Nick Land on Amazons Reign of Terror

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• 00:00:00

  whether anyone who understands what's happened to you guys with this is not mystified by it like of course you can just think look i can't think about that because it's too gone it's too weird if i really thought about it it would just blow my picture of the world totally to pieces and i i think that this story…

• 00:22:17

  I'm attributing all of this to mold. This is Moldbug's cathedral. Right. And it's one of the actual concepts in his whole arc. And his whole arc, I think, is there's serious intellectual greatness involved in that Unqualified Reservations arc. To a degree, I don't even think Yarvin himself gets. In terms of what he's…

• 00:39:24

  All the superstructure is going to do what capitalism and bourgeoisie want it to do. So just to pause on it for one second, very, very quickly on the other side, Moldberg. So we've seen that what happens is that Austrian economics peels off and insists on doing capitalist economics. Not it has its own criticism…

• 01:03:53

  fanatical level of woke activism imaginable people are just sort of stunned and confused about it like it shouldn't it shouldn't be like that now um um so yes i think that if the more people hear about this episode the more they will be mystified about it um and it's very unlikely i mean i would have obviously expect…

• 01:20:24

  And Protestantism and capitalism are almost the same thing. They are aspects of the same thing. So then we get up to our PMC. Well, what are we saying about the PMC in terms of religious history? Because Moldbach, and there's a lot to say about this, because he's participating in a discussion about religious history…

• 01:36:57

  And so. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. weird. And then also, and not just weird, but also fruitful for inquiry. Like this is, this is worth thinking deeper about. This is worth, you know, taking your tools of theory and, you know…

• 01:53:05

  Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. and the most interested one besides the Epoch Times was the Washington Post. And the Washington Post said, yeah, submit something that's like 700 words…

• 02:07:37

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