[FRIAM] The+Jim+Rutt+Show

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Colleagues, 

 

I am hoping to entrap one or more of you into listening to
https://www.jimruttshow.com/currents-curtis-yarvin/ and helping me to
resolve my ambivalence about it.  Yarvin seems to be some sort of a
libertarian, an attribution I make from his smug dismissiveness and his
inability to speak without making reference to bowel and sexual function in
every sentence.  Also, his joy in goading us BHL's by such assertions as,
"FDR was a much worse liar than Donald Trump."  On the other hand, his
diagnosis of the deep state and conflicts of interest that bind "experts'
are deeply troubling to me.  He seems to make an argument for authoritarian
government structures, praising the organization of the Manhattan project
with that of NSF.   Thus his take on FDR is that he was not a successful
democratic leader but a skillful autocrat.  He argues plausibly that the
covid pandemic was the result of a US funded program Chinese research
program on SARS-related bat viruses when the infected ferrets there were
working on were sold to the wet-market by the person who was supposed to
euthanize them.  The idea here is that the SARS program was continued, not
because it was still needed, but because of the institutional and financial
momentum provided by the US government for the Chinese Research.  I would be
much more convinced by what he is saying if he didn't take so much pleasure
in saying it. 

 

Nick 

 

Nick Thompson

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