Best Culture Politics Comedy Society Fringe Podcasts (2024)

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#94 Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy - Costin Alamariu 3:56:03

1h ago3:56:03

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Costin Alamariu, who may or may not be Bronze Age Pervert, completed his doctoral thesis in political philosophy at Yale in 2015. This thesis was re-published in 2023 under the title 'Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy'. There's a lot to this book, but it's mostly about the relationship between philosophy, heritability, aristocracy and …

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#93 Meltdown - Nick Land 2:08:46

8d ago2:08:46

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Meltdown (1994) sees Nick Land dissolve the posthuman future in a solvent of technocapital, continental philosophy, cyberpunk, bacterial warfare and retrotemporal attraction, all dressed up in implanted mirrorshades with a highly-cinematic 9mm. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook…

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#92 The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi 2:10:13

15d ago2:10:13

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Miyamoto Musashi is Japan's most famous swordsman, a ronin in the 17th century who was victorious in over 60 duels, founded a famed swordfighting school, and achieved such a level of combat mastery that he learned the essential nature of mastery itself. The Book of Five Rings (1645) was written by Musashi in a cave, towards the end of his life. It …

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#91 Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille 1:19:07

21d ago1:19:07

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Story of the Eye (1928) is a classic of French coom-lit. In it, teenagers engage in a series of sex acts involving ovular and liquid symbols, demonstrating why everyone thinks the French are perverts. It's also a really good book. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M…

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#90 The Turner Diaries - William Luther Pierce 1:30:31

29d ago1:30:31

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The Turner Diaries (1978) is a notorious work of white nationalist and white supremacist fiction. It is reputed to have influenced a number of terrorist acts, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings. Surprisingly for such a work, the spelling and formatting are mostly fine. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://ww…

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#89 Esoteric Trumpism - Constantin von Hoffmeister 1:23:21

1M ago1:23:21

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Esoteric Trumpism (2024) promises to provide a Spenglerian reading of Donald Trump's life and leadership. Instead, it reads as a collection of strange Trump fanfics. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/boo…

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#88 On Guerrilla Warfare - Mao Zedong 1:57:31

2M ago1:57:31

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Prominent Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong wrote On Guerrilla Warfare in 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This series of pamphlets was intended to persuade Chinese leaders to also pursue a guerrilla campaign against the invading Japanese military. Full of practical advice on how to conduct guerrilla operations, this book has a little some…

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#87 The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon 3:12:51

2M ago3:12:51

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Frantz Fanon was an anticolonial theorist and psychiatrist from Martinique, who wrote The Wretched of the Earth (1961) as an account of colonialism in Algeria. In it, he describes the therapeutic potential of violence and the psychology of the colonisers and colonised. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazo…

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#86 Living Inside My Own Butt For Eight Years, Starting A Business And Turning A Profit Through Common Sense Reinvestment And Strategic Targeted Marketing - Chuck Tingle 1:06:10

2M ago1:06:10

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Chuck Tingle is a pseudonymous author of (mostly) gay erotic literature and, occasionally, non erotic literature. In a rare occurrence, Levi and Jack are in the same room for this episode. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http:/…

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#85 Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher 3:41:32

2M ago3:41:32

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Mark Fisher, an English philosopher, teacher, blogger and co-founder of the CCRU, published Capitalist Realism in 2009. A work of more accessible anti-capitalism, Fisher hoped to sell 500 copies. Capitalist Realism went on to sell over 100,000 copies, and became an important work in 21st-century anti-capitalist thought. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION J…

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#84 The Breatharian Institute of America 1:35:40

2M ago1:35:40

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The Breatharian Institute of America was founded by Wiley Brooks. You might be familiar with boring breatharianism, where people don't need to eat in order to survive. Brooks' breatharianism, on the other hand, is dense, complex and exciting. It involves fixing the global matrix with urine, giving birth to super galaxies, avoiding three-dimensional…

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#83 Comrade Kim Goes Flying - Nicholas Bonner, Gwang-hun Kim and Anja Daelemans 1:50:17

3M ago1:50:17

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Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012) is a North Korean romantic comedy, described as "a girl-power fairy tale about dreaming to fly," by one of its co-directors, Nicholas Bonner. The film follows Kim Yong Mi, a plucky coal miner from rural North Korea, who dreams of becoming a trapeze artist in Pyongyang. The film is as odd, but not in the ways you would…

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#82 The Tate Bible - Andrew Tate and G Slim 3:08:15

3M ago3:08:15

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The Tate Bible is a compilation of former kickboxer and social media influencer Andrew Tate's online footprint, put together by G Slim during the covid lockdowns. If, for some perverse reason, you'd prefer to read Andrew Tate's views rather than consume them in a more high-stimulus format, then this is the book for you. Camgirls, Bugattis and the N…

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#81 Triumph of the Will - Leni Riefenstahl 1:03:59

3M ago1:03:59

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Triumph of the Will is a Nazi propaganda film, documenting the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, and released in 1935. Directed, edited, produced and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl, the film remains highly influential due to Riefenstahl's innovative approach to film-making. It also stars Adolf Hitler as himself. Most importantly, this episode …

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#80 Notes on e/acc principles and tenets - BasedBeffJezos and bayeslord 2:54:11

3M ago2:54:11

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Effective accelerationism ('e/acc') is a largely online movement seeking to promote technological optimism. Their evangelism mostly takes the form of shitposting and memes, but something more substantial will occasionally appear. Two such pieces of more substantial e/acc thought are 'What the f* is e/acc?' (authorship unclear) and 'Notes on e/acc p…

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#79 TempleOS - Terry A. Davis 2:04:02

4M ago2:04:02

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Terry Davis was a schizophrenic computer programmer who wrote an operating system by himself. TempleOS, as this creation came to be known, was intended to be the Third Temple, with which Davis could talk to God. Davis achieved a degree of obscure internet fame from, among other things, his streams, where he would show off features of TempleOS, talk…

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#78 Furries 2:27:20

5M ago2:27:20

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This episode isn't on a particular book, but is on a movement: furries. For the few of you who aren't aware, furries are those who appreciate depictions of anthropomorphic animals. From this central point, furdom has generated a huge amount of culture - and not simply the furry porn that I'm sure you've accidentally stumbled upon on the internet. G…

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#77 The Female Dating Strategy Handbook - Compiled by Moira Spice 2:24:50

4M ago2:24:50

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This week's episode is on the Female Dating Strategy Handbook, a collection of the best, highest-value posts from the Female Dating Strategy subreddit and website. Female Dating Strategy is a movement aiming to improve the dating market, by teaching women how to distinguish low- and high-value men, how to cultivate queen energy (that is, how to hav…

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#76 A Pickle for the Knowing Ones - Lord Timothy Dexter 1:10:58

5M ago1:10:58

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Lord Timothy Dexter was an 18th century American businessman, who made a great deal of money through a series of bizarre, lucky and, probably, stupid ventures. Shipping coal to Newcastle, selling hot water bottles in the West Indies, speculating on Continental Currency at the end of the American Civil War: Dexter managed to keep turning profits, de…

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#75 Killdozer 1:55:19

5M ago1:55:19

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Marvin Heemeyer was a resident of Grand Lake, Colorado. After a series of planning disputes with his neighbours, as well as arguments with the administration in the nearby town of Granby, he took the only reasonable course of action: armour-plating a Komatsu D355A bulldozer, and destroying the property of those he disagreed with. VERY IMPORTANT INF…

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#74 Trump: The Art of the Deal - Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz 1:28:12

5M ago1:28:12

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You've heard of Donald Trump, I don't need to introduce him. In 1987, 'Trump: The Art of the Deal' was released, apparently co-written by Donald Trump and journalist Tony Schwartz; part autobiography, part business advice, The Art of the Deal details several of Trump's favourite deals. Schwartz would later claim that Trump contributed nothing to th…

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#73 The Decline of the West, Vol. 1 (part 3) - Oswald Spengler 2:00:27

5M ago2:00:27

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This is the third episode on the first volume of The Decline of the West, by Oswald Spengler. We cover chapters six and seven, called 'Music and Plastic (I) - The Arts of Form' and 'Music and Plastic (II), Act and Portrait,' respectively. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0…

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#72 The Secret - Rhonda Byrne 2:14:01

6M ago2:14:01

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Rhonda Byrne, in her 2006 book 'The Secret,' promises to teach you a method to get literally anything. All you have to do is ask the universe (sorry, capital-U Universe) in a special way, and the Universe will deliver. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch…

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#71 The Futurist Manifesto - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 1:30:09

6M ago1:30:09

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Filippo Tomasso Marinetti was a 20th-Century Italian poet who founded the Futurist movement. In The Futurist Manifesto (1909), Marinetti lays out the tenants of Futurism: a complete rejection of the past, nationalism, contempt for women, veneration of technology and a love of speed. In his endless quest to go fast, Marinetti comes to resemble the a…

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#70 Tower - Jack BC, esteemed co-host of The Book Club from Hell 1:17:17

6M ago1:17:17

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Jack has published a novel called 'Tower.' As such, this is a very special episode, wherein Jack hawks his book and talks to Levi about it. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's webs…

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#69 The Water of Life (a Treatise on Urine Therapy) - John W Armstrong 1:57:56

6M ago1:57:56

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The Water of Life (a Treatise on Urine Therapy) is, expectedly, a treatise on urine therapy, published by John W Armstrong in 1944. In it, he traces his journey in Biblically-inspired urine therapy, offering advice on how to make women more beautiful and fertile, how to make farm animals healthier, how to cure every disease (except 'mechanical dise…

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#68 The Decline of the West, Vol. 1 (part 2) - Oswald Spengler 2:34:47

7M ago2:34:47

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This week, we cover chapters four, five and six of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West, Volume I. Spengler has mindbroken Jack into understanding him; Levi remains intact. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.appl…

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#67 Christopher Dorner's Manifesto 2:11:37

7M ago2:11:37

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Christopher Dorner was an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department. He was fired from the LAPD after a workplace dispute in 2008, and in 2013 he declared war on his former employer, vowing to hunt down and kill police officers and their families. In the course of his brief war, he killed five people: two officers, two civilians, and himself. As…

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#66 Subscriber Q&A 2:10:54

7M ago2:10:54

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This week, we answer pressing questions from our Patreon subscribers. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Our Patreon: ww…

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#65 The Decline of the West, Vol. 1 (part 1) - Oswald Spengler 2:00:19

7M ago2:00:19

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Oswald Spengler's 'The Decline of the West' is a two-volume work, which lays out a model of morphological history, whereby each culture is the result of the actualisation of its own great soul. These souls have their own life cycles, their own youth, adulthood, decline and death, which can be compared and predicted using Spengler's model. This week…

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#64 Anatomy of the State - Murray Rothbard 2:38:30

8M ago2:38:30

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This week's episode is on 'Anatomy of the State,' a primer on anarcho-capitalism by Murray Rothbard, published in 1974. If you're interested in selling heroin and human organs to 12-year-olds outside of their workplaces (child labour laws are no longer cool), then this is your ideology. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon:…

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#63 The Dark Enlightenment - Nick Land 3:12:39

8M ago3:12:39

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Nick Land is an English philosopher who smashes together Deleuze, Guattari, Kant, Nietzsche, William Gibson's cyberpunk, HP Lovecraft's cosmic horror, and much, much more. Out of this collision has arisen Land's particular brand of accelerationism, as well as his contributions to the neo-reactionary movement. The subject of this episode, Land's 201…

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#62 Mine Were of Trouble - Peter Kemp 1:58:58

8M ago1:58:58

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In 1936, Peter Kemp, a recent graduate of Cambridge University, decided to fight for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. In 1957, he published 'Mine Were of Trouble,' an account of his wartime experiences. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sides…

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#61 Otherkin 2:00:29

8M ago2:00:29

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Otherkin are those who have human bodies, but identify as non-human animals, fictional creatures, and, depending on some definitions of otherkinity, inanimate objects or concepts. NORCO http://norcogame.com/ https://geographyofrobots.com/ All About the Weird Feeling by Steampunk Skygod https://drive.google.com/file/d/15oAF-cVMuwTzrrrfsyBpCgTr1SqEUH…

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#60 The Black Book of Satan - The Order of Nine Angles 2:10:11

8M ago2:10:11

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The Order of Nine Angles is a left-hand path occultist, satanist, neo-Nazi organisation with sprinkles of hermeticism and terrorism. The Black Book of Satan is their primary ritual text, and the subject of today's episode. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=mon…

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#59 Jack - David Hopkins 1:04:04

9M ago1:04:04

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Jack is an ongoing furry webcomic, first published in March 2001, by David Hopkins. Using an ensemble cast of furry angels, demons, souls trapped in purgatory and those living on Earth, it explores the author's Christian faith, his problems with women, theological dilemmas and his disgust at the state of the world. If that's not enough, it's also e…

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#58 The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin 2:49:33

9M ago2:49:33

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A classic of anarcho-communist theory, The Conquest of Bread (1892) is not merely the original breadpost, but also outlines how an anarchist revolution can be successful, the problems with Marxism, the problems with pre-Kropotkinite anarchism, why wages are always bad, and the wonders of intensive farming. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has publis…

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#57 - Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation - Laboria Cuboniks 1:38:48

9M ago1:38:48

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"If nature is unjust, change nature!" So concludes Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (2014), a manifesto by Laboria Cuboniks, an international feminist collective. Railing against injustice masquerading as the natural order of things, Xenofeminism presents a tech-enabled, be-anyone vision of the future, and a tentative roadmap for how to get …

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#56 Raw Egg Nationalism in Theory and Practice: Cook Good with the Raw Egg Nationalist - Raw Egg Nationalist 1:17:13

9M ago1:17:13

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Global homogenisation must be resisted. The nation state can best do this. Nationalism supports the nation state. Bodybuilding supports nationalism. Raw eggs support bodybuilding. Therefore raw eggs resist global homogenisation. A culinary call-to-arms, Raw Egg Nationalism in Theory and Practice (2020) not only contains enough BAPcore Twitter philo…

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#55 Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Gustav Jung 3:23:57

10M ago3:23:57

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Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, one whose influence on psychiatry, psychology, art and more remains significant today. A compilation of essays, first published in 1933, Modern Man in Search of a Soul represents Jung's attempt to explain why Europeans and Americans felt so empty and adrift in the 20th century, a state which per…

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#54 The Aeonic Futurist Manifesto 1:49:28

10M ago1:49:28

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The Aeonic Futurist Manifesto, published in 2020, is a high-speed collision of white nationalism, Hitlerism, Italian Futurism and amphetamine. 99% form, 1% (prescription) substance. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.…

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#53 Looksmax.org 2:23:28

10M ago2:23:28

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Looksmax.org is a gathering place for, you guessed it, looksmaxxers. And what is a looksmaxxer? Someone who believes that your looks completely determine almost everything in your life: success with women, finances, opportunities, the list is almost endless. Given this first principle, it makes sense that you'd try plenty of drastic things to impro…

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#52 Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger 1:31:15

10M ago1:31:15

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Storm of Steel, written by Ernst Jünger and first published in 1920, is based on the author's experiences of World War I. It is, at once, a deeply disturbing, but also strangely beautiful and ambivalent description of one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.c…

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#51 A Brief Explanation of the Cathedral - Curtis Yarvin 2:08:53

11M ago2:08:53

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Curtis Yarvin, neo-reactionary blogger extraordinaire, developed the concept of 'the cathedral,' a merging of journalism and academia that has captured key positions in Western society. We read his 2021 blog post 'A Brief Explanation of the Cathedral' to see what all the fuss is about. A Brief Explanation of the Cathedral https://graymirror.substac…

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#50 Feminist Glaciology - Mark Carey, M. Jackson, Alessandro Antonello, Jaclyn Rushing 2:13:57

11M ago2:13:57

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'Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research' is an academic paper, first published in 2016 in Progress in Human Geography. The title of this paper says more about it than any description I could give. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/To…

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#49 The Sovereign Individual (Part 2) - James Dale Davidson and Lord Willian Rees-Mogg 2:13:29

12M ago2:13:29

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This is our second episode about The Sovereign Individual, an impassioned paean about freedom from government. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Masticate (the band): https://masticate.bandcamp.com/album/power-through-bloodshed https://open.spotify.com/artist/7IGCjYU2yCFoY339yLQiwL?si=3rdLU5a1SGic6in9lFfjjw https://masticate-store.creator-spring.com/ Jack…

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#48 The Sovereign Individual (Part 1) - James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg 2:57:07

12M ago2:57:07

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Beloved by Bitcoin maxis, The Sovereign Individual (1997) is a book which details the collapse of nation states and rise of a self-sovereign, extranational class of optimised individuals. The cause of all this? Microprocessors. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/re…

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#47 The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct - Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay 1:44:42

12M ago1:44:42

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In 2017, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay wrote a hoax gender studies paper named 'The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct.' This paper was published in the pay-to-publish journal Cogent Social Sciences which, at least according to the paper's authors, demonstrated that the field of gender studies wasn't rigorous and shouldn't be taken serious…

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#46 Crash - J.G Ballard 1:16:05

1y ago1:16:05

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"Crash is, hands-down, the most repulsive book I've yet to come across." So said a book reviewer in The New York Times. Published in 1973 to widespread critical revulsion, Crash is a book about the relationship between humans and their technology, the role of symbols and simulation. These themes are explored through the metaphor of people crashing …

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#45 Heaven's Gate 2:00:22

1y ago2:00:22

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Heaven's Gate is the second-deadliest cult in US history. In 1997, 39 of them killed themselves in Santa Fe, California, while wearing Nikes, which I'm sure the Nike PR department really appreciated. Their aim was to catch a ride on the Hale-Bopp comet, which was actually a spaceship of light, sent by 'The Next Level', an interdimensional organisat…

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