This week, we’re joined by RiverC and Esoteric Traditionalist for a discussion on language and meme warfare.
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Notes:
04:51 – Reintroducing RiverC
08:50 – Introducing Esoteric Traditionalist
12:20 – Primary Loyalties
20:38 – Right-wing Esoterics and Meme Warfare
32:07 – Cultural impacts of Gardner and Crowley
38:37 – Language is the outer bound of philosophy
45:07 – Language and the transmission of memes
54:32 – Literacy as class marker and secret decoder
1:02:08 – Mass media, universal literacy, and the multiplier effect
1:08:27 – Roots of effective right-wing meme generation
1:19:00 – Confusing sigils with the power behind them
1:36:18 – Out of Left Field: Is Gnon a valid concept?
Related Show Links:
Opening Music – “Spikes of Steel” by ROBERT8OZ (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1169151/spikes-of-steel
Closing Music – “Vivaldi concerto pour guitare en ré, mouvement 3″ – Cinus Laurent
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1291589/vivaldi-concerto-pour-guitare-en-re-mouvement-3
RiverC’s blogs:
http://ionthesky.blogspot.com/
http://mitrailleuse.net/author/eantonygray/
Esoteric Traditionalist’s blog:
https://esoterictrad.wordpress.com/
Gnon’s origin story
http://www.xenosystems.net/the-cult-of-gnon/
Man as rising beast vs. fallen angel
http://orig13.deviantart.net/d950/f/2013/334/8/1/beast_by_wizardleo-d6w6xba.png
Bindrunes – Sigils created using runic letters
http://www.runemaker.com/bindrune.shtml
Grant Morrison on Magic and Sigils
http://disinfo.com/2014/10/pop-magic-grant-morrison/
Sponsorship:
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