Poisoned Oracle Kant Nietzsche Nick Land

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• 00:00:00

  My friend Willem de Witte is a philosopher who works at a think tank, supported by one of those old European billionaire families. The kind that supports theology, ecology and moral renewal. He recently had an orgasm when Kate, my girlfriend, spoke admiringly about Elon Musk. Willem felt that Kate betrayed…

• 00:03:21

  And I think he's over-focused on what he sees as woke, liberal... ...leftist, like woke has gone too far, all those kind of, let's say, liberal... ...hypocrisies. And that has blinded him to a large extent for very dangerous reactionary tendencies... ...on, let's say, the non-left side of the spectrum. Be more…

• 00:06:41

  ...that seem capable also of looking at the context... ...and reflect. But something that sparks... ...like an intellectual curiosity for how should one occupy the future... Right. ...that is like the nature of this discourse I think. And that's... ...to me that's invigorating. That is there. Yeah. And to me Elon…

• 00:09:37

  ...but he very much in this kind of French post-structuralist tradition... ...tries to show how it's kind of bourgeois, economic... ...liberal propaganda... ...so the whole of instrumental reason in the Enlightenment project... ...is basically a kind of front for extractivist... ...domineering, you know, whatever…

• 00:12:49

  Something that's only really there for us, right? And he ties this into this capitalist logic of... ...you know, just material gain. There is no intention in the world. Everything is a kind of machine. Everything is kind of... Nick Land does. Yeah, Nick Land makes this connection. Yeah, so Nick Land is doing a Marxist…

• 00:15:59

  ...I think the camera is a deeply... ...Nietzschean tool in the sense... ...that it allows you to see... ...the recurrence and the... ...affirmative... ...of patterns in your own behavior... ...and the behavior of others. And I think that's also why you see... ...a small Nietzschean revival... ...on the internet. I…

• 00:19:10

  ...your moral judgment. Right, yeah. And it has... ...become bigger than... ...the moral perspective of just one person. Paul Finesse, the art dealer, was always saying... ...was like very cheerful when he would say... ...look, you need to... ...if you collect art, you should always collect drawings. You know why? In…

• 00:21:59

  ...and see what's in the other... ...what's in the nether... ...the reality. Yeah. When they're dead or something. Like, what then? Yeah. When I'm not here... Yeah. ...I want to see it. I want to be relieved of me. Exactly, yes. Yeah. Yeah.