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Red Ice Radio interview with Nick Land on Dark Enlightenment/neoreaction, discussing his CCRU co-founding and Western religious heritage.
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- standalone
- Duration
- 00:56:49 (~57 min)
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- 8,724
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- Source/billing metadata (unverified)
- Nick Land, host Henrik Palmgren
- Topics
- Nick Land · Dark Enlightenment · neoreaction · Mencius Moldbug · CCRU founding
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- bc5ed6c81e0d289bfc92a0f5729d5ba268f4b0622256d97f2b6c516b7ea5d424
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- 52f6b886d06f33e13d409e7c015eaabc0f129a73e8def5a96685838bc02e9483
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00:00:00
And we are back. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for tuning in. My name is Henrik Palmengren. This is Red Ice Radio, and you can find more stuff that we do on redice.tv. We do videos, live TV shows. We do public live streams. We have this radio show. We have 314, and we're adding on new segments all the time…
00:06:15
So I think libertarianism in general... This is a kind of a much wider problem on the distant right. But it tends to have a kind of unconscious attachment to this lost cause romanticism. Where it basically has... At some very deep level of its thinking, it's like we know that this is not going to work. We know this…
00:12:50
We got lost. We've been doing this wrong. There's if you want to end up. With a civil society, civil law society is is hops term. With with kind of vastly smaller government. You can't just you can't just wish away wish away the government. You could do something with the government. And I think what mold bugs work…
00:21:06
the European diaspora as it were things our societies are being reformed radically why do you think we have this this clamp down the deep platforming the accusations and the lies from the mainstream cultural narrative the mainstream cultural narrative the mainstream cultural narrative the media as well but education…
00:29:42
religious belief, made them see that actually, you know, ideas that they in a very sort of facile and unthinking, unreflective way were just assuming to be universal, were in fact highly culturally specific. And I think plausibly this, that dynamic, that recoil of comparative ethnography and comparative religion that…
00:38:34
And we're letting in all these incompatible cultures while everyone is looking the opposite way and think that this is not happening. I mean, it's a, God, it's an immense, as you said before, mind control, not experiment. But it's an implementation of a way of life where we have to, we're forced to lie to ourselves…
00:45:18
And at the same time, then we believe is a scientific view or so-called scientific view that the mainstream is holding right now in the West. I mean, in a way, I see it as an outcrop of this Calvinist thought. In a way, it is a religious thought. I've said this many times before on the shows. The regulars have heard…
00:53:59
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