298 - Mary Harrington - Conspiracies and the Return of Myth

I had a wonderful discussion with writer Mary Harrington about conspiracies, myth and memes, the internet, artificial intelligence, and meaning-making.Mary Harrington is a columnist and editor for UnHerd and runs her own weekly Substack Reactionary Feminist. She's interested in the political and cultural side-effects of globalization, the replacement of class politics by identity politics, the joy of limits, and women’s rights in the biotech age, which is the subject of her first book, Feminism Against Progress.YouTube version: https://youtu.be/D__CrY3FaWA- Mary's Twitter: https://twitter.com/moveincircles - Substack: https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/- UnHerd articles: https://unherd.com/author/mary-harrington/- Book: https://www.amazon.com/Feminism-against-Progress-Mary-Harrington/dp/1684514878-----------------------Timestamps:00:00:00 - Introduction to the video00:00:40 - Intro music00:01:05 - How to understand conspiracies00:05:17 - Eating babies00:06:59 - Lizard elites00:09:26 - Why myth is coming back00:16:48 - Meaning-making and money00:19:28 - Oral culture00:21:28 - Artificial intelligence00:22:40 - How does Mary see Ai and writing?00:25:56 - Writers VS ChatGPT00:28:28 - Teams and nation-states00:31:58 - Crowdfunding and Crowdfeeding00:34:09 - Weaponizing the conspiracy label00:43:10 - Anti-normativity00:46:38 - Making normal mainstream again00:49:19 - There will be suffering00:52:23 - Government and Ai-----------------------