Very special guest today. Ryan Faulk or The Alternative Hypothesis is the fella who brought me into the edgy online right as a teenager back in 2010.
More than any other individual, Ryan is responsible for defining the arguments and talking points of the 2015-2016 AR. All the podcasters and memelords you may have enjoyed in 2015 were probably influenced by Ryan in 2010-2014.
Topics:
Ryan’s intellectual origins as a neocon and his original forays into HBD
His early advocacy of Anti-Statism and Polycentric Law
The Libertarian to Alt Right Pipeline
The death of right libertarianism
Ryan’s involvement with the 2015-2018 Alt Right
Ryan’s longstanding opposition to IRL “retard rallies”
Privacy is a necessary condition for ideological conversion
Live debates are ineffectual
Can comedy truly be subversive given the necessity of shared assumptions?
Ryan’s opposition to big positive projects and preference for pure critique
Efficiency of attacking the right vs. the left
Substack vs. Twitter vs. YouTube
The Oppression Narrative is a single thing
Conspiracy theories aren’t independent
Alt Right are psychologically liberal
Walt’s idea for ending America’s racial problem with reparations
Ryan’s idea of The Hegemonic Cult
Decline of written doctrine religion
Flexibility of liberalism ideologically disperses it and makes it hard to attack
How Ryan got interested in WW2 during the Russia Ukraine War
Is supporting Ukraine in the interest of America?
Why isn’t America more aggressive in promoting the Petrodollar?
Ryan’s theory that Putin is holding back in Ukraine
Extreme waste of NATO military spending
Could the Confederates have won the Civil War?
Paradox Interactive games as a force shaping people’s mental model of the world
Japanese grand strategy in WW2
Hitler wanted an alliance with Poland
Dunkirk
Could the Germans have won in Barbarossa?
Hitler could have strong-armed Turkey and Spain into the war
Hitler’s failure in creating foreign-facing propaganda
Growth of belief in HBD as consequence of New Atheists growing up
Bill Gates probably believes in HBD
HBD implications for paternalistic liberalism
