American Conversations: Technology Reporter Gil Duran
Duran was early in recognizing that the technology elite had a dystopian vision for human society. We’ll get to hear from him about dystopian blogger Curtis Yarvin, the idea of a “network state,” and what tech bros imagine for our future.
00:00 - Start 00:40 - Welcome 01:09 - Who is Curtis Yarvin? 02:32 - What is “Dark Enlightenment”? How do people like Yarvin think about American politics and American society? 04:20 - “The Sovereign Individual,” Peter Thiel 06:11 - A new kind of society where tech bros rule 07:00 - Where did Yarvin come from? 08:22 - The Neo-Reactionary movement/Dark Enlightenment 09:40 - Undermining existing institutions to establish new 10:10 - Interface between religion and Neo-Reactionary systems, “tech theocracy” 15:05 - Network states 19:30 - Using democracy for arguing against it 22:27 - So what do we do?
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