Bernardo Kastrup On Politics

By Leo Gura - March 3, 2025

This is a rare interview where Kastrup talks about politics rather than metaphysics.

I was pleasantly surprised that his politics is so mature. He’s intelligent enough to see right through the BS of populism. Good on him.

For me it’s important to compare a public intellectual’s metaphysical, philosophical, and spiritual views with his politics. Because most of the time I see speakers with great spiritual views, but then their understanding of politics is 180-degree backwards as they live in some anti-mainstream online echo-chamber. Someone will speak of love and God and health and ending corruption and justice and peace and truth, and then vote for Trump. This kind of shit is intellectually unacceptable. So it’s always important to not just hear someone’s abstract theoretical beliefs, but to see how that pans out at the end of the day.

Do not underestimate the mind’s ability to speak of God, love, and peace, and then vote for Hitler. It’s more common than you’d think. Never assume you know how someone will vote. Ask them. It’s too easy to sit around and bullshit with niceties, generalities, and abstractions. “The government is corrupt. The system is rigged. The media is biased. The economy is broken. War is bad.” Yes, but does that mean you’re voting for Hitler or his opponent?

It’s not enough to criticize government. That’s too easy. You have to ask people what their solutions are. People can have the same criticisms but opposite solutions. “The economy is bad. Egg prices are too high.” Okay, but is your solution to regulate and tax giant corporations or to deregulate and give them tax cuts? People are so distracted with self-righteous criticism they have no logic solutions. Government is super easy to criticize and super difficult to improve.

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