RadixJournal - Richard Spencer - The Handman's Tale
Aired: 2026-04-22
Duration: 06:23


=== Faking Desire and Social Proof (02:44) ===

[00:00:00]  There's just no there, there.
[00:00:01]  It's just like the pure superficiality.
[00:00:04]  And I think there's also that like social proof where, don't you feel like this?
[00:00:11]  And sorry, I know RFH is on here, but like I said this about Taylor Swift.
[00:00:20]  Insult the ladies once again.
[00:00:22]  This is not a good game in many ways, or maybe it is a great game.
[00:00:25]  I'm negging.
[00:00:26]  Who knows?
[00:00:27]  But I thought with Taylor Swift where it was like, It wasn't so much that anyone liked her music, it's that they wanted to like her music.
[00:00:39]  You have a desire for a desire, as Kozhev would say.
[00:00:44]  Like, it's not, how do I say this?
[00:00:47]  Like, it's not so much that when someone donates to charity or something, they give a thousand bucks to the food bank or to.
[00:01:02]  Toys for tots or after school programs.
[00:01:06]  It's not so much that they want to do that because they think it's effective.
[00:01:12]  And it's more that they want to be the type of person who wants to do, who does that type of thing.
[00:01:20]  It's a desire for a desire.
[00:01:23]  There's a lack, the desire is bracketed.
[00:01:25]  There's a lack of actual desire, but there's a desire to be the person who desires that.
[00:01:32]  And I feel like that is with Taylor Swift, where no one actually likes her music.
[00:01:38]  But it's this notion of a sort of healthy, though relatable, beautiful, but maybe not too beautiful woman as a pop star.
[00:01:54]  They want to desire her as an icon of whom they want to be.
[00:02:03]  And thus, no one actually thinks that those songs are good.
[00:02:07]  They're sort of faking themselves out.
[00:02:10]  I mean, I remember when I was playing, when I was on the football team in high school, we would run wind sprints after practice, which are very hard.
[00:02:22]  And we would run like 20, you know, like 40 yard wind sprints, just go.
[00:02:28]  And then you get like a 10 second breather at most and then go back.
[00:02:32]  And it is exhausting.
[00:02:34]  And I mean, A lot, some people do give up and some people like fake a cramp, or some people just can't do it.

=== The Fantasy of Fake Cramps (03:39) ===

[00:02:44]  And I remember telling myself, I was sort of gaslighting myself.
[00:02:49]  I would say, one more, and then you're going to fake a cramp.
[00:02:52]  Just one more, and then you get to fake a cramp.
[00:02:55]  And you say that like after five, once you're a little bit winded, and then after 10, you're like, all right, just one more, and then fake a cramp.
[00:03:02]  And then once you get to like 17, you're like, all right, I don't need to even gaslight myself because we've done it.
[00:03:07]  What does three more even mean at this point?
[00:03:10]  And that's what I'm talking about.
[00:03:12]  Like, where we do those women, like, even looks maxed Clav, is he truly the most handsome man you've ever seen?
[00:03:26]  I don't think so, to be honest.
[00:03:31]  Certainly good looking.
[00:03:32]  Tom Cruise has the goods.
[00:03:34]  Brad Pitt has the goods.
[00:03:35]  Mel Gibson, at least back in the day, these are all my generation movie stars.
[00:03:40]  They had the goods.
[00:03:41]  I mean, no homo.
[00:03:43]  These men are damn handsome.
[00:03:46]  And they're charismatic.
[00:03:48]  It's hard not to like them when they're on screen.
[00:03:51]  Hassan Piker, certainly not.
[00:03:54]  What?
[00:03:55]  Hassan Piker, certainly not.
[00:03:57]  Oh, God.
[00:03:58]  Yeah.
[00:04:00]  But.
[00:04:02]  It's they have the goods and there's like a direct attraction to them.
[00:04:08]  You know, women want them and men want to be them.
[00:04:12]  There's a direct attraction with clavicular.
[00:04:15]  I'm not saying he's not handsome, but it's like the social proof.
[00:04:19]  Women go there and they are themselves performing their own desire.
[00:04:26]  I don't think they have an actual desire.
[00:04:28]  I think they've they they want to.
[00:04:32]  Depict themselves as the type of woman who is like that.
[00:04:36]  And I just think that that's happening.
[00:04:41]  You can't take away the streaming camera from that fantasy.
[00:04:48]  You know, there's like a difference.
[00:04:50]  And I don't know if you've ever had this fantasy yourselves, but I guess this is another way of describing what I'm getting at is that self awareness of the fantasy, a dream within a dream.
[00:05:03]  Like it's one thing to.
[00:05:05]  To have a fantasy of being like, and this is a male fantasy of like a knight in shining armor and you go rescue a princess or something like that.
[00:05:13]  It's one thing to have that fantasy, which is itself enveloped in film and books and pictures, things you've seen.
[00:05:23]  It's already sort of enveloped.
[00:05:25]  It's not the real fantasy.
[00:05:27]  The real fantasy is pure lust, but this one is articulated in a sort of scene.
[00:05:33]  But it's another thing to like, Imagine yourself in a movie.
[00:05:39]  You know, like you are the actor in a movie about the Middle Ages.
[00:05:44]  You've already added another layer of self awareness to the whole scene.
[00:05:50]  Or it's one thing to fantasize about fucking a porn star, but it's another thing to fantasize about being in a pornography film.
[00:05:59]  So you've already, the camera itself is kind of the super ego.
[00:06:05]  It's an awareness of the fact that it's not really real.
[00:06:16]  I've delved into Hegelian, Lacanian, Freudian psychology to explain Clav, but I hope you are understanding what I'm saying here.