Episode 729: The Myth of Free Speech Absolutism w/ Curtis Yarvin and Auron MacIntyre
The Pete Quiñones Show
Peter R Quiñones
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🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Curtis Yarvin is a prolific writer who used to blog under the name Mencius Moldbug. He is famous for coining the phrase and the concept of "The Cathedral"
Auron MacIntyre is a podcaster and a former reporter
Pete asked Curtis and Auron to join him on a livestream to discuss the positives and negatives of free speech absolutism
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| 1:08.0 | Great, great. Pleasure to be on your show. Orrin, how's it gone? |
| 1:12.0 | Great, man. |
| 1:13.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:14.0 | I wanted to have a conversation about free speech absolutism. |
| 1:20.0 | I wrote something the other day and of course every libertarian that still follows me at a heart attack because things but let's start with you Curtis when you hear free speech absolutism |
| 1:36.5 | what comes to your mind. Let's see you know I was reading you know in the |
| 1:40.4 | diaries Ernst Juncker I was reading about this a little while ago that |
| 1:44.3 | his Paris diaries from World War II and he's like this is a permanent problem that has |
| 1:51.5 | never been solved. And I really don't know that there is any community or any society that has ever sort of enjoyed absolute free speech, which is an interesting point, and it's sort of interesting to think about this from the perspective of, you know, people who are on the wrong end of the gun barrel at present as we certainly are. |
| 2:18.0 | And so, you know, when you're basically sort of saying things against free speech speech absolutism, not from the, it's very easy to talk against free speech absolutism when you're holding the gun. |
| 2:30.0 | When the gun is pointed at you, it's a little bit harder and still I think that we have to basically |
| 2:39.8 | get the answer right because we are after all in Bronze Age Berberts phrase the the shrink from wherever the truth brings us and we can't afford to make self-serving points that are wrong because that would essentially |
| 2:58.1 | sacrifice the only advantage that we have and so when you talk about, you know, yeah, I mean, |
| 3:04.2 | I'm not like it's very, like, |
| 3:09.1 | it's very difficult to have a sort of belief in like even when you say free speech absolutism you have problems like libel and slander and so forth which you know, are traditionally in the Anglo-American world recognized as exceptions |
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