Adam Gurri
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Podcast Appearances
Right, exactly.
So, you know, Jacob Levy, one of my guiding stars, a big liberal theorist, he says, you know, he had a good line that was something along the lines of,
communitarians often make the mistake of thinking is implies ought.
So like they'll describe that, you know, man is a socially situated animal or something and then jump straight to, and this means that we ought to do this or this or that and the other without really building up the connection between the two.
He said, whereas like Marxists and more stridently individualist liberals that aren't taking communitarian critiques into account tend to forget that ought implies can, you know, like,
Yeah.
I mean, Curtis Yarvin.
I mean, we can open this can of worms.
We can.
Like I said, I've been writing online for a long time on various things.
And I went to GMU Econ for my master's.
And for those who do not know, GMU Econ is like the beating heart of academic libertarianism in this country.
So I was fairly exposed to that community.
And that was sort of a big part of my online web on Twitter, say, to begin with.
when Twitter was starting.
And in 2014, everyone started talking about this group called the Neo-Reactionaries that were blogging about various topics.
And the biggest guy was this guy who went by Mencius Moldbug that we later learned was this guy, Curtis Yarvin.
So I really, I wrote something.
I really wanted to say to libertarians, stop reading these people.
Like, these guys are the enemy.