On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with the brilliant
, who recently resigned from Compact Magazine after her ironic private messages from an edgy alt account were leaked as a consequence of legal proceedings.Nina is also the author of What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents, which advocates a comfy reconciliationist approach to sex discourse and which I strongly recommend all of you purchase.
This was a fantastic and very comprehensive discussion, and I’m certain my audience will greatly enjoy hearing Nina’s perspective on a wide range of thorny issues.
Topics include:
How does this compare to the first time Nina was canceled back in 2018?
The decline of pluralism and open discourse in modern liberalism
Nina’s book What Do Men Want? and the controversy surrounding it despite its very empathetic / centrist message
Nina’s engagement with the Manosphere while researching for her book
The dangerous conflation of science and politics during the Covid era
Modern framing of sex politics as a zero sum game
Is lesbian separatism more tenable than MGTOW because of the greater plasticity of female sexuality?
The traumatic impact of ubiquitous hardcore porn on Zoomer women
Nina gives her take on Walt’s early female puberty theory
How early exposure to porn creates a more disembodied sexuality
How can we get young boys to stop looking at porn without creating a schoolmarmish longhouse dynamic that only encourages such behavior?
Liberalism failed because it succeeded
Why Tinder doesn’t work for heterosexuals
Destigmatizing in-person courtship is necessary for a healthy sexual ecology
Walt’s argument that gay pride is asymmetric exhibitionism
Female sexuality is less reductive and this can be both a blackpill and whitepill
Zoomer women have an inflated fear of men and their massive levels of social anxiety make them much less sexually agentic in practice
Slapping solves the Problem of Consent
The traditional sexual ecology requires some cohort of extremely promiscuous women to absorb the libidinal energy of high status cads
Can tacit mistress-keeping serve as a compromise under a Christian framework?
Does the growing incel rate necessitate a quasi-polygamous sexual ecology?
Will low agency guys ever feel the need to try and compete for a mid woman versus sitting around getting addicted to porn and weed?
Is the sexually redistributive Christian ethos tenable in an increasingly materialist and utilitarian culture?
The centrality of sexual desire in relationships
Will the lack of sexual redistribution create an impetus for authoritarianism?
Does Christianity offer young men anything over alternatives like Islam?
The liberal western cultural chauvinism of Pim Fortuyn, Geert Wilders, etc.
The dispositional tension between individualism / liberalism and the impulse to defend your society
Can you build a purely propositional nation without any ethnic component?
Ethnonationalism in Europe vs. America
Tension between pride in WEIRD Northwest European nature and the tendency to politically act on ingroup identity
Is civilization inherently self-destructive? Will free people always politically mobilize in defense of socially poisonous dopamine traps?
Slavery to one’s own desires is the most oppressive kind of slavery
Is morality scalable to normal people in a complex / abstracted society? Is some level of obscurantism or esotericism necessary?
Nina’s enemies don’t actually think she’s a Nazi and are just cynically trying to police the Overton Window
When you ostracize someone for their views you inevitably radicalize them
Cancel Culture emerges from people being terrified about having their sanity-undergirding heuristics challenged in an increasingly complicated world
You need to go a little mad to break out of an established intellectual paradigm
Success justifies itself but nobody ever admits they were wrong
The inherent pendulum swing of society means pluralism is always necessary to compensate for all of society’s extremes
How going on steroids is like becoming “trans-man” as a man
Nina takes a stance against transhumanism and pushes for greater embodiment
Is the use of amphetamines transhumanist? Is the use of caffeine? What about highly stimulating visual art and music?
Anabolic steroids as a defense against endocrine disruptors and Adderall as armor against dopamine traps / modern distractions
Is the ultimate civilizational choice between primitivism and Wall-E?
Walt needs his addy to work in Excel all day
America needs to Adderallmaxx to compete with China’s Confucian work ethic
Geopolitical conflict is inevitable because of competitive male nature
Why we shouldn’t let China dominate us or spread the Confucian mentality
Europe and America as Greece and Rome
Is Christianity responsible for pathological altruism?
How the Left weaponizes female compassion into pathological altruism
Is deliberate speciation the best way to escape a dystopian Wall-E future?
Worship and ritual as a bodily technology
How do we get Taylor Swift to get married and serve as a good role model?
Traditional gender roles are undermined by the fact that women are much better suited for modern office work than men
Patriarchy can be restored by Walt’s effort to build a job stacking gentry class
LLMs as a digital model for the collective unconscious
Serendipitymaxxing as strategy for eccentric intellectual man looking for a wife
The ultimate trauma of women is to be depersonalized / identified as fungible
Men must become the rake before they can become prince charming
Is the terminal goal of embodiment becoming more of an animal?
Episode 49 : Nina Power