James Poulos is a Tocqueville scholar who wrote The Art of Being Free (2017) and Human Forever (2021). He was a co-founder of The American Mind and his latest project is a magazine called Return. We discuss humanism and post-humanism, the merging of Big Tech and Woke Capital into an atheist cyborg theocracy, why James rejects accelerationism, the importance of human memory, Bitcoin, Urbit, and much more.
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0:00 Intro
1:35 The history of American technotheology
15:09 Collective amnesia & generational conflict
20:19 The glory of Christianity & the danger of digital Gnosticism
24:29 Year Zero & the Woke Big Tech war on memory
31:25 Escaping the cyborg theocracy
34:30 Building & using humanity-preserving technological tools
41:28 The emancipatory advantage of independent publishing
46:24 Exit the cybernetic enclosure DIY
49:28 Bitcoin = weapon
51:01 Is crypto demonic?
58:24 Urbit & the conservation of human civilization
1:03:41 Preserving humanity on digital foundations
1:08:13 The future of digital branding & publishing
1:15:56 Closing words
Дата на публикация: 21 април, 2022
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