Aug 17, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 13 segments
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Tho BishopGuestPeter St. OngeHostUm, I think you and I have talked about before kind of this idea that it's like Gutenberg 2.0.
Right? Where the Gutenberg press made it very cheap to print, and so to, you know, reach a lot of people.
And if you look at what happened in Europe after cheap printing, right? So now you could organize like a peasant protest with 10,000 people next week.
You know, we're gonna meet on Saint Nicholas's day, you know, wherever, and we're gonna go talk to the abbey and bring a pitchfork.
Uh, y- you know, there was a lot of change in Europe, and substantially, uh, the world that we have around us with constitutions and rights and, you know, all of these were won with blood, um, in that episode But I think you're right to sort of place, uh, the beginning of, you know, what's all happening right now, uh, you know, sort of these like almost once in a lifetime, um, switches in the party maybe, um, to place those fundamentally at what's happening with media, the decentralization, uh, you know, the internet specifically and then, I mean, you know, honestly like Mi- the Mises Institute's, uh, reach is much, much higher because of the internet now-
Um, Rothbard, I think at, I think it was the 1970s Rothbard said you could fit the entire libertarian movement in a single living room.
And he himself, you know, the way that he got his word out, uh, I think it was, uh, correct me on the details, but I think it was the Freeman.
He had like a paid letter that he was sending out and, you know, you had to go into these like left-
And I guess you could get like a mimeograph copy maybe or, and, and then, you know, he would like advertise in the back of magazines and you could send 20 bucks, uh, [laughs] to write the check.
Like, that was literally the only way to get the word out, right? So how many libertarians or, y- uh, just how many socialists for that matter, like how many people were there with non-mainstream opinions that you couldn't get from, you know, Tom Brokaw or Walter Cronkite? And now it's a whole different world, right? You mentioned earlier that the left seems to have not been as good on alternative media.
Um, are guys like Hasan Piker, like have they finally, you know, kind of found their, their groove on this? Is he, is he maybe a one-off because, you know, he, he just write because he curses a lot and talks about Israel? Or, y- y- you know, is it like shifting where the left is maybe getting taken over by their alts the way that the right already did?
I, I'm, I, I don't follow it as much as I probably should, but I, I think there's a lot of, of, you know, competitors within that space.
Um, I think you and I have talked about before kind of this idea that it's like Gutenberg 2.0.
Right? Where the Gutenberg press made it very cheap to print, and so to, you know, reach a lot of people.
And if you look at what happened in Europe after cheap printing, right? So now you could organize like a peasant protest with 10,000 people next week.
You know, we're gonna meet on Saint Nicholas's day, you know, wherever, and we're gonna go talk to the abbey and bring a pitchfork.
Uh, y- you know, there was a lot of change in Europe, and substantially, uh, the world that we have around us with constitutions and rights and, you know, all of these were won with blood, um, in that episode But I think you're right to sort of place, uh, the beginning of, you know, what's all happening right now, uh, you know, sort of these like almost once in a lifetime, um, switches in the party maybe, um, to place those fundamentally at what's happening with media, the decentralization, uh, you know, the internet specifically and then, I mean, you know, honestly like Mi- the Mises Institute's, uh, reach is much, much higher because of the internet now-
Um, Rothbard, I think at, I think it was the 1970s Rothbard said you could fit the entire libertarian movement in a single living room.
And he himself, you know, the way that he got his word out, uh, I think it was, uh, correct me on the details, but I think it was the Freeman.
He had like a paid letter that he was sending out and, you know, you had to go into these like left-
And I guess you could get like a mimeograph copy maybe or, and, and then, you know, he would like advertise in the back of magazines and you could send 20 bucks, uh, [laughs] to write the check.
Like, that was literally the only way to get the word out, right? So how many libertarians or, y- uh, just how many socialists for that matter, like how many people were there with non-mainstream opinions that you couldn't get from, you know, Tom Brokaw or Walter Cronkite? And now it's a whole different world, right? You mentioned earlier that the left seems to have not been as good on alternative media.
Um, are guys like Hasan Piker, like have they finally, you know, kind of found their, their groove on this? Is he, is he maybe a one-off because, you know, he, he just write because he curses a lot and talks about Israel? Or, y- y- you know, is it like shifting where the left is maybe getting taken over by their alts the way that the right already did?
I, I'm, I, I don't follow it as much as I probably should, but I, I think there's a lot of, of, you know, competitors within that space.
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