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Classical Liberalism vs. The Postmodern Right
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Classical Liberalism vs. The Postmodern Right

WRP #120

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with a clever young fellow who goes by

. He is a Zoomer college student and a close friend of both (my first Jewish guest—see also his more recent episode), and (the Asian White Nationalist I interviewed recently).

TFC is a committed libertarian and advocate of methodological individualism with a broadly consequentialist Hanania-adjacent worldview.

In this episode we debate a number of important issues of the day, with TFC taking up the cause of free markets and Cap’n Walt making the case for the PoMo Right.


Topics Include:

  • Consequentialist vs deontological forms of libertarianism

  • Does leaving people to their own devices ackshually produce the most utils?

  • Market failures—principal agent problems, abuse of the commons, etc.

  • Is rent seeking intractable? Can it be adequately mitigated via institutions?

  • Does it make sense to have a very doctrinaire attitude about issues like protectionism vs. free trade or to treat it more contextually?

  • The importance of grand strategic / military / cultural externalities as weighed against GDP growth optimization

  • Does industrial policy usually lead to failure?

  • Is the relative success of Singapore and Hong Kong under ultra free market conditions mostly attributable to them being city states?

  • Social externalities of rapid economic development in Ireland and South Korea

  • Did American protectionism in the 19th century help stimulate industrial growth?

  • The operatic incoherence of Trumpian tariff policy

  • The incentive to pretend to be retarded and participate in dysfunctional purity spirals within populist movements

  • Walt argues we’re being drawn into a false dichotomy between retard Trumpian protectionism and untrammeled NAFTA maximalism

  • Walt defends NIMBYism—most people have their net worth tied into their home equity and housing precarity is how we practically bury racial tension

  • Would cheaper housing decrease crime rates overall? Would it increase crime rates very specifically against rich white people?

  • The role of midlevel elites in mass opinion coordination—The Party Decides

  • Do we really have “one man one vote” if certain interest groups (blacks, elite women, old people, farmers) are perceived as having special moral authority?

  • Walt defends the Woke Right / Postmodern Right / Metamodern Right and argues we need to start from a game theoretic projection out from individual interests instead of letting niggas obfuscate cynical conflicts of interest behind moralism

  • The role of high status white women in obfuscating power dynamics and preventing honest debate and transactional negotiation between factions

  • How Matt Yglesias bullies people like a teenage gay guy / mean girl

  • Sophisticated evil is literally always plausibly deniable

  • Is “good faith” even possible in transactional politics?

  • When dealing with women it’s always a game of seduction—not negotiation

  • Cultural and economic incentive structures that prevent Warrenite Liberalism from being chastised for ideological overreach

  • Walt argues that the Civil War proves that American institutions actually weren’t sufficient for keeping society intact—there are times when an entrenched interest group simply becomes intractable and needs to be put down

  • Why Julius Caesar succeeded where other proto-Caesars failed

  • Sometimes you sort of just need to kill each other

  • Walt argues Trump is comparable to Gaius Marius and Gavin Newsom is Sulla

  • Walt asks TFC if he is Jewish

  • Why Ireland historically had a terrible median IQ compared to England

  • Does the US actually have good institutions, or do we simply dominate because we control the international reserve currency?

  • The Tea Party as a movement of intransigent petit bourgeois radicals and how they compare to optimates / planters / modern high status white women

  • The importance of covert backroom negotiation between factional elites to prevent e.g. race wars instigated by purity spiraling Tyrones and Bubbas

  • Did America become the international reserve currency because of institutional stability or because of the Atlantic Ocean?

  • What caused the Israeli economic miracle?

  • Walt argues Israel is bound to be destroyed by a dysgenic spiral

  • Are Americans more soulless than Europeans due to hyper-specialization?

  • Does the American immigration system select for intelligence or bugmanism?

  • Walt advocates redshirting

  • The proliferation of asymmetric life strategies makes everyone Jewy

  • Do individuals really have meaningful access to their long-term desires?

  • Do men or women have more of an idea of what they want?

  • The midwit valley for susceptibility to dysgenic behavior

  • Are external authorities or your own internal passions and addictions a more formidable authoritarian menace?

  • Can your average person actually opt into Order purely voluntarily?

  • Is there any turn of events that would convince TFC that America should abandon its liberal democracy?

  • Does America ackshually have an independent judiciary?

  • Walt argues Jan 6 was a skill issue caused by right wing human capital decline—Bush v. Gore is how it’s properly done

  • Will high status white women ever *not* oppose freeze peach given that they directly source power from obfuscating status hierarchies / power dynamics?

  • Walt argues e.g. midcentury labor conflicts or Irish vs. Italian ethnic strife were temporary and lower order compared to Blacks vs. Whites and men vs. women

  • Why positive race relations between Blacks and Whites basically never last

  • Walt argues the American Republic has actually died several times because of intractable factional conflicts boiling over

  • We need an illiberal coup.

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