Who Is Curtis Yarvin? | PBD Podcast | Ep. 717
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What themes are introduced at the beginning of the conversation?
Did you ever think you would make it?
I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory. I know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point?
The future looks bright. A handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here. You are a 101? My son's right there.
I don't think I've ever said this before.
So we got a special guest here. There's going to be a group of you that are going to be driven insane by what he has to say, but there's going to be many of you that are going to say, it's actually a good point. Even right now with what's going on in the world, Venezuela just fell. Iran, with what they're going through, they went from a monarchy to... whatever you want to call it, with a totalitarian regime under Khomeini, and then should they go to a constitutional monarchy? Should they go to a traditional democracy? What works, what doesn't work? My guest today, here's what he said before. So brace for impact. We're going to have a two-hour conversation, but these are some of the things that he said that's driven people insane.
Some races are more suited to slavery than others. That will upset a lot of people. Democracy is not a solution. It is the problem. The United States should be run like a corporation. If Americans want change, they should stop voting. The democratic experiment has failed. Real power in America is held by an unelected regime. Equality is not a natural human condition. Order is more important than freedom. Curtis Yarvin, it's great to have you on.
Thanks so much. Pleasure to be here, Patrick.
So how did you come up with these ideas? How did this happen?
How did I come up with these ideas? Yes. You know, my gosh. How did I come up with these ideas is I was kind of a, you know, a little bit of a normie libertarian kind of person. And I started reading a little bit and I started thinking a little bit. And after a little while, I'd had a little too much to think. And... I think that, you know, the way you come up with these ideas is you're sort of in you ever seen the movie The Truman Show? Of course. You watch The Truman Show. It's it's really, really great movie. And, you know, Truman, you know, just starts to notice these things about the world he lives in that just aren't that aren't. real they can't possibly be real you know the sky the horizon is kind of stitched together you know i'll give you an example of one of these things that's very very simple which is that you have these two words politics and democracy and you might notice that analytically these words mean the same thing um
Do they? Well, you know, what is a democracy without politics? It sounds like something they might have in North Korea. Actually, the full name of North Korea is the DPRK. That's the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. That is three euphemisms for democracy, one place name, and it's a monarchy. And so, you know, this is one of the things that we sort of see across history is that basically... And regimes, well, they tend to lie. They tend to actually sort of conceal the most basic things about what they are. Let's go, for example, to the United Kingdom. It's not a kingdom. No one could possibly describe it objectively as a kingdom. It's true that it has a king. But the idea that the king is running the government is preposterous.
Okay. And everyone in the U.K. recognizes that the idea that the king is running the government is preposterous. It wasn't really true, let's say, in 1725 that the king was running the government. That would be, I guess, George I. But people really believed it was the case then. And so you have these – when we call the U.S. a democracy – You know, it's actually much more similar to calling the United Kingdom a kingdom than we might think. One of the ways that you can see this is, again, if you look at these words democracy and politics, you'll hear that they have opposite valences. So democracy, anything democratic is good. You know, we're going to democratize U.S. foreign policy. I don't know what it means, but it has to be good.
We're going to politicize it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What themes are introduced at the beginning of the conversation?
0:00–5:44
2
How does Curtis Yarvin explain his ideas on democracy and politics?
5:44–13:50
3
What historical context does Yarvin provide regarding American governance?
13:50–28:48
4
How does Yarvin relate the past political systems to today's political landscape?
28:48–1:18:45
5
Who were The Secret Six and what was their significance?
1:18:45–1:19:07
6
What role did John Brown play in American history?
1:19:07–1:21:55
7
How does the discussion of historical figures relate to modern politics?
1:21:55–1:23:32
8
What insights are shared about the current political climate in Iran?
1:23:32–2:27:27
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