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We are doing a two-for-one set of gurus next with Curtis Yarving and Peter Thiel before heading into left-wing wonkery.

For those who want to play along, here is the Yarvin material we will be looking at. We also get to hear from Francis and Konstantin! Yay!

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The Case Against Democracy

💥Join us on our Journey to 1 Million Subscribers💥 Curtis Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American blogger. He is known, along with philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neoreactionary movement (NRx). He argues that American democracy is a failed experiment which should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations. #politics #interview #america SPONSORED BY: Manscaped. Get 20% off and free shipping when you use the code TRIGGER20 at https://www.manscaped.com/ SPONSORED BY: ExpressVPN. Go to https://www.expressvpn.com/trigger/ and get an extra 3 months free on a one-year package! OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Intro 01:25 Curtis Yarvin’s Background 04:32 Democracy: The God That Failed 07:11 Exciting The Matrix, A Revolt Against The Present 12:21 Being More Radical Than a Nazi? 19:27 Understanding Stalin 21:46 Stepping Outside of the Linear Progressive or Nazi Worldviews 26:03 Sponsor Message: Manscaped 27:26 What is Curtis’s Vision? 31:40 What Does an Effective Monarchy Look Like? 39:32 Chinese Authoritarianism Vs The System in the West 42:39 The Power of the Internet in the Age of Cancel Culture 47:59 What it Means to be Mainstream Media 50:44 Similarities Between Big Tech & Monarchies 53:56 Sponsor Message: ExpressVPN 55:42 Why are the Same Ideologies being Pushed by Corporations, Parliament & the Media? 59:43 Who Gets to Judge Who The Experts Are? 1:03:16 Why Bad Ideas Are Allowed to Succeed 1:10:35 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About? Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/

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Níall

I have to admit I dislike giving Triggernometry views. They're so obvious in their grifting.

Violet

Yay! Thank you.

SHOUNAK SARKAR

Looking forward to this! These two with JD Vance as their candidate are basically the intellectual ballast for the new technofascist worldview. As Thiel wrote, "Freedom and Democracy are no longer compatible" in an article few years ago. It's a weird but influential and scary movement.

Richard Haas

Just listened to this. This guy is great at not answering any questions. Almost as bad as Peterson…

Philip

Blast from the past. Where he belongs.

Rufus Evans

God he's painful to listen to. The massive speech he builds off the back of 'the teacher telling the student if you don't agree with this you're a nazi' I don't remember this lesson in Government and Politics or History. Maybe I was sick that day.

Augustin Cambau

I've been wishing for a Yarvin decoding for a while, but I'm finding out listening to this interview that he's not even very good at playing the deep-thinking royalist. Just another smart edgy boy with many names to drop

Linda Sears

Blanket statements like “experts become corrupted” without any proof or explanation bother me. In addition, isn’t reacting to progressivism/liberalism by becoming a traditionalist not uncommon? I don’t see that as a red pill, world changing awakening moment.

Sam Morris

I felt my brains seeping out of my ears listening to this.

Nell Van Vorst

I was completely ignorant of this guy until today. It was bliss. What a tool. I’m not sure I can make it through an hour of the sound of his voice 🤢

David Noble

I lot of waffle to sugarcoat fascism

Mark Francis

Jeez another anti modernist romanticizing the past, with a very loose definition of oligarchy and monarchy

Tobbe lobben

Yarvis has been popular lately and seems like an awful dude

Noah Heck

I know that ad hominem attacks are never a useful way to engage with an idea, and will accept dutifully if not enthusiastically if this post needs be deleted, BUT My god is this guy a fat, self-satisfied, stupid, mendacious bag of shit.

Linda Sears

He uses the lab leak as his “evidence” for experts being corrupted/untrustworthy and why a monarchy is a better system than democracy.

Aaron Holder

What a smug, self satisfied prat. I actually have no idea what his point was, except, maybe, modern liberal democracy - bad, and only people like him are smart enough to see it.

MoooinkForYourSupper

He has the same pattern as other gurus where he will create a baseline that sounds calm and carefully reasoned, but then smuggle in absurd arguments in the same tone of voice. Like the teacher telling the student he must be a nazi, or what would Elizabeth think of Hitler. And because the rest of the speech made him sound like he thinks things through, you'll give him the benefit of the doubt for those terrible takes that get sprinkled in.

Sam Morris

Never before have I understood the idea that reading might not always be a good thing. He’s like stupid John Gray. All the right references for an interesting conversation but at least with John Gray he has the decency to pull his conclusions out of a hat.

Bill Ellis

Wow, this guy tracing his path of discovery to the dark enlightenment... it's just an endless stream of strawman arguments knocked down by logical fallacies. Diagramming this would be both hellacious and amazing.

RareTripleBait

This Francis guy is like a Tocotronic member from the upside down

Dada de Broglie

Crazy how he invented the “red pill” term. Must be all of those old books he reads. The Hero as Blogger.

Martin Birch

Have to say I liked his descriptions of his grandparents and 1930’s communists. Very much like my family and their friends, including the reluctance to discuss their old affiliations even after 50-60 years. Still concerned who could be listening. And many used progressive as a euphemism for communist.

Sonje Finnestad

He 'explains' everthing at such unnecessary length. Do these guys not feel insulted, being talked down to like that?

MJ Eldridge

WHAT AM I LISTENING TO?? Even the sound of his voice makes me want to die - why are they letting him talk and WHAT IS HE TRYING TO SAY AHHHHHHH ☠️

MJ Eldridge

PS - anyone here in the US ever hear of a “red diaper baby”??? My ears are bleeding