The way of changing, causing change in consciousness that plays the most important are things like rhetoric and communicative skills. Then you have the kind of political magic you get when all of the sides are actually in favor of the same things. And it's just a personality context, a contest. We saw this with Obama. There was this whole Hopi changey business. And then he got into office and he copied all of the policies of Turkish W Bush. He just doubled down on everything that Democrats have been shrieking about for eight years. Barack Obama started doing the Democrats. Isn't it wonderful? Now it's a Democratic president blowing the crap out of wedding parties on the other side of
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/