Interview · moment 5 of 30
Political Formulas, the Marketplace of Ideas, and Peter Daszak/COVID Origins
from The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310 · #310
7 min
Guest
Building on Mosca's concept of the political formula, Curtis argues expert-run marketplaces like virology got corrupted by power rather than truth, walking through Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan lab-leak story as a case study comparable to Chernobyl.
- Tim cites Carl Schmitt on the essential political distinction between friend and enemy as applied to Persians and Italians.
- Roman emperor Valerian was captured by Persians, used as a footstool to mount a horse, and his skin was stuffed with straw after death.
- Tim describes the Valerian incident as typical Persian behavior, contrasting it with Italian civilization.
- Tim explains how competing historical narratives function like two different movies—one where Italians are victims, another where Persians acknowledge ancestral wrongs.
- Gaius Mosca's concept of the political formula: a belief that causes people to support the regime or ruling powers.
- Both the Italian narrative of pride and the Persian narrative of guilt function as political formulas that strengthen their respective regimes.
- These political formulas, while strengthening the regime, are also pathologies in the communities that believe them.
ValerianThe MachiavelliansJames BurnhamCarl SchmittGaetano Mosca