Simon Laird - Racial Depolarization and Parallel Institutions

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

Simon Laird

, a right libertarian who publishes at the deviously titled

Simon Laird's Newsletter

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Topics include:

• Does Trump’s record performance among Latinos for a Republican portend a general racial depolarization, or was it a fluke of anti-incumbent sentiment?

• Hispanic voting behavior as compared to historical Irish / Italian voter behavior

• Has there been intra-white political depolarization on an ethnic level?

• Are southerners and northerners (or rural vs. urban) distinct ethnic groups?

• The internet breaks up media monopolies and serves as a force of depolarization

• Institutional black media as an explicit political arm of the Democrat Party

• Does America impose the Black-White racial narrative on all race relations?

• Leftist indoctrination of second generation Indian and Asian Americans

• The conflict between white liberals and white conservatives is far more hateful than any tension between races in America

• Ecological extremism and radical feminism are peculiar ethnic expressions of northern European sensibilities

• Suicidal behavior of Aryan women captured as war brides made northern European women more cold and frigid

• White preservationism is inevitable given whites becoming a minority

• It is now acceptable among intellectual young conservatives to be identitarian

• Is the conservative view of race and IQ Straussian or just willfully ignorant?

• Does intelligence influence moral rectitude?

• There’s an impulse on both the Right and Left to minimize the influence of genes

• Is libertarianism workable given massive variance in individual agency?

• Simon thinks people should be able to “opt in” to paternalism, while Walt sees this as feudalism and is in favor of this but more comfortable with coercion

• Does the post-scarcity ecology of modernity impair group coordination?

• Fruits of post-scarcity are inefficiently distributed in accordance with rent-seeking credentialing regimes to maintain the power of liberal elites

• How to combat / replace credentialing organizations like the AMA

• What would robust “parallel institutions” even look like?

• The mechanics of the consulting grift

• The premium paid to accommodate mistrust in the modern economy

• Right wing EHC will come from the private sector

• Is conservatism inherently low openness? How important is intellectualism?

• Can the hereditarian story appeal to the average person?

• How intractable is systemic racial conflict between whites and blacks?

• The Civil Rights Movement as a Soviet plot to engage a fifth column

• America between the Civil War & Civil Rights Act was an implicitly WN country, and the legitimate successor state to both the antebellum CSA and Lincoln’s USA

• Walt would rather be an antebellum slave than a black guy under Jim Crow

• Are modern police tactics more or less onerous than black people would organically tolerate if wypipo weren’t around?

• The deeper meaning of the chirping fire alarm

• Focusing on general social reform vs. more targeted racial policies

• Colorblind conservatism fails because it simply ignores disparate outcomes

• Walt’s pro-White argument for a reparations “poison pill” to kill white guilt

• Most women won’t ever be convinced of race and IQ with logic

• To motivate female behavior you need to weaponize betrayal

• We should privatize the DMV

• Walt argues that feudalism is the logical end of libertarianism

• Elites can lead by example and create space for others to live healthily

• The therapeutic-managerial state makes voluntary traditionalism impossible

• Can you outmaneuver the system by draining it or pretending it doesn’t exist?

• When building a network state does concentration or dispersion make sense?

• Who’s more valuable: 100 people with a 100 IQ or 10 guys with a 130 IQ?

• Walt maintains the story of the Alt Right shows the downside of IRL organization

• How to combine the advantages of geographic concentration and dispersion

• How ideological vs. transactional should intra-factional horse trading be?

• How important are ideas vs. the cynical pursuit of material resources?

• What is the origin of ideology?

• How legitimate is Great Man Theory?