Episode 41: George Gilder and the Birth of Right-Wing Silicon Valley
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Stanford researcher Becca Lewis talks Moira and Adrian through the life and influence of George Gilder, who started out as a standard anti-feminist and then reinvented himself as an evangelist for Silicon Valley, supply-side economics ... and also anti-feminism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Adrian Dott. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Weir Dottigan. |
| 0:09.5 | And whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right. |
| 0:13.9 | So, Adri, I don't know if you've noticed, but there's something kind of weird going on in Silicon Valley. |
| 0:20.7 | Oh, this is new? Well, all of the tech guys, all of the |
| 0:24.7 | tech entrepreneurs, the tech billionaire class, they're kind of weird about gender. I read some |
| 0:31.5 | reporting in the New York Times last week that said Elon Musk is straight up just like walking up to |
| 0:35.8 | people at parties and offering to inseminate them. He is also doing that to Taylor Swift and seemingly every woman who works for him. |
| 0:45.0 | Oddly enough, Mrs. Swift does not take him up on it. |
| 0:48.7 | The Russian founder of Telegram claims have fathered 100 children. There is all kinds of weird |
| 0:57.3 | gender, sex, reproduction, marriage, eugenicsy shit coming out of these guys. And they are all |
| 1:05.6 | just true freaks. And I didn't really understand what was going on with that or why, you know, on a superficial |
| 1:12.3 | level, quite liberal cultural positionings had yielded these really reactionary gender politics, |
| 1:18.5 | especially around sex and gender issues. And that leads us to our guests today, who is actually |
| 1:26.4 | the expert in how these freaks became such freaks, |
| 1:30.1 | who's going to walk us through the story of how it happened. |
| 1:33.0 | Welcome, Becca Lewis, to the podcast. |
| 1:35.6 | Thank you so much for being on Bed with the Right. |
| 1:37.3 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:38.8 | Yes, we're really excited, and we should preface this by saying, |
| 1:43.8 | we're tackling a big question here, |
| 1:45.8 | but we're going to tackle it using a guy that I'm guessing |
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