As is my custom on Fridays, I listened to the ZMan’s Friday podcast today. It was a little bit of a departure in format and content for him. He did a free form rant about whatever he wanted to talk about. He hit on the Canadian Trucker Protest and had some good things to say about that. He discussed the economy and the strange way the numbers on unemployment, industrial output and the stock market performance now seem completely disconnected from the past relationships these factors had on each other. He discussed the Joe Rogan nonsense as it related to anti-white racism and he talked about the recent nonsense about there not being enough black head coaches in the NFL.
But one thing I noticed about his comments in general was that there is definitely a sense of exhaustion with talking about things that the powers that be completely ignore but which are obvious from simple logic. He says he’s fed up with commenting on the fact that manufactured outrages like Joe Rogan saying politically incorrect things ten or twenty years ago are obviously manufactured. He no longer wants to try to educate anyone who still doesn’t get these things. And he mentioned that some of these things are finally, finally percolating up to the “legitimate” circles of the media and politics. He even stated that some of these circles read his stuff regularly and even contact him from time to time.
And that I find very interesting. I’m trying to imagine a podcast with the ZMan and, for instance, someone like Michael Anton or Curtis Yarvin discussing the real solutions to the mess we’re in. Now how that would come about is not clear to me. The ZMan has blasphemed against the blank slate countless times. Speaking to him is a sin comparable to throwing puppies and kittens into a shark tank. It’s a crime that will not be forgiven. But it is a fascinating idea because that kind of a conversation is exactly what needs to occur. The dissident right and the mainstream right need to equilibrate. Those two groups need to talk. Once the mainstream is allowed to talk about these issues, they can start to address the reality of where we are today. Most of our problems have to do with making believe that nonsensical things are true. We think that women can be soldiers and men wearing sundresses and wigs are women. We’re willing to let children decide to have life altering surgeries based on things they’ve been told by crackpots.
Now I doubt that the ZMan will ever talk to Tucker Carlson but I do note that Tucker Carlson is starting to sound a lot like the ZMan. And that is a very good and hopeful thing. In the same way that the COVID wall is crumbling, the whole Leftist infrastructure is starting to alienate large swaths of the population. And maybe, happening at the same time as the economy tanks and crime engulfs the Democrat cities there might be a chance that enough people will be fed up to allow real change to occur. The real solutions are somewhere between the apocalypse desired by the dissidents and the nothing provided by the mainstream. But a genuine dialog between the two is what is needed.
Anyway, that’s what the ZMan’s podcast got me thinking about today.