Welcome to the premier episode of Radio Tortuga!
In today’s call I speak with the inimitable Yuri Bezmenov, who writes here on Substack at How To Subvert Subversion about how the right can withstand and triumph against the many nefarious tactics of left wing memetic warfare.
It was fantastic to finally speak with Yuri directly; it seems clear that his community-building efforts have a ton of synergy with my own job-stacking organization, so I envision lots of collaboration going forward between his Comrades and my BisBucs.
Topics include…
How the bottom-up social ostracism tactics and stochastic terrorism of the Modern Left resemble the “struggle sessions” of Mao’s Cultural Revolution
When authoritarians rely on a snitch / bullying culture to seize power they’re either devoured by their own mob or need to Long Knives them
The “Current Thing” and how the vax narrative was supplanted by Ukraine
Liberals never admit when they’re wrong—they simply pivot the news cycle
The difficulty of holding the Left accountable when they constantly gaslight us and how this contributes to a right wing culture of conspiracy theories
Whenever we encounter left wing linguistic tyranny (e.g. “marriage equality”) we need to fight fire with fire (e.g. “child castration” or “civilian disarmament”)
Walt’s argument that conservatives are bad at art because of their linear thinking
It’s counter-productive to encourage “right wing art” because we don’t need simplistic and didactic messaging that lacks any subtlety
How HBO’s Girls is tacitly a right wing show that brilliantly weaponizes disgust and shame against the excesses of modernity
How artists like Mel Gibson and Clint Eastwood succeed in liberal Hollywood
Infiltrating institutions vs. building parallel institutions vs. the Benedict Option
Why Walt’s job-stacking venture is actually a deeply prosocial impulse
The highly Pareto-distributed nature of valuable work in the modern office
Walt plans to gradually upscale his job-stacking group into a modern equivalent of the medieval guild system
Consulting is an enormous grift with a deeply corrupt mafia culture
The threat of a President Buttigieg pushing McKinsey sensibilities on society
The centrality of class traitors like Vance / Vivek / Trump
The crisis of competence and recent decline in agency and vitality
Zoomer women are outperforming their male counterparts and this has massively exacerbated hypergamous behavior in young women
Compared to past generations, Gen Z faces a world of insane asymmetries
Substack offers a uniquely valuable social infrastructure for our communities
Subversion and Counter-Subversion