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Anthony and Nick invite Ryan Landry, E. Antony Gray, and Jean-Luc Deaux into the Tower depths to talk about low-time preference, American patriotism, the Presidential race, and much more.
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Notes:
0:07:12 Is Low Time Preference innate or can it be learned?
0:30:55 How should white American rightists feel about their country?
0:49:07 Is NRx’s appeal mainly that it’s taboo?
1:02:50 How is NRx different from 5 years ago?
1:24:59 Recommendations for Millennials looking to learn life skills
1:49:47 One True Faith versus Perennialism
2:21:01 Does NRx support Hillary for accelerationist purposes?
2:40:46 Assorted closing thoughts
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Music:
Opening: “Fausto” by Anima Adversa (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1060324/fausto
Closing: “Gone” by Martin Eigenmann
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1198814/gone
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Some links
Salon: http://www.salon.com/2015/11/25/i_fcked_a_republican_on_thanksgiving/
Asch Conformity Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT1lDhA
Marshmallows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment
Society of Grownups: https://www.societyofgrownups.com/
NBS’ Raré Pepe: http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2015/7/9/pepe3.png
This was a good listen, guys. I really liked what was said about Adams in particular. Spot on.
Good listen. Love the mention of South Jersey specifically. Indeed we don’t like those in the North!
I suppose “desire” was the wrong word there. Thanks for the plug and answer, I’ll try to structure the question better next time.
Regarding John Adams, I highly recommend the HBO miniseries on his life: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472027/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_41. It really is one of the best series HBO ever produced and the best acting by Paul Giamatti I’ve seen. Adams is also my favorite Founding Father according to his life and political views.
Oh, so that was you?
Absolutely agreed on the HBO “John Adams” series. It does the period so well. Even down to the slowly darkening teeth.
Yeah that was “me”, yes every single minutiae is taken care of for the sake of the viewer. You really feel as if you are in that period of time accompanying Adams on his travels as some sort of spectral presence.
HI-to-LO time preference tranny reporting in.
It does take great amounts of discipline and determination, though. I constantly feel my natural instincts to be a lazy, self-gratifying piece of shit trying to reactivate.
The John Adams quote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” takes on a darker cast when viewed through Moldbug’s lens of political systems engineering. How would you feel about a civil engineer, at the opening of a new bridge, announcing “This bridge was made only for moral and religious drivers, and is wholly inadequate for the transportation of any others”? I would not feel particularly good about crossing that bridge.
Freedom is only for a moral and religious people.
Certainly! Perhaps one of the lessons of the American experiment is that a design for resilient governance must explicitly accommodate periods, regions, or thedes that are not suited to freedom. (Arguably this was implicitly believed by every 18th-century liberal, but their rhetoric certainly didn’t acknowledge it — and as you said, later generations weren’t in on the joke.)