RadixJournal - Richard Spencer - You're Pathological, Even If You're Right
Aired: 2022-10-07
Duration: 04:51


=== Wife's Influence on Media Obsession (04:51) ===

[00:00:00]  It was said by Lacan about the man who is obsessed with his wife cheating on him, the notion of his wife being adulterous.
[00:00:10]  And so he is doing everything.
[00:00:14]  He's spying on his own wife.
[00:00:16]  He's checking her bags, reading the receipts that he might find to see if she went out to some fancy restaurant.
[00:00:24]  He's just, you know, stays up all night, doesn't get any sleep because...
[00:00:29]  He thinks she might be leaving at 3 a.m. to meet her lover or something like that.
[00:00:33]  He just kind of ruins his life due to this obsession.
[00:00:38]  And Lacombe said even if his wife actually were sleeping with someone, it doesn't change the fact that what he's doing is pathological.
[00:00:54]  So even if he finds the truth, In a way, it doesn't tell you the real truth of why are you so obsessed with this?
[00:01:05]  Yes.
[00:01:06]  Maybe it's actually kind of...
[00:01:09]  Don't quote me on this, but maybe actually looking the other way might actually be your best move.
[00:01:18]  Don't ruin your marriage.
[00:01:19]  You've got a good wife.
[00:01:20]  Look the other way and then try to solve the problem as opposed to...
[00:01:25]  Obsessing about it and then freaking out.
[00:01:31]  And so I think it's very similar with Stop the Steal where, I mean, look, obviously in every election that's ever taken place, there's some weird thing about it.
[00:01:43]  And there's some fairly good cases you can make about social media censoring and mostly censoring the right.
[00:01:55]  Maybe censoring the left a little bit, but mostly censoring the right.
[00:01:59]  Twitter kicked the Hunter Biden laptop off the network.
[00:02:05]  It's just unfair.
[00:02:08]  Mail-in voting seems to help out Democrats, and that was promoted.
[00:02:13]  It just seems unfair.
[00:02:14]  I might even kind of agree with a lot of those things.
[00:02:19]  But even if you could find George Soros himself, Stuffing ballot boxes.
[00:02:27]  It doesn't change the pathological nature of what you're doing.
[00:02:34]  Yes.
[00:02:35]  So it's like you feel like you've lost your country due to a number of very important things.
[00:02:43]  Just generational and cultural change that is seemingly profound.
[00:02:49]  We get that.
[00:02:53]  Hollowing out of the middle class.
[00:02:55]  We got it.
[00:02:58]  The racial transformation that might not even be taking place in your hometown, but is taking place in the media you see, on social media, etc.
[00:03:11]  You know, Black Lives Matter riots that seem to be kind of like cheered on and were, to be fair, cheered on by...
[00:03:20]  The Democratic establishment and upper crust white liberals living in Arlington, Virginia or something.
[00:03:30]  But it's like that's the issue.
[00:03:34]  And so that expresses itself as the election was stolen.
[00:03:39]  So you're really not ultimately solving anything.
[00:03:42]  Even if you were able to win January 6th, none of those problems would go away.
[00:03:50]  And so it is pathological, regardless of what the facts are.
[00:03:55]  Now, I have never seen anything convincing or even compelling about the election being stolen.
[00:04:03]  Outside of some of those things, I kind of agree, actually, about the early voting.
[00:04:09]  I think you should vote on the fucking day.
[00:04:12]  Get off your ass, you know?
[00:04:13]  Like, I don't like this mail-in.
[00:04:16]  Maybe if you're in the army or something, you're stationed in Germany, you could do that.
[00:04:20]  But I think you should vote on the day.
[00:04:23]  And I agree.
[00:04:26]  I don't like the conservatives, but I kind of agree that they get the short end of the stick when it comes to social media censorship.
[00:04:34]  Even that is kind of interesting because it demonstrates how powerful social media was in 2016 and how pro-Trump it was.
[00:04:44]  But those aren't fraud arguments.
[00:04:46]  They're just kind of issues of fairness and stuff like that.