162: Is Our Book a Conspiracy Theory?
Conspirituality
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The Disparate Sources of Sexual, Racial, and Bodily Anxiety
The book verges on conspiratorial thinking in trying to neatly connect them all through disparate accounts of sexual, racial, and bodily anxiety. The underlying idea here is that reproductive organs and fluids are not only essential to a person's life and identity, they also carry spiritual or esoteric powers and so you don't screw with them. So when the Proud Boys and other manosphere types start up things like no FAP November, it's not just that they're trying to reduce the humiliations of their porn consumption. They're talking about bodily rejuvenation, not just spilling seed. And then that has racial overtones that we'll get into in a moment.
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