Episode
Fellow Creators the Creator Seeks
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- May 22, 2026
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Summary
The Free State Party invited me to speak at their event in Manchester, New Hampshire this week. It was a chance to pitch what we’re doing and why to a crowd that was values-aligned, but not steeped in exactly the same memetic environment. The “elevator pitch” for this thing is difficult, because you have to question so many premises and dispute so many definitions. I could feel that they liked certain things that I was saying, but I was not quite establishing the connective tissue that made it all hang together: Managerialism [“what is that”], and therefore natalism [“what is that”], and therefore Great Houses [“what is that”], and therefore fraternity [“what is that”], and therefore entrepreneurship [“oh, ok”]. People recognize that family formation has collapsed, politics are out of control, they don’t live in the country they thought they did. It’s a relatively short walk from there to “liberalism as runaway civilizational entropy”. But then to point to “where it all went wrong,” and what can be built that will survive the crisis, you have to cover some pretty difficult ground. It’s not enough to say “we have to go back to 1950” (or 1650, or 600 BC) — that can’t be done. In order to build for the future, you have to think about what civilization is doing , and why it has gone awry, and what is worth trying to save as we pass through this catastrophic historical bottleneck. Preparing for the Free State Party event was a great exercise, because it forced me to re-examine the chain of thought that brought us here — but because I hadn’t accurately mapped out the conceptual distance between us ahead of time, I don’t think I was able to communicate to that room exactly what I intended. So the above podcast is my attempt to do that plumbing a little more carefully. I still…