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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity

Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity

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William Liu (Liu Zhongjing, 劉仲敬) is a historian who is often called “Auntie (阿姨)” by his audience. Auntology is Liu's study, works, and philosophy. The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity is a podcast series created based on Liu's articles, speech, lectures, and book chapters. The original materials were documented in Mandarin Chinese at https://www.lzjscript.com, translated into English by DeepL and human translators, and narrated by Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. The podcast was produced by Lumina Society, which is a nonprofit organization aiming to provide insightful and alternative narratives of history.
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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity - Part 5: The Sino-Japanese War - The Reshaping of the World Order after the First World War
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04/27/21 • 15 min

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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity - Part 6: The Chinese Civil War - The Reshaping of the World Order after the First World War
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05/04/21 • 14 min

“...This war was completely tilted to one side. There was almost no doubt as to the outcome. As soon as Chiang exhausted within one or two years the military resources he accumulated in the latter part of the Anti-Japanese War, the war was over. And the industrial zone in the northeast would be able to continue to produce. If the Northeast had been an independent country like Manchuria, it would have no difficulty to beat a big country like China, just as it would be no problem for Israel to defeat a big country like Egypt. One was a small industrialized country and the other a large agricultural country without industrialization. The large agricultural country had only scattered and disorganized peasants...”

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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity - A world lacking in lords: lords and wanderers in China

A world lacking in lords: lords and wanderers in China

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06/08/21 • 15 min

Season 2 - Lords and Wanderers

The first two episodes are excerpts from an invited talk of YiXi, which was first published on April 12, 2014.  The full video (in Mandarin Chinese) is at https://youtu.be/edB7ly0_KSc .

"One thing is different though, the Chinese dream does not really exist. The so-called American Dream is a stable consensus that runs through history and permeates across society, such as individualism, personal striving, a sense of protagonism by ordinary people, that sort of thing. There is no such consensus in China, and the Chinese Dream is merely a cosmetic phrase, used for perfunctory purposes. "

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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity - Part 1: Opening remarks - The Reshaping of the World Order after the First World War
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03/27/21 • 17 min

Season 1 was translated from an invited talk given by William Liu in Guangzhou, March 2015. 

"...The USSR adopted what we now call unrestricted warfare to oppose the international order. As a result, the right-wing forces in Europe, such as the German Army Corps or Kapp Putsch, also resorted to the means of unrestricted warfare to counter the Soviet Union. In other words, if you are without scruples I shall also be ruthless. Only after Leninism came fascism; after fascism, Nazism; after Nazism and Soviet operations in the third world, came Islamic extremism and then the Chinese revolution. "

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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity - Building an empire that mirrors the Communist Party

Building an empire that mirrors the Communist Party

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08/03/21 • 12 min

“...At the same time, because of the existence of such institutions, it is hard to avoid becoming an empire because the system itself had its own power...  This institution, which can scare the Communist Party, should probably mirror the Communist Party. It also needs bureaucratic institutions and armies as large as the Communist Party, otherwise, you can’t oppose the latter... For McCarthy, this was very painful because he had a close flesh-and-blood connection with the American community, it was a great pain for him to leave politics. But for Ayn Rand, it did not matter. She was what I call a rootless wanderer from the very beginning. She had no flesh-and-blood relationship with American society. She was an intellectual and relied on selling her theory... ”

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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity - [SEASON PREMIERE] Dense but homogeneous populations

[SEASON PREMIERE] Dense but homogeneous populations

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06/29/21 • 12 min

Season 3 Pandemics and Beyond
Episode 1 Dense but homogeneous populations

"... The spread of infectious diseases requires densely inhabited conditions, which is tantamount to requiring civilization itself. Civilization has the innate concept of a dense population... One byproduct of civilization is that it allows its certain beneficiary groups, such as those that first invented agriculture, to breed in large numbers with relatively homogeneous genotypes, and as a result create a susceptible population in an epidemiological sense..."

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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity - New Deal-era America

New Deal-era America

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07/27/21 • 12 min

"...Such an America could not have played a major role in world history. The key to this significant role lies in two events: the New Deal and the Second World War... If you only treat this phenomenon as a dichotomy of the left and the right,  you haven’t grasped its full depth. The correct understanding is that it is in essence a Roman imperial nature..."

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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity - BONUS EP: China's census mystery and its policy shifts

BONUS EP: China's census mystery and its policy shifts

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05/10/21 • 19 min

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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity - Cold War liberalism and neoconservatism

Cold War liberalism and neoconservatism

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08/10/21 • 10 min

“...What is meant by the divine will? The divine will is that the forces that oppose you will eventually work for you. Although FDR and his New Deal allies did not want to make America an empire, although McCarthy and the opponents of the New Deal did not want to make America an empire, and although neither the supporters nor the opponents of the Vietnam War thought of America as an empire, the combined force of their actions pushed America step by step on the path to becoming an empire. When the New Deal pushed America to the left, it brought America one step closer to be an empire; when Cold-War liberalism pushed America to the right, it brought America one step closer to be an empire; when the neoconservatives pushed America even further to the right, it made this America more of an empire than ever before.”

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Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity - A discussion on the speech "A World Lacking in Lords"

A discussion on the speech "A World Lacking in Lords"

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06/22/21 • 11 min

Season 2 - Lords and Wanderers

The third episode is a part of a casual discussion between William and Zhensi Yuan taken place in 2014. The full script for the discussion (in Traditional Chinese) has been published as a book《文明更迭的源代碼》and is available on Amazon.

"A responsible landlord as a chief stakeholder in a community can become a rootless wanderer, just as a peasant can turn into a vagabond..."

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How many episodes does Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity have?

Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity currently has 48 episodes available.

What topics does Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity?

The episode title 'Part 6: The Chinese Civil War - The Reshaping of the World Order after the First World War' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity?

The average episode length on Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity is 13 minutes.

How often are episodes of Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity released?

Episodes of Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity?

The first episode of Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity was released on Mar 27, 2021.

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