On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I receive a personal coaching session from my sagacious fren
, who publishes at Red White and Black.He is also the cofounder (with
) of The Empyreal College (you should also listen to the pod I did with Sai on that).If you’re interested in getting coaching from Darian you can send him a DM.
Topics include:
The significance of the delta symbol in his name
Darian explains the goals of the Empyreal College
The crisis of intellectual “spikiness” and the decline of general capacity for multidomain / multi-resolution thought
How the modern incentive structure instrumentalizes people (especially men) turning them into cogs incapable of holistic thought
Darian’s coaching methodology
How to build bridges between orthogonal status hierarchies
The hostility of artsy types to scalability and systems-level thinking
More feminine “yin”-type knowledge tends to be embodied and intuitive, and people who are relatively strong in this domain often have a disgust response when they see someone approaching it in a studied or intentional way
The immature feminine is hostile toward strategy
Does explicit understanding drain the magic from art or performance?
Overtly pursuing status is the lowest status thing imaginable, so all status-seeking behavior is by necessity obfuscated.
Abundance vs. Scarcity mindset
Status as a group orientation mechanism to fight choice paralysis—is that why people are violently opposed to cynical deconstruction of status seeking?
The necessity of psychological ambidexterity
Is it possible for a capable autiste to “mantle” neurotypicality and normie intuition through conscious habituation?
Autism as a spark towards higher sentience and self-awareness
Walt proposes normies should be subtly bullied by a gang of middle school girls to understand the yang-dominant experience
Walt argues that most human conflicts aren’t a matter of “truth” per se so much as mutual gaslighting and force pushing up against force
People get married to their heuristics
The only truth criterion for mythmaking is instrumental utility
Being extreme yin or extreme yang makes you retarded, but such people feel the need to conceive of themselves as the apex of some self-conceived hierarchy
The horror of other minds and the disgust response of others
Adam Lanza’s opposition to culture qua culture as a form “bullying”
Politics is downstream of aesthetics
The need for a kshatriya “referee” caste to adjudicate healthy conflict
Nobody is really guided by honor these days
Any actual warrior caste gets there first by seizing physical power
Low status yappy dog chud types are easily manipulated
Chuds usually tend to have a hyperfeminine leveling impulse
It’s impossible to kick yappy dogs in an oral culture / feminine status hierarchy because it’s perceived as punching down
Virtue proceeds from power
Do men atop masculine status hierarchies inherently respect each other?
Walt proposes that honor is a systemic product of living in a world decided mostly by random chance
You need a brutal reciprocity expectation in a low trust environment
The first step to restoring personal honor is punishing dumb simps
Walt argues the modal simp is actually female
We’re currently under a Rule of Sophists and the goal is mastering sophistry yourself to create a fortress where you needn’t engage in sophistry
Principle agent problems in business make commerce less aristocratic
Normies constantly rewrite history to ignore asymmetry and worship power
Does status insecurity drive sentience and self-awareness?
Does society actually get “structured” or do circumstances just emerge?
Darian’s goal is to develop a “central pillar” in people to enable them to balance between their masculine and feminine processing
Most people are really terrible at giving advice because they project their own mindset into someone else’s interiority
Can people change? Darian says yes.
King Arthur never knows whether it’s Merlin or Morgan Le Fay talking to him (because it’s always a bit of both)
Walt argues it’s not great to be outcome dependent on a civilizational level and individual agency is best conceived as something used to build your castle
Walt argues that self-identified “warrior” types identify with their own failure
There’s a guardedness between high status individuals in same hierarchy
Darian explains how he can help people
Darian asks Walt if he would be himself if it didn’t “work”
The impulse to reintegrate your childhood self within a protective bubble and assert your Will to Power upon the world
Everyone is always trying to figure out the most charismatic way to sell the truest version of their interiority to the broader world
