The Myth of Progress Is Self-Reinforcing

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I'm gonna like push back a little bit just because I'm curious to see where this goes. There's nothing that goes on at Burning and it didn't go on a reasonably size Roman orgy in the in the second century BC. People get the myth of progress is self-reinforcing, he says. We're actually going through a set of cultural, intellectual, emotional, psychological consciousness related to changes that were already familiar in the time of the Babylonians.

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/