Russia, the Red Pill, and Intercultural Dynamics

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with the inimitable

GLO

, a bodybuilder / personal coach / theorist who writes on Substack at The Pillars of Wisdom and recently published a book under the same name (check it out here).

GLO is a longtime leader in the Manosphere who initially came to prominence in the mid 2010s as a superposter on r/TheRedPill and community leader / metapolitical strategist on r/TheDonald.

During this era he was notable for being willing to write candidly about the implications of redpill thought on topics like politics, economics, and race, and in doing so played a major role in transmitting the accumulated wisdom of the Manosphere into the burgeoning Alt / Dissident Right.

GLO and I first crossed paths on Substack just a few weeks ago, but in another sense the two of us go way back, because during the height of the AR both of us were extremely close friends with r/TheDonald’s illustrious leader CisWhiteMaelstrom.

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Topics Include:

• How GLO’s frustration with the ultra-progressive political climate of his California law school led him to start writing on r/TheRedPill, which offered him an uncensored intellectual outlet

• How GLO became second-in-command of r/TheDonald through a mutual friend with Walt: the famous CisWhiteMaelstrom

• How r/TheDonald was banned from Reddit because of Democrat Party bribery, fedposting by bad actors, and the influence of normie conservative “cleaner mods” who didn’t understand sophisticated metapolitical tactics

• The influence r/TheDonald had on both Trump’s eventual victory and the rhetorical tactics of the Alt Right / Dissident Right

• GLO’s appearance on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, where he called her a “trickle-down media whore” on live television

• Roosh V and his fallout with the Alt Right

• Why GLO and CWM broke with the idea that “the red pill is not political”

• Factors that have made pickup game less effective over the past decade

• How GLO and CWM usurped TRP’s culture from shape rotator programmers

• GLO’s research into Marxist theory and Freud / Lacan / Deleuze

• GLO’s early opposition to vaccines and positioning of it as a sexual strategy

• The case for moving to White parts of Mexico to facilitate early family formation

• GLO article on sleeping with Asian women

• The Manosphere often doesn’t interrogate the female perspective but GLO does

• The importance of candor and proper context when discussing racial issues (particularly in the realm of sex and romance)

• Arbitrage in sexual strategies and the low status it often connotes

• The origin of ultra-direct Russian communicative norms

• Russia’s communitarian family structure under Emmanuel Todd’s theory:

  

• “Scratch a Russian find a Tatar” — Russian brutality comes from Asia

• The nature of Russians vs. other Slavs

• Could Russia have been more “western” had Novgorod prevailed over Moscow?

• Failed attempts by Russia to integrate into the West

• GLO’s take on the Ukraine War

• Putin’s promotion of Russophilia in the American Right

• Russian resentment over American support for Yeltsin and Gorbachev

• The discomfort that Central Europeans feel when ruled by Eastern Europeans

• Ukraine is sort of a fake country, but there has also been an entirely genuine ethnogenesis over the past few years

• The centrality of myth in human psychology

• How Russia’s communitarian family structure compares to the Authoritarian, Egalitarian, and Nuclear models of its European rivals (see map above)

• Different cultural models of masculinity, i.e. Irish versus Russian

• The Irish aren’t great at organizing themselves but are fantastic at taking over someone else’s structure through swagger and cunning

• GLO’s experience dating Asian and Hispanic women and how it compares with Walt’s experience dating Jew broads

• How intercultural dynamics impact how your girlfriend’s dad sees you and how your parents see her

• Does the red pill make it harder to enjoy women?

• A large status differential in your favor decreases the need to hold frame

• The bodybuilder househusband archetype

• Walt asks GLO what his PR is in all the big compound lifts

• GLO gives his thoughts on steroids and HGH

• Are steroids transhumanism?

• Old guys on TRT is a huge cause of modern gerontocracy

• Remember to check out GLO’s book, The Pillars of Wisdom!