Is America Incapable of Fixing Itself? | Interview with Wilhem Ivorsson
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're really in a much worse place than a lot of us here and these fears want to acknowledge. |
| 0:05.0 | Some would say that's very pessimistic. |
| 0:08.0 | Fundamentally, people in the US unfortunately view politics as a form of entertainment. |
| 0:12.0 | It's a kind of sports ball. |
| 0:14.0 | Anybody in the world, though, can become an American. |
| 0:16.0 | We don't have that over here, and it's trying to be imposed on us. |
| 0:20.0 | Their collective identity is to not have an identity. |
| 0:23.2 | Our collective identity is individualism. |
| 0:25.8 | It's a 16-part video series that you did on Star Trek and it's progressive messaging. |
| 0:31.2 | Why Star Trek in particular? |
| 0:32.7 | I came across a couple of Next Generation episodes and I started to pick up on all these |
| 0:37.1 | things in it that seemed very, very progressive, even by today's standards, how Gene Roneberry came up with the character, Spock. |
| 0:43.6 | He literally wanted to come up with a pointy ear devil. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello, thank you for joining us for this Lotus Eater's interview. I'm very happy to say that today I'm talking to Wilhelm Iverson, formerly known as |
| 0:56.0 | the American Krogan. He is currently on Substack under the Iverson dilemma where he produces |
| 1:02.5 | video essays examining media and its effect as an agent of social engineering. He's also begun |
| 1:10.3 | writing some articles on there. Formerly, |
| 1:12.9 | with his American Krogan persona, he released video essays talking about video games and other |
| 1:19.0 | types of media where he went into great detail on the ethnic narratives underpinning games |
| 1:24.8 | like the Bioshock series. Particularly important is his series on |
| 1:29.9 | Bioshockinit called The Hatred, which I would recommend to anybody. Similarly, he's done |
| 1:35.0 | videos on Call of Duty Vanguard and its distortion of history. And overall, his body of work is |
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