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🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Attendees at the recent Unregistered Weekend in Chicago witnessed an unprecedented showdown between the leading opponent of democracy and its most brilliant defender. This often heated debate between Curtis Yarvin and Ben Burgis was a master class on the most pressing issue of the moment. It was preceded by interviews with Curtis and Ben separately, which can be viewed by patrons of Unregistered at www.patreon.com/unregistered.
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0:00.0 | This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell. |
0:07.0 | This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale. |
0:15.0 | The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician, |
0:23.1 | a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not supposed to say |
0:29.3 | or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week, |
0:36.8 | I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a journalist or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a |
0:40.9 | journalist or a professor. They might be a porn star or a drug dealer. They might just be an ordinary |
0:46.9 | person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of polite society. I'm not interested |
0:53.4 | in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. |
0:56.2 | I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought |
0:59.5 | and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society. |
1:04.2 | I'm interested in people who make me think. When I started college, when I started college many, many years ago, I thought that college would be the smartest people in the world arguing about the big issues. |
1:29.4 | But of course, it wasn't that. |
1:32.0 | So I left the academy and I began my own school. |
1:37.0 | At unregistered Academy, we are interested in the big ideas being debated by the smartest people. |
1:44.2 | And so, at our recent unregistered weekend in Chicago event, |
1:49.2 | I brought together two of the very smartest people, I believe, |
1:53.4 | who work in the space of political theory. |
1:57.0 | Ben Burgess and Curtis Jarvin squared off |
1:59.7 | in a debate on perhaps the biggest issue of the moment, which is democracy. |
2:05.9 | Now, this debate followed one-on-one interviews I had with Curtis and Ben, which you can access by becoming a patron of Unregistered. |
2:14.4 | Just go to patreon.com slash unregistered and you'll see the content there. |
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