13:56.360
and orthodox and the content we produce here is political and you know there's this there's this
01:14:03.480
tendency on the right wing to kind of want to have all their eggs in one basket and we really have to
01:14:09.640
kind of get around it's always like it's just like lifeboat mentality on the right where there's only so
01:14:15.400
many seats and you all have to get on to the few seats that are remaining uh how about you just make
01:14:22.040
more seats etwn does theological content i don't produce theological content i am a roman catholic
01:14:30.920
who 100 agrees with etwn that i'm aware of but that's not the kind of thing i produce and it
01:14:37.880
shouldn't be in the same basket and to put it in the same basket would kind of make both of us weaker
01:14:43.080
and i think that this is true with a lot of things it's like people wanting tucker carlson to run for
01:14:48.040
president to me is the perfect example of this okay what you want like a single point of failure
01:14:53.800
for everything it's like the only guy who can produce good media content is also the guy running
01:14:58.520
for president and who can't do it anymore i i guess it kind of represents the desire for a king
01:15:05.480
but i don't know i i think you need to kind of do many different things and that's that's a lesson
01:15:12.600
we're going to have to learn in the future yeah i think that's really good i think a lot of
01:15:16.760
people are constantly looking to like different right-wing media figures to like then start this
01:15:23.560
and start that in a body like every you know why aren't you writing children's books and why aren't
01:15:27.560
you doing theology content why aren't you running for it like just all this stuff melts together and
01:15:32.200
i think it is really important to have that separate i think part of it comes from the idea that
01:15:36.440
you know the left just kind of blasts its cultural view into like every piece of its entertainment
01:15:41.480
and for them like the blending of theology and you know whatever politics and what it's all the
01:15:46.760
same there is no no division for them at all in in some ways but also they are able to still make good
01:15:55.000
you know entertainment well less so now but they used to have a lot less so now right them blasting their
01:16:01.160
political views into the entertainment has definitely driven that process of degeneration right so
01:16:08.840
maybe not the thing to copy right yeah i mean there's really i think the default should be to
01:16:17.080
ignore i mean we can't ignore the left we can't ignore the left they're they're the the storm that's
01:16:22.920
raging outside of us but we we can't you can ask how we respond to a leftist tactic and one way to respond
01:16:32.840
to a tactic is to kind of do tit for tat to fire back but we should not just implicitly assume that
01:16:38.680
because the left did something and it worked for them that will work for the right in my experience
01:16:43.560
most of those cases are just not true we can't just do the thing the left for a lot of different
01:16:50.040
reasons right i always mention these two two different reasons one they have power two they're
01:16:55.160
trying to push the car down the hill they're trying to degenerate so you know if you want to melt culture
01:17:00.040
down uh put your politics in it but i'm not trying to do that and my ideal version of the prairie home
01:17:06.840
companion would actually be about music and about folk life and about good stories it wouldn't be like
01:17:13.800
i wouldn't launch into a tirade about mentions molebug in the middle of a story about lake wobegon
01:17:19.080
right that's stupid it would it would be you know it would though molebug might launch into a story
01:17:25.240
about lake wobegon and his political tirade so i think he already has yeah probably
01:17:33.720
all right so art uh art and cob here for two dollars ted kaczynski based or cringe intellectually
01:17:40.040
yes to be clear uh very cringe in all of his actions um speaking of tactics that don't work
01:17:46.600
yeah right yeah the right uh it's amazing but ted kaczynski basically did the same thing as bill
01:17:52.760
airs but he didn't end up with tenure yeah right yes very important believe me his prose is way
01:18:00.120
better than billers oh oh yeah he's a way more compelling person than angela davis or bill airs
01:18:07.000
but they basically did the well i guess he was more successful on it right yes uh well okay i don't
01:18:13.880
want to get your channel canceled but i appreciate intellectually based in my opinion i i think he's
01:18:19.160
very compelling thinker yeah i haven't read a ton of ted kaczynski i've read the system's greatest trick
01:18:24.920
and and a little more but not much but from what i've seen yeah it seems like he did he did have a
01:18:31.000
grasp on things that a lot of people don't you might be able to find those things elsewhere and
01:18:35.400
you know but but he uh did have a decent grasp on a lot of things that people talk about today let's yeah
01:18:41.800
i think a lot of it's been assimilated into modern right-wing thought so i wouldn't say he's essential
01:18:48.120
and the question that he asks and sort of the unabomber manifesto i i recognize that as a version
01:18:55.160
of the kind of broad dialectic you experience and like the abolition of man by cs lewis so
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you know that's kind of you don't need to go to ted kaczynski to find this stuff but it is
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interesting that he was thinking in that way before anyone was explicitly thinking in that way
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or before a lot of us were thinking in that way yeah i think so all right dreadnought here for ten
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dollars i'm always bothering dave on his streams he's responsible for me becoming catholic but i wanted
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to say i love your work or and how many signs do you have uh well let's see um i think i've got like
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three of my own that i made and then sometimes i make people some for other people when they have
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particularly good tweets so like i made one for uh harmless yard dog um and so so i think there's like
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four or five out there that i made but you know the the sign tapping meme did exist before me um you
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know that obviously there are people doing the carl schmidt you know with the sign tapping meme
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uh that that's kind of where i first saw it but i guess you know mine kind of went wide and so
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uh that's why i am now the tapper of signs uh but let's see here any signs that we need to create for
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you uh i'm not much of a memer i got back on twitter recently but i realized that the uh the the thing i
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like doing my most on twitter is making these completely unwieldy tweet threads which is the
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worst use of time right uh because it's just it's much better to do a sub stack essay actually the the
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40 lessons from 40k uh the most recent video that was supposed to be a tweet thread and i just turned
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it into a video um but i don't know it's also time like it takes way longer to make a sub stack in
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a video for me at least than it does to tweet it out yeah my my experience has been i start the the
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i start the idea in a tweet and then i expand it when i write a piece and then the piece becomes the
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video you know so kind of you know each at each point kind of make it a little larger you know deep
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in the thought that kind of thing that that's that's been a process that works for me but obviously
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it's you a little different for everybody there this is one thing you missed not to digress but you
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don't you i don't think you ever had a youtube channel when youtube videos could explode and not
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really or yeah like it's always been since you've been here it's always been that live streams do as well
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as like real videos and that's just like that's a that's a that's almost tragic because my live streams do
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better than the edited videos that i've like poured actual effort into thinking about which is strange
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right yeah no it is you you put your heart and soul into something and you takes you hours and hours
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of writing and cutting it down and recording and everything and then like you do a joke stream with
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somebody for an hour and that gets you know five thousand ten thousand more views and you're like
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all right well there's that though i will say my one video that has gone wide that did kind of
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get a little bit of viralness it was a edited video so so the one the one video the i i have
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had that really did that like went over a hundred thousand or whatever views like that that was a
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edited video and none of my streams have got close so there there is still a chance for those things to
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get kicked up to the algorithm but i hear you over over time it does feel like the the streams i think
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people like to be interaction they like to be involved people like to hear kind of the conversation a
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little more today yeah videos are mainly just for signposting i you know what you're thinking about
01:22:38.120
like serious ideas and to kind of establish your cred as a person that actually says something you
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know a lot of these streamers like adam and sitch the way they can get away with their contradictions
01:22:50.040
is that they're never nailed down to any ideas because who's going to search for their positive ideas
01:22:54.920
in the stream that goes on for eight hours right and so they can continuously spin
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bullshit whereas when you say something in a video you know that that person actually writes
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down things that they believe in like you can maybe i'll admit i'm wrong i made videos saying
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things that turned out to be wrong and i'll admit that but at least i'm taking a stand and you can
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call me on it right yeah the video essay really is a piece of cohesive thought that makes you easier
01:23:22.200
to nail down and but but if you get it right gives you a lot more credibility so it is you're right
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that it is kind of that uh catch 22 for some people or that there is that that dangerous out
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there if you if you don't know what you're doing but it can it can give you some some credibility if
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you do uh let's see here uh benji for five dollars now that orrin works for the blaze is he now a
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relapse journalist instead of a recovering one yeah i had to take the recovering journalist out of my
01:23:49.400
profile i've cashed in the chip i've you know uh you know back i'm off the wagon no i i i i hope i'm not a
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journalist right like i'm i'm an opinion guy right at the very least that that's not quite as bad
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right at least i'm honest about about where my opinions are but yeah you're an ontological terrorist
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if you a polemicist boomers know what i'm talking about with that one right do you know what the
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reference is no not right away sorry oh um it was uh there was this um this hearst daughter and
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uh you know this this uh newspaper man she got kidnapped by these communists and brainwashed
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and uh they they re there's this famous patty hearse was her name and when they recaptured her
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like as a terrorist uh she she said that she was an ontological terrorist was her new profession
01:24:39.800
interesting yeah i'm sorry this is boomer trivia if you're ever in trivial pursuit that might come
01:24:46.600
up i'm prepared well if you ever played trivial pursuit you are a boomer right like at this one
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no no i we're the same age i i i played a lot of trivial pursuit i'm just saying all the all the
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zoomers are on here like okay old man like yeah fascinating all right uh dread not here for five
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dollars again thank you very much i think streams have become so popular because oh we are so much more
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isolated and disconnected from each other these days yeah that's definitely too true right like
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true as well like the the isolation of covet and just the want for you know feeling like you have
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friends feeling like you're part of a social situation and then i i feel like so much of the
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world is still recovering from covet so much of our um so much of our lives is still where our social
01:25:32.520
lives is still catching up with that uh that yeah i think you're right that people have it gives people
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a way to can feel like they're connecting that they otherwise wouldn't have with just a random video
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essay yeah i mean the coveted was when you saw streams overtake videos that just flat out and
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it happened to correspond with my hiatus so it was you know it was a end of an era certainly and uh you
01:25:57.880
know this is actually the one of the ways the right has to get power immediately is just to beat the left
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on the line coming back from covet is just to get get out there get socializing and get into the real
01:26:10.440
world as as fast as possible uh this is why i've been such an advocate for the basket weaving pro
01:26:18.920
and i'll take it guys uh you go to my blog or don't if you're interested but if there's one thing i want to
01:26:27.720
really promote in on this stream while i have your audience check out the project of basket weaving
01:26:33.880
meeting with other people and and finding allies in your locality this is something that i wish i could
01:26:40.920
do more of and it is absolutely the sign that the green shoots are forming if you can meet in your
01:26:47.080
locality with people who agree with you it will also basically pilot something that we've been looking
01:26:53.160
for for a long time which our real life community is forming embryonically online and then becoming real
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absolutely yeah i mean it's not my immediate locality but i was lucky enough to we were my
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wife and i were in the uk a few weeks ago we got to meet up with an academic agent and
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and uh poe and and a few other uh people in real life so that was great you really it is great to finally
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kind of make contact with everyone um great so i highly suggest it all right and we missed one here
01:27:24.120
real quick uh 99 iron duke uh says dave as a mod on your channel how do you get you on a guest on
01:27:30.280
my youtube channel the duke here submits his request uh just ask me uh yeah i would have 99 iron duke i i
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think i kind of know you have a youtube channel i'd absolutely love to come on and you know long
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time friend of the channels i always want to promote and also a mutual friend of the inspiration for my
01:27:53.240
channel the franklin uh who used to blog under a different name who i won't mention here but uh
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yeah absolutely the only problem is is that twitter for me really was more of a rolodex for so if you
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dm me on twitter i'll get back to you the fastest that's the fastest way to contact me email is the
01:28:13.080
slowest i have a very difficult time answering emails because oftentimes people write me essays and
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it's very hard to know how to appropriately respond to that
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all right guys well thank you for joining us had lots of great questions and a great crowd out tonight
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01:28:56.520
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01:29:11.880
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