Astral Flight Simulation

Season 2 begins with Brad and Kevin from Art of Darkness podcast discussing Fight Club. Part one we discuss the cultural impact of the film, and in part two we discuss the themes and meaning of the film. We also compare it to the book and even bring up American Psycho at the very end, a movie that must be watched in conjunction with Fight Club to get an idea of where the zeitgeist was at the time and where its got since then. This episode draws heavily from three essays I wrote on the film that you should read to get an idea where we’re coming from.

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In “Overcoding Culture” I discuss the way the woke retcon history and culture to make it look their agenda has always been reality

In “Fight Club” I do a Freudian read on the film, which I intended to supersede with a Nietzschean read in a later essay, however I deliver that in part two of this episode. This is certainly a Nietzshcean, and not a Freudian story

In “Snowflakes” I discuss several erroneous, woke reads of the film and prove how the woke are trying to reappropriate it for their ideology.

Greetings all. Charles Haywood, of The Worthy House blog, is one of my intellectual inspirations, and a resource to anyone who wants to understand our historical political and cultural moment. He deigned an essay of mine worthy of response, and granted me two hours to pick his brain and challenge some of his positions. It was an honor and a pleasure, and we plan to do this again soon! For context, before or after, I suggest you read the three essays on his blog that we discuss here:

On the Fragility of the Current Regime

On the Future Ascent of a Caesar

What to Do When Caesar Comes

And my response to his appearance on Aaron Macintyre’s show: Is the “Regime” weak?

As I mentioned last week on my sub stack (subscribe here!!) my computer crashed. I got it back up (lost everything, including my intro), but somethings off with the sound. I’m terribly embarrassed by my sound here, and wouldn’t normally run this, but he’s such a high value guest and was so gracious to come on, I have to run with it. I hope Charles doesn’t mind, and by next episode I hope to have it fixed.

In this episode we argue that the myths and fairy tales we tell ourselves today are situated firmly within the solar traditions of the West. The precession of the equinox’s are tracked by our mythology and todays myths are no different. Just as the age of Aries, the age of the ram, was ending, the “Lamb” of God was sacrificed on the Cross, but the age of Pisces, symbolized by two fish, was ushered in by Christ feeding the masses with *two fish.* And now, our secular religion of science, whose doctrines are delivered to us by scientist-priests, are telling us that the world will be drowned by melting glaciers and sea level rise, leaving our civilization a wasteland. This just so happens to come precisely when we pass into the age of Aquarius, symbolized by the sea god drowning the world with his bottomless pots of water.

But it also seems, we argue, to coincide with Nietzsches age of nihilism, Spenglers materialistic Winter phase, Evolas spiritual “Iron Age,” which also, according to Evola, corresponds with the Hindu Kali Yuga, an age in which mankind is abandoned by the Gods and the Earth is a spiritual wasteland, waiting for the sleeping king to wake up, the hero to recover the grail, the Caesar to take over, or the Ubermensch to invaluate all values.

Here we attempt to synthesize many books and thinkers that you may hear thrown about and use them to get a better perspective on the modern, digital age.

For those interested in doing further reading, most of our discussion is built upon reading we’ve done from Spenglers Decline of the West, Evolas Ride the Tiger, Revolt Against the Modern World, and The Mystery of the Grail, as well as Joseph Campbels’s Masks of God, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Romance of the Grail, Nietzsches Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, and Twilight of the Idols, and Aion by Carl Jung

I sit down with Mike and Dave of Kvlture Dads, an awesome podcast about the mythopoetics of pop culture. We get into the evolution of heavy metal and the state of cultural dearth today and what we need to bring it back. Really fun episode, metal heads will rejoice.

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Raw Egg Nationalist is the hardest working man on the internet, single-handedly publishing Mans World Journal, writing his own articles for various publications, and authoring four original books, including the most recent “Eggs Benedict Option.”
We spend two hours exploring the insights and ideas in the book, and I can’t possibly recommend it highly enough, he goes from Platos dialogues to the official plans of the WEF and Alexander Dugins critique, to neolithic farming and “voluntary self-nomadization” and Russia Dacha farming.

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For todays episode I'm joined by the two co-hosts of one of my favorite podcasts, Art of Darkness. In each episode they do a deep dive, and I mean they really go deeper than most other podcasts, on an artist and their work. They've covered some of my favorite authors, like HP Lovecraft, Philip K Dick, William S. Burroughs, and Roberto Bolano - who they discussed with me as their guest! They also cover painters like Heironymous Bosch and Francis Bacon and the theater impresario  Antonin Artaud.

Here we have a wide ranging discussion of things from realism vs horror, publishing, and writing in the digital age. We spend a lot of time on Burroughs as well. Literary aficionados will love this episode.

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Today I'm joined by my good friend Isaac Simpson who runs a blog and a substack about culture and its relationship to marketing in the digital age. Please excuse my muffled mic issue for this episode, Isaac is a really funny and insightful guy doing original work on the subject of branding and how it morphs in the 21st century. The guy also has some really hilarious comments about his forays into podcasting and promotional work for web companies, you'll really enjoy this episode.

Read the four part essay series this episode was based on, and follow his substack The Carousel.

Read his essay that we discuss Raining Frogs

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We discuss two horror classics as well as Zantaes twitter account @mythoamerica. We use the films and the account to discuss the dark past of America, the archetypical imagery of both films, as well as their relationship to American nostalgia, coming of age stories, and our relationship to both the wilderness, the suburbs, religion, and sexuality.

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We discuss Event Horizon as a metaphor for the cultural morass we find ourselves in in the digital age

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of my all time favorite movies, and I believe its mytho and psychological  significance can provide insight into the current predicament we face in America today, culturally and politically. By interpreting the film through The Golden Bough, Jung, Eric Neumann, and Greek Mythology, we hope to provide a deeper understanding of the imagery of American horror. We also hope its a lot of fun, this movie goes so hard.

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