David Storey (Part 2): Alpha Energy Plus Economic Populism Plus Christianity Equals?
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Part two of a provocative conversation with David Storey, associate professor of philosophy at Boston College.
**Key takeaways**
- 0:45 The right has coded expertise as feminine
- 2:45 How ironic: the manosphere exists in disembodied cyberspace
- 6:00 What Fight Club was all about
- 11:00 The retro-romantic part of MAGA
- 13:00 The war on terror was a weak halfway house between the Cold War and MAGA
- 17:00 The tech right as Nietzschean supermen
- 19:00 Funneling alpha energy into a mass movement against Big Tech
- 21:00 Can Democrats become more fluent in Christianity as they embrace economic populism?
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