Outsider Theory

The Rule of Midwits with Brian Chau

Aug 31, 2022

01:41:14

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What Is the Difference Between University and the Replica Replication Crisis?

01:52

I'm a kind of beebib amby in a mood of indefinite optimism

01:27

Substack and the Tablet Essay

01:44

I'm Sorry to Take It Away on That

02:34

Introduction

3min

The Hobbits and Elvens Article

4min

I'm Sorry to Take It Away on That

3min

Curtis - Is He a 'Catholic'?

2min

Is He a Mit or a Notse?

5min

Is This a Good Episode?

2min

Rightwing Aesthetics

4min

The Aesthetic Dimension

2min

Product Market Fit Isn't a Question of Productivity

5min

10.

What Are Your Thoughts on William F. Buckley's Preference?

2min

11.

What Is the Difference Between University and the Replica Replication Crisis?

3min

12.

I'm Going to Give the People a Fucking Union

3min

13.

Is There a Way Too Much Freedom for Professors?

3min

14.

Are the Universities Just Not the Same Types of People?

5min

15.

Is There a Home for Some People in Silicon Valley?

2min

16.

Legacy Institutions - What Are They Really Good At?

2min

17.

Is There a Difference Between Definite and Indefinite Optimism?

4min

18.

Lysencoism

4min

19.

Is There a Tension Between Exact Order and Imperative Order?

5min

20.

The Freer the Bureaucrats, the Freer the People

4min

21.

The Politics of Bureaucracy

3min

22.

The Desire for Intermediation Is the Desire for Middle Men

3min

23.

Is It a 'Cynical Theory' or a More Conspiratorial One?

5min

24.

Is It a Conspiracy?

4min

25.

I Think He Believes It. Is He a Project?

2min

26.

I've Written a Couple of Things About Lindsey and Terchin's Thesis

6min

27.

What the Fuck?

5min

28.

Therteonid W Is Not the Worst That Itno

2min

29.

The American Status Quo Isn't in Danger

1min

30.

Why You Shouldn't Underestimate Midwitz

6min

Brian Chau (Cactus Chu on Substack, @psychosort on Twitter) joins me to discuss institutions and why midwits rule them, decentralization, sorting mechanisms, right-wing aesthetics, Curtis Yarvin, William F. Buckley, and more.

https://cactus.substack.com/

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/rule-of-midwits

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