About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges of presenting complex ideas about civilization and entrepreneurship to a values-aligned audience at a political event.
The Free State Party invited me to speak at their event in Manchester, New Hampshire this week. It was a chance to pitch what we’re doing and why to a crowd that was values-aligned, but not steeped in exactly the same memetic environment. The “elevator pitch” for this thing is difficult, because you have to question so many premises and dispute so many definitions. I could feel that they liked certain things that I was saying, but I was not quite establishing the connective tissue that made it all hang together: Managerialism [“what is that”], and therefore natalism [“what is that”], and therefore Great Houses [“what is that”], and therefore fraternity [“what is that”], and therefore entrepreneurship [“oh, ok”]. People recognize that family formation has collapsed, politics are out of control, they don’t live in the country they thought they did. It’s a relatively short walk from there to “liberalism as runaway civilizational entropy”. But then to point to “where it all went wrong,” and what can be built that will survive the crisis, you have to cover some pretty difficult ground. It’s not enough to say “we have to go back to 1950” (or 1650, or 600 BC) — that can’t be done. In…
People in this episode
Host: Bennett's Phylactery
Topics covered
- entrepreneurship
- politics
- civilization
- family formation
- managerialism
Keywords
- entrepreneurship
- managerialism
- civilization
- politics
- family formation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Free State Party
Places: Manchester, New Hampshire
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