E2 w/ Marc Andreessen on Elon, Nietzsche, and America's Thousand Year Empire

00:00 - Intro

1:00 - Unpacking the famous SBF quote

4:00 - Introducing Joe Henrich’s “WEIRD”

6:15 - Introducing Tom Holland’s “Dominion”

7:10 - Nietzsche’s criticism of Christianity 

8:45 - Christianity’s inversion of morality

11:40 - Is Wokeness the logical conclusion of Christianity?

15:00 - The Christ narrative as the central narrative

16:20 - Are there any alternatives to WEIRD - Is WEIRD taking over the world?

17:20 - Antonio’s circumcision

20:30 - Why we can’t have Nietzschian morality in TV shows

24:30 - Kanye, Trump, Elon

26:30 - Introducing James Burnham and the rise of professional managerial class

31:30 - How Elon is a threat to the PMC

34:00 - Can other countries resist WEIRD?

38:30 - What would Balaji say about the case for America?

41:50 - Balaji’s Network State

43:20 - is social media going to fragment?

46:35 - America is consistent with the process of evolution

48:20 - We need more cleaving of the elites

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