Curtis Yarvin
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 14 Jan
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of the freed slaves after the war is like extremely, there was a recent historian who published a thing, and I think this is, I would dispute this, this number is too high, but his estimate was that something like a quarter of all the freedmen basically die in between like 1865 and 1870.
Their children were no longer sold out from under them. When I said anyone, okay, first of all, when I said anyone, I was talking about a population group rather than individuals.
The era of 1865 to 1875 was absolutely, and the war itself wasn't good either. But if you look at the living conditions for an African American in the South, they are absolutely at their nadir between 1865 and 1875. They are very, very bad because basically this economic system has been disrupted.
Brazil abolished slavery in the 1880s without a civil war. And so the thing is, when you look at basically, you know, the cost of the war or the meaning of the war, you're basically just like, it just visited this huge amount of destruction. On all sorts of people, black and white. I'm just like, all of these evils and all of these goods existed in people at this time.
And what I'm fighting against in both of those quotes, also in the way, you know, the people respond, you know, to Breivik. I'm like, basically, you're responding in this kind of cartoonish way. to something that terrorism, which is, you know, what is the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter? You know, that's a really important question in 20th century history.
To say that I'm going to have a strong opinion about this stuff without having an answer to that question, I think is really difficult and wrong.
I think that American conservatism is in the long and very, very difficult grieving process of realizing that it has always been a fraud. And I think one of the especially dangers in American conservatism is that there's so much grift in it and so much of it consumes so much energy and so much attention and produces so little.
You are still a factor of 100 from being able to give the people who are voting for you and donating to you anything like what they imagine they're going to get from you.
It just doesn't have the power to give anything that it promises.
I think the fact that Trump is not really from America's social upper class has hurt him a lot in terms of his confidence. I think that that's sort of limited him as a leader in various ways.
Thank you. Thank you. Let's have some more fun.
So when I look at the status of women in, say, a Jane Austen novel, which is well before enfranchisement, it actually seems kind of okay. The woman in Jane Austen's book seems to be fine.
Have you ever seen anything like that in the 21st century? I mean, the whole class in Jane Austen's world is the class of, like, UBI-earning aristocrats, right?
It's very hard. So first of all, when we say when we say liberty, for example, so you you did a thing that people often do where they confuse freedom with power. So free speech is a freedom. The right to vote is a form of power. And so the assumption that you're making is that through getting the vote in the early 20th century in England and America, women made life better for themselves.
First of all, I don't believe in actually voting at all. So it's a little... Do you vote? No. I believe that voting is providing this sort of almost kind of pornographic stimulus. It sort of becomes more like supporting your football team or something. It basically enables you to feel like you have a certain status.
But the thing is, what does this power mean to you is really the most important question. And I think that what it means to most people today is that it provides a sort of meaning for them. It makes them feel relevant. It makes them feel like they matter in a sense. And I think that
There's there's something deeply illusory about that sense of mattering that sort of goes up against the very, very important question of we need a government that is actually good and that actually works and we don't have one.
It's not a simplistic way of thinking and having worked inside the kind of salt mines where CEOs do their CEOing business and having been a CEO myself, I think I have a better sense of it maybe unfortunately than most people. Last time we spoke, I used the example of imagine if your MacBook had to be made by the California Department of Computing or if your electric car had to be made by the U.S.
Department of Transportation.
Well, they live in a governed society. And so the thing is, basically, when libertarians talk about Apple and Tesla, they're saying, okay, here are the benefits of freedom, etc., etc., etc. That's sort of true in a sense, but the benefit of freedom is that these organizations have used freedom to establish monarchies, which are completely top-down command units.
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