From the New World James Pogue - Nature, Strife, and American Destiny
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American Myth & Trapped Feeling
- The core American myth is the right of withdrawal, tied to access to free land.
- This created social problems as the frontier closed and people felt trapped.
Disenchantment and the Search for Meaning
- Modern society suffers from a loss of meaning and magic, similar to Weber's disenchantment.
- People seek meaning, even in unexpected places like Trump rallies.
Finding Community at Trump Rallies
- James Pogue observed people finding community and meaning at Trump rallies.
- He noted the genuine fun and communal experience, contrasting with the media's portrayal.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Are You a Christian Myth?
01:38 • 4min
Is That a Pansey Scheme?
05:49 • 3min
Is There a Shortage of Land in the West?
08:58 • 2min
The Last Frontier
11:11 • 3min
Is It Bigger Than Globalization?
13:49 • 3min
Are We Going on Like This?
16:30 • 6min
You Can't Deny What He Done to Us, Um?
22:00 • 2min
The Last Psychiatrist
23:58 • 2min
Is It Hard Not to Take His Point to Heart?
25:36 • 5min
The Disguising Dreg Is a Disguising Dreg
30:11 • 5min
Those Principles Are Fungable When You Apply Them to Someone You Don't Like That Much
35:18 • 4min
How Do You Tell a Story?
39:09 • 5min
I'm Angrier Than I Was
43:56 • 3min
The Left Is Not Relevant to Me Anymore
46:31 • 4min
Are You Just Outraged by These Working Conditions?
50:22 • 2min
What the Internet Does Is Provide These Incredibly Strong Cases That Awaken All These Impulses, Right?
52:14 • 3min
The Falsity of the Media Narrative
55:15 • 4min
The Litmus Test
59:07 • 5min
Are You a Dead Eyed Believer?
01:04:05 • 2min
Is There a Hidden Narrative Under That?
01:06:24 • 2min
I Skippd Nacon, but I Did Have Drinks With Jady Vance, Like, a Lick, Shortly Before We Were Talking About Climate Stuff, and I Don't Know if He Went, and Is Off the Record, But, I'
01:08:38 • 4min
Rat, That's Not What's Happening Here
01:12:30 • 5min
Is There a Way to Reverse Disenchantment?
01:17:36 • 3min
Raw Milk Isn't. We Could Unpack It Now, Right?
01:20:32 • 4min
Is It the Opposite of This?
01:24:02 • 3min
The Forest Service Is Encredibly Interesting
01:27:08 • 2min
The Biggest Thing in American Forestry Is the Northwest Forest Plan
01:29:14 • 2min
The Northwest Forest Plan Changed the Shape of Government in the Pacific Northwest
01:30:54 • 5min
Um, You're Always Going to Win, Right?
01:35:41 • 6min
Environmental Justice
01:41:13 • 5min
The Patronage Conception of Politics
01:45:45 • 4min
Post Cold War Civil Rights Movements - Is This a Critique of the Black Nationalists?
01:50:10 • 2min
Is There Something Amusing About the Civil Rights Regime?
01:52:01 • 2min
The Rights Regime, Right?
01:54:04 • 2min
The Performance of Rights
01:55:56 • 2min
The Second Amendment and the Housing Crisis
01:58:02 • 6min
The Culture War Is a Curatorial Decision, Right?
02:03:43 • 5min
Porn Is Legal, but These Curatorial Systems Are Not Legal
02:09:05 • 3min
I'm Not Convinced That It's a Total Structural Impossibility, Right?
02:12:06 • 2min
Are We Going to Have a Ship Posting Vortex?
02:14:25 • 6min
Do You Think There's Going to Be as Much Withdrawal as People Talk About?
02:20:09 • 2min
Is America Born With an Honor Culture?
02:21:59 • 4min
Canadians and Quebec - Is Canada So Boring?
02:25:30 • 3min
Waterloo Is a Super Underrated Place With Incredibly Underrated Talent
02:28:15 • 6min
Isn't That Crazy?
02:34:00 • 2min
I Don't Think We're Going to Sea Like, Drastic Collapse, Right?
02:35:51 • 4min
What Happened in South Africa?
02:39:34 • 5min
Are We Going to End Up as a Functioning Polity?
02:44:45 • 2min
I'm a Bit More Sceptical of the Individual Good Than the Collective Good.
02:46:48 • 3min
The Enduring Power of the K G B System in Russia
02:49:50 • 3min
The American Project Was Not a Bloody Minded Retribution
02:53:06 • 4min
Are You Trying to Create a Tribe?
02:57:10 • 4min
The Great Failure of Classical Liberalism
03:00:42 • 4min
Is It Technocratic Liberalism?
03:04:50 • 2min
How to Get Back to a Sense of Moral Organizational Forces
03:07:00 • 2min
Isn't That a Disservice to the Republican Party?
03:09:08 • 5min
I'm Going to Be a Super Right Wing, Right?
03:13:50 • 2min
I Don't Think You Should Vote for More Republican Candidates, Right?
03:15:49 • 3min
I'd Like to Say That, but I Don't Want to Get Sued for Libel
03:18:50 • 2min
Twitter and the Left Project
03:20:58 • 6min
Is It a Part of the Left's Struggle?
03:27:01 • 2min
We Don't Like the Left
03:29:27 • 2min
Are You a Conservative?
03:31:05 • 3min
Is the Right Wing Project Compact a Right Wing Project?
03:34:31 • 3min
Are You Getting Too Many Assumptions From Your Twitter Feet?
03:37:43 • 2min
Are You Trying to Create a Situation of Political Comedy?
03:39:26 • 3min
I'm at a Point Where It's Genuinely Hard to Interact, Right?
03:42:03 • 4min
Do You Think There's a Sex Difference?
03:46:09 • 2min
Is There a Difference Between Men and Women in American Politics?
03:47:52 • 2min
Technocratic Liberalism, Arco Feminist?
03:49:41 • 4min
The Red Necked Fool Is Got Something
03:53:48 • 3min
The Paria, You Know?
03:56:44 • 2min
What Is the Dumb on Line, Right?
03:58:47 • 2min
Is There a Cycle of Retribution?
04:00:25 • 5min
Is It Malcolm Chane? Um, I Don't Think He Likes Me.
04:05:38 • 2min
I'm Agnostic About Immigration, but I Do Think It's Going to Happen.
04:07:31 • 4min
Are We Descended Into Adistopia?
04:11:41 • 2min
Is There a Positive Vision for the Lower Case De Democracy?
04:13:30 • 4min
Do We Have to Bring in Someone to Fix Everything?
04:17:58 • 3min
The Social Media System That Reengineered Human Psychology
04:20:44 • 2min
Is There a Rewriting of Human Psychology?
04:22:58 • 2min
Porn Hub Is a Great Example of Unveiled Human Preferences, Right?
04:25:15 • 2min
The Plether of Choice, the Plether of Stimulation, Sucks
04:27:11 • 2min
Is There a Minority Faction?
04:28:53 • 4min
The End of Day's Apocalypse
04:32:28 • 4min
Natcon Feels High Status
04:36:31 • 2min
Is This Just Oligarchy With Extra Steps?
04:38:44 • 2min
The Basic Promise of Red Caesarism
04:40:18 • 2min
The Elits Are Like Convincible
04:41:55 • 3min
Um, I Don't Think There Will Ever Be an Explanatory Answer
04:45:17 • 3min
Is There a Tension to Pick the Least Bad Option?
04:48:25 • 4min
Are You OK With Managed Decline?
04:52:18 • 2min
How America Managed Decline as Imperial Power Through That Era
04:54:38 • 2min
The Case to Managed Decline, Right?
04:56:16 • 3min
The Man Is Going to Kno. Ye, Jokeis, It's Not Going to Get Back to Him.
04:59:21 • 4min
The Longing for Normality
05:02:52 • 4min
Do You Think Elon Could Pull This Off?
05:06:31 • 3min
The Average Voter Is Much Less Like That
05:09:10 • 3min
I'm Going to Get in Trouble.
05:12:19 • 4min
Is There a Secret Hand That Is Leading Us Toward Divestment?
05:15:50 • 2min
I Don't Think the State Can Compel Us to Do It Because We Have Too Much Power.
05:17:57 • 2min
I Don't Think Dasantus Is a True Evil Figure
05:20:10 • 2min
Are You Trying to Convince Left Wing People That Lockdowns Are a Bad Idea?
05:22:05 • 2min
Is the Fda Trying to Help Vaccines?
05:24:27 • 2min
The Pandemic - What's Wrong With Your Vaccine Card?
05:26:10 • 3min
The Balkanization of the United States
05:29:07 • 2min
Is There Too Much Chaos and Needs More Chaos?
05:30:45 • 4min
The Longest Podcast Ever!
05:34:19 • 2min
James Pogue is a uniquely interest journalist and author of Chosen Country: a Rebellion in the West. You can find his work in Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, and many more outlets.
Timestamps (You’ll need them this time):
0:00 American Mythology
17:00 Disenchantment
55:00 Truckers
1:01:00 Elite Theory
1:24:00 Forestry
1:48:00 Rights Regime
2:04:00 Social Media
2:36:00 De-Civilization
2:44:00 South Africa
3:01:00 Political Violence
4:00:00 The Deep Right
4:58:00 Ron Desantis
5:40:00 Principles
James on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jhensonpogue
My interview with Curtis Yarvin:
Part 1 of My Series on NatCon:
Common Sense Piece on Trucker Protests
New Yorker Profile of Mark Milley:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals
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