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Lecture: JD Vance's Intellectual Influences and the New Right Movement

good morning ladies and gentlemen my name is Michael millerman millerman school.com I offer courses on politics and philosophy and on this channel talk about the same topics so as all of you know it's been a wild last few days in US politics and I want to just focus in on one aspect of it which is Trump's nomination of J D Vance as his vice presidential uh candidate a lot of Articles have come out in the last few days about the intellectual influences on JD Vance's worldview and I just thought it could be interesting to go through some of those together so this one is from political political.com the seven thinkers and groups that have shaped JD Vance's unusual worldview post liberals crunchy cons and monarchists so let me just preface this by saying that if you are a fan of this channel if you've watched it before or in general if you are in the circles of the online right in the circles of the kind of uh how could you put it the you're not a Democrat you're not a leftist you're not a communist but you're also not mainstream GOP you're not mainstream Republican not mainstream conservative so you I think were like many people energized by the selection of JD Vance as Trump's VP because JD Vance runs in some of the circles or at least has been on some of the shows and published in some of the journals that you like and that I like and that you read and listen to and so it's been a sort of energizing moment I would say for the intellectual right and that's why I wanted to cover these articles with you so let's take a look I have not really read them yet in advance I just sort of bookmarked them to do this together let's go political the seven thinkers in groups that have shaped JD Vance's unusual worldview by I'd love to hear from you as always in the comments in the chat I hope you're doing well and hope you had a chance to stay up late enough to watch Trump's RNC speech last night which we could also talk about uh a little bit later so JD van represents something genuinely unusual for the Maga movement a national Republican who is deeply in meshed with the elite world of the conservative intellectual movement or what's sometimes termed for convenience as the new right or the dissident right as Vance himself confessed earlier this year he is plugged into a lot of weird right-wing subcultures his transition from never Trump conservative to Maga Firebrand was influenced by his relationships with a handful of Nish conservative writers and thinkers among them are people who push for post liberal regime change some who Pine for the cultural conservatism of Victor orban's Hungary and one outright monarchist this cohort espouses a variety of sometimes competing viewpoints but they are bound together by the belief that the liberal project of progress especially in the form of economic liberalization technological advancement and the leveling of social hierarch IES has in fact been a mistake now I'll just pause here again you know many of the authors that I discuss on this channel in my books and writings and at my school they also are bound together by the belief that the liberal project of progress has in fact been a mistake whether we take the more moderate among them like Leo stros or the less moderate among them like Alexander Dugan so we're in this world here of the quote unquote new right or dissident right those people who are suspicious of the liberal project of progress many of these thinkers are still far far away from being household names but with Vance on the top of the GOP ticket they're only one step away from having a direct line to the White House here are the key thinkers who have influenced JD Vance's intellectual trajectory and if November goes Republicans way could Define the trajectory of the country so we start uh according to political.com with Patrick denin a professor of political Theory at the University of Notre Dam Denine Rose to prominence in 2018 with the publication of his book why liberalism failed a sweeping critique of small L liberalism and a forceful argument for a more communitarian approach to American political life in the book which Ron plaits from Barack Obama and the New York Times Denine argued that liberalism's focus on individualism secularism and free market economics eroded the communal bases of American Life namely the nuclear family shared religious faith and local economies let me just pause for minute guys you can let me know whether you've read Den's book I did it is interesting if you're familiar with Dugan It's going to seem light to you but it is still worth knowing and worth a read Denine took a more radical approach in his next book next major book regime change published in 20123 in the book denin who is a conservative Catholic argued for a peaceful Revolution to replace liberalism with a post liberal order grounded in the promotion of conservative and religious values rather than the protection of individual rights in practice Denine argued for a pro- family and pro-worker economic policy uh excuse me for pro- family and pro worker economic policies like tariffs and Manufacturing incentives as well as foreign policy isolationism and strict social conservatism including limits on gay marriage gender affirming care and abortion Vance has publicly cited denin as a major intellectual influence and even appeared on a panel with him at the book launch for regime CH hosted at Catholic University in 2023 at the event Vance identified himself as member of the post liberal right and said he views his role in Congress as explicitly anti- regime channeling denin critic critique I guess that would be of liberal progressivism in a statement after Vance's election Denine praised him as a man of deep personal faith and integrity a devoted family man A Generous friend and a genuine Patriot okay so first influence according to political Patrick denin why liberalism failed and regime change the two books that are important points of reference now Peter teal by the way if any of you know there was an article I think it was MSNBC Rachel matow that came out about Peter teal and JD Vance and how they are part of a kind of a technological anti-liberal cabal that names their companies in honor of characters from Lord of the Rings and so uh I just want to tell you that I've now rebranded to Gandalf school.com instead of millerman school.com and so if you go to Gandalf school.com uh now I'm part of the Lord of the Rings International technological anti-liberal cabal okay Gandalf school.com so Peter teal teal is best known as Vance's former Venture Capital boss and the primary funer of his 2022 Senate campaign but he's also a close friend and major influence for Vance Sor I want to pause one more time guys you should know more seriously that uh if you don't know a lot about Peter teal about what he thinks that's a big Topic in and of itself I'm not an expert on everything having to do with teal but I have covered his famous seol essay the straussian moment on this channel which you might like to have a look at at some point the Duos relationship began in 2011 when Vance then a student at Yale law school attended a talk by Teal in which he tied silicon Valley's failure to deliver truly revolutionary technology IES to the stagnation of America's political and social Elites as Vance later wrote of Teal's Vision quote he saw these two Trends Elite professionals trapped in hyperco competitive jobs and the technological stagnation of society as connected if technological innovation were actually driving real Prosperity our Elites wouldn't feel increasingly competitive with one another over a dwindling number of prestigious outcomes unquote Teal's Outlook is complex and contradictory according to political.com but it revolves around the idea that misguided liberal ideology sclerotic government bureaucracy and feckless Elites have perverted the trajectory of technological progress turning technology into a tool of national and civilizational destruction rather than renewal as teal famously put it we wanted flying cars instead we got 140 characters Vance meaning you know we got Twitter we didn't get flying cars Vance has not explained publicly exactly how much of Teal's worldview he shares but the two men are close friends and regular conversation Partners my relationship with Peter is what it has been for the close to 15 years that I've known him Vance told the political magazine earlier this year if there's something interesting going on and I want to bounce ideas off a very fascinating and knowledgeable person I'll give him a call okay so you got to think about it do you consider Teal's influence on JD Vance to be a good one or a bad one I would consider it personally to be a good one because you want to have smart people in your circles and if you read Teal's stene moment or if you want to read something kind of more Down to Earth but nevertheless insightful and uh maybe even deceptively simple you can read teals 0 to one wouldn't you want a guy like that in your corner you got to got to think about it I think that's not a bad influence to have a good influence to have so now we go to the third one on political.com list of influences on JD Vance Curtis yarvin we've covered a little bit of curvis yarvin on this channel in the past yarvin doesn't hold any official title or office he is an EXC computer programmer turned blogger having first risen to prominence on the online right in the 2010s while blogging under the pseudonym menus mold bug but he's often cited as the house philosopher of the new right chiefly for his promotion of the Neo reactionary or nrx Movement Like Denine Vin and his National and his nrx and neore reactionary followers reject the Quest for progress as the core of political Life As yarvin Told Vanity Fair in 2022 the fundamental premise of liberalism is that there is this inexorable March toward progress I disagree with that premise instead yarvin believes that American democracy has denigrated into a corrupt oligarchy run by Elites who strive to consolidate their power rather than serve the public interest the solution yarvin argues is for the American oligarchy to give way to a monarchical leader styled after a startup CEO a national CEO or what's called a dictator as yarvin has put it who can debug the American political order like a computer programmer debugging some bad code Vance has said he considers yarvin a friend and has cited his writings in connection with his plan to fire a significant number of civil servants during a potential second Trump Administration there's this guy Curtis yarvin who has written about some of these things Vance said on a conservative podcast in 2021 adding I think Trump is going to run again in 2024 and I think what Trump should do if I was giving him one piece of advice fire every single mid-level bureaucrat every civil servant in the administrative State replace them with our people now by the way we won't click through to this link here but this is going to be the Jack Murphy live podcast that's referred to okay you see clips of Vance on Jack Murphy live podcast circulating online that's where this clip is taken from and uh that podcast is no longer around but if you look at who was on it back in the day 2021 I was on it several times JD Vance was on it Chris rufo was on it Curtis yarvin was on it Michael Anton was on it okay some good and interesting debates and discussions were had on the Jack Murphy live podcast back then so that's where that is from and as I say if you're interested in uh me in this channel I was on there as well a couple of times but let's go on Alexander Dugan was on that podcast too as a matter of fact so but they're quoting Vance's appearance where he said that you should fire every civil servant in the administrative State and replace them with our people okay next influence on this list political.com okay on JD Vance's worldview we have Renee Gerard somebody that I don't I don't cover on this channel very often I don't discuss very often I think he has good competent expositors besides myself so I typically leave that in the hands of others but let's see what they say here about Gerard's influence on J Vance a frenchorn philosopher and Catholic literary critic Gerard taught for several decades at Stanford University where his acolytes included Peter teal teal in turn introduced Gerard's ideas to his own Protege Vance has said that he was particularly influenced by Gerard's idea of mimetic rivalry the idea that humans want certain things because they see other people wanting those same things and his related idea of the scapegoat myth that this competition for shared goals and objects leads to social and political conflict which most societies ultimately resolve by committing an act of violence against a perceived Outsider to Gerard early Christians were the first group to escape this cycle of violence because they scapegoated one of their own Jesus Christ rather than an outsider Vance has credited his exposure to Gerard vitil as a major impetus for his conversion to Catholicism in 2019 mired in the swamp of social media we identified a scapegoat and digitally pounced we were keyboard Warriors unloading on people via Facebook and Twitter blind to our own problems we fought over jobs we didn't actually want while pretending we didn't fight for them at all Vance wrote in a 2020 essay that all had to change it was time to stop State scapegoating and focus on what I could do to improve things Vance's conversion however hasn't put an entire stop to days of online trolling okay those of you who are here now or who are just checking in we're looking at the intellectual sources of JD Vance's worldview since some articles on that have come out recently and we like this sort of topic since often it you know relates to authors that I I discuss on this channel or you know Outlets that you read and I read so that's what we're going over the seven thinkers in groups that have shaped JD Vance's unusual worldview this was published in political.com quick little review here we have Patrick Denine why liberalism failed as well as his book regime change we have Peter teal author of the string moment which I've covered on this channel 0o to one which I teach at another project of mine if you go to visionx form.com you'll see that so Peter teal is another influence uh Curtis yarvin has some hardcore followers maybe you are one of them Renee Gerard and now we go down to uh sorab Amari the writer sorab omari's political evolution is arguably even more cirst than vces the son of a secular Iranian family he emmigrated to the us as a teenager became a trotskyist in college and then took up the neoconservative cause as an editor at the Wall Street Journal before converting to Catholicism in 2016 the same year he voted for Hillary Clinton out of disgust for Trump he has since moved rightward embracing Trump and becoming a chief advocate for a new style of working-class conservatism that has its roots in the tradition of Catholic social democracy which Amari describes half jokingly as pro-life nalism now he's the editor of Compact magazine and online Journal that nominally brings together the populist left and right but which has assertively promoted both Trump and Vance by the way I'll say I published the piece on the assassination of Daria Dugan uh Dugan's daughter in Compact magazine and um you might want to take a look at that at some point Amari meanwhile remains close with Vance having profiled him for several Publications and hosted him at a buzzy conference for common good conservatives in 2022 in an interview with political magazine after Trump's selection Amari said he was thrilled to have Vance on the ticket Donald Trump could have listened to the advice of many other characters and picked the conventional Republican he said instead he picked someone who's reviled by the keepers of the Orthodoxy on free trade and foreign policy and who is also in line with the kind of RNC platform that we saw released last week he added if you want to push that platform JD is the man to do it okay next influence on jdance according to political.com is the Claremont Institute based out of San Bernardino County California The Claremont Institute has become the intellectual nerve center of the trumpist right since 2016 serving as the home to Scholars like Michael Anton whose famous 2016 Flight 93 essay offered an early intellectual justification for Trump as well as former Trump Attorney John Eastman who has been indicted for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election by the way let me just pause here and tell you that I have done an interview with Michael Anton as well on Leo str's book thoughts on mlli and uh you might like the conversations that I've had with Michael Anton check that out okay so Michael Anton is one of the scholars at Claremont one of these influences on JD Vance um aside from its Embrace of trumpism The Institute is known as the home of West Coast straussian ISM a school of American political philosophy pioneered by the conservative historian and philosopher Harry Jaffa now those of you who are watching and don't know sanism I hear ad okay this isn't the article this is me telling you has to do with The Scholar of the history of political philosophy Leo Strauss that's the same Strauss that came up in the teal influence when I mentioned Teal's essay the straussian moment so guys you might want to learn something about Leo Strauss if you don't know who he is I've covered him on this channel I cover him in my school he's an extremely important source for me personally Leo Strauss if you don't know who he is get on it the institute's scholars and fellows hold a range of political positions but they're United by the belief that America lost touch with its founding ideas somewhere around the Progressive Era driven by government bureaucratization the loss of public faith in the principles of natural law and the rise of moral relativism and multiculturalism what could be called wokeism in today's Parliament unlike yarvin or Denine The Claremont crew tend to Advocate a return to founding American principles like limited government and the protection of natural rights in Practical terms this has led them to enthusiastically take up Trump's Crusade against the administrative State and woke initiatives like Dei and critical race Theory Vance okay JD Vance Trump's VP pick is closely tied to Claremont circles frequently speaking at their events and appearing alongside their scholars in a statement to the American conservative on Monday Claremont president Ryan Williams called Vance the ideal pick for Trump's vice president adding it's hard to find a more articulate and passionate advocate for the politics and policies that will save American democracy from the forces of progressive oligarchy and despotism all right good to be with everybody as we cover this political.com article on the intellectual sources of JD Vance's worldview hopefully you are enjoying this and if you're a longer time fan of this channel if you're somebody who's been following this channel then many of these names should be familiar to you and including names that are beneath the surface here like Leo stros who has only been mentioned in uh in passing as an important figure so next is uh Rod Dreer I've never heard his last name pronounced I assume it's something like that the Orthodox Christian writer and former American conservative columnist is best known as the leader of the crunchy ones the birken stocked berkians and gun-loving organic farmers who embrac the countercultural back to theand Attitudes to typically associated with the hippie left but are themselves on the intellectual right Dre Dreer subsequently made a national Splash with his 2017 book The Benedict option which counseled Christian conservatives to embrace Exile from the mainstream culture and construct a resilient counterculture based on the Christian virtues since then he has relocated primarily to Hungary where he's become something of an intellectual cons consilier in Victor orban's government his latest book which got a friendly plug from Vance's subtitled emanu for Christian dissidence his friendship with Vance began in 2016 when he became an early champion of Hill bilogy on the right calling it one of the best books I've ever read and conducting a much talked about interview with fance for the American conservative dr's blog got booted from the magazine last year after his primary funer thought it had gotten too weird uh the two remained friends and he even attended Vance's baptism into the Catholic faith in Ohio in 2019 guys I want to say here briefly I told you where I'm reading from political and you see if you're looking maybe you're just listening but if you're looking you see that some of these passages have uh links to them okay so his conversation his interview with Vance there's a link there so if you guys want to dig deeper into the sources that are discussed here you go check out the article click on the links and uh follow the white rabbit or whatever okay I need to send our next vice president the copy of the Benedict option Dr joked online after Vance's selection and then there's a clarification this article has been updated to to clarify amar's role at Compact magazine as well as the details of the ind's political views so that was let's just do a super fast review of this the seven thinkers and groups that have shaped JD Vance's unusual worldview we'll go one by one number one Patrick Denine why liberalism failed and regime changeed number two Peter teal I mentioned to the Stan moment the book 0 to1 but here you have Teal's influence um as a longtime friend Curtis yarvin some of you may know okay so what do you think about this set of influences is this n positive I would say so Renee Gerard Amari okay I don't know too too much about what he writes except for what's said here and the fact that he is co-editor of Compact magazine which has had its own little Scandal recently I don't know the details don't want to get into the details I know that I've published for them before uh Claremont Institute and um Orthodox Christian writer and former American conservative columnist Rod drer so there are some other articles as I mentioned to you on this topic that have come out recently that I figured we would cover on this stream and we're going to move on now to the next one I did not pre-read these we're reading them together so this is from the spectator. comom and it's called the intellectual journey of JD Vance you ready my name is Michael millerman oh sorry this is uh when I pulled this up originally it was not behind a pay wall now it is behind a pay wall so I didn't really cue this up correctly sorry about that you can either look at it separately or maybe I will uh get a free account and put that up in a minute but for now we move on to what do we have here unheard dcom JD Vance and the new WR uh this is not blocked I think oh one is blocked too strange when I pulled these up when I pulled these up in preparation for our live stream today uh these were not uh not blocked off articles so where are they what's going on oh this is to listen no we don't want to listen we want to read let's pull it up and uh and read it one second where is it here and JD Vance oh so this is not an article it's a a video okay my bad well there you go on her.com JD Vance in the new right you'll be able to watch this uh this presentation so I won't uh I won't cover that okay but you can take a look at that yourselves the key thing that I want to convey to you is that Trump's VP pick has energized certain circles on the intellect ual right the dissident right now you might think like I see people saying in the chat that look like Robert skiff writes here it's a lot of narrative prep to make Vance look like a right-wing nut maybe have a you know the article is highly speculative meetings and podcast interviews don't make a deep influence yes that's true but on the other hand you know for those of you who are on the intellectual right the dissident right you are sort of interested in what I call the virtues of right-wing anti-liberalism I have an essay and a video on that topic the virtues of right-wing anti-liberalism for those of you who are into that topic it should be energizing that the pick was somebody who knows at least some of these people some of these names schools movements organizations institutions Trends Tendencies as opposed to somebody who's totally disconnected from them you know like it is important if you care about the relationship of ideas to the sources of power you want to make sure that you have people in and near power who are familiar with those ideas and so you see from the political article that that's true in a certain sense again how far that goes how much you can count on it you know how do people reconcile contradictory opinions and how do other incentives come into play all of that is relevant but still at the very least this should inspire you to go learn more about these authors if he knows more about them than you do so that you can understand and get on the same page so okay we're not going to do this but if you if I'll tell you where to find it on her.com or in cast JD Vance and the new right let's see what else we got pulled up here uh this article is not behind the pay wall the courage of JD Vance I think this is slightly less about the intellectual sources and maybe more about the fact that he's a republican who is taking uh position on certain policies that are not the customary Republican position on those policies so I want to go over that and then if we have time and interest there's a a related article here by Richard hanania understanding the tech right which is extremely important point it's been coming up in my conversations in private tutoring so I have people who come to me to learn about these authors people in Tech and investing and so on and this idea that something is unprecedented about Trump 2024 compared to Trump 2016 what's truly unprecedented as Chris rufo and others have noted is that there are high-profile Tech defectors moving now to openly support Trump and there's a growing list of it a growing list of these new Trump uh supporting Tech Millionaires and billionaires and and um and influential players and it's no longer quite so deplorable to support Trump he's got a lot of money coming behind him a lot of influence coming behind him and a lot of you know intellectual Firepower as well so hanania has called that I believe he coined this term I don't know maybe others have used it the tech right and I kind of want to read about that as well but first let's go stick on the topic of JD van specifically we'll look at this article compact mag.com Daniel McCarthy July 16 the courage of JD Vance okay by the way I'm Michael millerman I really appreciate you guys spending your time here hopefully you're finding it interesting to learn a little bit about Trump's VP and uh if you saw the RNC the Republican National Convention yesterday and you saw Hulk Hogan and Dana White and Kid Rock and then the man himself Donald Trump deliver a great long speech amazing times amazing amazing times you guys think Biden's going to drop out who's going to replace him a lot to think about to talk about but let's stick with J Advance here we go compact mag.com to understand the full political significance of JD Vance's selection as Trump's running mate one has to look back more than 30 years to a time when Vance himself was just a boy in the early 1990s in the Afterglow not of nuclear war but of a miraculously peaceful end to the Cold War conservative thinkers and Statesmen started to think again again capitalism no longer simply meant the opposite of Communism American foreign policy could no longer be oriented towards containing or rolling back a Soviet Union that no longer existed and the counterculture of sex drugs and alternative Lifestyles which had served as an uneasy Ally against the Communist system that denied personal autonomy along with the existence of God was no longer in any sense on the same side as religion family and traditional community okay so at the end of Communism the end of the Cold War the situation changed and conservative thinkers had to think again you know that if you know the fukuyama and the opponents of the end of History thesis and so on yet anti-communist ideological antibodies didn't die with the disease instead they became an autoimmune disorder attacking Society itself ideological capitalism rebranded as globalization or neoliberalism or a half dozen other terms took the place of revolutionary Marxism as a scientific and moral imperative alliances against communist blocks ceased to be defensive alliances when those blocks ceased to exist they expanded uh these alliances were now Imperial with a police keeping mission that extended far beyond the borders of their member states the United States itself became a quote unquote Universal nation and a quote unquote indispensable Nation not really a nation at all but a self-appointed sheriff of Human Rights and trade routes and intellectual property rights around the globe voters didn't get much of a say in this the treaties and institutions that made it all possible had been set up decades ago for very different purposes the treaties didn't expire with the threats they were designed to meet right so Soviet Union goes away NATO doesn't disappear and the Ghost of countercultural Freedom lived on too even in the hearts or other parts of younger yepy conservatives the cultural picture was a great deal more complicated since rethinking capitalism and hegemonic foreign policy once again put many cultural conservatives on the same side as old hippies some marxists and even certain postmodernists what's even more uh what's more reconsidering capitalism didn't necessarily mean embracing anti- capitalism of either a traditionalist or old left variety some on the right the Paleo Libertarians tried to recover a capitalism that wasn't part of the Cold War project and it's in temporate Imperial error okay guys you know this if you've been paying attention to movements on the right kind of a suspicion towards uh the free market ideology the idea that non-stop capital accumulation is in all cases indisputably good okay some sort of Suspicion towards capital on the anti-liberal illiberal or uh how could you put it alternative uh right in 1992 Pat Buchanan and in a quirky way Ross per signaled the home word turn of the right the Wall Street Journal editorial Pages called for open borders Buchanan opposed Mass immigration syur neoconservatives called for America to export democracy and go abroad in search of Rogue states to destroy Buchanan the old Richard Nixon hand said it was time to come home America he supported tariffs and opposed free trade agreements and the admission of the People's Republic of China to the the World Trade Organization and other Global Economic Institutions Buchanan was a staunch social conservative as well this put him at odds with perau and with many on the left who grudgingly admitted he was on to something with his economics and foreign policy though immigration remained a sticking point for many otherwise curious progressives by the way how incredible is it that Trump's life was saved by a head turn towards an immigration chart Buchanan was a standard bear in politics but the movement or rather the mood he led wasn't simply Buchanan Russell Kirk Robert Nisbet the Paleo conservatives of Chronicles magazine by the way you might want to take a look at Chronicles magazine I have been interviewed by them several years ago and they do things that are worth looking at I talked about Dugan on one of their podcasts recently okay so Chronicles magazine you should know about if you don't know the Paleo conservatives of Chronicles magazine paleo Libertarians and many others rallied around his that means Buchanon Banner they were all rethinking the right and the post Cold War World this made many of them seem prophetic decades later after the rise of Donald Trump okay so guys those of you who are just checking in right we're reading compact mag.com article on the courage of JD Vance and the background here is the paleo conservative Buchanan opposition to Global liberal capitalism and that that was a sort of precursor to Trump to repeat this made many of them seem prophetic decades later after after the rise of Donald Trump there were critics of these thinkers who nonetheless took them seriously or who failing that were fascinated by the face of evil which is what the neoconservatives and liberals of the turn of the new century considered these men and women to be the same hyperbole that characterizes denunciations of trump Advance today was typical of how movement conservatives and triumphant liberal internationalists talked and wrote about the Buchanan right in the 1990s yet despite wrote denunciations the smarter sort of opponent recognized that there was some truth in the extreme things the paleos said or at a minimum some validity to the questions they were raising now guys I want to ask those of you who are here depending on your age you know were you followers of Buchanan of the Paleo conservatives of Chronicles magazine Paul gotfried you know are these new names to you or are these people known entities to you that you once used to a support so sorry it's going to look ugly on the screen a little bit but the way for me to read this I got to move it over like that Vance has a rich biography of which his bestselling 2016 Memoir hillbilly elegy is a powerful part he served in the US Marine Corps he earned degrees from Ohio State University and Yale law school he succeeded in finance and in the Obama era was already making his voice heard and ideas known as a writer Vance came of age as a public voice at a time of dare I say post paleo conservatism the George W bush years had ended in disaster for republicans in the conservative movement there were attempts by many in Washington and New York to devise something new that wouldn't be paleo or as hard-edged as Buchanan ISM but that would ask however belatedly the questions that had to be asked about capitalism foreign policy and the Nexus of society and Morality In the era after the man struggle with Communism Ross D duat Ryan Salem yua and numerous others became reform conservatives or moved in parallel with those who accepted that label David from was one of the 1990s conservatives excuse me neoconservatives who had taken the trouble to read the paleoconservatives if only to more forcefully denounce them he served in the George W Bush Administration where he promoted war with the kakami concept of the axis of Evil afterward he had an association for some time with National Review until he had a bitter split with the magazine that in 2003 had published his anti anti-war conservative sced unpatriotic conservatives having been kicked out of the movement conser out of movement conservatism whatever was left of it at that point he set up his own website from Forum before heighted on a perch at the Atlantic a young JD Vance who at 39 isn't exactly old today hey as a 40-year-old that makes me happy to hear contributed to the short lived from Forum a few years later came hillbilly elegy and after that some some personal text messages and public statements expressing distaste for Donald Trump in strong terms these remarks are now the stuff of CNN exposes and attempts to embarrass the 2024 GOP ticket the story about Vance that from Romney and the media that hate Trump would like everyone to accept goes as follows Vance was a smart and compassionate Man Who Sold a soul to the devil first for a ceny now for a slot on Satan's own presidential ticket Trump is a rich man who isn't the populist of any kind despite the Curious fact that ordinary people who have been screwed over by Elites keep voting for him he's a populist in their eyes but what do they no Vance had all the makings of a good respectable member of the slightly chastened liberal or neoconservative Elite he had made money he had the ivy league in premature and is far from Elite background and homeborn concern for the pathologies of hillbilly America where qualities that could give his more privileged peers a bit of compassionate Rouge that was this that was the role the system expected Vance to play the one thing he must absolutely not do is convert any of his experience or heart or understanding into radical words or actions like running for office as a populist or speaking out in favor of trump instead of against him to connect the critique to politics like that would be to commit the same sin as Buchanan okay so the ghost of paleo conservatism he too could have been a good conservative if only he hadn't talked about tariffs or the Persian Gulf War Vance had the courage and moral Acuity to turn away from respectability and take up populism I see a comment in the chat I always want to give credit where it's du guys a reminder I'm reading here from compact mag.com the courage of JD Vance published several days ago July 16th Vance had the courage and moral Acuity to turn away from respectability and take up populism and he has been consistent if his criticisms of trump in 2017 were over the top some of his words on the campaign Trail in 2022 were too Vance is consistently bold even if he hasn't always been right what I the author says have noticed in attending his speeches over the last few years however is that he's a very quick learner and he has become more effective as he has become more modulated Vance will be attacked in the weeks to come perhaps even more than Trump himself will with every hard-edged statement hyped by the Republicans opponents as a sign of illiberal sinfulness Vance is ready for that he's a Marine he's faced worse there's another consistent quality to be found in Vance's remarks before and after his entry into populist politics he cares deeply about the plight of ordinary Americans and the policies that have served them ill but in 2016 and 2017 people in Vance's position were told by those who claimed to sympathize with their attempts to reform foreign policy economics and conservatism itself that everything they cared about would be destroyed by association with Donald Trump a man who was sure to lose in a landslide to Hillary Clinton the only way to save say the cause of realism in foreign policy or economic nationalism in trade and immigration was to sever these things from any association with Trump the only way to salvage the issues that Trump was championing was to trash Trump himself so a clean respectable Republican like M Romney could take up the workingclass interest or foreign policy restraint this Council that Vance received and I the author says know exactly what it sounded like because I received it too was often sincerely intended but always seriously off base there is simply no substitute for supporting the politician who supports your cause and it's vain to hope your enemies Will Champion your enemies Will Champion your beliefs better if you just show them you're a nice Cooperative guy Vance chose not to cooperate and now he is in for the same Fury that has long been Unleashed against Trump the work of uprooting the Soviet Legacy in postc Cold War Russia was never completed the work of uprooting the Cold War Neo liberal Legacy in our country is still ongoing conservatives have fundamental questions to face that the clash with the USSR disguised for decades okay between you could say Neo conservatism and payo conservatism Vance is not only facing up to those questions he is answering them all right there you go that was a nice article that is called the courage of JD Vance by Daniel McCarthy compact mag.com July 16th and at the bottom you see that Daniel McCarthy is edited in Chief of Modern Age so if you enjoy that article you should follow him at Tory Anarchist and you should go to Modern Age and see what else he's writing and what else they're publishing you know I've told you before if you've been here before that I like to do these article readings with you because I think sometimes you'll find them interesting and you won't have read them on your own so we're giving some distribution to the authors and Publications here by the way I don't ask them okay I don't ask them permission I don't get paid to do this by them I just want to share with you articles on topics that I think are interesting but the best way to make this a virtuous circle is that if you liked it you should go check out what those Publications are doing and if you like this channel you should support the channel as well so we looked at this uh again those I like to do a quick recap always for those of you who are just checking in we did political the seven thinkers and groups that have shaped JD Vance's unusual worldview two articles that I did not read because my mistake they're behind a not not behind a pay wall I think you could read them from free but I just I didn't do it and I don't want to do it now so there's the intellectual journey of JD Vance at The Spectator there's JD Vance and the new right okay I mentioned to you in reference to one of the Articles JD Vance was a guest on Jack Murphy live a nice interview that you might want to listen to that he has these other good uh characteristics and that he's energized in my opinion as I watched his nomination and the response to it he's energized all the right people okay all the people who are reading And discussing teal Strauss Gerard weren't mentioned in these articles but also like Schmidt you know the people that I discuss and cover on this channel because it's something other than mainstream conservative republicanism it's something other than the neoconservative Republican consensus it's something that has to incorporate new sources of intellectual understanding so we have a little bit of time left and I wanted to go over this article with you as well which I have not pre-read I give you a quick word once more here that uh that the purpose of this article is unlike the other ones not to see the main intellectual influences on JD Vance okay that's what we covered now we're moving to a slightly different topic it's related because you saw that Peter teal for example is one of the influences and really what this article I think is about or why I want to read it with you is because in 2016 it was like you know The Mark of Cain to be a trump supporter you know that right people are getting fired people are getting delegitimized smeared accused of this and that insulted and you had relatively few high-profile Tech Trump supporters Peter teal was a conspicuous exception I would say and there were maybe a small handful of others but there has since been a tsunami of support for Trump in high-profile Tech circles maybe you know this maybe you don't if you don't I'm telling you and we're going to see it in the article you have people now openly coming out and saying what they wouldn't openly come out and say then seeing what they didn't see then doing what they didn't do then and this wave of support for Trump by high-profile kind of like uh right-wing anti- liberals in the tech sphere is fascinating now I should tell you this is not a pitch but I got to tell you this okay I teach online millerman school.com and I tutor privately and when I first started teaching online I didn't have an ideal customer in mind I didn't know I just knew the books I wanted to teach okay I got blacklisted from Academia for my work on a certain controversial thinker I knew I wanted to teach but I didn't have a specific target market so I just put my courses online and what I found was that a lot of people from Silicon Valley from Tech from software engineering Bitcoin readers of Peter teal these people were coming to study with me this I didn't real I didn't know that I didn't realize before I was teaching online that there's an appetite for political philosophy cuttingedge political philosophy whether we're talking about the serious study of the old sources like Plato and Aristotle or you know people wanted to discuss hi's being in time with me who were in Silicon Valley that was new I didn't that was a new thing I didn't know that now it's been several years I get it a little bit more but I think that that is related to this new group of people who are coming to support Trump it's funny because they're somehow anti- big Tech but not anti-tech so you can look I think Mark andrees and I haven't read it yet but he's got a an article on little Tech vers big Tech okay and he just put out a podcast interview with uh Andre and Horowitz on big Tech little Tech and supporting Trump they've come out in support of trump so you have PE you have this strange combination this is new guys this is not like uh George W bush Francis fukuyama end of History neoconservatism this is new you have on one hand paleoconservative influences on the other hand technological illiberal influences okay on the other hand accelerationist Promethean uh it's it's a strange wonderful beautiful fascinating conglomeration of forces now around Trump and it's new so with that in mind we look at this post by Richard hanania this is from richardh hana. you see the spelling of his name here up on screen this is a substack understanding the tech right the next decade will be shaped by Silicon Valley fully entering our politics now keep in mind if you see the publication date this is just over a month ago preent in the sense that I think there have been even more high-profile defections in Tech circles to Trump recently you look at Bill amman's posts on Twitter you'll see he's got a long list of people who have now been supporting Trump okay partially maybe because you have teal Protege JD Vance as a VP they think look this is an opportunity that we didn't have when it was Mike Pence okay so just I want to point out this is okay June 5th so there's this could be updated even now but let's see what he has to say guys this will be our last article because then I gotta get ready for Jiu-Jitsu uh I do want to say my name is Michael millerman I teach online mman school you see all the links in the description I appreciate you spending your time here I hope that you're finding this interesting all credit to the office and Publications and uh give me one second to drink my coffee and uh and water here and then we'll launch into it meantime I put your comments up on screen here okay all right very very nice to be with you here we go what's happened with free speech on the internet in the last year is quite remarkable Twitter was a platform that dominated public discourse amplifying leftwing points of view and suppressing conservatives it was the main tool relied upon by those in media Academia and activism to cancel those with views they disapprove of okay some of you may have been canceled before for something that you wrote or um liked or replied to a reposted on Twitter and then a guy just bought it as I pointed out before the sale to Elon conservatives adopting an approach of let income inequality run wild and hope a few of the rich guys are on your side is not a bad strategy in fact it's a better strategy than winning over intellectuals who I Richard Han writes see as having a tendency towards being effeminate and conformist in contrast to guys who make a lot of money maybe that's what the Paul Ryan of the world were doing the whole time timnit GBU one of those people whose whole career is to make sure AI doesn't say anything Politically Incorrect has termed has coined the term Tess creal esel which stands for transhumanism extropia ISM singularitarianism cosmism rationalism effective altruism and long-termism an academic named Emil Torres Torres is very concerned that tesel is rising as a self-conscious ideological movement then you see this post on screen Emil Tores saying the term Tes is catching on I think this is a good thing people are making it clear that they aren't actually interested in a future for quote unquote all Humanity but rather Embrace a profoundly impoverished exclusionary techno utopian Vision that directly grew out of eugenics gabu and Torres hanania continues are easy to mock but they're generally correct that there's something very interesting happening in Tech in addition to musk buying Twitter and boosting data on race and crime which guys if you're on Twitter X just see what musk posts and you'll see one can point to the long running intellectual and political activity of Peter teal okay St moment 0 to one and dreon told you he's got a piece out on little Tech and bellagi we haven't discussed them too much on this channel but you can look him up as openly right-wing pundits Brian Armstrong shutting down woke activism at his company and David Sachs and Joe londsdale joining Elon as major supporters of Dan santis okay guys here's an example of an update David saaks and Joel lale are joining Elon as major supporters of somebody of trump okay they're now all in on Trump last year you even had Bezos putting out some anti-biden tweets one can consider vivec as part of this shift too with his background in biotech there are also conservatives in the industry who usually don't discuss their views publicly but are Republican donors a category that includes Douglas Leon of seoa capital former Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and current CEO saffre cats substack itself which we're reading from here hanania Richard han.com substack substack itself was created to explicitly push back against leftist suppression of speech while it wouldn't be correct to say that most tech entrepreneurs are conservative the industry has produced a large share of right-wing thinkers and activists of a higher stature than what we're used to guys I have to give you my anecdotal evidence that this is true okay the most interesting people who come to study with me privately are right-wing thinkers in Tech yes sometimes in education yes yes sometimes in law yes sometimes in other fields but the most interesting people that I have met in the last several years coming to study haiger Schmidt Strauss Dugan and these other thinkers with me including PL and Aristotle are right-wingers in Tech it's amazing I didn't know that I didn't know that such a group existed if you want further evidence that there's a large right-wing contingent in Silicon Valley anania continues note that when I pulled my readers about their backgrounds and occupations by far the most common field was Tech okay Tech you see if you're looking at the screen Tech is number one followed by Academia government medicine banking Think Tank and law so my in my case it's not quite this way Tech is number one for sure law is higher because I teach books like Plato's laws but yeah Tech this might be surprising and it continues given that I've never worked in Tech have no connections to the industry and have written next to nothing on the topic but the chart above makes sense if you think tesel has real influence since the ideology often described by its critics is not too far off from my worldview over the years he continues I've followed successful Tech entrepreneurs who have reputations as public intellectuals while getting to know some of them personally there are clearly some things that unite this group and other than scholars in the field of test real studies I haven't seen anyone try to spell out what exactly they are since testc sounds horrible to my ears and is painful to look at let's call it the tech right okay this guy's a better get better branding right Tes gr think about it you'd have to remember everything it stands for and it doesn't sound like anything Tech right much better this moniker fits both because many of the intellectual leaders and Inspirations of this movement work in the tech industry and because its views on technology are fundamental to its worldview here I'll spell out what the tech right believes explaining where it disagrees with the left and different strands of the right while the tech right is right-wing it can't be called conservative to any meaningful ENT unless you want to define the term as whatever is opposed to Modern American liberalism finally Richard hania writes I'll share some thoughts on where the tech right goes from here while it has differences with American conservatism there's no reason the two sides can't work together for the foreseeable future the shapes of our politics and culture in the coming decades will depend on how and to what extent they do guys if you're somebody who wants to understand what's going on in politics you have to understand what Richard hany is talking about here okay the rise of the tech right is a thing it is a thing I speak here I think with some experience and if you don't mind my saying with some Authority but don't take my word for it we're going to read his article right- wiers for Progress here we go in our current politics one can simplify the World by saying that conservatives are in favor of hierarchy and against change while Liberals are against hierarchy and for change while this isn't how things always work out in practice and there are many nuances and qualifiers one could add this is is at least how each side perceives itself the tech right combines the acceptance of inequality of the right with the openness to change of the left okay I I I really want to say something here let me at least finish the paragraph uh okay let's just re let's just I want to make sure you guys get that that's a nice little that's a nice little way of putting it okay so again conservatives are in favor of hierarchy and against change you might think Liberals are against hierarchy and for change the tech right combines the acceptance of inequality of the right with the openness to change of the left okay nice nice formulation there that's useful the pro-change antiqu equality quadrant is the sweet spot for support for capitalism so of course they tend to favor free market economic policies this explains the enthusiasm in this world for Bitcoin which represents the long-standing libertarian dream of society moving away from fiat currency and guys I have to tell you again just anecdotally it's not obvious right I teach haiger nche these other political philosop in my school and yet a lot of the people who have come to me have been Bitcoin enthusiasts Bitcoin developers the first time I was ever paid in Bitcoin was people who paid for my courses and in October I may end up speaking at a Bitcoin conference okay I'm not an expert in Bitcoin but somehow there's a hunger in those circles for certain ideas the tech right believes in biology having a large role in determining individual and group outcomes okay the tech right believes in biology having a large role in determining individual and group outcomes this is simply a matter of what liberals call following the science except in this case that's actually what they're doing traits like intelligence and work ethic in fact all traits indeed have a strong genetic bias while talented individuals create new things excuse me when talented individuals create new things it inevitably disrupts old Technologies practices and ways of life history shows that the tradeoff has pretty much always been worth it if you think the enlightenment was a mistake because eventually we got transgenderism you need some perspective okay there are people you know I cover on this channel like Dugan who that's what they think right the enlightenment was a mistake because eventually we got transgenderism not hania's view here and not in his view the position of the tech right although the tech right may or may not claim Steven Pinker as an inspiration they generally share his basic philosophy that life has been getting better the tech WR looks at the graphs at our world in data Marvels at how far we've come and knows that at every step of the way everything good that we have was at some point opposed with plausible sounding appeals to equality or tradition what are the odds that naysayers are right this time some among the tech right think that AI doomers have a good argument but they usually believe most other supposed existential threats like climate change and misinformation are overblown guys if you want an example I covered mark andrion on AI dorismar of the potentials of new AI Technologies so this what he's talking about the tech right is optimistic with respect to new technologies falling birth rates is another problem the tech right takes more seriously than the mainstream and if one wanted to seriously argue against progress pointing to declining fertility is the best case one can make that being said no one wants to live like a medieval peasant and one can't force people to be religious if science and access to information has made it less plausible so it's unclear what traditionalists can actually offer people in this area guys I'm going to interrupt the article for a minute because I want to make just a quick Point okay just a very quick I just want to tell you something very quickly okay one of the authors I teach in my school I don't say this to sell the school because I want you to know the author his name is Rabbi Joseph bivic and he's got a book called The Lonely Man of Faith one of the reasons I love the book The Lonely Man of Faith one of the reasons I teach it is because a lot of anti-modern anti-liberal thinkers are also anti-tech and you want to try to understand is there an account that is not just prot Tech but Protek without that being at the expense of our Humanity with the without it being at the expense of our religiosity our our attitude towards God our you know the Deep level of the human soul somehow it seems like technological progress covers over the Deep level of the the human soul so this book The Lonely Man of Faith by Rabbi Joseph B salvic is a very nice book because it suggests that there are two roots to human nature that both are god-given and he sees this in the two accounts of the creation of man in Genesis and one legitimates our technological urges inclinations and accomplishments and the other legitimates our contemplative life the life of Faith Redemption prayer religiosity piety and inactivity in in that way so I think that is extremely important that's why I teach that book in the school okay you need to have an interpretation somewhere in your model of tech that is positive without being destructive of our Humanity okay back to the article appropriately enough the tech WR is more likely to put its faith in technology to get us out of this problem and we can already see that in Denmark 10% of births are produced by IVF the experience of Israel indicates that if technology caused lower birth rates it can also contribute to reversing the trend towards smaller families in addition to IVF and other services already available uh sorry PST back up on screen already available biotech companies are working on delaying menopause and whether or not any particular procedure or drug comes to fruition the next several decades are sure to see new consumer products that give people more and more control of when and how they have children along with what traits they have guys this is another huge topic okay I covered it on this Chan Channel there was a great article about bioengineering fukuyama human nature and Technology this is what you must be thinking about now okay so what do you do with the rise of Biotech if you're a defender of human nature as a crucial element of conservative political thought and practice okay amazing amazing topic as well but we'll just continue with the article so far highly enjoying it Richard hanania dcom understanding the tech right the lack of concern with social and economic inequality is the basis of anti-al criticism okay it's the basis of the anti-tech criticism the lack of concern with social and economic inequality okay probably like this person in the chat who said Peter th is a fascist that's probably part of it okay you can see the funny ways in which these academics think here when Tores argues that they're racist for caring about existential risks to humanity instead of racism Etc because if you prevent Extinction there will still be inequality to me there's nothing inherently right-wing the auth continues about worrying about existential risk but if your general orientation to politics and life is to be obsessed with race and gender issues and to see everything else as a distraction from them then I guess it makes sense if religious fundamentalism dominated American institutions the tech right would probably be known for its opposition to it and might have to be classified as a left-wing movement as such institutions are dominated by wokeness and so this is the Mind virus it struggles against talking to the tech right it seems many of them have had their views shaped by spending a lot of time in San Francisco and wondering why the homeless are defecating everywhere as soon as an open-minded individual starts thinking about crime and urban disorder they find that misguided compassion and anti-racism are why the country can't have nice things a belief in natural inequality causes the tech right to also oppose wokeness when it comes to affirmative action and diversity a lot of liberals work in areas like activism Academia or government where aren't good objective measures of success or failure except perhaps the ability to produce a lot of paperwork this leads to an assumption that there isn't that much of a trade-off between diversity and what we want institutions to be able to accomplish people with backgrounds in business particularly industries that produce tangible products tend to take a different perspective if the tech right sounds mostly like libertarianism that's because to a large extent it is there are a few main differences however first while Libertarians tend to oppose almost all forms of government spending the tech right will often make an exception for unsurprisingly Tech this might be in part due to self-interest see the public campaign in favor of bailing out the depositors of Silicon Valley Bank but it's also the result of enthusiasm for big projects that can move Humanity forward even Libertarians can acknowledge that the production of fundamental scientific knowledge may be called a collective action problem so many end up under produced excuse me so may end up under produced in a free market system while the left wants to spend money to to reduce inequality and the right wants to let the market work things out the tech Right is open to spending money as long as it goes toward goes toward Cutting Edge science and research moreover Richard hanania continues on his substack article understanding of tech right big libertarianism has in recent years funded and supported those in favor of softon crime policies an effort that is known as Criminal Justice Reform the tech right tends to be strongly in favor of Law and Order this disagreement might be rooted in different fundamental ideas about human nature and the causes of individual variation in life outcomes while some forms of more politically correct libertarianism might tend towards blank sadism which leads to the belief that criminals can be reformed and turned into productive members of society biological realism suggests a different path the tech right has differences with mainstream conservatism that are in many ways much more fundamental than those they have with libertarianism basically if you want to know where the tech right and the mainstream right diverge just look at Elon musk's Twitter feed and find the places where he disagrees with his biggest fans musk has come out in favor of legal immigration and euthanasia at least for adults he seems to carefully go out of his way not to take a stand on abortion on immigration and trade one can think of restrictionism as a kind of right-wing form of affirmative action conservatives realize that diversity leads to a less productive Workforce and slows down human progress but somehow also believe that preferring Americans over the other 7 and a half billion people in the world doesn't have serious costs conservatives worry about the second order effects of immigration and talk about how new arivals might Vote or cause a decline in Social trust but the tech right okay he's contrasting conservatives and the tech right the tech right doesn't believe enough in social science to grant that it can tell us much of anything about the political ramifications of population change within reasonable limits it might be bad because new arrivals support socialist policies or good because it destroys social trust and decreases support for redistribution if immigration produces difficulties down the line deal with them then Engineers tend to work on problems one at a time as they come up as that's the only feasible path forward and public policy should be the same way particularly since Society is much more complicated than any machine or computer program the tech right tends to be patriotic in ways that are different from a typical Republican this group may be called globalist in that it thinks internationally and is less inclined than most to make fundamental distinctions in moral worthiness based on whether an individual is a fellow citizen or not that being said Tech right patriotism is rooted in a vision of national greatness or America as the force in the world that best represents the legacy of the Enlightenment and the one nation still able to do great things as you saw I add here if you watched yesterday's Republic National Convention European economic cultural and technological stagnation looms large in their minds some members of the tech R have shown a bit of admiration for China on the same basis though that has cooled in recent years due to policies like the tech Crackdown and zero covid as it appears under she and is following the European path of preferring stability and safety or greatness all this is in contrast with the more parochial patriotism of mainstream conservatism which is simply attached to the country and doesn't want it to change much my experience hanania continues with the tech right is that this crowd is becoming more tribal and so individuals will really go out of their way to exaggerate their differences with the left and downplay those with the right when I try to explain to people in this world that certain conservative positions are bad they find excuses as to why certain things should be overlooked or why conservatives will never be able to accomplish their ultimate goals anyway at the same time when it comes to places where they disagree with the Liberals they always imagine them enacting the most extreme forms of their preferred policies without giving a second thought to their feasibility while having a vivid imagination when it comes to S slippery slopes uh okay hold on I just want to see here how much of this do we want to go through we want go through the whole art article let's skim a little bit okay the tech right is pretty much all male uh where did the tech right come from let's see here uh I'm going to skim a little bit okay guys because a a good article you should read it I want you to read it I've enjoyed reading it so far this is not a not a slight on the article but I just want to skim here and see if we pull out pull out a couple ideas um what's this one thing I've noticed from talking to conservatives in Academia oh yeah this I don't so you would think he's talking here about Academia now you would think that people who try to become professors are those most interested in ideas you might have thought that at some point my experience is if anything the opposite he says and hey I was blacklisted from Academia for my interest in ideas so uh relatable they're the kind of people who like the idea of thinking about themselves as people interested in ideas but actually lack genuine curiosity about the world if they did have curiosity about the world they would go participate in it where they'd have real experiences find out how it works and not spend their time bogged down in so much paperwork to the extent they want to produce intellectually important work they would want to share it with the world rather than write in impenetrable jargon directed at a select few of course there are exceptions but the majority of academics have little to nothing important to say because they're playing a status game not a Truth game one thing I've noticed tenia says from talking to conservatives in Academia is the University of bureaucracy provides endless opportunities for their enemies to persecute them the complaint processes surrounding ethics and anti-harassment are extremely easy to abuse guys if you've ever been in and around HR that made it easy for somebody to go after you you know that and one's professional life can be ruined even if if an individual has done nothing wrong leftwing academics are good with paperwork small-minded and vengeful making them very skilled at navigating these systems and bending them to their ends hey if you watch the Republican National Convention yesterday and you saw Trump's speech what did he say about Democrats he said they're very effective when it comes to paperwork but they're not fighting for the good of the country in these other important domains and Hanan is saying the same thing about uh Democrats and Academia basically or left wiers in Academia they don't need to actually ban heretical ideas but instead use the Machinery of Academia to gradually grind down those who won't conform as they did with Joshua Katz always keep in mind that academics are the people who selected into this world and they did so less AFF for less money than they could have earned something else since their reward is being part of a Priestly class of course they're going to defend established Dogma uh one can think of tech as the inverse of Academia by the way another interesting thing like I met all of these Tech right uh how could you put it I met some tech right people and I had Tech right people coming to study with me when I left Academia when I was in Academia I had no inkling of the existence of this class of thinkers actors inventors investors funders Founders so that's another thing I can see this one one can think of tech as the inverse of Academia the guy who starts something in his garage cliche doesn't get applied to many Industries Peter teal talks about how progress has stagnated in the world of atoms while moving forward in the world of bits there appear to be two reasons for this first much of the low hanging fruit has already been picked in the world of Adams while software development is a relatively new field Orville and Wilbur Wright could Tinker around for a while and discover how to fly but you and your brother probably aren't going to be making advances in aviation on your own also the world of bits being new and having potential harms that are more abstract has been subject to much less regulation than the world of atoms nuclear power is the canonical example of an industry that has been strangled by government there are endless barriers to anyone who wants to do anything that requires moving objects around rather than manipulating symbols on a screen guys I interrupt here I went to a a startup conference in Montreal last week called startup Fest and there a good presentation about this as well where the um the particular speaker was encouraging people to not that there's anything don't get this wrong if you're about to be criticized by what he said it's not not not a big deal okay but he said uh you know everybody's making apps apps apps everybody's making apps and what about deep Tech you know what about solving problems of uh industrial manufacturing what about solving problems of you know on a huge scale that are not primarily software problems so hanania here is saying look governments have made that very difficult to do there are endless barriers to anyone who wants to do anything that requires moving objects around rather than manipulating symbols on a screen so it's not just that people go on app development because they don't want to you know go into satellite technology but the way to get started in Satellite technology is you know huge amounts of money plus government regulation what are you going to do continuing with the article while the vast majority of the donations of tech employees go to Democrats that's why the recent round of billionaire Tech defections onto the Trump team is so conspicuous corporate packs and CEOs seem to be more evenly divided this makes sense from the perspective that leftism is a result of Conformity those who went out on their own and founded a new industry are more likely to question dogma than those who go to work in the field once it's well established one can think of Institutions as existing on a spectrum of bureaucratization at one end most centered around producing useless paperwork is the modern University at the other end of the spectrum is starting your own company millerman school.com where can just be you and your friends generally the more bureaucratized the institutions the more they appeal to conformists the world of bits has for decades been the place where a talented and independent minded young man with mediocre a below average social skills and connections is most likely to make his fortune okay so for you introverted artists who are smart and who don't want to push paper and don't like big group meetings open a business successful Tech entrepreneurs at first mostly stayed out of politics around 2010 they were generally associated with left as Bill Gates began to be involved in areas like climate change and education reform then came the great awokening before that point a reasonable person could ignore politics and assume that the people in charge were mentally stable and knew what they were doing yet it became clear over time that journalists and academics had lost their minds on everything having to do with race or sexuality guys I still think it's very sad what happened to University at least to those parts of it that were taken over by this strange obsession with race and gender the media turned on Tech itself as the pressure came to blindly hate everything that was successful or white CIS and mail over time we see the results of the great awokening across our cities particularly in the Bay area where the homeless population has exploded over the years and guys since Richard hania published this on June 5th Elon Musk has just he was in the Bay Area was he's out of there Gone to Texas interestingly the great awokening might have contributed to Bill Gates's marriage falling apart it appears that as a liberal but one who cared about empirical reality Gates wanted to put his money where he could do the most good this caused friction with his wife who wanted it going toward feminist causes without worrying about whether her preferred initiatives could be justified by the data covid may have been the straw that broke the camel's back having a strong grounding and empirical reality Silicon Valley was worried about the Corona virus while much of the liberal establishment was saying it was racist to be concerned over time however it became clear that lockdowns did ENT really help all that much and we developed vaccines that reduced what already had been a small risk of death for most people down to basically zero yet liberal institutions and jurisdictions particularly in California hung on to lockdowns masking requirements and security theater for way too long uh Elon ended up moving Tesla to Texas over the issue in some the story here is basically that one industry attracted a disproportionate share of smart and non-conformist Men okay maybe that's why people come to study Dugan Schmidt haiger St Nicha Aristotle Plato because they're non-conformist they realize there's the great awokening they want to get back to the Great Awakening they know they're not going to do that in mainstream Academia so they come to my little school they mostly stayed out of politics until the liberal establishment became too irrational and authoritarian to ignore and unlike most other people who have come to develop a Justified hatred of liberalism over the years they had the resources and influence to do something about it guys love it or hate it it matters if you have resources and influence you can do something remember up earlier in the article you can hate Twitter or love Twitter but you can't all go by Twitter you had to be Elon Musk to do that wither the tech right okay I think we're getting close I got to skim here because I definitely do not want to miss what I got to go to but we're going to wrap up with this section wither the tech right okay richardh hanania docomond the tech right is what we've been reading let's uh let's do this American politics over the next decades will to a large extent be shaped he writes by what the tech right does currently they seem to be following Trends on the right rather than exercising leadership again I would say that in the intervening weeks since this was published that's changing rapidly Des santis for example has ridden the wave of antie wokeness to his position as the only real Challenger to Trump you see that's outdated now he's therefore attracted both standard conservative intellectuals and members of the tech right with as already mentioned Elon saaks and laws there among his most prominent supporters okay I said earlier in the article they are now all in on Trump and many others as well but there's nothing in particular about DeSantis or his campaign that shows an ideological or attitudinal Affinity towards the tech right and by the way you could say that's not true of trump because the JD Advance connection really tipped the scales in an important way that's why we covered JD Vance in the first part of the stream the Silicon Valley crowd is simply itching its wagon to the most plausible anth wol candidate who isn't Trump at the other end of the spectrum the tech right might start running its own candidat I doubt this will work writes Richard anania the Blake Masters campaign can be seen as a failed version of that experiment there's nothing to indicate that Tech right types as individuals have the ability to appeal to a wide SWA of Voters of course there may be exceptions vivec appears to be a natural communicator and although he's unlikely to win the Republican primary he's demonstrated a good deal of political Talent okay some of you may have seen a speech at the RNC for the most part however the impact of the tech right will depend on their ability and willingness to fund and influence politicians who agree with with them not becoming elected officials themselves because again maybe the JD fans think changes that at the same time some might plausibly find their way into the federal bureaucracy bellagi was reportedly in the running to head the FDA under Trump in between just becoming another species of Republican Mega donor and running for office there's the possibility that the tech right exerts more intellectual leadership over the conservative movement okay guys in some sense this is the outcome that people like myself would particularly love because you know work with the intellectual sources so to be at the middle of the you know at the movement the money the power and the ideas is a nice place to be they certainly have the money and status to do so the tech right is in many ways anti-populist and will hopefully stand in the way of those trying to make Republicans more friendly to labor unions entitlement spending and economic regulation okay as I said this was written June 5 uh Richard hanania now that JD Vance with the teal connection is the VP and the head of the teamsters was speaking at the RNC there's a question here about what the Dynamics will be between the populists and the tech rtists in the new Republican party there's been something of a marriage of convenience between populists and the tech right he continues based on the fact that both are anti-woke but in the end decisions about how to govern have to be made according to people who pay close attention to the federal budget we're eventually going to reach a crisis point where the US will either have to raise taxes on most workers or cut entitlements right now nothing is forcing split between the populists and free marketers within the Republican Coalition in another decade or so however our political Elite will have to choose which pill to swallow and keeping the Republican party dogmatically anti-tax is the only hope we have he writes for not descending further into joncy my belief is that this is again Richard hania my belief is that whatever economic populism currently exists on the right is only skin deep something that is most aggressively championed when it can make Biden look bad while free market ideals particularly when it comes to not raising taxes still have a stronger hold on the minds of educated conservatives for the tech right with it belief in economic and technological dynamism having the country turn into a giant nursing home along the lines of Spain or Japan is a kind of nightmare scenario heading off economic populism now and not letting conservatives become too attached to protecting entitlements needs to be a top priority another place the tech right can push back is against the kind of traditionalism that seeks to run with a naturalistic fallacy and make it central to right-wing politics guys another important Point here you do have to if especially if you have ever followed this channel because of I work on people like Dugan Dugan is a traditionalist you know so you can be anti-woke anti-liberal and still at odds over the issue of tech nature science Innovation and transhumanism I recommend he says reading this Mary Harrington profile of Peter teal Harrington and teal have both spoken at the same National conservatism conferences but their views couldn't be further apart with one horrified by what she calls transhumanist and the other saying the problem with trans humanism is that it doesn't go far enough currently the strongest anti-progress forces are on the left but some seem to be rising on the right too and they he thinks Richard hania are worth opposing one thing the tech right provides to conservatism is intellectual and cultural capital some time ago I saw a kid in a space suit who told me he liked Elon Musk of course no kid is growing up wanting to be like Charles uh Co however you pronounce it as impressive as he is or a CNN Journal journalist for that matter right people want to be great inventor scientists or at least it'd be great if that is what they wanted to be and that's know kids don't want to grow up to be whatever right they're inspired by Rocket Man liberals gain to the extent to which they can give the impression that every smart and successful person in the world agrees with them guys that's becoming a hard position to maintain the tech right having both tons of money and intellectual and cultural influence is a powerful combination and leftists are right to be worried they haven't faced a challenge like this before I do think that is uh I do think that is correct guys okay the rise of the tech right is significant lawdale Cicero Institute has already worked to influence state policies on issues like homelessness and removing degree requirements which you can read about here there's a link he's got a link here richard.com so if you want to read that read it in addition to impacting our politics more generally Tech right figures should hopefully start pushing the Republican party in their preferred Direction by direct lobbying speaking publicly on important issues and supporting intellectuals and public candidates they agree with short of that simply highlighting and naming a phenomenon is a way to give it power and influence very true there's a difference between hearing about a few successful Tech entrepreneurs who are becoming politically active and understanding them as part of a movement until now the anti-cre crowd have been the main ones to provide a comprehensive story of what's happening in other words those who are against the tech right on the left they have been sort of seeing like Peter teal and his shadowy Tech cabal which I'm a part of by the way Gandalf school.com this essay provides a sympathetic perspective of the same movement okay not a anti uh not not an anti- perspective a sympathetic perspective and hopes to inspire those who have clearly seen the flaws of the leftwing establishment to appreciate the virtues of progress and seize the opportunities that are becoming available to replace them with something better very nice read guys if you want to check out the comments 126 comments to Richard hanan's very nice post from June 5th called understanding the tech right you always got to give credit where it's due I enjoyed reading this I hope you enjoyed hearing it maybe you never heard of this guy before or weren't going to read his writing before now you know richard.com we also read the courage of JD Vance over at compact mag.com I also told you about this which I haven't listened to and I thought it was an article so I pulled it up but we couldn't do it or in cast JD Vance and the new right intellectual journey of JD Vance at The Spectator and finally we open this stream with political the seven thinkers and groups that have shaped JD Vance's unusual worldview it's a very exciting moment I I think for intellectuals in the conservative movement in and around the conservative movement guys it's been a crazy crazy few days okay Biden at his lowest point Trump almost dead and then At His Highest Point reborn reinspected to what does this all mean Tech right paleoconservatives populism anti- neoconservative movement in the Republican Party party very exciting times okay if you have enjoyed this live stream thank you for your time thank you for your support like share comment make it easier for this channel to grow so I can bring you more of these great analyses guys if you're interested in what I myself teach all the links are in the description including where I teach courses on Carl schmidth and Leo St these other guys if 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