Destiny: Debate King and/or Degenerate?

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 196 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Matt and Chris dive deep into the world of online streamers, focusing on the pioneering and controversial figure Steven Bonell II, better known as Destiny (AKA Mr Borelli). As seasoned explorers of sense-making jungles, Petersonian crystalline structures, and mind-bending labyrinths in Weinstein World, they thought they were prepared for anything. However, the drama-infused degeneracy of the streamer swamps proves to offer some new challenges.

Having previously dipped their toes in these waters by riding with Hasan on his joyous Houthi pirate ship (ignoring the screams of the imprisoned crew below decks), Matt and Chris now strip down to their decoding essentials and plunge head-first into streamer drama-infested waters as they search for the fabled true Destiny.

Destiny is a popular live streamer and well-known debater with a long and colourful online history. He is also known for regularly generating controversy. With a literal mountain of content to sift through, there was no way to cover it all. Instead, Matt and Chris apply their usual decoding methods to sample a selection of Destiny's content, seeking to identify any underlying connective tissue and determine if he fits the secular guru mould.

In so doing, they cover a wide range of topics, including:

Destiny's background and rise to prominence in the streaming world
How much of his brain precisely is devoted to wrangling conservatives?
What's it like to live with almost no private/public boundaries?
What are the ethics of debating neo-Nazis?
The nature of the Destiny's online community
Whether murder is a justified response to DDOS attacks?

Whether they succeed or fail in their decoding will be for the listeners to judge, but one thing is certain: if this is your first exposure to the streaming world, you are in for a bit of a ride.

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0:00.0	And the Oh, Hello and
0:25.0	welcome to Dakota the Gurus, the podcast,
0:27.0	we're an anthropologist and a psychologist,
0:29.0	listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer,
0:31.0	and we try to understand what they're talking about.
0:33.4	I'm Matt Brown, a psychologist from Australia, with me is Chris Kavanagh, the
0:37.8	anthropologist from Japan, formerly Belfast. G'd a big decoding coming up today, don't we?
0:44.8	Our white whale.
0:45.8	A white wheel, we have so many white wheels that they're becoming relatively common these days.
0:53.5	Many fish from the seas, is that what you're saying?
0:55.5	Many fish.
0:56.5	We just need to dangle our little hook in there and up they come.
1:00.0	Yeah, there are people that it feels like we should have covered earlier and destiny might fit in that category,
1:09.2	but there's a lot of people, Matt, that's the thing, there's a lot of people in this world, there's a lot of people in this world.
1:14.0	There's a lot of people.
1:15.0	Many people.
1:17.0	Some of the people.
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:20.0	Yeah.
1:21.0	So yeah, you know just to remind people for those perhaps destiny fans that are tuning in for the first time
1:29.2	remember on the coding the g, we decode online public figures, intellectuals, influences, people with a big public profile.
1:39.0	Just because you're covered undercoding the gurus doesn't mean that you're evil that's not a flat
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