Watch me get coached by Darian Δ

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I receive a personal coaching session from my sagacious fren

Darian Δ

, who publishes at

Red White and Black

.

He is also the cofounder (with

Sai Ψ

) of

The Empyreal College

(you should also listen to the pod I did with Sai on that).

If you’re interested in getting coaching from Darian you can send him a DM.

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Topics include:

• The significance of the delta symbol in his name

• Darian explains the goals of the Empyreal College

• The crisis of intellectual “spikiness” and the decline of general capacity for multidomain / multi-resolution thought

• How the modern incentive structure instrumentalizes people (especially men) turning them into cogs incapable of holistic thought

• Darian’s coaching methodology

• How to build bridges between orthogonal status hierarchies

• The hostility of artsy types to scalability and systems-level thinking

• More feminine “yin”-type knowledge tends to be embodied and intuitive, and people who are relatively strong in this domain often have a disgust response when they see someone approaching it in a studied or intentional way

• The immature feminine is hostile toward strategy

• Does explicit understanding drain the magic from art or performance?

• Overtly pursuing status is the lowest status thing imaginable, so all status-seeking behavior is by necessity obfuscated.

• Abundance vs. Scarcity mindset

• Status as a group orientation mechanism to fight choice paralysis—is that why people are violently opposed to cynical deconstruction of status seeking?

• The necessity of psychological ambidexterity

• Is it possible for a capable autiste to “mantle” neurotypicality and normie intuition through conscious habituation?

• Autism as a spark towards higher sentience and self-awareness

• Walt proposes normies should be subtly bullied by a gang of middle school girls to understand the yang-dominant experience

• Walt argues that most human conflicts aren’t a matter of “truth” per se so much as mutual gaslighting and force pushing up against force

• People get married to their heuristics

• The only truth criterion for mythmaking is instrumental utility

• Being extreme yin or extreme yang makes you retarded, but such people feel the need to conceive of themselves as the apex of some self-conceived hierarchy

• The horror of other minds and the disgust response of others

• Adam Lanza’s opposition to culture qua culture as a form “bullying”

• Politics is downstream of aesthetics

• The need for a kshatriya “referee” caste to adjudicate healthy conflict

• Nobody is really guided by honor these days

• Any actual warrior caste gets there first by seizing physical power

• Low status yappy dog chud types are easily manipulated

• Chuds usually tend to have a hyperfeminine leveling impulse

• It’s impossible to kick yappy dogs in an oral culture / feminine status hierarchy because it’s perceived as punching down

• Virtue proceeds from power

• Do men atop masculine status hierarchies inherently respect each other?

• Walt proposes that honor is a systemic product of living in a world decided mostly by random chance

• You need a brutal reciprocity expectation in a low trust environment

• The first step to restoring personal honor is punishing dumb simps

• Walt argues the modal simp is actually female

• We’re currently under a Rule of Sophists and the goal is mastering sophistry yourself to create a fortress where you needn’t engage in sophistry

• Principle agent problems in business make commerce less aristocratic

• Normies constantly rewrite history to ignore asymmetry and worship power

• Does status insecurity drive sentience and self-awareness?

• Does society actually get “structured” or do circumstances just emerge?

• Darian’s goal is to develop a “central pillar” in people to enable them to balance between their masculine and feminine processing

• Most people are really terrible at giving advice because they project their own mindset into someone else’s interiority

• Can people change? Darian says yes.

• King Arthur never knows whether it’s Merlin or Morgan Le Fay talking to him (because it’s always a bit of both)

• Walt argues it’s not great to be outcome dependent on a civilizational level and individual agency is best conceived as something used to build your castle

• Walt argues that self-identified “warrior” types identify with their own failure

• There’s a guardedness between high status individuals in same hierarchy

• Darian explains how he can help people

• Darian asks Walt if he would be himself if it didn’t “work”

• The impulse to reintegrate your childhood self within a protective bubble and assert your Will to Power upon the world

• Everyone is always trying to figure out the most charismatic way to sell the truest version of their interiority to the broader world