David Marchese

You're basically saying there's a historical and political recency bias that people are susceptible to.

But I think the thing that you have not quite isolated yet is... why having a strong man figure would be better for people's lives.

But I think the thing that you have not quite isolated yet is... why having a strong man figure would be better for people's lives.

This is an example you use a lot where you say, and if Apple ran California, wouldn't that be much better?

This is an example you use a lot where you say, and if Apple ran California, wouldn't that be much better?

How can I make that... By answering the questions more directly and succinctly, I think it would be the simple reply.

How can I make that... By answering the questions more directly and succinctly, I think it would be the simple reply.

But the thing I'd like to say, just to tie this back a little bit to something we spoke about a minute ago, is there is this idea that the incoming Trump administration is interested in the idea of a more powerful executive office. Are there things that...

But the thing I'd like to say, just to tie this back a little bit to something we spoke about a minute ago, is there is this idea that the incoming Trump administration is interested in the idea of a more powerful executive office. Are there things that...

If you saw them, it would be hints that the Trump administration is taking the right steps, as you might see it, towards actually enacting that reality and becoming a stronger executive, a more monarchical executive office.

If you saw them, it would be hints that the Trump administration is taking the right steps, as you might see it, towards actually enacting that reality and becoming a stronger executive, a more monarchical executive office.

you know, your ideas, and I guess it's been called like sort of a neo-reactionary cast of mind, are seemingly increasingly popular in the Silicon Valley world. Don't you think there's some level on which That world is responding to your ideas because you're just telling them what they want to hear. If more people like me were in charge, things would be better.

you know, your ideas, and I guess it's been called like sort of a neo-reactionary cast of mind, are seemingly increasingly popular in the Silicon Valley world. Don't you think there's some level on which That world is responding to your ideas because you're just telling them what they want to hear. If more people like me were in charge, things would be better.

It's an ideologically useful set of arguments for them to latch on to.

It's an ideologically useful set of arguments for them to latch on to.

When I hear you talk about the need for a monarch, and we'll just use that term, encompassing CEOs or dictators, I'll just say monarch.

When I hear you talk about the need for a monarch, and we'll just use that term, encompassing CEOs or dictators, I'll just say monarch.

It would be an understatement to say that sort of humanity's record of with monarchs is mixed at best. Roman Empire under Marcus Aurelius, seems like it went pretty well. Under Nero, not so much. Spain's Charles III is a monarch you point to a lot, you know, sort of your favorite monarch. Louis XIV, you know, he's like starting wars like they're going out of business.

It would be an understatement to say that sort of humanity's record of with monarchs is mixed at best. Roman Empire under Marcus Aurelius, seems like it went pretty well. Under Nero, not so much. Spain's Charles III is a monarch you point to a lot, you know, sort of your favorite monarch. Louis XIV, you know, he's like starting wars like they're going out of business.

So those are all sort of before the age of democracy.