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The Pete Quiñones Show

Episode 997: Watching Idols Crumble w/ Dave the Distributist

The Pete Quiñones Show

Peter R Quiñones

Politics, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.8951 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

76 Minutes PG-13 Dave the Distributist has a popular YouTube channel and Substack page where he explores the problems of modernity in the political/cultural sphere. Dave joins Pete to go over some of the themes of a recent Substack post (also made into a YouTube video), in which he examines the decay of the progressive narrative and details its most obvious failures. An Idol Crumbles on YouTube An Idol Crumbles on Substack Dave on Twitter Get Autonomy 19 Skills PDF Download Support Pete on His Website Pete's Patreon Pete's Substack Pete's Subscribestar Pete's Buy Me a Coffee Pete's Venmo Pete on Facebook Pete on Twitter

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0:28.1

See in store for T's and C's. You're going to go and So, I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekiniano show for the first time and I'm really glad he's here. Dave the

1:04.0

distributist. How you doing Dave?

1:06.4

Hey, been a fan of the show. I've been watching it for about a year and it

1:10.7

seems like you've had a lot of people in my general sphere on so I'm glad to be here to talk to you about a variety of things. I think a lot of it will be cultural decline and coming to the realization about a lot of realities in this world that we can't necessarily

1:28.6

psychologically grapple with.

1:30.9

Well, why don't you give a little bit of your background because I know you came out of

1:36.4

progressives and that's not the normal path into this sphere.

1:41.9

Yeah, I mean, leaving aside sort of high school, which I went from like socialist to objectivist to socialist to

1:52.0

college I was kind of someone who's trying to do a progressive libertarian fusion, which is basically, you know, I mean, it's like, you know, I voted Democrat all the time and I toyed with ideas like a narco communism and narco capitalism but I was really leaning

2:06.8

hard on this celebrity thing combined with some form of progressive ideas about how the government could emanc pay people's decisions from natural

2:16.0

constraints and all this bullshit. And I think, I mean it's kind of a long story, but I but I grew up in California where most people were progressive and

2:28.0

A lot of it's been sort of the negotiation of that desire to kind of fit in with people with the understanding of reality as I observed it and

2:37.8

morality as I kind of instinctively felt it to be.

2:42.2

And this led me, think back towards first religion I spent a year

2:47.0

or two being a progressive Christian or trying to then kind of tepidly in what you'd call like the Ben Shapiro orbit.

2:55.0

A lot of us have been there back when Ben Shapiro was still in Seattle.

3:00.0

And finally I kind of discard that and found my way to, I think what people would call me

3:06.8

NRX aligned or neo-reactionary. I don't like doing labels that much, but a deep skepticism towards liberalism and a lot of

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