Quinn Slobodian
speaker
708 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Quinn Slobodian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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downloaded and offloaded everything onto the individual, right?
If you failed, it's because of you.
If you succeeded, it's because of you.
And the thing that through which that was all mediated was this anonymous agentless thing called the market.
And the market was the thing that told the truth.
And then the role of the government was to basically... No picking winners and losers, right?
Yeah, reproduce that illusion.
Just say, we just do what we have to do.
The market says so, da-da-da.
And so Musk takes advantage of that, obviously.
I mean, he's able to get in as a private contractor with the state by playing the neoliberal austerity logic.
I'm going to save you money.
He gets into...
Doge, by saying the same thing, I'm going to fulfill a longstanding dream from Clinton onwards, you know, shave this state back to something much more reasonable.
I'm going to post a bunch of Milton Friedman memes to show you how serious I am and Thomas Sowell memes.
But then what he's doing is actually quite different because it no longer rests on this fairy tale, really, about the individual being able to freely choose their own fate.
He actually never speaks like that.
He speaks about the need to do colossal civilization-level missions, which he is the head of, in which you have only one role, in which is to figure out your place in the command structure and do your part.
Yeah, it's this or extinction.
I mean, I guess, I don't know.
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