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Three Modes of Mike Benz
by Daniel Klein at Brownstone Institute

Michael Benz has four things going for him: (1) remarkable knowledge; (2) sharp insight; (3) remarkable verbal clarity and color; (4) wisdom and virtue, by my reading.

And fifth: personality. As Samuel L. Jackson’s character said in Pulp Fiction: “But a dog’s got personality; personality goes a long way.”

Good voice and good looks, too.

And plays the piano.

All in all, charismatic, for his merit and for his personality.

Benz is from the Blob and teaches about the Blob, as well as the whole alliance, stateside and transnationally, that the Blob is at the center of. He will be a main source of insight in the coming months. Don’t hate him for being the deliverer of troubling truths. Love him for that.

I find that Benz has three modes, all at https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber.

First is a top-form professional mode. The delivery is crisp, the detail compelling, and the intensity, well, intense. The intensity excurses into personalities of the apparatus, their operations, and historical patterns, but in a controlled way that lands us back on the mainline of instruction. 

That’s the best mode. It is the mode that led, for example, to his breakthrough at Tucker Carlson. 

Recent sessions of the full-on excellence mode are this:

And this (jump to 10:40):

Second is a study-session mode. He shares screen, showing docs and videos, and comments freestyle, with purpose but also often with a warm sense of fellowship, as when he riffs into a related movie scene or even a song that he wants to hear. But he returns to the material predicating the study session. He calls it ‘office hours.’ Here is a five-minute clip in that mode:

Third is a Hang-it-out-there mode, as when he plays the piano or shows the view out the window of the car he is driving. Sometimes he just tells viewers how he’s doing and that he loves life. He communicates his sentiment. This mode becomes skippable, unless you just like to virtually vicariously hang out with him. 

Adam Smith said, “What is called affection is in reality nothing but habitual sympathy.” I like hanging with Benz, but these infatuations are usually selective, and for some time now I’ve man-crushed on Alex Christoforou of The Duran.

I look to Benz more as a sense-maker, an instructor, and seek out especially the first mode. 

At a Brownstone gathering, I got to speak a few words to Benz. I approached him to try out a theory about why the Anglo countries are so bad, Blob-wise and woke-wise. My theory—offered alongside, not instead of, other explanations—has to do with having a two-party system, as the Anglo countries mainly do. Benz did not have much time for what I was saying. Our interaction didn’t dampen my fancy for my theory.

Just released is something different: The big Benz picture, produced, edited, enhanced, and sound-tracked into a compact presentation.

The post linked on the image is by mattyjags, who says: “You won’t find a more important video.”

Three Modes of Mike Benz
by Daniel Klein at Brownstone Institute – Daily Economics, Policy, Public Health, Society

Source: Brownstone Institute Read the original article here: https://brownstone.org/