42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions
The Portal
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🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, Eric shares three related audio essays. In the first essay, Eric admits that he has spent the last four years asserting that Donald Trump represented an Existential Risk, but without the usual contempt for his supporters. Here, Eric finally responds to the frequent requests for clarification of his unusual position, by beginning to explain what is behind his view of the Trump and MAGA phenomena.
In the second essay, Eric discusses the odd phenomena of Trump's post election strategy of contesting the election, and what to make of all those who refuse to accept Biden's apparent win despite the state of the legal battles and election certifications.
In the last essay, Eric discusses loyalty in the context of close relationships where there are accusations of impropriety, and uses the framework set out to provide context for Sam Harris' public displeasure with still unnamed members of the Intellectual Dark Web.
N.B. Eric and Sam have recently discussed the matter privately to make sure they have a generally shared mutual understanding of the events.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you found the portal. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm your host, Eric Weinstein, and I'm still trying to lie low until the selection cycle |
| 0:12.1 | is concluded, given that, in particular, the threat of being booted off the platforms |
| 0:16.6 | like Twitter for intellectual noncompliance looms over a saw. |
| 0:20.5 | If you have any questions about whether self-censorship is real, I is a grown Harvard PhD |
| 0:25.1 | with just under half a million followers and a direct connection to the CEO of Twitter |
| 0:28.6 | Live In Fear that more than a decade spent building an audience can be undone without |
| 0:32.8 | possible appeal by the push of a button sending a single message from some person named |
| 0:37.4 | Vigaya who I have never met after having done nothing at all wrong. |
| 0:41.3 | Oh yeah, it's real. |
| 0:43.2 | These sudden Kafka-esque suspensions, which are then retracted and apologized for and which |
| 0:47.6 | emanate from the ironically named Trust and Safety Group, really do work. |
| 0:51.7 | Congratulations Twitter, Facebook, and Google, mission accomplished. |
| 0:55.1 | If I'm going to make this an all-audio episode with three distinct segments, these will |
| 0:59.3 | begin, my goodbye, to the wildest administration within the memories of my middle-aged life, |
| 1:03.8 | which I may add also includes the administrations of Ronald Reagan and even Richard Nixon fairly |
| 1:08.5 | vividly. |
| 1:09.5 | I think we will begin with a segment on Trump and what I've avoided saying about him for |
| 1:13.2 | some time. |
| 1:14.5 | We will then hear from two of our loyal sponsors, I'll come back to give my thoughts on the |
| 1:18.1 | bizarre state of the 2020 US election before paying some bills, and we will then hear from |
| 1:22.6 | two other sponsors before moving to our final segment on the effect of the 2020 election |
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