How Carl Schmitt Can Help Us Make Sense of the 2020 US Election

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  • @SonofTiamat
    @SonofTiamat3 жыл бұрын

    Bu-bu-but you're being an ideologue! Both sides are exactly, equally as ba- *SMACK*

  • @tolpacourt

    @tolpacourt

    3 жыл бұрын

    In timcastirl streams you can see Tim is struggling emotionally/mentally these days. He's slowly crabbing his way rightward. He doesn't talk much about being center-left these days.

  • @blaedus5318

    @blaedus5318

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tolpacourt, oh is he? I haven't tuned into TimCast in a few weeks. That's interesting. I used to find it fascinating to see him keep his values in the face of logic.

  • @akshatgautam9885

    @akshatgautam9885

    3 жыл бұрын

    He's playing to his audience, but in a way that he can maintain the charade of "hey I'm a sane leftist guys democrats just too crazy right". This ensures that boomercon types think he's a valuable asset and continue to spend superchats in their earnest efforts to make an honest boomercon of him.

  • @Women_Rock

    @Women_Rock

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tolpacourt I used to tune in almost every day but I don’t think I’ve watched any of his videos since November 4th. Same goes for daily YT news shows. I still watch Lotus Eaters every once in a while though.

  • @JohnSmith-mk8bf

    @JohnSmith-mk8bf

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Women_Rock ive gone off tim as well, watch about 5mins of each clip & don't even bother with the irl show anymore. I don't why he even brings guests on, they never get to talk. Enjoying and prefer the more direct & humorous presentation at lotus eaters.

  • @chrisstone5743
    @chrisstone57433 жыл бұрын

    Ultimately, all law and all politics is an expression of violence. It is all underpinned by force.

  • @CountArtha

    @CountArtha

    Жыл бұрын

    Politics is the continuation of civil war by other means.

  • @OfirMusic
    @OfirMusic3 жыл бұрын

    You forgot to tell us to get out, now I'm stuck not sure what to do.

  • @akshatgautam9885

    @akshatgautam9885

    3 жыл бұрын

    He did, right at the end, but I don't blame you, the multiple shillings do cause Delay and Confusion.

  • @leonm8906

    @leonm8906

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@akshatgautam9885 Well, if he told us to get out before the shilling there'd be no one left to watch the shilling pitch.

  • @OfirMusic

    @OfirMusic

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@akshatgautam9885 lol you’re right.

  • @akshatgautam9885

    @akshatgautam9885

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Leon M Perhaps it's best to nest the mug and subscription and course shilling into one big Shill pitch is what I meant :p Honestly not even a big deal. I find AA's ways endearing, they really bolster the parasocial relationship :p

  • @sailaway8244

    @sailaway8244

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@OfirMusic it was hertzl I was thinking of re conversion away (j ew) on latest DL chat It was his 'son?' that went to baptist and then Catholic, he shot himself on the day of his sisters funeral from heroine overdose. It was his grandson that 'jumped' from the bridge ending Hertzls blood line!

  • @wolfgangamadeuskeen
    @wolfgangamadeuskeen3 жыл бұрын

    Reminder set just for the thumbnail.

  • @user-vz1zc3fn7o

    @user-vz1zc3fn7o

    3 жыл бұрын

    Based

  • @keymaker2112
    @keymaker21123 жыл бұрын

    Schmitt was a genius, though I thought Yockey provided a more digestible insight into the essence of politics. Aesthetics- Determines what is beautiful and what is ugly. Economics- Determines what is profitable, and what is unprofitable. Morals- Determines what is Good and what is Evil. Honor- Determines what is Noble and what is Ignoble. Politics- Determines who is a Friend, and who is an Enemy. A culture, nation, or a state may be Noble, Beautiful, Good and Profitable, and yet still be an Enemy, unlikely though that is. The essence of politics is the Friend/Enemy disjunction.

  • @SeruraRenge11

    @SeruraRenge11

    3 жыл бұрын

    Schmitt was a genius but his solution to the problems of democracy was to create one of the most brutal authoritarian states on earth. As people have said, his preferred cure was worse than the disease.

  • @keymaker2112

    @keymaker2112

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SeruraRenge11 I don't believe the issue with Nazi Germany was it's authoritarianism, but it's totalitarianism. One is the form, the other the function. The term, "Authoritarian" tells us where power lies and how the sovereign authority relates to it's subjects/citizens, namely that it is authoritative. This does not explain what falls under the purvey of that relationship. It constitutes a form, it tells where power lies. Conversely, "Totalitarianism," tells us what falls under the purvey of the State, namely the Totality of the subjects/citizens, everything, from words, books, jobs, and images, to thoughts and families. The totality of the Human person is subject to the will of the State. This concerns the function of the State, it tells how and where power will be used; absolutely and everywhere. Consider the resounding successes, comparatively, of Chile under Pinochet, Spain under Franco, Portugal under Salazar, Korea under Rhee, Poland under Pilsudski. All Authoritarian, but not Totalitarian, they faced the threat of Communism successfully without descending into the madness of Germany. I don't accept that the cure was worse than the disease, as the disease has yet to be consummated in the Liberal Democracies. There is still time for it to get worse.

  • @che71che
    @che71che3 жыл бұрын

    Basically the scale of justice will fall in whatever direction the power tells you It did, Trump's mistake was believing the field of play was even, but as we all found out, All is fair in love. and war

  • @darkshad0wbee483

    @darkshad0wbee483

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kudos my friend... exactly what happened.. behind close doors his so called REPUBLICANS were stabbing him in the back.. I even had a feeling about Graham turning and always new McConnell never had faith in trump.

  • @DanWeeks
    @DanWeeks3 жыл бұрын

    Law is force, and force is violence, the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.

  • @patrickbateman783

    @patrickbateman783

    3 жыл бұрын

    Force is the hand maiden of Justice 🙏🙏🙏

  • @jdg9999
    @jdg99993 жыл бұрын

    Trump was a fool, he should have basically fired the entire federal bureaucracy on day 1 and insisted on total control of the appointment of replacements.

  • @cannibalholocaust3015

    @cannibalholocaust3015

    3 жыл бұрын

    Trump was never your friend, why can’t people see this? I’ll admit I had some hope but then looked at the people who were surrounding him and who he gave his daughter to and well, you know the rest.

  • @insensitive919

    @insensitive919

    3 жыл бұрын

    Firing Bannon was stupid too, I don't agree with his nonsense, but he was the most intelligent person Trump had.

  • @insensitive919

    @insensitive919

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Nonoffensive Username Go back to Q.

  • @anasevi9456

    @anasevi9456

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, Seems he never quite understood how uselessly rotten the uniparty was. Most boomers except for the odd Qtard act as if we are still in the same political environment as the 1980s; they yell about how bad the enemy party is but are completely oblivious to how uselessly rotten, how controlled opposition conservatives in the west are.

  • @cannibalholocaust3015

    @cannibalholocaust3015

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@anasevi9456 Rush Limbaugh was part and parcel of reinforcing this. The demonRats and LibTards man! It’s cringe and the right is wondering why it’s losing ?

  • @PAppMundo
    @PAppMundo3 жыл бұрын

    This is probably.. the most useful video I’ve ever watched in my quest to fully understand current social / political events.

  • @reuvenpolonskiy2544
    @reuvenpolonskiy25443 жыл бұрын

    There is a saying in Russia: You give everthing to your freinds. You give the law to your enemies.

  • 2 ай бұрын

    I always thought that this was from the über XIXs liberal president in Mexico. Nice.

  • @jakenicholaides3214
    @jakenicholaides32143 жыл бұрын

    Instead of having governments that want to create genuine change we get night Watchmen of the status quo they never want to be night watcmen of the country.

  • @insensitive919

    @insensitive919

    3 жыл бұрын

    Depending on who you ask, that's inevitable.

  • @theimproooooooover
    @theimproooooooover3 жыл бұрын

    Damn AA the mic upgrade makes your voice butter to my ears.

  • @sunnyjim1355

    @sunnyjim1355

    3 жыл бұрын

    But not just any butter, no no... but Shirgar, salted Welsh butter.

  • @alidaraie

    @alidaraie

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sunnyjim1355 YES

  • @marylamb1407
    @marylamb14073 жыл бұрын

    The Supreme Court's actions support your thesis that the Law is whatever those in power say it is. Constitutionalist don't seem to understand this.

  • @lawrencefishbourne5500
    @lawrencefishbourne55003 жыл бұрын

    The law as a function of politics can be seen quite clearly with the push for lighter sentences for minorities, due to what is said to be disparate impact.

  • @wizard_of_poz4413

    @wizard_of_poz4413

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yup

  • @Coldenthusiast
    @Coldenthusiast3 жыл бұрын

    Auto-liked for the Chad slap of the virgin beanie boi.

  • @SonofTiamat

    @SonofTiamat

    3 жыл бұрын

    Centrists are the biggest grifters

  • @user-vz1zc3fn7o

    @user-vz1zc3fn7o

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad people like the meme :)

  • @zubstep

    @zubstep

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SonofTiamat Grifting is for grifters, and beenie boi is just larping this or that perspective at all times on camera. He's not a centrist or anything in particular but a grifter, and that term 'centrist' is so diluted as to be meaningless anyway. When you or I poke at a 'centrist' like that, we're just arguing against a strawman of our own preferred interpretation, and it's not accomplishing anything.

  • @yomomz3921
    @yomomz39213 жыл бұрын

    Indeed, I do see enemies. I didn't start seeing them until I was called an enemy. But seeing as how I _am_ seeing them, I should probably carry myself accordingly.

  • @KittSpiken
    @KittSpiken3 жыл бұрын

    Slapped so hard, he broke his neck.

  • @Timbot2002
    @Timbot20023 жыл бұрын

    A fair and laconic analysis, a rare treat ! Thank you sir!!

  • @stephenminchin4870
    @stephenminchin48703 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Academic Agent. Very interesting and thought provoking. Had never heard of Carl Schmitt.

  • @resurrectingman9011
    @resurrectingman90113 жыл бұрын

    Back-to-back flawless victories, AA.

  • @christiansilva6004
    @christiansilva60043 жыл бұрын

    You’re a brilliant analyst and researcher. I truly admire you.

  • @gabbar51ngh
    @gabbar51ngh3 жыл бұрын

    This is just a long way to say "Might is right"

  • @BenjaminLupton

    @BenjaminLupton

    Жыл бұрын

    The biggest bully always wins. Its a battle of empire against sovereignty. The human spirit marches against this in its subculture empire, but its a slow march, and is consistently repressed by the immature scarecrows who view the world as animals, machines, and plants; their firmament is devoid of man and its liberating spirit, and rejects gods reach to connect their firmament with that of others, for their ignorance hasn't individuated themselves from god; and when a pesky anomaly occurs inside their firmament, they go demiurge against them, believing punishment and tyranny a suitable solution; as they haven't yet evolved better parenting and civic techniques, such as integration.

  • @gregsmith6935
    @gregsmith69353 жыл бұрын

    Yeah... seeing Tim Pool getting slapped made me click the video.

  • @HalfManThirdBiscuit
    @HalfManThirdBiscuit3 жыл бұрын

    On the slopes of Mt Doom, Samwise spies a distant star wheeling overhead. There are realms the Enemy does not threaten. They are not universal. Their power is divisible.

  • @ham1672
    @ham16723 жыл бұрын

    In just 16:40 minutes I've learnt more than I have all year

  • @grinningtiki220
    @grinningtiki2203 жыл бұрын

    The Thumbnail alone is worth the price of admission.

  • @libertybellgaming6551
    @libertybellgaming65513 жыл бұрын

    This characterisation of law as "downstream from politics" is a well-rehearsed theme of economic and political theory and has been articulated by classical liberals for many years. Bastiat, for example, distinguishes two senses of law. "The Law" in an ideal normative sense is the "organisation of the natural right of lawful defence; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose of acting in the sphere in which they have a right to act, of doing what they have a right to do, to secure persons, liberties, and properties, and to maintain each in its right, so as to cause justice to reign over all" (2013, p. 3). This is quite different to the law under existing state capitalist political economies, which has placed "the collective force in the service of those who wish to traffic, without risk and without scruple, in the persons, the liberty, and the property of others; it has converted plunder into a right, that it may protect it, and lawful defence into a crime, that it may punish it" (2013, p. 4). This portrayal of the law as an artefact of arbitrary class rule has been echoed extensively elsewhere in the classical liberal corpus (for example, see Albert Jay Nock, Murray Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Kevin Carson, David Hart, Roderick Long). While the belief that the law is a "fair thing that is applied equally" may be a feature of some varieties of "liberalism",(1) it is not a feature of classical liberalism. NOTES 1) Most probably, egalitarian "liberals" (eg., Rawls), pluralist political scientists (eg., Lindblom), or welfare economists (eg., Lipsey), but not classical liberals. REFERENCES Bastiat, F. (2013 [1850]), The Law, Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute.

  • @tensortab8896
    @tensortab88963 жыл бұрын

    Politics is just war by other means.

  • @user-bx4px7lj4x
    @user-bx4px7lj4x7 ай бұрын

    I really like this video very clearly written.

  • @ham1672
    @ham16723 жыл бұрын

    15:43 James Fields is a name that springs to mind

  • @PatrickHunter-hz2og
    @PatrickHunter-hz2ogАй бұрын

    Friend enemy distinction sounds really extreme, but in reality, many of the founding fathers (especially on the federalist side) of The United States expressed something not that far off.

  • @Jilktube
    @Jilktube3 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant video

  • @jamesjasso6002
    @jamesjasso60023 жыл бұрын

    Friend enemy dycotomy runs deeper. There are cooperative vs defective strategies (individuals, systems, structures...) and the rift is unbridgable. Shame cooperatives are so naive as to try and cooperate with defectives.

  • @Peteruspl

    @Peteruspl

    3 жыл бұрын

    But who wins repeated prison dilemma with some uncertainty? Once-forgiving tit-for-tat. In social situations the simplest winning heuristic is to turn the other cheek... once.

  • @jamesjasso6002

    @jamesjasso6002

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Peteruspl 1.When you can be sent to a gulag, it is not an iterated PD. 2. Tit4tat in repeated prisioner dilema assumes you do not know others players strategies (here we do, at least with leftists). 3. If you do know, you better avoid uncooperatives (defectives) and deal (as exclusively AP) with cooperatives. 4. If you do not know their strategy, contrary to turn the other cheeck, you must make them pay for defection, at least as dear as their defection (preferably more to set precedent). Or you can play naive cooperation and become a slave or soil fertilizer😋

  • @Peteruspl

    @Peteruspl

    3 жыл бұрын

    Naive cooperative is arguably the most anti-social heuristic as it allows always defect to win. Who defends that? In XXI Century any project worth doing requires massive amt of cooperation. Even things like Gab that are on the whole quite "self-sufficient" and renegades, took cooperation of hundreds of actors. They could have exercised some preference (and benefited from it, being pure professional is not good strat admittedly), but if they would just try to really burn bridges to anyone with a whiff of leftism on them, they would have never built it. In personal life I'd say going too hard is a way to end up in a trailer park, or a cabin in the woods, far more damaged than from worst cancellation. As for forgiveness it should not be unlimited or easily given, but going to the monke - clan style organization - is also a loosing strat. You will have plenty of people who bought some form of poisonous ideologies and lived them for a while. They are not all life-long marked enemies.

  • @Confucius_76
    @Confucius_762 жыл бұрын

    Moldbug's latest Substack essay on "The Butterfly Coup" is relevant to this video

  • @janism94
    @janism943 жыл бұрын

    Violence is the Supreme Authority From Which All Other Authority is Derived

  • @pootis4986
    @pootis49863 жыл бұрын

    The biggest issue with American politics is that the 2 dominant political party are way contrarian which creates the friend/enemy scenario

  • @honsel9353
    @honsel93533 жыл бұрын

    Jurists are the theologians of the existing order. Carl Schmitt, Roman Catholicism and Political Form

  • @General-Grievance
    @General-Grievance3 жыл бұрын

    With a thumbnail like that, how could I not click?

  • @cannibalholocaust3015
    @cannibalholocaust30153 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely amazing article in the Guardian(I know) about Robert Maxwell mainly due to how it illustrates how much our political class lives in fear of the media and the people Maxwell worked for all his life. Even in death the leaders of the Western world were falling over themselves eulogising. The Neil Kinnock section in particular is interesting, as is Mandelson attempting to distance himself & being unchallenged on this obvious nonsense.

  • @cannibalholocaust3015

    @cannibalholocaust3015

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@thotslayer9914 “thotslayer” was taken already 😅

  • @virtualpilgrim8645
    @virtualpilgrim8645 Жыл бұрын

    Carl Schmitt looks like Napoleon Solo

  • @obviouspropaganda8200
    @obviouspropaganda82003 жыл бұрын

    The time for words has passed

  • @chrisg5219
    @chrisg52193 жыл бұрын

    Yea but one side is legislating against the other and that other is not really fighting back.

  • @gramham5121
    @gramham51213 жыл бұрын

    Truly excellent analogy, as well as your take on the American political landscape. Subscribed bc you are earnest, in case Bill Gates wants to know

  • @mikemilton4370
    @mikemilton43703 жыл бұрын

    History is written by the victor.

  • @sasi5841
    @sasi58413 жыл бұрын

    TL;DW The idea that rule of law determines what is right or wrong, is just another way to say that the victors determines what is right or wrong. For it is the victors who determine what goes in the legal code. The existence of a state depends on inner peace. So any inner opponents, with the exception of controled opposition, must be declared as the enemy and be crushed. Is my interpretation of the video correct?

  • @dancooper4733
    @dancooper47333 жыл бұрын

    I know who my frens are.

  • @Woziewaseraswell
    @Woziewaseraswell3 жыл бұрын

    You need to talk with Economics explained

  • @johnpeterson2987
    @johnpeterson29873 жыл бұрын

    Settlers Lament had a stream yesterday I think called Libertarianism and Christianity. You can really get a feel for how law is downstream of politics.

  • @AJ-ew1lp

    @AJ-ew1lp

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking about that today and I made a graphical representation of a feedback loop regarding societies. Every 90 degrees is a pillar, it starts with people, then it moves to culture, then on to institutions and then onto law. Moving in a whirlpool fashion, culture will always be down stream of people; the institutions will always be downstream of culture, the laws will always be a product of the govt and the laws will reflect onto the people arriving back at the start of the loop. You could also add other factors to determine size of the circle by growth that would require more inputs and data, but that could be for a longer thought process and not defacto ancohring to immigration and economics of-course. Change the people, changes the culture, which will change the institutions, which will change the laws all downstream from one another but always returns to the people. Enough change in people, will create a change in everything else and soon enough, the circle spins so wide it loss of its enthalpy is great or evolves into a wildly different animal.

  • @nashthrashington9749
    @nashthrashington97493 жыл бұрын

    This a lesson most know deep down but many refuse to admit. Anybody who has had schooling know the teacher picks favourites and punishes unfairly. Not to mention judges who let crying girls off the hook, despite their attempts at murder. They recently executed the first woman on death row since 1953 in the states I think it was. Surely if law was fair and egalitarian and held up to classical liberal principles, then this would not be the case...

  • @SeruraRenge11
    @SeruraRenge113 жыл бұрын

    The problem with this argument is the wrong side won the English Civil War. All joking aside, the real thing is that if the those who are in both in both parties have very little actual disagreement, it doesn't really matter what the people think. The English Civil War is a terrible comparison because both sides wielded immense political power AND saw the other side as an enemy to be destroyed. The US lacks half of that equation. Who cares if the two sides among the people hate each other, the politicians don't. The only reason the right voted no on that impeachment is because they didn't think it was grounds to convict, they still denounced what happened on the 6th, aided the other side in hunting anyone who was there that day, and outed anyone among them that supported the event. The people don't matter, and as a monarchist, I say they shouldn't.

  • @Sleepy_zzzzz
    @Sleepy_zzzzz3 жыл бұрын

    4:31 You said serenity, are feeling alright?

  • @Sleepy_zzzzz

    @Sleepy_zzzzz

    3 жыл бұрын

    You said it several times, so say with me, sov-reign-ity, not serenity.

  • @robertwalsh6018
    @robertwalsh60183 жыл бұрын

    *holds aloft a skull* friend or foe that is the only question

  • @SgtSteel1
    @SgtSteel13 жыл бұрын

    But Trump IS a liberal. Not sure what to make of this :(

  • @TheKlink
    @TheKlink3 жыл бұрын

    ok, law is downstream from politics is downstream from culture. So what's up-stream? and down-stream? Is there something cross-stream? How do those interact?

  • @TheKlink

    @TheKlink

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Jacob-pu4zj apart from when Egon tells you. It seems he was Sovereign.

  • @eirikurnafnendringur3327
    @eirikurnafnendringur33273 жыл бұрын

    It is really not in the opposition's best interests that they becone synonymous with Trump.

  • @radiozelaza
    @radiozelaza3 жыл бұрын

    can't you eventually get a proper pop-filter for the microphone?

  • @Peteruspl
    @Peteruspl3 жыл бұрын

    Western countries are not "societies" any more. I'm writing from Poland and even here the rift is at its deepest since post-communist times. Fault line is a bit different, but if you squint you can see something close to "deplorables" in the national socialist ruling party and the city dwelling corporate drones as the core of the opposition. It's not 1:1, there no racial components and it is "right" that bought the welfare queens with handouts instead of welfare plantation on the left. What is most similar however is that demands of each side are increasingly unacceptable for the other. For one side to be content, the other would have to be suppressed like prisoners - not only deprived of what they wanted, but also made powerless to fight for it.

  • @cyylee5606

    @cyylee5606

    3 жыл бұрын

    Biden and the Western regime has their eyes on Poland, you're next on the chopping block.... Hungary will probably prove to be a bit more difficult but I suspect that they are working their tentacles into your country.

  • @tracertong8839

    @tracertong8839

    3 жыл бұрын

    How are 'Konfederacja' doing? On paper they seem insanely based for a European party, but it's impossible to feel them out as someone who doesn't speak Polish.

  • @Peteruspl

    @Peteruspl

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, they try to go broad from furthest right towards right-center. Some guys are OK, though when its not just slogans from the sideline, but a particular problem they usually do worse than hoped for. Like Trump lawyers promising Leviathan and bringing not-even-fact-checked mess of cases. They do take antivaxxers and fascists. Its taboo to openly say "I'm a fascist", but guys with roots in certain organizations, sometimes a photo with roman salute floats up and such. So lets say its a confederation of BNP, UKIP and Farage. I'd say this is still an improvement on PiS, if they stay true to half their manifesto when in power. But this is representation for far-right, so best they can do is pinch more center-right and maybe be 3rd or 2nd and have a seat in a coalition. They can no more win an election than a UK Commie party with some Stalinist tankies in it. Flanks are OK in Polish politics, the problem is that center is a warzone. In US there is talk of Dems packing supreme court, PiS has already packed ours a few years back.

  • @robertmiller6444
    @robertmiller64443 жыл бұрын

    You say you won't support Trump. But what if Trump is the GOP nominee in 2024? (And to be clear, there are no viable 3rd parties, which is just the Game Theoretical case in every partisan primary election for President)

  • @paulvmarks
    @paulvmarks3 жыл бұрын

    Law should be above, not below, political conflict. Or, as Aristotle warned, we have the rule of men not the rule of law. Winning a conflict (even a war) does not change the natural law (natural justice). The measure of a good judge is that they rule AGAINST their political loyalties when justice is on the other side. Politics does not define right and wrong.

  • @muuanmies7372
    @muuanmies73723 жыл бұрын

    well the thing is you are not friend either

  • @cj-fh4nx
    @cj-fh4nx3 жыл бұрын

    See the comic memes, punch them first!

  • @leiftorbjorn5621
    @leiftorbjorn56213 жыл бұрын

    Politics is downstream from culture, but culture is also downstream from politics, as in, they are symbiotic. A prime example of this is gay marriage, for a long time public opinion on the issue was with the conservatives, even Obama couldn’t be outspokenly pro gay marriage in his first election. What changed? Obergfell v hodges, sure opinions had been shifting towards acceptance for some time, but the scotus decision quickly left republicans with little incentive to keep talking about the sanctity of marriage, they didn’t have much political capital to actually overturn the ruling, they were never going to get the immense supermajority required to do so. So instead they moved on to other issues, only sparsely referring to ‘traditional marriage’ . After that, opinion polling on the issue took a huge turn, and now just a few years after even Obama couldn’t be pro gay marriage, even a majority of republicans are ok with it. The moral is, the state can have a grip on culture, and pretending that either it can’t or worse, that it shouldn’t, is a grave mistake a lot of testicle lacking “conservatives” have. Fundamentally, the left has for a very long time had complete control of non state institutions in society, the media, Hollywood, advertising, HR departments, big tech, etc. The only way conservative win is through hard power, and the hard use of the state to influence the culture. In the case of gay marriage, when the people stopped hearing 2 stories, and simply heard 1, people just accepted that it was the standard, acceptable opinion to have on the issue, and so they adopted it. As much as we like to think otherwise, most people are ideological lemmings, they want to stay in the mainstream, they want to be accepted, and most of all, they want to root for the winning team. If you use state power to create the mainstream story and to suppress the opposing story, the people will follow. As teddy roosavelt said “when you got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow”.

  • @insensitive919

    @insensitive919

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I hate that expression, especially when midwits like Ben Shapiro use it to sound smart to idiots.

  • @JohnSmith-mk8bf

    @JohnSmith-mk8bf

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was popularized by andrew brietbart after the 2016 election. Well put, ive being mulling it over after a reply from AA further down/earlier. Your right symbiotic is the best way to describe it, with a healthy dose of meddling from the elitetes.

  • @patrickbateman783

    @patrickbateman783

    3 жыл бұрын

    Politics and Culture is downstream from the Elite Class in my opinion.

  • @KonyCurrentYear
    @KonyCurrentYear3 жыл бұрын

    If law is downstream of politics, and politics is downstream of culture, and culture is downstream of law, does that mean we have an MC Escher infinite river of sorts that describes the nature of society?

  • @AcademicAgent

    @AcademicAgent

    3 жыл бұрын

    Politics isn’t downstream of culture.

  • @cyphermasq7870

    @cyphermasq7870

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AcademicAgent I've heard you say this a few times. But I'm not sure i agree. Could you recommend some readings I could look to that might change my mind on the subject or informed your view on the topic.

  • @AcademicAgent

    @AcademicAgent

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cyphermasq7870 Italian elite theory, Burnham’s Machiavellians is a start.

  • @costakeith9048

    @costakeith9048

    3 жыл бұрын

    Religion -> Culture -> Law -> Politics, which is why the liberals have attacked the established Church from the beginning, the only true revolution is to change the metaphysical presuppositions of a society, only then can you make substantive changes to culture, law, and politics. Which is why most attempts at revolution in the middle ages were dead on arrival, the biggest outcome that could be reasonable expected is to change the dynasty on the throne. With the protestant reformation a new vehicle for revolution was opened up, which the North German Princes, Dutch, and English took advantage of, with the Enlightenment came yet another, even more dangerous and far reaching, vehicle for revolution which would lead to a series of highly destructive revolutions from the American Revolution to the French Revolution to the Bolshevik Revolution. For the last 300 years, the left has focused on religion and metaphysics (scientism, empiricism, humanism, etc. are all religious ideologies designed to overthrow the traditional Christian order) and the right on politics...which is why the left is winning, hands down. Politics is just law made specific, politics contrary to law is the very definition of tyranny; while a tyrant may be able to exercise power, at least in the short term, it is always tenuous as his rule is inherently illegitimate.

  • @KonyCurrentYear

    @KonyCurrentYear

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AcademicAgent Then where does culture flow from, and where does politics flow from? Is politics the original spring?

  • @seanclough5822
    @seanclough58223 жыл бұрын

    Looking at a civil war to understand politics seems a little Kinseyan.

  • @yomomz3921
    @yomomz39213 жыл бұрын

    13:41 - Agreed. Trump's was the last "American" banner that I was willing to follow, and Trump dropped it - Trump _abandoned_ his own banner. And it is what it is. But the future will be interesting. "America" is in deep Schmitt - even the fact that I feel compelled to put "America" in quotes, because it's no longer America.

  • @jessejames209

    @jessejames209

    3 жыл бұрын

    :( It was sad to watch. I think so many of his inner circle bannermen dropped it and were telling him to drop it as well. His voters never did. What do you make of his CPAC speech, the future of the maga movement?

  • @yomomz3921

    @yomomz3921

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jessejames209 - Ah. Gotta say, I've stopped paying attention to Trump. I have no animosity, just a numb detachment. It started setting in when he pushed hard for extra Covid relief - which seemed like preventing the communist takeover by passing out "free money" - made no sense. I went to DC on the 6th half-heartedly, mostly out of a sense of obligation. Trump had seemed to be making sincere efforts (mostly in his early days), so despite some missteps, I felt honor-bound to attend, and be ready. So I did, and I was. And if anything was going to come of "saving America", that was the moment. And it has sailed on by. It was always a long-shot, probably doomed to failure before it began. But it was nice to feel hope. Now that a presidential election has been successfully stolen, in front of everyone, and no one has done anything about it (aside from persecuting those who took a stand there on the 6th), I don't expect to see another free and fair election in "America". The cathedral cheated in plain view and got away with it, so why would they ever abandon the practice? The republic is dead and gone. I don't know what sort of political entity I live in, but it's now the world's property. The world though, is sort of an absentee landlord at this point... and I think things will get more exciting in the future. There's a million possible scenarios, but I'm betting on excitement, and hoping for balkanization. I love that we have more guns than people - for everything else going wrong, it's a comfort. And I'd rather fight a war than follow the cathedral's plans. I wish Trump well, but he's lost the way, as far as I can tell. And he's 70-something too, so I'm amazed he's done as good as he has. [Edit: But ultimately, Trump was only ever one man.] Cheers. 🍻

  • @Vgallo
    @Vgallo3 жыл бұрын

    What do the captions read?

  • @lordkonzilla7890

    @lordkonzilla7890

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tims says its complicated and carl schmitt responds with friend good enemy bad

  • @SonofTiamat

    @SonofTiamat

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@benisrood But muh horseshoe theory!

  • @male272
    @male2723 жыл бұрын

    Tim Pool has left the 'reality class'...he constantly feels the need to remind everyone of his 'roots', indicative of a person who has to voice that in order to have legitimacy with their audience. If he actually suffered from the effects of the society he comments on, 'complicated' would become very straightforward, but, instead of being an honest broker, he is intellectually dishonest, and in his washed out world there is no moral hierarchy...at least...until it touches him (I mean for real touches him, instead of his performance anger).

  • @Upharius

    @Upharius

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great take. I always hone in on how he goes I'm from the hood, southside Chicago, then mentions his mother owning a restaurant that he worked at when he was 6 and a father in the military. His stories don't ever flow without contradictions. He was everything all at the same time it seems.

  • @male272

    @male272

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Upharius He's critical of media lies, but never has the nerve to speak a truth himself. He's a man that has an ass crack with purpose...it allows him to keep balance sitting on the fence.

  • @Upharius

    @Upharius

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@male272 Of all people, I feel really weird watching the Tim pool empire grow. I can't put my finger on why it is so offputting to me.

  • @male272

    @male272

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Upharius The Theme is 'See how you're being manipulated? You can't do anything about it.'

  • @darkshad0wbee483

    @darkshad0wbee483

    3 жыл бұрын

    I just like how he shifted on country folk for years... now hes one of them and like... do you know how great it is out here!!! I wish he go back to his slums he loves so much instead of ruining the forest with that old beenie

  • @patriciusvonkempen9810
    @patriciusvonkempen98103 жыл бұрын

    O thought hostes was a Latin Term

  • @AcademicAgent

    @AcademicAgent

    3 жыл бұрын

    Who cares in all honesty.

  • @DagothUr3672

    @DagothUr3672

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AcademicAgent Based.

  • @philipgodal2469
    @philipgodal24693 жыл бұрын

    How did Trump disrupt the neoliberal order?

  • @highmarshalhelbrecht4715

    @highmarshalhelbrecht4715

    3 жыл бұрын

    He has 80 IQ Hill billies calling out rinos as traitors, he is the disruptor in chief.

  • @akshatgautam9885

    @akshatgautam9885

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good question. I suspect that his throwing of spanners into almost every international agency was a real big part of the disruption from an Elite pov. Eg, US basically runs WTO, and they didn't nominate anyone to the Appellate authority of the WTO, essentially grinding a lot of WTO work to a halt. We know about Paris and WHO. Must be other examples. However I do support your hinted-at critique that DJT wasn't really something *that* far from the Washington (economic system) and Hollywood (cultural, soft power) Consensus. Would have fit right into an 80s or even 90s Democratic party, save maybe the abortion stuff, which is of course the Evangelical Danegeld of choice in Republican politics since Reagan.

  • @progste

    @progste

    3 жыл бұрын

    By questioning their narratives and their authority. Even the slight delay he was able to put on some of their agendas showed how weak they were, the questioning of leftist politics emerged from the underground partially thanks to Trump.

  • @johntavner3418

    @johntavner3418

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xdrowssap4456 MNC's?

  • @doubt_

    @doubt_

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johntavner3418 multinational corporations probably

  • @simurghthepersian7220
    @simurghthepersian72203 жыл бұрын

    @academic agent can you please give me video on why you dont support trump anymore ?

  • @AlwaysHopeful87
    @AlwaysHopeful873 жыл бұрын

    Lex is Rex.

  • @bitcoinmining6361
    @bitcoinmining63613 жыл бұрын

    What???!!! We should talk to people with other ideas?? And that discourse enables us to progress??? Man!!...watch out you are walking a tight rope here....lol...This would be funny, if we didn't have to explain this to the newer genreations.....(Good job mate...keep doing what you're doing.....I am learning a lot how to speak to people...(serious bit))...

  • @AdolfStalin
    @AdolfStalin3 жыл бұрын

    I am a descendant of Charles I

  • @seanclough5822

    @seanclough5822

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dont let it go to your head

  • @AdolfStalin

    @AdolfStalin

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@seanclough5822 too late

  • @saryakan
    @saryakan3 жыл бұрын

    Subtitle to this video: how to teach an american, that their system isn't actually special.

  • @dragonturtle2703
    @dragonturtle27033 жыл бұрын

    I don't see how that friend enemy distinction conflicts with libertarian. If anything, it seems like it would fit perfectly into the NAP. "You want to take away my rights, and will act to do so, you have declared war on me and I shall respond in kind". Sounds like you were talking to people who haven't really thought through their ideology through a realist lens.

  • @marktregear5776
    @marktregear577610 ай бұрын

    An excellent analysis but I have one point of disagreement. You state that a weakness of the neoliberal regime is that they define themselves in opposition to Trump. I don't think that's the case. The current equivalent of belief in the Divine Right of Kings is belief in the Climate Crisis. This is the most critical determinant of the legitimacy of the regime & the current theocracy maintains this belief with absolute discipline - any weakening of belief is grounds for immediate excommunication. So I would contend that the current regime is both stronger and more fanatical than its seventeenth century equivalent.

  • @rivenmain2175
    @rivenmain21753 жыл бұрын

    83654

  • @Jaysonbc1234
    @Jaysonbc12343 жыл бұрын

    I like playing the last of us part. 2. It's beautiful and violent - for both men and women- despite its hints of wokeness. It's a simplified form of the age old adage: Might makes right.

  • @vonheer7418
    @vonheer74183 жыл бұрын

    Get a pop filter :)

  • @AcademicAgent

    @AcademicAgent

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you want to hear what it sounds like with the pop filter on, then the Geek video uses it and people moaned it sounded muffled.

  • @vonheer7418

    @vonheer7418

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AcademicAgent I see. Hmm.

  • @Gorboduc
    @Gorboduc3 жыл бұрын

    Law is downstream from politics, politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from biology. (Don't let this get around.)

  • @HakWilliams
    @HakWilliams2 жыл бұрын

    Thank God trump never had any real power

  • @plaubelmakina8916
    @plaubelmakina89163 жыл бұрын

    Tim has a very slapable face.

  • @patrickbateman783

    @patrickbateman783

    3 жыл бұрын

    *Pim Tool

  • @aceofswords1725
    @aceofswords17253 жыл бұрын

    Start uploading to alt-tech sites. What is wrong with you?

  • @cyylee5606

    @cyylee5606

    3 жыл бұрын

    They're broken. If I recall correctly, AA said it's taking a week to upload a video to Bitchute.

  • @aceofswords1725

    @aceofswords1725

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cyylee5606 youtube simply wont let me answer and give you the name of the best alternative. inverse eesydo. get it? now why are they going to such lengths to actually ban any mention of their competition... people should finally start escaping this horrific caricature of a gulag they got here.

  • @cyylee5606

    @cyylee5606

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aceofswords1725 yes I noticed. You more or less cannot say anything now, you especially can't say anything about any group that isn't straight white men. AA has told people to follow his second channel in case anything happens, he does have a few alt tech accounts... Let's just see how eesydo does, I've noticed a few people are beginning to use it.

  • @aceofswords1725

    @aceofswords1725

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cyylee5606 Yeah, I've been following most alt-tech from the start and atm OD seems to have most kinks ironed out, particularly monetization (without that its difficult to get creators, understandably). BC is really struggling with that and it may be their achilles heel... Atm I'm betting on OD but who knows... things are moving quite quickly in that space these days....

  • @cyylee5606

    @cyylee5606

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aceofswords1725 I have to use a VPN while using BC because they're based in the UK and surprise surprise, it's being censored. Funny how you can't watch a particular documentary about a particular Austrian painter on a website that's supposed to be for the free exchange of ideas and information and against censorship. I believe it's partly due to usual group of rootless transnationals.