Luxury belief

Yes.

It's luxury beliefs.

It's luxury beliefs all the way down.

But luxury beliefs serve social functions among elites that I think Rob Henderson didn't necessarily realize when he wrote about luxury beliefs.

It's a great term, but They were things that allowed the elites to prosecute their own internecine conflicts, conflicts between various factions of the elite.

I agree completely.

One of the other problems I think is that A lot of the women that espouse this sort of victimhood narrative and say things like we need to smash the patriarchy and chivalry is dead because we don't need men.

They are luxury beliefs that are held by women who are sufficiently financially stable and live in a society that is fine for them now yeah i'm totally open to believing that a high-powered female psychologist or lawyer or attorney or whatever maybe doesn't need to have the man pay for the first date or hold the door open for her or make sure that she gets home safe or whatever because that's she is absolutely fine Consider for a second the woman that is on benefits, living in some rundown council estate in the Northwest of the UK, who maybe the partner that she's with didn't even complete secondary school.

Maybe he has no GCSEs.

He had an absent father home.

And then I started hearing these strange opinions around, we need to, this was sort of the precursor to the defund the police movement of decarceration, shut down the prisons, we need to dismantle law enforcement and then It was just all of the attitudes around family, whatever was kind of received or rather whatever was kind of conventional opinion.

You know, I often heard people take the opposite stance and that led me to develop my idea of luxury beliefs.

But.

this is a real problem because the people who attend these institutions, they are the ones who are going to be or currently are running, you know, running society, directing it, influencing it, shaping it.

But then on the other hand, they also want to impress their peers.

But their peers often are very different from ordinary people.

And they carry these luxury beliefs.

And so I think there's this this tension there that they're slowly attempting to resolve, which is one reason, among others, I think we've passed peak woke.

Mm-hmm.

There was a great article from about eight years ago, Luxury Beliefs, which talked about exactly this, that there are things that rich people think that they don't actually have to deal with the consequences of.

Polyamory is a great example.

It was quite trendy for women in the Ivy Leagues to describe themselves as polyamorous, but not many of them actually went through with it.

One of the other problems I think is that A lot of the women that espouse this sort of victimhood narrative and say things like we need to smash the patriarchy and chivalry is dead because we don't need men.

They are luxury beliefs that are held by women who are sufficiently financially stable and live in a society that is fine for them now yeah i'm totally open to believing that a high-powered female psychologist or lawyer or attorney or whatever maybe doesn't need to have the man pay for the first date or hold the door open for her or make sure that she gets home safe or whatever because that's she is absolutely fine Consider for a second the woman that is on benefits, living in some rundown council estate in the Northwest of the UK, who maybe the partner that she's with didn't even complete secondary school.

Maybe he has no GCSEs.

He had an absent father home.

Great to be here.

So I associate you very closely with the idea of luxury beliefs, and that's, you know, beliefs that only a certain segment of the population can basically afford to have.

And I hear you have a book coming out in September about that a year from now, right?

Yeah, that's correct.

I mean, the way I sometimes will describe it is the first 30 years of my life with all of the boring parts taken out.

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And then, um, you know, towards the end of the book, I, there's a chapter devoted to this idea I've developed called luxury beliefs-

Uh-huh

So I just didn't understand the battle, and that's what led to my disassociation.

One of the other problems, I think, is that a lot of the women that espouse this sort of victimhood narrative and say things like, "We need to smash the patriarchy," and, "Chivalry is dead because we don't need men," they are luxury beliefs that are held by women who are sufficiently, uh, financially stable and live in a society that is fine for them.

Now, yeah, I'm totally open to believing that a high-powered female psychologist or lawyer or attorney or whatever-

Mm-hmm