Origins Of “Red Pill” (Hint: Not The Matrix)

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Nick Freitas

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Even if you have never heard the term "neo-reactionary," you've probably been exposed to many of their ideas in one form or another. Terms like "The Cathedral" and "Red Pilling" come from the neo-reactionaries. But they have a lot more to say, and we will tell you everything you need to know to understand neo-reactionary thought.

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0:00.0	Have you ever heard the term neo reactionaryism? Well, if you have, then you're a nerd, just like us.
0:07.6	But I bet you have heard the term red pill. You may have even heard the term the cathedral.
0:14.0	Now, if you've heard the term the iron polygon, you're back to being a nerd just like us.
0:17.5	But the reason why we're going to talk about these things today is because a lot of
0:21.6	these ideas are somewhat on the peripheral of a lot of the discussions that are going on right now
0:25.7	and people are using certain terms, sometimes not even understanding where they've originated
0:30.4	from, at least in a political or a political philosophy standpoint. And so today we're going to
0:36.6	talk about what these terms mean, why we think they're relevant.
0:40.8	And here's the part I really want to hammer in on.
0:42.9	We're not necessarily agreeing with everything we're going to talk about today.
0:45.4	We're not necessarily agreeing with all the solutions that are going to be offered today.
0:47.7	But our goal is to properly understand this whole concept of a neo-reactionary.
0:56.9	What is it and why is it actually becoming more and more relevant to the problems that we are seeing in our country today? All of that
1:01.7	and more coming up on this episode of making the argument powered by Good Ranchers.
1:05.8	Thank you so much for joining us. Just since Tuesday, we've had so many new people join in
1:09.1	our community chat sharing their goals for our 90-day improvement project on their relationships, intellectual goals, and all
1:14.6	different kinds of things. And it's been really fantastic to see. If you'd like to join in on
1:18.3	that project, you can go down to the link in the description, join our community chat there.
1:21.9	We would love to get to know you and have you helped drive the direction of this show. All right. As always, I am your host, Nick Freitas, member of the Virginia House of Delegates,
1:29.2	but other than that, a reasonably good guy.
1:31.3	Not with us today is my beautiful bride, Tina Queen of the Bees.
1:35.0	She's actually working on a project right now so she can't be with us.
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