Tek Wars - Richard Spencer, Nick Land

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• 00:00:00

  Hello, everyone. This is CompBot. Welcome to a very special episode of Tech Wars. Right now, we're very lucky to have two very special guests on. We have, on the one hand, Nick Land, accelerationist master, dark enlightenment chief, coming to us from the Orient. And on the other hand, we have Richard Spencer. You…

• 00:08:16

  So America has always been a funny thing. And I think we can know what something is and we can understand. But I think what's going to happen And so when we see America now as this global platform for economic opportunity and as a neoliberal empire, not like an empire of old, but this new kind of empire, we can lament…

• 00:17:40

  They can't just simply be a garrison state. And at this point in human consciousness, we seem to need to define government in terms of freedom, democracy, liberty, equality, diversity. Just some kind of magic basically. Because those words are not the same. They're not the same. They're not the same. They're not like…

• 00:25:17

  I wanted to go back to what you said about the museum idea of Europe. And I think this is a really important point because even if you take something like Britishness, I mean, that's not a natural concept really. I mean, that's a modern concept that comes, you know, post glorious revolution, post 1688, post…

• 00:32:51

  But he was saying that, you know, each of these Europeans comes from somewhere, but they're becoming more universalized, you can say, in terms of habits and dress and thought and language and religion as well as as the, you know, the the wars of religion. Intramural Christian wars are fading into memory. People can't…

• 00:43:00

  And even, you know, in addition to that, I think it's like there's a great impoverishment in doing that in terms of the amount of experimental potential that there is in all these different ethnic tribes and ethnic groups. And I think that's a really interesting thing to see, you know, the trends within, you know…

• 00:51:16

  Well, they don't really want to go that. I mean, I think the British people obviously voted to, you know, out of, they didn't want refugees and immigration. And so they voted against the EU. In terms of what the EU wants. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I think if you look at what…

• 00:59:08

  Yeah. Thank you so much. This is great. Yeah. And thanks for hosting it. It's been great. Yes. Yeah. Thanks both. I will go read your disintegration essay today. So this is going to be fun. OK. Till next time. Thanks so much, guys. Have a great day. Till next time. See you guys.