By Empires Crumble
Podcast by Empires Crumble
Rhyd Wildermuth's presentation on paganism, animism, and climate change, delivered in the Château of Esch-sur-Sure on 11 September, 2021. Text available at Rhyd.substack.com
In this episode, Alley and Rhyd discuss the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the way the US government has used (and will continue to use) human rights and identity concerns as a way to advance imperialist policies.
Alley and Rhyd discuss the move by governments to create "health passports" and restrict activity to those who refuse to get them.
Rhyd and Alley discuss land, its history, its meaning, and its politics. For more information, consider enrolling in Alley's upcoming course with Gods&Radicals at https://abeautifulresistance.org/land-loss-and-reconnection
We're back! After a 7 month hiatus, Alley and Rhyd return to discuss Alley Valkyrie's latest essay, "The Needle and The Damage Done," regarding the Suez Canal and how global distribution has affected the way we eat, the way we see...
An audio essay from Rhyd Wildermuth
Like a world championship chess player wearing a clown nose, Donald Trump has been able to convince liberals he's an idiot while setting them up for an impossible situation they cannot respond to...
Ecological, environmental, and governance crises are all related. Alley and Rhyd discuss the major aspects of each of these (climate problems, Black Lives Matter and the backlash against it, the rise of far right parties in Europe, and the massive...
Events in the U.S have taken a turn for the revolutionary. But with Trump's threat to label Antifa as a terrorist organization and white Americans policing the way Black people protest, things could get really terrifying. Alley and Rhyd discuss the...
"Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake" What comes after COVID-19? What will our world...
[Audio Essay from Rhyd Wildermuth] While leftists craft ridiculous conspiracy theories about banking cabals or 5G, some people are literally conspiring to keep us alive.
Finally back in the same place for a bit, Alley and Rhyd discuss Magic and its relationship to Fascism, especially in regards to the power of words. Originally recorded 12 March (just before the COVID-19 curfew in France)
No one’s behind this. That’s the true occult knowledge behind COVID-19 and every other catastrophe which will continue to define our lives. An audio essay from Rhyd Wildermuth
In addition to our regular episodes, we'll now be adding audio essays from both Rhyd Wildermuth and Alley Valkyrie. Here's the first, from Rhyd, on the "State of Exception." Governments around the world have begun curtailing civil liberties in order to...
With the upsurge of interest in socialism and the complete failure of the judicial process to dethrone Trump, the idea of a General Strike seems to be on American's minds. But do they even know how one works? Alley and...
Can a system really be changed from within? Is false hope a form of manipulation? Alley and Rhyd discuss the American Situation, with an eye towards the larger problem facing climate activists around the world
As climate catastrophe and capitalism's crises disrupt the ability of people to survive, migration will become the norm. Unfortunately, there are governments and people trying to stop them... Alley and Rhyd look at the recent history of immigration and border laws,...
The official narratives of politicians, governments, and the media no longer hold the same power upon the people. Conspiracy theories abound. But aren't governments technically conspiracies? And revolutions...those are too. So how do we tell who's lying, who's in charge, and...
"We thought we had more time..." With more and more news that the climate collapse is accelerating, it's time we seriously look at the pretty little lies we tell ourselves to keep ourselves going. Alley and Rhyd discuss some of these,...
"The dark ages were really only dark for the rich..." With more and more reports that "civilization" may end because of catastrophic climate change, we may be entering into a new "dark ages." But is that really something to fear? Alley...
Hannah Arendt, bell hooks, Slavoj Zizek...just a few names on an ever-growing list of philosophers that good leftists aren't "allowed" to read anymore because of something "problematic" they said. In this episode, Alley and Rhyd discuss the "canceling" of artists, philosophers,...
The revolution won't be tweeted... From toxic "social justice" crusades to internal sabotage, "internet leftism" is destroying itself and fueling the far-right. In this episode, Alley Valkyrie & Rhyd Wildermuth discuss the mechanisms of these problems and their roots in our alienation...
What's the relationship between anarchism and art? How do we create the kind of world we want to see? And how we learn to believe that we are "good enough?" In this episode, Alley and Rhyd talk with guest Margaret Killjoy...
While many people have begun to use Globalization and Globalism inter-changeably, they are absolutely not the same thing. In this episode, Alley & Rhyd discuss the damage done by global Capital, the history of Globalization, the anti-semitic conspiracy theories of...
"I have met my own people, and I hate them all." --Claudia, from Interview With The Vampire In this episode, Alley and Rhyd discuss their own journeys into Paganism and witchcraft and how they differed radically from the "business" of Paganism and...
Alley and Rhyd discuss the problems of nationalism and explore the important differences between indigenous and colonized people's struggles for national independence and the far right and white nationalist struggles, and the role of global capitalism in the destruction of...
What’s an Egregore? What’s an egregore got to do with America? And what really happened to the dude who made KONY2012? In the sixth episode Alley Valkyrie and Rhyd Wildermuth discuss how the ingredients of the ritual that manifested American...
Empires Crumble 5 - -Violence by Empires Crumble
Why is being a "witch" suddenly popular? What does the rise of the witch identity mean for actual witches? Why our capitalists trying to sell us stuff? And what are the dangers of this trend? In Episode 4: The Witch,...
In this third episode, Alley Valkyrie & Rhyd Wildermuth discuss fascism and its specifics and ask, is what we're seeing really fascism?
In this episode, Alley Valkyrie & Rhyd Wildermuth discuss this current crisis of Capitalism, how Trump and other opportunists exploit this crisis (and are much smarter than you think), and how all of this has created the material conditions for...
Episode 1: The Security State by Empires Crumble
