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Seville and the Atlantic
“I like Chaunu’s Seville and the Atlantic much more than I like Braudel’s Philip in the Mediterranean.”
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Philip in the Mediterranean
“I like Chaunu’s Seville and the Atlantic much more than I like Braudel’s Philip in the Mediterranean.”
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Because those people who were killing under communism and collectivizing those villages and dekulakizing and killing the people in their native village that they had grown up with… If they hadn't done that, the regime couldn't have done this.
“Because those people who were killing under communism and collectivizing those villages and dekulakizing and killing the people in their native village that they had grown up with… If they hadn't done that, the regime couldn't have done this.”
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- Stephen Kotkin
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
02 / evaluation
The driver of your car works for Stalin, doesn't work for you, and is reporting any overheard conversations in the car.
“The driver of your car works for Stalin, doesn't work for you, and is reporting any overheard conversations in the car.”
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- Stephen Kotkin
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
03 / evaluation
It needs to be able to compete in the international system. That means it needs a modern military and modern industry to underwrite that modern military.
“It needs to be able to compete in the international system. That means it needs a modern military and modern industry to underwrite that modern military.”
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- Stephen Kotkin
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
04 / evaluation
The only reason China has Hong Kong is because after World War II—when Truman announced that Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists were going to accept the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong—the British sent their boats in and took Hong Kong back themselves, so that when Mao defeated Chiang Kai-shek he didn't have Hong Kong.
“The only reason China has Hong Kong is because after World War II—when Truman announced that Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists were going to accept the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong—the British sent their boats in and took Hong Kong back themselves, so that when Mao defeated Chiang Kai-shek he didn't have Hong Kong.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
05 / evaluation
He's a complete idiot in terms of facts, because the way to get more affordable housing is to build more housing.
“He's a complete idiot in terms of facts, because the way to get more affordable housing is to build more housing.”
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- Stephen Kotkin
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
06 / evaluation
The beauty of Marxism-Leninism, and why what we used to call the Third World loves this, is that they get to be in power.
“The beauty of Marxism-Leninism, and why what we used to call the Third World loves this, is that they get to be in power.”
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07 / evaluation
The problem with arguments like that, Tyler, is that I got into fights in the schoolyard when I was his age. People beat me up because I was a half Catholic, half Jew at a Catholic school.
“The problem with arguments like that, Tyler, is that I got into fights in the schoolyard when I was his age. People beat me up because I was a half Catholic, half Jew at a Catholic school.”
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08 / evaluation
He loved Chekhov the most because the heroes in Chekhov were not the only main characters — also the villains, and Stalin would remark that Chekhov’s villains were credible.
“He loved Chekhov the most because the heroes in Chekhov were not the only main characters — also the villains, and Stalin would remark that Chekhov’s villains were credible.”
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09 / evaluation
One percent, meaning that the people who couldn’t farm themselves, individually or as a household, as a family — they went into collectives voluntarily because they were incapable of managing on their own.
“One percent, meaning that the people who couldn’t farm themselves, individually or as a household, as a family — they went into collectives voluntarily because they were incapable of managing on their own.”
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10 / evaluation
The Soviets were interested in cybernetics because it was about more efficient ways of gathering and using information — the planned economy at core, which was a fantasy, never a reality.
“The Soviets were interested in cybernetics because it was about more efficient ways of gathering and using information — the planned economy at core, which was a fantasy, never a reality.”
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You have these four partitions, two of which happened — Korea and Indochina — both of which led to war, and two partitions that didn’t happen, one because the Communists won in China, and one because the Communists got nowhere near power in Japan.
“You have these four partitions, two of which happened — Korea and Indochina — both of which led to war, and two partitions that didn’t happen, one because the Communists won in China, and one because the Communists got nowhere near power in Japan.”
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12 / evaluation
I learned how power works in everyday life, and how the language that you use, and the practices like denunciation that you enact or partake in, help form those totalitarian structures, because the secret police are not there every minute of every day, so what’s in your head?
“I learned how power works in everyday life, and how the language that you use, and the practices like denunciation that you enact or partake in, help form those totalitarian structures, because the secret police are not there every minute of every day, so what’s in your head?”
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13 / evaluation
From a purely ecological point of view, I think dull would be almost a criminal appellation for Siberia.
“From a purely ecological point of view, I think dull would be almost a criminal appellation for Siberia.”
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14 / evaluation
It was a one-company town, one-industry town. They had a gigantic integrated steel plant, and they had next to no pollution controls because they had installed pollution controls, but they didn’t use them because it lowered their output, and they were paid and got their bonuses based on quantitative output.
“It was a one-company town, one-industry town. They had a gigantic integrated steel plant, and they had next to no pollution controls because they had installed pollution controls, but they didn’t use them because it lowered their output, and they were paid and got their bonuses based on quantitative output.”
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15 / evaluation
That’s why I said totalitarianism is using your agency to destroy your own agency. That means denouncing your neighbors, being encouraged to denounce your neighbors for heresies, and participating in that culture of denunciation, which loosens all social trust and social bonds and puts you in a situation of dependency on the state.
“That’s why I said totalitarianism is using your agency to destroy your own agency. That means denouncing your neighbors, being encouraged to denounce your neighbors for heresies, and participating in that culture of denunciation, which loosens all social trust and social bonds and puts you in a situation of dependency on the state.”
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- Stephen Kotkin
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- Conversations with Tyler