On today’s episode of Radio Tortuga I catch up with my best buddy
.Topics include:
Why people who are drawn to adjudicating between competing value systems are inadvertently attracted to political spaces
The difficulties of being an intelligent deviant — are the answers to your problems scalable or relatable to normies?
Is Walt a parasite?
The Lindy Effect
The 1990s as the last days of normie standardization and subsequent normalization of deviance (except Walt’s kind)
Walt’s recent turn against pluralism and the idea of ideologically valuing the pursuit of power over everything else
What led Rajeev to leave Google and the broader left wing cultural ecology and instead subordinate himself within a right wing coalition
Is pluralism possible or do we all just need to kill each other?
Do Walt and Rajeev feed off chaotic and disruptive environments?
Walt doesn’t like traditionalism because he doesn’t want to be thrown down a well
Everyone thinks the system that benefits them is the most just
Is Rajeev more drawn to chaos because he’s gay? Would he be trad if straight?
Why girls find Rajeev so sexually attractive
Walt wants to marry an orphan so he won’t need to deal with in-laws
Rajeev sees marriage as a strongly communitarian thing
How do people actually do their chores?
- ’s article arguing rich people need to hire servants
What does it mean to have a real home?
How to “build your castle” by picking fights other people aren’t willing to fight
Being the leader of a pluralist space is like being a zookeeper
Walt’s controversial article on the inherent exhibitionism of homosexuality
Why right wing men hate the wholesome chungus Buttigieg-type gay
The repression of male heterosexuality over the past decade
Walt and Rajeev both feel betrayed by people they stood up for
How valuable is the creation of a pluralist idea space?
Why Walt has started prioritizing the creation of a hard power structure
The leader operates under different rules
Why does every girl have a “narcissistic ex-boyfriend?”
How autistically internalizing redpill heuristics can cause guys to overcorrect
The necessity of ENFJs like Rajeev who see the good in everyone
Fuckboys are jaded romantics
Walt doesn’t think parenting matters that much
Emotional high that comes from being around ambitious high quality people
Ethnic tension isn’t necessarily bad
It’s more annoying when you get in a fight with someone similar to yourself
Why Rajeev is more comfortable being gay in right wing spaces
High openness people have a less integrated sense of self
For people with a strong Fe personality adaptation is genuine
Why Rajeev doesn’t like drag culture
- ’s article arguing that gay men invent femininity
Straight men enjoy when women deliberately act more helpless than they are
The merits of mansplaining
Are upper middle class women less sexually interested in men?
Walt likes when women manipulate him
The Tortuga Society is actually a pluralist space, but is strongly united under a framework of masculine ambition and self-help
Do Indian-Americans relate to Kamala Harris?
Who is Kamala’s core constituency?
Do Indian tech bros like Vivek Ramaswamy?
Is Rajeev a vitalist?
Rajeev still thinks Trump is gonna win, Walt is thinking Kamala
Walt sort of wants Kamala to win because it will benefit him
Kamala isn’t scary like Hillary
Bismarck and the Brahmin