The Nerd Reich Redux with Gil Durán

Well, I had a whole section where I really spelled out the development of fascism through time.

And my editor called that the bibliography.

And I ended up taking that out.

There were about 40,000 words that I cut.

I mean, I was amazed that I actually overwrote by that much.

But when you're trying to tell the full story, and editors are useful because they understand very well what the reader can take, what the reader's interested in.

and as we know from social media and video and other other formats if people drop off a few pages in you're not really getting the job done yeah you know and i think there's a lot more ground to cover this should be a whole area of study this should be a whole beat in journalism you know i think that it will turn out in the future this was an important thing that more people should have been paying attention to on the academic level, on the journalism level, on the political level.

And so I see my book really as among the first of many that will be written.

And hopefully some of those can illuminate further.

I think some of the particular more specific venture capital figures, companies and projects that are going on are very interesting.

The way that these guys have really gone into warfare and surveillance and crypto and sometimes all of them at the same time.

Originally, I was including the names of a bunch of different venture capital firms that are all interconnected, all emanating from this sort of teal verse where all the same people are investing in the same companies.

And it's a network really, right? Sort of a network state of interconnected venture capital firms seizing money and power at this particular time in history.

But, you know, it ended up reading more like a pitch book or a crunch base article and didn't really fit the format.

But there's a lot of...

You know, I've got like 48 pages of citations, so there's plenty for people to go and read if they want to go straight to the source.

I also, and I deal with this in the book, but the degree to which this is not an isolated project in the United States, there is a network of...

There's a network of dictators and oligarchs around the world all pushing in the same direction.

And Applebaum writes about that in Autocracy, Inc. Casey Michelle writes about that in the United States of Oligarchy.

And so while I touch on those things, those books go deeper.

I also had to look at.

What have other people already done? Sure.

There's no

reason to duplicate aspects of this.

Yeah.

Well, I had a whole section where I really spelled out the development of fascism through time.

And my editor called that the bibliography.

And I ended up taking that out.

There were about 40,000 words that I cut.

I mean, I was amazed that I actually overwrote by that much.

But when you're trying to tell the full story, and editors are useful because they understand very well what the reader can take, what the reader's interested in.

and as we know from social media and video and other other formats if people drop off a few pages in you're not really getting the job done yeah you know and i think there's a lot more ground to cover this should be a whole area of study this should be a whole beat in journalism you know i think that it will turn out in the future this was an important thing that more people should have been paying attention to on the academic level, on the journalism level, on the political level.

And so I see my book really as among the first of many that will be written.

And hopefully some of those can illuminate further.

I think some of the particular more specific venture capital figures, companies and projects that are going on are very interesting.

The way that these guys have really gone into warfare and surveillance and crypto and sometimes all of them at the same time.

Originally, I was including the names of a bunch of different venture capital firms that are all interconnected, all emanating from this sort of teal verse where all the same people are investing in the same companies.

And it's a network really, right? Sort of a network state of interconnected venture capital firms seizing money and power at this particular time in history.

But, you know, it ended up reading more like a pitch book or a crunch base article and didn't really fit the format.

But there's a lot of...

You know, I've got like 48 pages of citations, so there's plenty for people to go and read if they want to go straight to the source.

I also, and I deal with this in the book, but the degree to which this is not an isolated project in the United States, there is a network of...

There's a network of dictators and oligarchs around the world all pushing in the same direction.

And Applebaum writes about that in Autocracy, Inc. Casey Michelle writes about that in the United States of Oligarchy.

And so while I touch on those things, those books go deeper.

I also had to look at.

What have other people already done? Sure.

There's no

reason to duplicate aspects of this.

Yeah.