This is our second episode about The Sovereign Individual, an impassioned paean about freedom from government.

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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.

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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 seriously.

The fact that they could pay a shabby academic journal to publish their paper says less about gender studies than it does about the state of academic publishing. Their paper is, nonetheless, a very funny piece of satire, capturing the word-vomit style of many social sciences papers. We read through the paper and offer a (mostly on-topic) running commentary.

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Jack has published a novel!
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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 their cars and having sex with their wounds. I expected to hate this book, but actually loved it. It's a wild ride.

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Jack has published a novel!
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Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671

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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 organisation which you definitely want to be part of.
The cult's leaders, Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, secluded themselves and their 'students' for 17 years form the rest of the world, subjecting each other to 'lessons'. Eventually, the cult members were so dedicated that nine of them underwent voluntary surgical castration, which I assume was some sort of team-building activity.

Heaven's Gate still maintains a crispy, 1990s-style website, where they have published numerous theological and advertising materials for the cult. So, like any well-adjusted Earthlings, we decided to read them.

Heaven's Gate's website: https://heavensgate.com/

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I'm tired of people talking about metaphorical witch hunts. Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, Inquisitors and authors of this episode's book, had a much better idea. The Malleus Maleficarum (translated as 'The Hammer of the Witches) is a witchhunting manual, first published in 1486, in part because Kramer led an unsuccessful Inquisition in Innsbruck, where he was prevented from condemning a number of women to death. Rather than learn from his mistakes, Kramer doubled down and wrote a 700-page tome about why basically every woman is probably a witch, and why they should be executed.

If the combination of rabid misogyny and wonky scholastic philosophy sounds like fun (or not), then listen on.

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Jack has published a novel!
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A work of 4chan metafiction by the (presumably) pseudonymous 'Master Necro Mega-Damage Rapeface', 'Behead all Satans' is a middle-aged child's idea of edgy humour. Its author claims to have been an influence of Mike Ma's, but I'm not so sure.

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Jack has published a novel!
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Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671

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Objectivism: you know it's true because it's objective. It's right there in the name, buddy.
Atlas Shrugged (published 1957) is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, a 1,200-page novel which details her philosophy of objectivism using characters like a pirate who hates income tax, a railroad magnate who is turned on by rationality, a superhero banker who loves the gold standard, a playboy billionaire who shoots unionists and, most importantly, dollar-sign-branded cigarettes.

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Jack has published a novel!
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Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671

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Want to find out where the word 'sadism' comes from? The Marquis de Sade was a French sex maniac who, in 1785 began work on The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. The work remains unfinished, and only found a publisher in 1904, repeatedly rejected because of its graphic depictions of paedophilia, necrophilia, rape of every variety, torture and murder.

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Jack has published a novel!
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Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671

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The Nation of Islam, despite its name, might not be the most Islamic organisation in the world. Elijah Muhammad, one of the Nation of Islam's leaders, collected the conversations he had with Fard Muhammad, the organisation's founder and self-proclaimed embodiment of Allah.
One of the fruits of his labour was Yakub: The Father of Mankind, published in 2002. The subject of this book? The origin of the white race. Turns out, black people are gods, Allah is only one in a long line of gods (and has probably died) and white people are the result of a centuries-long selective breeding program to make the most degenerated humans possible. Islam indeed!

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Jack has published a novel!
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Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671

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