On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives, I speak with
, who publishes on Substack at and can also be followed on Twitter.Dmitry is the originator of Biofoundationalism, a framework for understanding temperamental variance in political orientation that largely aligns with the worldview advanced in my own recent tract Against Morality.
Read more about biofoundationalism below:
Biofoundationalism I: Moral Foundations Utility Theory & Hypermoralization
Biofoundationalism III: Verbal Intelligence and Factual Sediment
Other essays discussed in this episode:
I’m Hard, I’m Wet, on how women are born and men are made
Describing Symphonies, on why Dmitry doesn’t read philosophers
Topics Include:
How Dmitry first got into these spaces
Why monetized or commercial content is sometimes seen as low status
The declining value of extreme scalability and increased value of curation in a post-scarcity ecology
The value of a highly loyal “thousand true fans”
Posting content true to your interests is a lot more sustainable than deliberately performing for any particular audience
Is contradiction / incoherence in one’s worldview necessarily a problem?
Dmitry summarizes biofoundationalism as an elevator speech
Are conservative moral beliefs universally more adaptive in wartime?
Walt argues war bride psychology has an extreme impact on female behavior
How Germany and Japan topped from the bottom after WW2
Does Cthulu always swim left? Dmitry says yes over the long term but with oscillations, Walt argues it is permanently thermostatic
Dmitry argues libertarianism/liberalism proceed from a similar temperament
The neurological basis of disgust / empathy and how these impulses underscore higher order political impulses
How Dmitry handles people who find this worldview nihilistic or “uninspiring”
How moral language is used to cynically obfuscate power struggles
Brain scans predict political orientation with 83% accuracy
Status games and anti-status games
Do women get a physical disgust response from low status behavior?
Does mankind fundamentally need to hate?
How do we actually convince people of biofoundationalism?
How can we build a society and structure institutions around this idea?
Scandinavian societies naturally distribute along temperamental dyads because of their small size and extremely homogenous populations
Conflict in and of itself can be generative
Is it good to have Jews around to compete with native elites?
The psychological need for obscurantism to conceal status hierarchies
Adaptive fictions—some falsehoods offer an evolutionary advantage
Is it a category error to speak to low openness people (or people very interested in earthly power) about how the world actually is
The danger of hypermoralization
Dmitry explains the origin of his blog’s name
The Christian vs. Pagan readings of the story of Faust
The difference between male and female sexual value
Why do female rappers brag about their wet pussies? Is it just a black thing?
The African practice of “Dry Sex,” where womyn put sand in they pussy—is this practice psychologically similar to BDSM?
Is Lana saying her pussy tastes like Pepsi similar to the rapper thing?
Are most people even aware of the motivations behind their actions?
Dmitry explains how to obliquely infer underlying motives through questions about second order perspectives and attitudes
Women adopt your fetishes if they like you—they’re mirrors of male agency
Why it behooves men in age gap relationships with Zoomer girls to be more thoughtful and deliberate in their behavior
Are Zoomers meaningfully less agentic?
Did epigenetic stress during the War on Terror create anxiety in Zoomers?
Zoomer irony is performative—they secretly want to care about things
The meta for success in internet conflicts is not caring about anything
Male vs. female bullying tactics
Is
right about us returning to an oral culture?Read Dmitry’s piece about the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Any useful and emergent technology like crypto will attract grifts / dumb money that create a bubble around the immature industry which seeds a serious thing
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