Post Modernism

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Alexander dugan, who's a really strange character. Started out the eighties as a anti soviet, like, dissitet punk. He wrote these vociferous, really loud, angry books about how we have to destroy america and all this kind of thing. And he his is wonderful, a way of bell crowing together variety of different, radical, totalitarian, fascious, authoritaria political ideas. So again, its weird metaphysical kinds of ideas in forming politics. But for a while er, he was getting puton's ear.

Gary Lachman is a writer and philosopher, whose work focuses on human imagination and the history of occult ideas. In this episode we discuss:

- Moving between the rational and the imaginative modes of consciousness - The rise of meme magic in politics and how Trump, Putin others have used it - How to make sense of a world dominated by philosophies of nihilism

We also discuss Gary’s experience in the rock band Blondie in the mid 70s, how the internet shapes reality and the history of some of the most important ideas about consciousness.