What if the strongman’s power is really just fear — dressed in gold?

🎧 Waypoint 2.4: The Strongman and The Second Sex

This is the fourth audio installment of Season Two of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.

In this episode: authoritarian masculinity, empty temples, divine jealousy, and the fragile myth of eternal virility. A mythic and psychological meditation on gender, power, pleasure — and the political fear of feminine agency.

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