Chris Knowles, Rituals of the State Cult |492|

Chris Knowles examines the meaning behind our cultures rituals.

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Audio Clip: [00:00:00] We can’t afford to have a Toga party. You guys up for a Toga party? Toga! Toga! I think they like the idea of it. Oh Otter please don’t do this. I’ve got news for your pal, they’re gonna nail us no matter what we do, so we might as well have a good time. Toga , Toga , Toga …

Alex Tsakiris: [00:00:26] That’s a classic clip from Animal House, where John Belushi and his fraternity brothers realize that the only response to the totalitarian rule of the dean is to throw a Roman toga party. I’m going to be going back to the Romans time and time again and to kick it off, here’s a clip from my upcoming interview with Chris Knowles.

Chris Knowles: [00:00:53] And you know one thing that I keep saying and I’m sure maybe a lot of your listeners will just think I’m insane but really, a lot of what this is all about is about restoring a state cults much the same as what we saw in ancient Rome. So when you take that, the ritualism which we see at every Super Bowl now, and every Oscar now, and you combine it with this cultic gas-lighting, with this mask conditioning into like this Invasion of the Body Snatchers reality, and they go together because they’re all moving towards the same goal. And the mask is the annihilation of individuality which is you know, it’s a prime aspect of any cult throughout history.

Audio Clip: [00:01:41] Welcome to Skeptiko where we explore controversial science and spirituality with leading researchers, thinkers and their critics. I’m your host Alex Tsakiris and today we welcome back one of my favorite scally wags of the alternative media and the author of a new book that we’re going to talk about The Endless American Midnight. Chris Knowles is here to join us, Chris welcome back. Thanks so much for joining me, I want to pull up on the screen this fantastic new book because what I want to tell people is you know, a lot of folks are very familiar with your kind of essential read blog, The Secret Sun. And we see on there that you’ve actually started a new Institute jump, jumping on the bandwagon there but some deep state stuff there. But what you’ve done here with this new book, The Endless American Midnight which I didn’t quite get why you would do it initially. But then I thought about it a little bit more and you know it’s like there’s so much stuff packed in The Secret Sun. And those of us like me, who just dive into this and sometimes can’t even get out of it, it’s so deep and it takes you in so many places, that once in a while, it’s good to be able to kind of curl up on the couch with a book and kind of go through this stuff in a different format. Is that, was that partially what you had in mind?

Chris Knowles: [00:03:20] Well people have been asking me for a very long time to do a book of secrets on work. And I just could never really figure out how to approach it because I have 1000s of posts going back 15 years now and it’s just, it’s very intimidating and overwhelming even for myself, even though I’m familiar with the material. So I just had a real hard time trying to put it in context and luckily, sort of 2020 did that for me. Yeah, the material I chose, because I was looking around at 2020,