"Men began as cockroaches": Walt Bismarck on moral laundering & status arbitrage

I got back together with him to discuss his status game theories and specifically his view of feminine power and why he’s a moral relativist, which surprised me. As usual, a wide-ranging conversation in which his natural speaking pace is 1.5x mine. I’m quite certain I’ll get a high number of unsubs for even having this conversation, but that’s why my audience becomes more aligned with every post.

1. “Racist, but not in a bad way” — 0:00

2. The incoherence of racial categories, who is “white”, and am I white? — 7:38

3. How feminine power works according to Walt — 7:38

4. White women’s head pats as status arbitrage — 12:00

5. Why Kash Patel won, and Vivek got kicked out — 14:16

Behind paywall

1. Hypergamy and symbolic manipulation in managerial capitalism — 30:23

2. “Moral realists should be beheaded” — 33:18

3. High and low status against the middle tier in sexual competition — 35:43

4. The Emperor’s micropenis — 38:34

5. Why women lie about body counts, and men lie about their incel pasts —43:11

6. Women’s competitive strategi…