Bonus Sample: JD Vance’s Dictator Fetish

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel claims “freedom and democracy are incompatible.” Mentor and $15M donor behind JD Vance’s political career, Peter Thiel also has an influence: Mencius Moldbug, computer programmer and lead philosopher of the “Dark Enlightenment,” or “neoreactionary” movement. Moldburg says, “if Americans want their government to change, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.” Erstwhile pen-name of Curtis Yarvin, “Moldburg” is openly anti-democratic, advocating for one-party city-states ruled by CEO-kings. His takes on race, slavery, and the Nazis are equally alarming. Vance has also publicly praised and cited his work, and Thiel gave $1.1 million to Yarvin’s tech start-up. Julian digs into the toxic pseudo-intellectual philosophy behind the next wave of MAGA authoritarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know one of the things that consistently comes up in my campaign because I was one of these people who didn't quite get Donald Trump in the beginning and sort of fully appreciate where he was coming from or what he was about.
0:14.3	And now I very much do is this concept of red pilling.
0:18.9	And if you ever heard this term, it comes from the movie The Matrix, which as I understand it it is made by a couple of people who do not share the politics of the people in this room
0:27.7	But the basic idea is that once you see the way that knowledge is transmitted once you see the way that knowledge is transmitted,
0:33.0	once you see the way that public policy works in this country,
0:36.0	it's very hard to unsee it.
0:38.0	And so there's this scene in the movie The Matrix
0:40.0	where the chief protagonist
0:42.0	has given an opportunity to take the blue pill or the red pill.
0:45.0	And he takes the red pill.
0:47.0	And the red pill effectively reveals to him the fundamental corruption that laid at the heart of the society that he lived in.
0:53.3	That's JD Vance in November of 2021.
0:56.8	Talking at NatCon, a gathering of what is sometimes called
1:00.5	the New Right.
1:02.3	He was running for Senate at that time, not Vice President as he is now.
1:06.7	Of course we all had heard this right-wing co-opting of being red-pilled for at least a couple years at this point.
1:16.5	But as far back as 2007, before Maga, before Q'Anon, and even before Candice Owens launched her YouTube channel Red
1:26.8	Pill Black in 2017, an obscure online blogger who went by the pen name Menchis Moldbug was the first to
1:36.8	repurpose the red pill metaphor from the science fiction classic The Matrix.
1:42.0	In April of 2007, the year before the election of
1:47.4	Barack Obama would represent to so many that Martin Luther King Jr's
1:52.2	arc of the moral universe had bent more
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