American Conversations: Technology Reporter Gil Duran

Duran was early in recognizing that the technology elite had a dystopian vision for human society. We'll get to hear from him about dystopian blogger Curtis Yarvin, the idea of a "network state," and what tech bros imagine for our future.

00:00 - Start
00:40 - Welcome
01:09 - Who is Curtis Yarvin?
02:32 - What is “Dark Enlightenment”? How do people like Yarvin think about American politics and American society?
04:20 - “The Sovereign Individual,” Peter Thiel
06:11 - A new kind of society where tech bros rule
07:00 - Where did Yarvin come from?
08:22 - The Neo-Reactionary movement/Dark Enlightenment
09:40 - Undermining existing institutions to establish new
10:10 - Interface between religion and Neo-Reactionary systems, “tech theocracy”
15:05 - Network states
19:30 - Using democracy for arguing against it
22:27 - So what do we do?