Nathan Halberstadt 🧊
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We used to land shuttles on runways— from outer space.
Nathan Halberstadt 🧊482,699 views • 4 months ago
Actually, we built this country. And you’re just visiting.
Nathan Halberstadt 🧊251,787 views • 8 months ago
American country/folk artists like Zach Bryan represent the cultural product of a certain people, time, and place— and should be appreciated as such. I think many coastal conservative intellectual types fail to see importance of the genre, maybe out of a desire to be seen as someone who is above it, to be seen as enjoying Bruckner or Schubert (generally, these types are personally tone deaf, but enjoy the warm feeling of sitting in a certain box at the Kennedy Center)— the same desire that led them to put on the bow tie and LARP as Buckley until 2022. Really, the surge in popularity of the country genre, which has ~10x-ed in revenue ($) and other metrics over past 25 years, is rooted, I suspect, in mass nostalgia for an America that has mostly died. It’s maybe hard for “normies” to articulate the loss of the thing that was America before mass migration and other economic / technological shifts, but the music resonates with them, it's a sort of artistic memorialization the old American ways. Yes, I appreciate great music of Western tradition, especially much of the forgotten church music— I post it often through one of my efforts, Kyrial— few others do on this platform. But I also think not enough intellectual energy has been directed toward understanding the recent growth of the American country/folk scene.
Nathan Halberstadt 🧊252,885 views • 10 months ago
By Vivek's logic, a Somali fraudster who arrived in Minnesota in 2020, who still doesn't speak English, can nod along to a series of abstractions— And not so different from the logic of transgenderism, one day this Muslim migrant can think his way into being an American. Like transgenderism, it depends on everyone else participating in the LARP, a LARP currently enforced by an array of social & legal penalties. But of course, at some point, fiction and reality meet. And the reality is that Americans exist as a people with a shared history of carving a beautiful civilization out of savagery and nothingness.
Nathan Halberstadt 🧊96,403 views • 5 months ago
Universal Basic Income (UBI), in its egalitarianism, is a fundamentally left wing and delusional policy proposal for dealing with potential workforce disruptions from AI. While narrow interventions could be appropriate, UBI, at scale, won’t satiate the human, whether pursuing higher or lower things. The dollars will be consumed. The demands for more, for nothing, will grow, and it will balloon many of today’s most acute problems. Furthermore, UBI is spiritless.
Nathan Halberstadt 🧊32,217 views • 1 month ago
![We often hear arguments about how foreign students pose a national security threat or take opportunities from young Americans. And while there’s truth to these claims, much less has been said about how mass enrollment of foreign students (e.g., Harvard currently ~30% international students) has fragmented campus culture and degraded American students, forcing them through an insane series of test-taking / credential-grabbing optimization games. Not enough has been written about the death of the classic American college campus culture. Scott Newman, a friend, writes about his recent time at Princeton, which echoes the experiences of many friends: “At Princeton, I regularly saw students who were well-acquainted walk past one another without so much as a greeting, each absorbed in his or her own private paper chase. Those scenes from film and television of students on college campuses whimsically throwing around frisbees and having snowball fights—I never saw that happen.” […] “While the universities themselves lie about all the risk-taking, world-changing mavericks they’re looking to nurture. Neither side dares to speak the grubby truth, which is that the undergraduate experience will be a pro forma exercise in leftist indoctrination that precedes a march into the hallowed halls of investment banks and management consultancies.” Yes, I made this edit, drawing on old footage from American college campus.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1954365340521017355/amplify_video_thumb/1954364351973863424/img/_RP0pVe7wWw6azuj.jpg)
We often hear arguments about how foreign students pose a national security threat or take opportunities from young Americans. And while there’s truth to these claims, much less has been said about how mass enrollment of foreign students (e.g., Harvard currently ~30% international students) has fragmented campus culture and degraded American students, forcing them through an insane series of test-taking / credential-grabbing optimization games. Not enough has been written about the death of the classic American college campus culture. Scott Newman, a friend, writes about his recent time at Princeton, which echoes the experiences of many friends: “At Princeton, I regularly saw students who were well-acquainted walk past one another without so much as a greeting, each absorbed in his or her own private paper chase. Those scenes from film and television of students on college campuses whimsically throwing around frisbees and having snowball fights—I never saw that happen.” […] “While the universities themselves lie about all the risk-taking, world-changing mavericks they’re looking to nurture. Neither side dares to speak the grubby truth, which is that the undergraduate experience will be a pro forma exercise in leftist indoctrination that precedes a march into the hallowed halls of investment banks and management consultancies.” Yes, I made this edit, drawing on old footage from American college campus.
Nathan Halberstadt 🧊112,385 views • 10 months ago
Boston, MA (1920s) My latest edit, using historical footage
Nathan Halberstadt 🧊14,404 views • 27 days ago
Te Deum chant (~5th century AD) at reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral yesterday— Lines pass between the adult and children’s choirs accompanied by both the Great Organ in the nave and the Choir Organ in the ‘choir.’ “Te Deum laudamus. Te Dominum confitemur. Te æternum Patrem omnis terra veneratur…” “You God we praise. You Lord we acknowledge. You eternal Father of the whole world we worship...”
Nathan Halberstadt79,667 views • 1 year ago
“Life does not belong to the rooted in one place” 🤔 My latest edit: America Before.
Nathan Halberstadt 🧊35,551 views • 7 months ago
"What if we took that... this digital community that exists, and what if we made it in real life?" Andrew Isker (Andrew Isker 🌳🪓) on Tucker Carson today discussing the Highland Rim Project, @USAridge's partnership with New Founding to build aligned communities in Appalachia.
Nathan Halberstadt41,382 views • 1 year ago
