I recorded this live stream tonight after publishing my critique of the All-In Podcast hosts. In it, I delve into my critique of the All-In Podcast hosts and the response it generated, which reveals everything wrong with how elite discourse handles systematic moral corruption. When you call obvious evil by its proper name, a chorus of voices emerges to scold you for your lack of civility, your abandonment of "persuasion," your failure to see the humanity in people who are systematically destroying the institutions that make human dignity possible.
But here's what the civility police fundamentally misunderstand: there are moments when reasoned discourse becomes collaboration with unreasonable behavior. When politeness becomes a weapon against truth. When the demand to "see both sides" becomes a sophisticated form of moral blindness that enables exactly the corruption it claims to deplore.
Jeff Bezos celebrating his wedding in Venice—transforming one of humanity's greatest collective achievements into a backdrop for oligarchic theater—while David Sacks uses his legal training to provide constitutional cover for authoritarianism isn't a matter of "complex policy disagreements" requiring nuanced analysis. It's a perfect symbol of what happens when private wealth appropriates the public sphere, when individual corruption masquerades as institutional authority, when systematic evil dresses itself up in the language of sophistication.
Some things are actually good versus evil. And pretending otherwise isn't wisdom—it's the comfortable delusion that allows evil to operate with impunity while performing the role of reasonable discourse.
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