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Adam Gurri

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
716 total appearances

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

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,

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

communitarians often make the mistake of thinking is implies ought.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

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.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

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,

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

I mean, Curtis Yarvin.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

I mean, we can open this can of worms.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

Like I said, I've been writing online for a long time on various things.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

And I went to GMU Econ for my master's.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

And for those who do not know, GMU Econ is like the beating heart of academic libertarianism in this country.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

So I was fairly exposed to that community.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

And that was sort of a big part of my online web on Twitter, say, to begin with.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

when Twitter was starting.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

And in 2014, everyone started talking about this group called the Neo-Reactionaries that were blogging about various topics.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

And the biggest guy was this guy who went by Mencius Moldbug that we later learned was this guy, Curtis Yarvin.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

So I really, I wrote something.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

I really wanted to say to libertarians, stop reading these people.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

Like, these guys are the enemy.