Michael Phillips

Oh, that really happened?

This is another one where my brain is more pure than yours, I guess, at this point. But it's about to get ruined, so let's do it.

This is another one where my brain is more pure than yours, I guess, at this point. But it's about to get ruined, so let's do it.

This is another one where my brain is more pure than yours, I guess, at this point. But it's about to get ruined, so let's do it.

Well, and to even speak to the flip side of that, you know, over the years making... philosophy stuff on YouTube, I've gotten in touch with people who've reached out to be like, Oh, I've been watching stuff since high school. When I was like 15, I was watching these like philosophy YouTube videos on heady ideas and reading stuff. So like me, I was one of these people. Yeah.

Well, and to even speak to the flip side of that, you know, over the years making... philosophy stuff on YouTube, I've gotten in touch with people who've reached out to be like, Oh, I've been watching stuff since high school. When I was like 15, I was watching these like philosophy YouTube videos on heady ideas and reading stuff. So like me, I was one of these people. Yeah.

Well, and to even speak to the flip side of that, you know, over the years making... philosophy stuff on YouTube, I've gotten in touch with people who've reached out to be like, Oh, I've been watching stuff since high school. When I was like 15, I was watching these like philosophy YouTube videos on heady ideas and reading stuff. So like me, I was one of these people. Yeah.

There's like young folks out there who take big ideas very seriously and they have more access than ever to these things. So it doesn't, I mean, it doesn't shock me at all that some teen could go down that rabbit hole or even could start reading like a Curtis Yarvin or Nick land and going down those rabbit

There's like young folks out there who take big ideas very seriously and they have more access than ever to these things. So it doesn't, I mean, it doesn't shock me at all that some teen could go down that rabbit hole or even could start reading like a Curtis Yarvin or Nick land and going down those rabbit

There's like young folks out there who take big ideas very seriously and they have more access than ever to these things. So it doesn't, I mean, it doesn't shock me at all that some teen could go down that rabbit hole or even could start reading like a Curtis Yarvin or Nick land and going down those rabbit

holes and stuff especially now that some of these people are you know put on like the new york times and stuff like that so exactly yeah it seems weird to to dismiss that i can understand the the impulse to be like this just seems like a a very stupid evil teen kid totally it seems just as plausible like you're pointing out that there could be an actual engagement with ideas and that's it's important to recognize that because then you have to get at the root of that exactly and like these people aren't necessarily like philosophical nihilists or existential nihilists

holes and stuff especially now that some of these people are you know put on like the new york times and stuff like that so exactly yeah it seems weird to to dismiss that i can understand the the impulse to be like this just seems like a a very stupid evil teen kid totally it seems just as plausible like you're pointing out that there could be an actual engagement with ideas and that's it's important to recognize that because then you have to get at the root of that exactly and like these people aren't necessarily like philosophical nihilists or existential nihilists

holes and stuff especially now that some of these people are you know put on like the new york times and stuff like that so exactly yeah it seems weird to to dismiss that i can understand the the impulse to be like this just seems like a a very stupid evil teen kid totally it seems just as plausible like you're pointing out that there could be an actual engagement with ideas and that's it's important to recognize that because then you have to get at the root of that exactly and like these people aren't necessarily like philosophical nihilists or existential nihilists

So would you say, like, when you bring up the Tesla example, is one of, to be very reductive here, the big risks at play that, like, someone who starts Tesla on fire or causes some damage at a Tesla dealership, largely for the motivation of trying to stick it to Elon Musk or something like that, gets classified in a way by the FBI that is similar to some of the folks you have previously talked about doing things that most rational humans could agree are deeply more insidious than, like, setting a car on fire.

So would you say, like, when you bring up the Tesla example, is one of, to be very reductive here, the big risks at play that, like, someone who starts Tesla on fire or causes some damage at a Tesla dealership, largely for the motivation of trying to stick it to Elon Musk or something like that, gets classified in a way by the FBI that is similar to some of the folks you have previously talked about doing things that most rational humans could agree are deeply more insidious than, like, setting a car on fire.

So would you say, like, when you bring up the Tesla example, is one of, to be very reductive here, the big risks at play that, like, someone who starts Tesla on fire or causes some damage at a Tesla dealership, largely for the motivation of trying to stick it to Elon Musk or something like that, gets classified in a way by the FBI that is similar to some of the folks you have previously talked about doing things that most rational humans could agree are deeply more insidious than, like, setting a car on fire.

Yeah, it makes me think of like climate activism as well. And, you know, the work of those in the climate community that call for like the destruction of equipment and not the harm of human life. Totally.

Yeah, it makes me think of like climate activism as well. And, you know, the work of those in the climate community that call for like the destruction of equipment and not the harm of human life. Totally.

Yeah, it makes me think of like climate activism as well. And, you know, the work of those in the climate community that call for like the destruction of equipment and not the harm of human life. Totally.

I mean, and the irony, of course, that you could call someone, you know, disabling an oil pipeline, a nihilist extremist when the act they're doing is precisely for the purpose of ensuring the continued existence of human civilization on a large scale.