Jonathan Kieperman (Lomez)

Yeah, I mean, it's a perfectly reasonable question to ask. And I do think over the last however many decades, there have been a number of changes in the workplace. that can be attributed to women, very talented women taking on leadership roles and succeeding in those roles and therefore introducing more women into the workplace based on that success.

Yeah, I mean, it's a perfectly reasonable question to ask. And I do think over the last however many decades, there have been a number of changes in the workplace. that can be attributed to women, very talented women taking on leadership roles and succeeding in those roles and therefore introducing more women into the workplace based on that success.

I think it's perfectly fine for me to concede to that. The point I'm making is that by introducing this new distribution of personnel into public life, it has an effect on how these institutions are run and the norms that these institutions run on. And then it becomes an empirical question. Have they changed for the better or have they changed for the worse?

I think it's perfectly fine for me to concede to that. The point I'm making is that by introducing this new distribution of personnel into public life, it has an effect on how these institutions are run and the norms that these institutions run on. And then it becomes an empirical question. Have they changed for the better or have they changed for the worse?

And I think most people look around at the various institutions, whether it's media, whether it's academia, whether it's the corporate boardrooms that have found themselves in all sorts of spasms over DEI stuff over the last decade. Are they more efficient or are they less efficient? Are they working properly?

And I think most people look around at the various institutions, whether it's media, whether it's academia, whether it's the corporate boardrooms that have found themselves in all sorts of spasms over DEI stuff over the last decade. Are they more efficient or are they less efficient? Are they working properly?

My argument would be that very self-evidently, the institutions in which all of these changes have occurred are now performing worse than they used to. That is at least in part attributable to this change in norms. And this change in norms, in turn, is attributable to this change in personnel. All right.

My argument would be that very self-evidently, the institutions in which all of these changes have occurred are now performing worse than they used to. That is at least in part attributable to this change in norms. And this change in norms, in turn, is attributable to this change in personnel. All right.

Yeah, I mean, my belief is that there's actual tremendous amount of synchronicity between these two sort of modes of operating in the world. And it's not just my belief. You know, my favorite author and actually passage press comes from the book Forest Passage by Ernst Junger. There's a great book of letters between Junger and Martin Heidegger.

Yeah, I mean, my belief is that there's actual tremendous amount of synchronicity between these two sort of modes of operating in the world. And it's not just my belief. You know, my favorite author and actually passage press comes from the book Forest Passage by Ernst Junger. There's a great book of letters between Junger and Martin Heidegger.

And Junger's view actually is that none of this, this kind of vitalism, none of this is sustainable without religion and actually Christianity specifically.

And Junger's view actually is that none of this, this kind of vitalism, none of this is sustainable without religion and actually Christianity specifically.

And that our idea of poetics and sort of the inscrutable forces of the universe against which our individual will is being tested at all times and which a kind of vitalist view of the world is insisting we're constantly pushing against all has to be sort of live inside of this framework of Christianity. So I don't think these things are incompatible.

And that our idea of poetics and sort of the inscrutable forces of the universe against which our individual will is being tested at all times and which a kind of vitalist view of the world is insisting we're constantly pushing against all has to be sort of live inside of this framework of Christianity. So I don't think these things are incompatible.

Yeah. I mean, your concern is that it's merely being sort of like cynically operationalized.

Yeah. I mean, your concern is that it's merely being sort of like cynically operationalized.

Okay. You know, I have a somewhat idiosyncratic view of Donald Trump as a kind of – A man out of time. And so I wrote this article or essay called Aeneas in Washington. And the idea was that Donald Trump has revived or assumed really this kind of mythic stature. He's a mythic hero. Specifically, I have this concept. It's not my concept, but I've applied it to Trump of retro causality.

Okay. You know, I have a somewhat idiosyncratic view of Donald Trump as a kind of – A man out of time. And so I wrote this article or essay called Aeneas in Washington. And the idea was that Donald Trump has revived or assumed really this kind of mythic stature. He's a mythic hero. Specifically, I have this concept. It's not my concept, but I've applied it to Trump of retro causality.

Trump has this strange ability, in my view, to sort of reconstitute the past. How we understand Trump and his life before he entered politics is not a sort of strict linear thing that is unchanging in time, actually. Over the last five years in particular.

Trump has this strange ability, in my view, to sort of reconstitute the past. How we understand Trump and his life before he entered politics is not a sort of strict linear thing that is unchanging in time, actually. Over the last five years in particular.