Trump was a natural for the chance because he is so outspoken and frankly, such a blowhard. He himself violates half the rules of ordinary discourse in the classes to which he more or less belongs. And then there was the fact that he was directing his campaign against precisely those policies that ensured that so many of these guys were stuck living in mom's basement next to the washing machine. The irony of that, the multiple nested ironies,.
In this episode John Michael Greer and I discuss his 'Kek Wars' article series on how the Chans used magick to influence the 2016 elections.
We talk about political campaigns as magical performance, 4chan as the collective unconscious of the internet, the lefts failure to recognize a politics of existential crises, the myth of progress, and the antidote to cosmic indifference. 🐙
The Kek Wars Part 1:
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-kek-wars-part-one-aristocracy-and-its-discontents/
Primer on Chaos Magick:
https://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/11/13/psychonaut-field-manual/