Chat_149 - We're Not the Main Characters with Aleks Svetski

"The necessity for guys to be around other good guys and
girls to be around other good girls... we had that really well
structured all throughout history. We fucked it all up over the
last of the last hundred years when we mixed everything together.
And the price we're paying for it is that guys are more like
women now and women are more like guys. And you start to lose the
tension.
Because what you need for any sort of force or charge to
exist is you need polarity. You need a positive pole and negative
pole. You need a north and a south. You need a day and a night.
You need a man and a woman. You need that. And the more you kill
polarity and you move things towards sameness and similarity, the
more you lose the tension and the more you lose the
charge."
~ Aleks Svetski


Aleks Svetski returns to the show - this time as a new father -
and we dive deep into how life, virtue, and purpose change once
you’re raising the next generation. From home birth and the raw
reality of becoming a dad, to the philosophy of Bushido of
Bitcoin, we explore growth through discomfort, the tension
between opposing virtues, and why true wisdom lives in that
tension.


We talk about choosing responsibility over comfort, why the world
needs polarity - men as men, women as women - and how modern
culture’s obsession with balance and safety is erasing meaning.
Svetski shares his evolving view on individualism, the rise of
the “sovereign tribe,” and why character must come before
capital.


We end by diving into his latest project, building tools for the
experience economy - products that drive us off the screen and
back into the real world. It’s a whirlwind of fatherhood,
philosophy, Bitcoin, and growing the courage to say no so you can
build what really matters.


 


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