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Greg Johnson interviews Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation (1995), on Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards, a Leftist pre-history of the “libertarian to Alt Right pipeline” that focuses on the 1990s, when advocates of free markets and critics of the Left began to embrace biological race differences and apply them to political theory and policy. Peter Brimelow is a central figure in Slobodian’s narrative. Peter shares some of his recollections of such figures as F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, and Wilmot Robertson.
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I’m looking forward to finish listening to this since I caught the 1st half live but my sisters dogs needed taking out in Puyallup till I get my act together. (from one end of wa to another)
Thanks and good luck with everything.
Thanks!
Youll be waiting an extra three weeks for spring. I think there is public transit up the Hood Canal so you could have seen the rhododendrons blooming. Oh well, nice to be with family and around the hilly country.
Yes, thank you! I really liked the downtown area and the 3 story library!
I’m afraid this interview, commentary will probably go over the head of about 98% of remaining Hu White Americans.
Most regular White Americans, even high IQ college grads didn’t /don’t have the time to read all these long books – Ayn Rand Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum novels (IMO they are almost unreadable – not realistic as everyone in her novels are White, no underclass Blacks, Js or Islamists) and go through all these intellectual, philosophical phases to EVENTUALLY come to pro White , identitarian, immigration restriction.
IMO it’s just worst better to live in a place where there are hundreds of thousands of underclass Blacks, Black gangs s there are (I’m outside but near) Chicago.
Just being in New York City on 9-11-01 or being in the USA when this happened, or when the first Islamist terrorists attack in 1993 on the WTC happened. That should be enough without having to learn all the minute philosophical thoughts of Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kant, Hayek etc.
Once a still sane, healthy White young man around the age of 28 just sees, feels, smells this SH#*, the next step is to teach him, her about the Js.
That’s IMO really all that needs to be done to “Awaken” a remaining White man, White women take a different approach as most aren’t reasonable.
As for all this other intellectual philosophizing. It’s IMO a waste. Instead we should spend more of our time dong productive work.
JR
This was an excellent talk. I have been very critical of Libertarianism in my life, the ideas never really appealed to me. I never “went through a phase”. I basically went straight from far left to far right virtually overnight.
But it seems that [Right-wing/paleocon] Libertarianism was, in the late 20th century and the 2000s/early 2010s, the “most reactionary” you could get away with. I think, by the 1990s-2000s, a lot of people in that scene had already secretly made their mind up that they were effectively far right, but couldn’t say so publicly, so said what they could get away with.
Effectively, this kind of ultra reactionary right stuff was basically, a product of the cold War (remember the time period : late 20th century) and , essentially, strong anti-Communism. Anti communism was a far right and Fascist dogwhistle in that time period, too. I think the proto alt right core of these Libertarians were inherently anti Communist due to personal reactionary priors, and then basically either took the mainstream acceptable opposition to Communism, which would be it’s ideological opposite – Individualism – or, just basically analysed it too much and just to be oppositionalist took the opposite view of Communism, which is Individualism.
Of course, really, when you get right down to it, there are two forces : entropy and energy, or, life and death , or (I’m gonna say it, trite as it seems), Good and Evil.
Communism isn’t about social cohesion as much as it is simply chaos. Fascism or nationalism aren’t about cohesion in themselves, more they’re about survival, and collectivisim allows you to survive.
Another thing I find fascinating is that there’s a fairly well trod Libertarian to alt right pipeline, but a Tankie to Nazi pipeline just doesn’t seem so common (Depsite that being my own journey – and many actual early 20th century fascists including Mussolini himself.)
On the subject of the Bell Curve, from 1994 , when it as a new undergraduate in 2010, we had a Mexican female lecturer for Sociology. She bemoaned the bell curve to my class – most of us born in and around the time the book was being written and released- as “not that long ago”.
At the time,i was still a Lefty, but I was never so into the cultural side of Marxism, and kind of rolled my eyes. Sure, racists are irrelevant, but I mean, surely there’s something to that, and they should certainly be allowed to print it. That was my thought process.
As you both point out in the first half hour of this talk, her only argument against the Bell Curve [or , race realism or racial science] was literally a mix of “Current Year” and the point-and-gawk soyjak meme.
Some things never change
Letitia James is the epitome of the modern Democrat party. She’s a malicious hag who will gleefully abuse her power to attack traditional legacy Americans and those who advocate for them. I think the Bolsheviks utilized criminals and psychopaths from prisons and set them on their opponents without mercy. The modern American liberal order is Negrophile Bolshevism. They not only free criminals to attack law-abiding Americans, but for decades since the 1960s have also incited blacks against Whites resulting in enormous black on White crime. I despise what America has become. I fear for the future. If the Democrats get back into power, they will destroy everything that is/was good about this country. At that point I would hope to be struck dead by lightening. There would be no freedom or hope.
Neoliberalism actually started with Thatcher and Reagan and the Chicago School ideologues. Clinton and Blair were the “left-wing” version of that called The Third Way.
Great show, as usual.
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