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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

E324. Should America be a Monarchy? - Curtis Yarvin

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Bridget sits down with Curtis Yarvin, political theorist and writer formerly known as Mencius Moldbug. They discuss the road that brought Curtis to this point, his debate with Ilya Shapiro, whether capitalism requires democracy, whether oligarchs are more concerned with the outcomes of power rather then power itself, the Arab Spring, debating “isms”, why he believes the most peaceful and stable form of government is the monarchy, the truth about revolutions, why he’s selective about his consp...

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0:00.0

All right. I'm with Curtis Yarvin, everybody.

0:03.0

Thank you for coming in. Welcome to Walkins, welcome.

0:05.0

Thank you for having you.

0:07.0

Thank you for having me, Bridget.

0:09.0

Sorry, I've been talking too much this weekend.

0:11.0

I was down at the University of Austin

0:15.0

to give a very, very fun, I guess it'll be on X soon,

0:20.0

debate, Oxford Union style debate debate although to my annoyance

0:23.3

without the voting with Ilya Shapiro of you know he's like a George Mason professor

0:30.3

yeah and you witnessed that but and what was your what was your experience of it

0:34.6

well see I want voting yeah Just because I need blood.

0:38.3

I want there to be a winner or loser.

0:40.2

Was there blood, do you think?

0:41.6

You know?

0:42.1

There could have been more blood.

0:43.7

I think you guys were very civil.

0:45.8

I still, I've seen a lot of these debates.

0:50.3

I feel like they get a little bit in the weeds.

0:52.1

Sometimes it's hard to wrangle them.

0:55.9

And I do think you were mismatched in one way that was very obvious to me just as an entertainer

1:04.8

and that you are more charismatic and more just off the cuff cuff you know a little bit more relaxed in your style and he's

1:18.2

very much a constitutional lawyer and i was like i don't care what the guy's saying who has facts

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