Michael Shellenberger
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4 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Feb
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not something that weak the weak can't censor people i mean you look at any movement for human liberation like the weak don't have the power to censor the censorship comes from these really arrogant overly empowered overly powerful entitled
elites displaying traits of frankly anti-social disorder with no empathy for the people that they're censoring and so i think that my views are that there's certainly plenty of people that think that that feel that they're being empathic but i think a lot of other people it's will to power and nothing besides to paraphrase nietzsche where it's actually the pleasure of just
controlling what people can say online.
I mean, the people, these sensors have now, we've profiled them.
I mean, we've written, you know, we haven't published all of it, but we try to understand the people that are doing this very deeply at a psychological level.
And they're just absolutely power hungry and they're completely arrogant.
Like they're enclosed minded and frankly, not very smart.
I mean, that's the thing you forget about the totalitarians.
It's depressing because
think there's a story that's getting told.
I won't say everybody knows by who, but there's somebody on the right that's telling a story about how terrible democracy is and how if we had an autocracy, it would be run by somebody competent like Elon Musk and everything would work great.
Actually, the history of totalitarianism is that it's the incompetent, awful, idiotic bureaucrats that are running things.
It's not Mozart and Goethe and Nietzsche that are like,
you know running things it's like these very crude dumb people and so you see someone like nina jankowitz or renee these are really power hungry very petty small people there's so much kind of just a kind of almost like a neediness there you see it in some of them and need a neediness for people to tell them how good they are and how much they care a lot of like you know if you remember the movie misery the kathy bates character i
a lot of that kathy bates energy of
i'm going to take care of you but it's actually i'm going to dominate so i think that when we i think that people sometimes sort of say it's suicidal empathy or it's pathological altruism and i know what they mean i think that what's underneath it is something darker more nihilistic that is just feeding hedonistically off the power of dominating and censoring and persecuting others
that really isn't in service you know as you know we've you know as the foundational spiritualities and and um philosophies of the west have aimed at that power be used in service of of beautiful values it's not it's not in service of that it's just in service of their own individual expression of power and like you said you know if it's if it's to censor you on covet or anti-semitism or a trans or migration or the ukraine war they don't care
Like they're always wanting to find new ways
censor because it's coming from something so deep, something so deep and frankly pathological inside of them.
create life,
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