The Uncommoners

"L'enfer, c'est les autres" ("Hell is—other people")- Jean-Paul Sartre, No ExitWe realize this quote is taken out of context and we're using it differently than it was used in Jean-Paul's No Exit - but we mean it exactly as we're using it in its standalone context.In this episode we expand on the prior episode's idea of unserious people, broadening the concept from a failure to institute change to the actual mechanism that creates the trash heap that is modern society. Far from simply causing a failure to "drain the swamp" - the unserious people (your friends, family, and neighbors) are the swamp. This leech classes comprises the vast majority of society and works tirelessly to maintain the status quo of inefficiency, rampant stupidity, corruption, and anti-meritocratic structure. In these days of widespread, totally contrived "noticing", this reality is the one thing you're never supposed to notice. It's so important you not notice this phenomenon, that the elites have begun a campaign of attempting to get you to direct your anger at them rather than the real problem: the people around you.

As promised in last episode's show notes, we move forward directly off our prior discussion to finally, two years into the podcast, stop just calling common people idiots and actually go in depth on both why they're idiots and through what specific mechanisms this idiocy results in commoners being the basis of society's problems (including the problems they themselves love to lament).“The worst conspiracies are in plain sight”- Edward SnowdenMentioned in the episode:The Real Reason For the 40 Hour Work Week:https://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-reason-for-the-40-hour-workweek-2014-6Which Lives Actually Matter? (my blog post on the emergence of BLM):https://thewhiteboardpig.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/which-lives-actually-matter/

Currently trending distractions continue to offer us perfect opportunities to explore tying together many previously discussed concepts and examining how they play out via these circus acts - in today's case, the "Epstein files". Sick of hearing about Epstein? We are too, but the situation (more importantly, people's reactions to it) is too perfectly illustrative of our worldview to ignore.We continue to refine our idea of what Jeff was and was not, but more importantly, we take a look at people's reactions to help understand what the point of these voluntarily self-indicting releases are. This discussion goes full circle to tie back to previously discussed topics like Eddy Bernays, incapacitatingly stupid solutions, boogeyman, and the common person as the real problem with the modern society.We're planning to follow this episode up with a continued, more detailed discussion of how underlying personal weakness drives people to engage with these topics in the way that they do.

“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”- Anton Chigurh, No Country For Old MenIn this rather lengthy episode we start with a bit of "told you so", hitting on our predictions regarding the reveal of Julie Andrews and the unwinding of the existing social control structure. We examine these things in the light of current events and reactions to current events. As it turns out, what really upsets people has very little to do with the actual happens in the world, but a lot to do with the dissolving of their comfortable delusions. With the world at an inflection point, it's time for people to decide whether the delusions are worth clinging to, particularly after the realization that it's exactly those delusions that landed us where we are.“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”- Frank Zappa

With the world continuing forward in a perfectly predictable fashion - so predictable that it's becoming tiresome and repetitive to keep addressing it - we launch what we'll consider "Season 3" with a return to our philosophical roots. In this episode we bring back one of our best lines of discussion: how to live life and create a meaningful existence for yourself without the need to bury your head in the sand and ignore everything else we've talked about on the podcast to do so. We explore the idea of living an authentic, aesthetically pleasing life."It will be the strong and domineering natures that enjoy their finest gaiety in such constraint and perfection under a law of their own; the passion of their tremendous will relaxes in the face of all stylized nature, of all conquered and serving nature. Even when they have to build palaces and design gardens they demur at giving nature freedom."- The Gay Science

“I keep having the same experience and keep resisting it every time. I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lacks an intellectual conscience. Indeed, it has often seemed to me as if anyone calling for an intellectual conscience were as lonely in the most densely populated cities as if he were in a desert. Everybody looks at you with strange eyes and goes right on handling his scales, calling this good and that evil. Nobody even blushes when you intimate that their weights are underweight; nor do people feel outraged; they merely laugh at your doubts. I mean: the great majority of people does not consider it contemptible to believe this or that and to live accordingly, without first having given themselves an account of the final and most certain reasons pro and con, and without even troubling themselves about such reasons afterward: the most gifted men and the noblest women still belong to this "great majority." But what is goodheartedness, refinement, or genius to me, when the person who has these virtues tolerates slack feelings in his faith and judgments and when he does not account the desire for certainty as his inmost craving and deepest distress—as that which separates the higher human beings from the lower.Among some pious people I found a hatred of reason and was well disposed to them for that; for this at least betrayed their bad intellectual conscience. But to stand in the midst of this rerum concordia discors and of this whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity of existence without questioning, without trembling with the craving and the rapture of such questioning, without at least hating the person who questions, perhaps even finding him faintly amusing—that is what I feel to be contemptible, and this is the feeling for which I look first in everybody. Some folly keeps persuading me that every human being has this feeling, simply because he is human. This is my type of injustice.”― Friedrich Nietzsche

As promised, we follow up our prior episode on the forced retreat into the mental cave by explaining how the new social control scheme of no narrative at all is rapidly taking the place of the narrative/counter-narrative dichotomy that has been in place for nearly a century. Incapacitatingly stupid solutions are being supplanted by incapacitatingly stupid "noticing". All the wild opinions, conspiracies, and everything previously kept carefully outside the Overton Window - are now not just being allowed back in, but are being blasted at society like a bukkake fire hose - rendering people completely unable to function or organize due to total lack of agreement on the facts of reality itself.If "God is dead" defined the 20th century, "consensus reality is dead" will define the 21st century.As a bonus, you can hear out of touch with the kids Gen X'er Joel mix up Roblox and Discord.

This episode is an old (6/12/25), unpublished recording brought back from the dead, due to its high applicability to the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination. This was originally intended to be episode 33, but is now released as episode 35.In this episode we talk about information overload and mental focus limiting, using the video game based concept of "view distance". We cover both how these things occur naturally - and, of course, how they're used as part of the social control scheme. These ideas are more relevant than ever in the context of current events.We plan to do a follow up on this episode, directly tying these concepts to what we're seeing in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination.“That a belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a creature, has nothing to do with truth, one can see, for example, in the fact that we have to believe in time, space, and motion, but without feeling constrained to grant them absolute reality.”― Friedrich Nietzsche

Far be it from us to bring back a topic everyone else has predictably forgot about after saying they never would... but here we are, because here is where we must be. In this episode that's been far too long in the making, we use good old Jeff Epstein as an example to talk about people who understand morality as an illusory construct and those whose don't - and why it results in those who don't failing to correctly comprehend and contextualize the behavior of those who do. Equally importantly, we also cover the facts and fictions around the historically recurring popular belief that the world is run by "evil people".In this talk, we make a lot of ties back to prior discussions on morality and prior oft used analogies like the Snowpiercer train (with no additional recap or explanation), so it's important to be caught up on the rest of the podcast before jumping into this episode.“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. 'Good' is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a 'common good'! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

We finally conclude our "accepting the world as it is" multi episode discussion by addressing a question from a listener wondering what the purpose and benefit of this outlook actually is. From toasting Teslas to war in Gaza, we examine how people avoid working on themselves by latching onto large scale causes and boogeymen - permanently delaying fixing their own lives until the rest of the world operates the way they think it should. Focusing on changing the world first is merely a feel-good guise for a deep desire to avoid the one thing that actually might change the world: self-improvement.

We're back after a long travel hiatus to keep talking on the recent theme of accepting the world as it is - this time focused on Ted Kaczynski's ideas around self-propagating systems and the inevitable race to doomsday created by unrestrained technological advancement. We begin with a rather lengthy discussion of the nothing burger of the first Epstein release and what the purpose might actually have been - and conclude with an uncomfortable truth about the reality of the Epstein blackmail operation.Episode notes:Price inflation by good type:https://www.visualcapitalist.com/inflation-chart-tracks-price-changes-us-goods-services/Uncle Ted's paper on self-propagating systems:https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-why-the-technological-system-will-destroy-itself

Foreign aid, Israel, California wildfires, the homeless industrial complex - in this fourth episode in a series of what is essentially a continuing conversation, we take the abstractly presented idea of "the world as it actually is" from last episode and examine some real world situations through this lens. Failure to understand how and why the world operates the way it does results in uselessly stupidly "solutions" to perceived "problems" - a fact that is put to use by the population control machine. We also tie the talk into previously presented ideas like POSIWID and incompetence as a vail for malice. Joel spends a solid five minutes doing elementary school math calculations as well.

Finally getting back to our philosophy roots - the third episode in this recent series of crash-landed conversations picks right up where we left off, using Snowpiercer as framing to discuss the philosophical implications of the current events we talked about in the prior two episodes. Learning to accept the world as it is means two things can be true at once: our current group of elites are garbage, but also, what's actually necessary to keep society functioning isn't pretty, fair, or easy.

Failing to get back to recording fast enough to continue with part two of the prior episode, we once again feel the need to address a host of current events including the "terror" attacks, MAGA's H1B in-fighting, and Lugi again. Conveniently, these events are all relevant to the continuing conversation; so we use our analysis of them to bring us full circle back to the conclusions of prior episode - now yet again ready to move forward on the discussion of Snow Piercer and the issues with populism as a "solution" to the issues we've spent the entire podcast discussing.

We're finally back to talk Luigi Mangione and the reactions to the UHC CEO murder as a major signal of a captured shift in the national zeitgeist. This episode is intended to tee up foundational ideas for next episode, namely: the importance of maintaining a minimum functional trust level in society, systematized bad behavior as protection from idiosyncratic bad behavior, and the intended (or claimed) purpose of institutions versus what they're currently, actually delivering.

After too much enjoyment of the circus of cabinet appointments in the last episode, we address a listener comment (quoted below) from the same episode that we felt was a good opportunity to clarify our position on Trump. As mentioned in this episode, anyone interested in coming on the show and discussing some of these topics without the 500 character comment limit - feel free to DM me on Reddit u/awdstylez Comment from Xan on the prior episode: "Beyond the obvious bad faith talking points, is there anything you would find objectionable about Trump? The narcissistic rage, his explicit desire to use the government for revenge against his "enemies", and his plan to deport millions, and Project 2025? Is your support of Trump just vibes deep down or is there some motive behind it?"

Trump has been lambasted as "literally Hitler" for the past eight years, almost entirely for imaginary reasons. Now that MAGA is adopting almost word-for-word Third Reich policies - no one seems to be capable of making the connection. In this mostly political and more casual than normal episode, talk centers around Trump's cabinet appointments, which continue to further confirm our predictions for what the future holds. We tie these current events back to POSIWID, the Victoria/Victor/Julie Andrews construct, and go into more detail on our "Lisa" addition to that framework. Episode Corrections: Tyler incorrectly references "Revolt of the Public" as "Revolt of the People" Episode Notes "Always has been" astronaut meme https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/255177692/astronaut-meme-always-has-been-template Complete lack of relevant food/drug experience of the current HHS secretary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Becerra Hawk Tuah baseline test https://youtu.be/gEtdfRO_YqA?si=MjSXRQu2c-dfVyJJ

More than just patting ourselves on the back for the accurate election prediction, we address how we were able to make this prediction over a year and a half ago, what the actual purpose of voting is, the importance of understanding counter-narrative control, Biden as an intentional fall guy, Harris as an intentional loser, and why the Trump win needed to be now and not in 2020.

Peanut the squirrel, election day predictions and analysis, Harambe (again), the importance of memes, comments on the Trump and Vance appearances on Rogan, our new logo Fritz Durden, and most importantly we introduce our theory of the ideologically split elites - we've got it all in this uncharacteristically off-the-cuff casual chat about what most people seem to think is the first day of the end of the world. This episode also officially kicks off season two... whatever difference that makes. Leave some comments! We want to hear your predictions as well.

We didn't want to make Joel a liar, so we finally hit on feminism as he promised half a season ago - using it as a construct to explore a larger and far more important conversation about the lack of willingness to explore origins of modern social, political, and philosophical issues. As a bonus we work in some Harambe (may he RIP) and CERN hell portal talk. If you go back in time, could you actually selectively prevent Harambe's needless death? Bioshock Infinite ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LihmgIriyM&t=487s

Following directly from our somewhat abruptly ended "vibes only" conversation in the prior episode, we explore how this construct manifests out in the world and leads to logic defying behaviors across widely varied groups of people. Why do threepers open carry at a suburban Starbucks, but don't care about their astronomical BMI? Why do college hipster girls feel safe jogging half naked through migrant camps, but feel threatened by smiles from random men? This episode has some answers.

"The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental." - John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur The truth does not set you free, and it sets you free even less if your idea of "free" is the "kid on Saturday morning" feeling we've talked about in the past. So what beats complicated, difficult, nuanced truth for most people? Feelings. In this episode we talk wine moms, Kamala's intentionally shrinking base, everything as a conspiracy, and hit on the oft repeated idea of narrative/counter-narrative from the angle of "vibes only" capture.

Picking up right where we left off in the prior episode, we're ready to talk Sean "baby oil" Combs and how blackmail operators function as high level gate keepers to power and influence. As always, we tie these events back to prior discussions and use them to continue to build out our world-view. We also ask the questions that go beyond the contrived, normie positions on these topics: Why is all this being intentionally, publicly exposed now? Why aren't these operations needed anymore? We have some answers. Episode notes The Nietzsche quote I couldn't find on-air: "Believers and their need to believe.- How much one needs a faith in order to flourish, how much that is 'firm' and that one does not wish to be shaken because one clings to it, that is a measure of the degree of one's strength (or to put the point more clearly, of one's weakness). Christianity it seems to me, is still needed by most people in old Europe even today; therefore it still finds believers. For this is how man is: An article of faith could be refuted before him a thousand times - if he needed it, he would consider it true, again and again, in accordance with that famous 'proof of strength' of which the Bible speaks." - The Gay Science Fatherland novel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatherland_(novel) Doocy at the press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlVA3tjJGVU Karine trying to change documented reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Be3muY9-E

"'Equality to the equal, inequality to the unequal' — that would be the true slogan of justice; and its corollary: 'Never make equal what is unequal!'” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols In this long overdue episode which we started recording two weeks prior, we hit on some no-longer current events like the second assassination attempt and the Trump/Harris debate, ultimately tying Haitians possibly eating cats to the heart of this episode's discussion: why is recognition of equality as a lie the new sin against the Holy Spirit and why is selecting for intelligence in nearly any area of life and society completely taboo? Apologizes in advance for Joel's wacked out audio sound that for some reason varied greatly between the first and seconding recording sessions of this episode. Harvard admissions scandal: https://blog.prepscholar.com/harvard-asian-admissions-lawsuit-application-strategy

Our failure to get it together and put out an episode over the past couple weeks has led to a build up of no longer current "current" events that we felt the need to address, including Eric Weinstein's recent appearance on Modern Wisdom. This week we put a bookmark in our as yet unfinished talk on finding fulfillment in struggle, and have a brief interlude to discuss the RFK endorsement of Trump, Zuckerberg's peace offering, and how these things relate to the socio-political flip we've been hitting on for half this season. We explore these ideas in the context of Weinstein's excellent analogy based on the Julie Andrews movie Victor/Victoria. We also switch out the witty banter intro for grandpa Joel career advice. Weinstein's appearance on Modern Wisdom isn't necessarily prerequisite listening, as we give overviews of his ideas before discussing them, but you'll probably get more out of this episode if you listen to that podcast in full first. Modern Wisdom episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fiYVy9DjquxdUozhsW19I?si=7ba25e172a7348f8

"It never gets easier, you just go faster." - Greg LeMond We continue our tying together of all of season one in this extension of the prior episode's conversation, further elaborating on the idea of embracing and finding fulfillment in the struggle, because there is actually no achievable, lasting state of "win". Statis itself is a myth and illusion. Conservatism is self-defeating. Jane Fonda is a traitor b*tch. Candide is the funniest book written in the 1700s. And Joel is recording in a haunted house with constantly creaking doors in the background.

"Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars—and the short peace more than the long. You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory! ... War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery hath hitherto saved the victims. 'What is good?' ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: 'To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.' ... Ye shall only have enemies to be hated, but not enemies to be despised. Ye must be proud of your enemies; then, the successes of your enemies are also your successes. Resistance—that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying! To the good warrior soundeth 'thou shalt' pleasanter than 'I will.' And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you. Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life! Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me—and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed. So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared! I spare you not, I love you from my very heart, my brethren in war!" - Thus Spoke Zarathustra As we approach the end of season one, we bring the several episode long political discussion back to our philosophical roots. We address the pointlessness of attempting to rectify human nature based issues with superficial non-solutions, dismiss a nihilistic "black pill" take on the coming dystopia, hit the idea of "freedom from" vs "freedom for" in the context of the current societal situation, and begin the discussion (which we'll do a dedicated episode on next) of the difference between checking out of the herd to truly work on yourself vs simply retreating from adversity. Episode notes: The "tank meme" - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hey-friend-listen-its-gonna-get-way-worse

A few years ago, Eric Weinstein said that in the absence of real growth, everything turns pathological. In this episode we unpack that statement and posit the cause as the fact that the entirety of the Bernays social control structure is based on economic growth and fails to function without it. We bring several prior episodes full circle in this discussion, so we'd recommend having finished the entire podcast up until this point before listening to this episode. Episode Notes: Fed article on CBDC https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency.htm Programmable CBDC https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/governments-program-cbdc-restrict-undesirable-purchases-wef-summer-davos-china/ Trucker protest bank accounting freezing https://www.newsweek.com/banks-have-begun-freezing-accounts-linked-trucker-protest-1680649

Following directly on last episode's discussion and skipping right over Joel's promise to tie it to feminism, we talk the significance of manufactured "lone wolf" gunman, Allen Dulles's basement version of Langley, why the intelligence community is counter intuitively anti-nationalist, how Trump/Vance will equally counter intuitively advance a globalist agenda by preserving institutional power without the use of "Banes" (see The Bane of the Banker episode), and something almost no one else actually seems to hit on - what is the purpose of globalism? Episode Notes/Additional Information: Whitney Webb elaborating on the details of these exact talking points for 2.5hrs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMYdu-vTuPI My blog post on MKUltra and one of the most important things to come from it (the KUBARK manual) as it relates to government actions during COVID: https://thewhiteboardpig.wordpress.com/2020/07/21/fingerprinting-the-not-so-invisible-hand/ The original KUBARK manual text, mostly unredacted: https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/terrorism/kubarkinterrogationmanual.pdf Tom O'Neill on Joe Rogan talking about MKUltra and the Manson killings: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4OXGSwuHYf0gHtJxGWIbLL The Nietzsche Podcast's episode on Michael Parenti's analysis of Cesar as a genuine populist: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1aIFCydDdvvl8FEsdk30Yz Book recommendations: The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein MKUltra as used on a society-wide scale, globally The Devil's Chessboard, by David Talbot History of the CIA and the ghost of Allen Dulles as the actual US government Suprise, Kill, Vanish, by Annie Jacodsen CIA's actions all over the world for the past 70+ years that never make the news or make the news presented as something else Chaos, by Tom O'Neill Same Tom O'Neill as on the Rogan podcast linked above, talking in more detail about the same stuff

The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does. As the world continues with the contrived argument over the competence level of US government security forces, we use this golden opportunity to talk about incompetence as the veil of malice and the myth of widespread incompetence above the individual level. The control systems work as intended, you've simply been carefully mislead as to what the actual intention is. Joel also remembers his days as a hobo and "in risotto we trust" becomes our first slogan for merch store goods.

The writers at Ubisoft have really outdone themselves this time. In this episode we marvel at the writing talent involved in the new MAGA-based Assassin's Creed sequel, while also showing equal awe over the poor skill of the player and hostile NPCs alike. We also discuss our nuanced false flag (or not) event ranking list, information bukkake, how this furthers the socio-political flip, and why writing the assassination attempt off as purely staged or purely due to incompetence are both equally foolish. PLEASE NOTE - for Spotify listeners... Spotify now allows comments on episodes and we'd love to hear your takes on this event and your takes on our take.

Joel has scotch in hand, Tyler has some seltzer, and we're ready to unpack the meaningless buzz word that "freedom" has become. What is actual freedom? What does the word mean in the context most people use it? Why are most people incapable of ever achieving real freedom and do they even want it? You'll get some answers in this episode after a somewhat meandering, but relevant start discussing recent SCOTUS rulings. “If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”― Malcolm X "My Concept of Freedom — Sometimes the value of a thing does not lie in that which it helps us to achieve, but in the amount we have to pay for it,—what it costs us. For instance, liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal, the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions! One knows, of course, what they bring about: they undermine the Will to Power, they are the levelling of mountain and valley exalted to a morality, they make people small, cowardly and pleasure-loving,—by means of them the gregarious animal invariably triumphs. Liberalism, or, in plain English, the transformation of mankind into cattle. The same institutions, so long as they are fought for, produce quite other results; then indeed they promote the cause of freedom quite powerfully. Regarded more closely, it is war which produces these results, war in favour of liberal institutions, which, as war, allows the illiberal instincts to subsist. For war trains men to be free. What in sooth is freedom? Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself. To be ready to sacrifice men for one's cause, one's self-included. Freedom denotes that the virile instincts which rejoice in war and in victory, prevail over other instincts; for instance, over the instincts of "happiness." The man who has won his freedom, and how much more so, therefore, the spirit that has won its freedom, tramples ruthlessly upon that contemptible kind of comfort which tea-grocers, Christians, cows, women, Englishmen and other democrats worship in their dreams. The free man is a warrior.—How is freedom measured in individuals as well as in nations? According to the resistance which has to be overcome, according to the pains which it costs to remain uppermost. The highest type of free man would have to be sought where the greatest resistance has continually to be overcome: five paces away from tyranny, on the very threshold of the danger of thraldom. This is psychologically true if, by the word "Tyrants" we mean inexorable and terrible instincts which challenge the maximum amount of authority and discipline to oppose them—the finest example of this is Julius Cæsar; it is also true politically: just examine the course of history. The nations which were worth anything, which got to be worth anything, never attained to that condition under liberal institutions: great danger made out of them something which deserves reverence, that danger which alone can make us aware of our resources, our virtues, our means of defence, our weapons, our genius,—which compels us to be strong First principle: a man must need to be strong, otherwise he will never attain it.—Those great forcing-houses of the strong, of the strongest kind of men that have ever existed on earth, the aristocratic communities like those of Rome and Venice, understood freedom precisely as I understand the word: as something that one has and that one has not, as something that one will have and that one seizes by force." - Twilight of the Idols Episode notes: Loper Bright Enterprises SCOTUS decision PDF download: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf Arbeit macht frei https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei

We decide to open our own SportsCenter to Monday morning QB the Team Red vs Team Blue debate, in the context of what we just talked about in the last several episodes, with an analysis that almost no one else is giving. Why exactly did the DNC decide to publicly deflate Biden like one of Tom Brady's balls? We have some answers. Episode notes Political retribution part of the debate (some of it), for the people smart enough to not bother watching it already: https://youtu.be/DDNf3_XyCLc?si=_1OvCYDproyGBjHV

Continuing our discussion of power dynamics, we mock people delusionally celebrating the Assange plea deal as a win and clarify what we mean by "power" in different contexts, via the excellent example of Bane and the banker in The Dark Knight Rises. We make some further inroads on tying socio-political flips to these power dynamics - as well as painting a grim picture of your AI administrated future. Joel also spends at least five minutes trying to find an Instagram post that couldn't possibly be more than ten messages back in his DMs and we conclude by more directly insulting casual listeners. Episode notes Bane and banker scene from Dark Knight Rises: https://youtu.be/8IfTwS7dGz0?si=3FZ_mDpnQSr2MaOc Smedley Butler additional reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler See episode 6.1 (The Ignoble Savage) show notes if you missed the DA pulled over for speeding video, and while you're at it just listen to that and EP6 if you haven't, because this surely won't make sense without them.

"But Rousseau — to what did he really want to return? Rousseau, this first modern man, idealist and rabble in one person — one who needed moral 'dignity' to be able to stand his own sight, sick with unbridled vanity and unbridled self-contempt. This miscarriage, couched on the threshold of modern times, also wanted a 'return to nature'; to ask this once more, to what did Rousseau want to return? I still hate Rousseau in the French Revolution: it is the world-historical expression of this duality of idealist and rabble. The bloody farce which became an aspect of the Revolution, its 'immorality,' is of little concern to me: what I hate is its Rousseauan morality — the so-called 'truths' of the Revolution through which it still works and attracts everything shallow and mediocre. The doctrine of equality! There is no more poisonous poison anywhere: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, whereas it really is the termination of justice. 'Equal to the equal, unequal to the unequal' — that would be the true slogan of justice; and also its corollary: 'Never make equal what is unequal.'" - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols This episode is essentially a supplement to Chestnuts vs Golden Toilets (episode 6), in which we further elaborate on some of the ideas developed there, provide additional examples, make some jokes at Rousseau's expense, and hit some points harder that we didn't think we hit hard enough on the first go-around. Joel also does a better job pretending to give everyone a more sincere thanks for listening. Tyler has a long brain fart and repeatedly says "reprise" instead of "requite". Link to mentioned video of New York DA pulled over for speeding - this is really a must watch: https://youtu.be/AU3DXwixCpA?si=EBWUze0GeUFWtEvt

Picking up roughly where we left off in EP5, we talk power dynamics and the way the world actually works, utilizing the incredibly rich example of the Israel/Palestine conflict and related protests. We also manage to tie in the Trump trial, and do a bit of pontificating on the nature of the Trump phenomenon as it relates to power dynamics - as well as make some bold predictions about where the US is headed politically and socially. We also contrast reviving extinct chestnut trees with collecting crappers made of gold - which is obviously the highlight of the episode. This episode will have a soon following supplemental episode we're calling 6.1 that'll further elaborate on some ideas and provide additional discussion/examples on some of the topics in this episode we didn't originally have time to hit. "The idea of “natural” or God-given rights is an extension of the universal morality myth. It’s an attempt to codify the way you wished reality worked, against the way it actually does. Knowing that “god gave” you “rights” amounts to absolutely nothing in the real world. Gravity is natural because it’s everywhere and inescapable. Rights are the very antithesis of natural because they exist no where and must be artificially created by humans." - Me, in my show notes

"Morality, insofar as it condemns for its own sake, and not out of regard for the concerns, considerations, and contrivances of life, is a specific error with which one ought to have no pity — an idiosyncrasy of degenerates which has caused immeasurable harm. We others, we immoralists, have, conversely, made room in our hearts for every kind of understanding, comprehending, and approving. We do not easily negate; we make it a point of honor to be affirmers. More and more, our eyes have opened to that economy which needs and knows how to utilize everything that the holy witlessness of the priest, the diseased reason in the priest, rejects — that economy in the law of life which finds an advantage even in the disgusting species of the prigs, the priests, the virtuous. What advantage? But we ourselves, we immoralists, are the answer." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols We bite off a bit much to chew in a single episode and attempt to at least make contact with most of Nietzsche's ideas of the myth of universal, objective morality and how they relate to Somalian pirates on the streets of NYC - most importantly taking them full circle to the previously discussed methods of social control and adding some of our own spin. This episode lays the foundation for our future discussion of power dynamics, which is the heart of the worldview we're presenting. Episodes 3 and 4 are highly recommended listening prior to this one. Episode notes: "Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Gorillas and throwing: https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0626/Why-gorillas-can-t-throw-fastballs More on the evolution of throwing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1571064/ NYC's random violence problem: https://www.salon.com/2024/04/08/men-punching-random-women-in-nyc-a-desperate-last-gasp-of-the-male-rage-fueling-maga/ Additional reading: The Nietzsche Podcast's series on the book Beyond Good and Evil: https://open.spotify.com/show/1OdzTf6CbBqPU0IGxYCL7T?si=acb3feb5e7c647e4 Recommended additional reading (we're going to stop linking Amazon pages because you all know how to search Amazon): Genealogy of Morality - the precursor to Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche's detailed take on the origins and evolution of morality that go way beyond apes throwing rocks. Beyond Good and Evil - the fully evolved and refined version of Genealogy that most importantly discusses post-morality humanity and how to move... beyond good and evil. The Antichrist - a specific critique of Christian values and the damage they've done and are still doing to Western society.

Building on the control structure discussion from Episode 3, we continue fleshing out our worldview with discussions on artificial boogeymen, counter-narrative control, how people that do finally wake up to the matrix have their focus redirected back into it, who actually is "the system", and what impact Jacob Rothchild's dead body has on your daily life. Tyler has no cough drop noises this time - your ears should be happy. Episode Notes: Around 26:45 Tyler mentions "there's a few things there", but then only one actual point is overtly enumerated. The other point (that boogeymen drive inaction) is actually made many minutes later, but not specifically enumerated or tied back. DEI benefits study debunked: https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/03/new-study-shows-mckinseys-studies-promoting-dei-profitability-were-garbage/

"Three metamorphoses of the spirit do I designate to you: how the spirit becometh a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child. Many heavy things are there for the spirit, the strong load-bearing spirit in which reverence dwelleth: for the heavy and the heaviest longeth its strength. What is heavy? So asketh the load-bearing spirit; then kneeleth it down like the camel, and wanteth to be well laden. ... But in the loneliest wilderness happeneth the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becometh a lion; freedom will it capture, and lordship in its own wilderness. Its last Lord it here seeketh: hostile will it be to him, and to its last God; for victory will it struggle with the great dragon. What is the great dragon which the spirit is no longer inclined to call Lord and God? "Thou-shalt," is the great dragon called. But the spirit of the lion saith, "I will." ... My brethren, wherefore is there need of the lion in the spirit? Why sufficeth not the beast of burden, which renounceth and is reverent? To create new values- that, even the lion cannot yet accomplish: but to create itself freedom for new creating- that can the might of the lion do. To create itself freedom, and give a holy Nay even unto duty: for that, my brethren, there is need of the lion. To assume the ride to new values- that is the most formidable assumption for a load-bearing and reverent spirit. Verily, unto such a spirit it is preying, and the work of a beast of prey. As its holiest, it once loved "Thou-shalt": now is it forced to find illusion and arbitrariness even in the holiest things, that it may capture freedom from its love: the lion is needed for this capture. But tell me, my brethren, what the child can do, which even the lion could not do? Why hath the preying lion still to become a child? Innocence is the child, and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy Yea. Aye, for the game of creating, my brethren, there is needed a holy Yea unto life: its own will, willeth now the spirit; his own world winneth the world's outcast." -Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra In this episode we take a deeper dive on Edward Bernays and how his system of implicit propaganda has been used to manufacture the personas and lives of the population. We talk influencers, consumer culture, Noam Chomsky, the illusion of choice and freedom, and drop the first "un-commoners" uncommon opinion that most people are actually better off staying sheep (something we'll elaborate on greatly in future episodes). Tyler saves his cough drop noises until the end of the episode this time. Episode Notes: Bernays' books mentioned... Propaganda: https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Edward-Bernays/dp/0970312598 The Engineering of Consent: https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Consent-L-Bernays/dp/0806103280 Noam Chomsky's excellent blog post "We Own The World": https://chomsky.info/20080101/ Century of Self, full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNxn2FT-duw

We make a departure from our originally stated episode two idea in order to talk faux expertise, the myth of scientific accuracy, the new secular religion that happens to be exactly like the old non-secular one, the origin of our logo art, and both why and how you aren't allowed to think for yourself. As a bonus, you get to hear Tyler roll a cough drop around in his mouth for the first five minutes. Episode notes: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Thomas-Kuhn/dp/0226458083 The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium: https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143 The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny: https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-American-Prophecy-Rendezvous/dp/0767900464 Both of Eric Weinstein's Modern Wisdom appearances: https://youtu.be/LJxBnSyH0T4?si=cNRIaMXbHY_d8Bwg https://youtu.be/p_swB_KS8Hw?si=9d_EZi-6yLzIi1YU Study showing Congress doesn't care what you think: https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba Some additional reading and watching on the Roland Fryer controversy: https://glennloury.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-roland-fryer Rudyard's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WhatifAltHist Episode Corrections: Joel repeated refers to "Bill McCullough" instead of the correct Peter McCullough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A._McCullough

"Among Europeans today there is no lack of those who are entitled to call themselves homeless in a distinctive and honorable sense: it is to them that I especially commend my secret wisdom and gaya scienza. For their fate is hard, their hopes are uncertain; it is quite a feat to devise some comfort for them - but what avail? We children of the future, how could we be at home in this today? We feel disfavor for all ideals that might lead one to feel at home even in this fragile, broken time of transition; as for its 'realities, we do not believe that they will last. The ice that still supports people today has become very thin; the wind that brings the thaw is blowing; we ourselves who are homeless constitute a force that breaks open ice and other all too thin 'realities.'" - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science In this first episode we introduce ourselves and how we met, lay some foundational ideas for future episodes, put in place the overarching themes of the podcast, and briefly hit on some current events like the Dali crash and Boeing controversy. Episode notes: The referenced episode of Modern Wisdom where Eric Weinstein talks about the idea of "information bukkake" can be found here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJxBnSyH0T4 Episode corrections: When Joel mentions Edward Bernays he mistakenly says Bernays was Freud's cousin - he was actually Freud's nephew.