In a society that has one established way of looking at the world, and usually screws everyone else, you get outsider culture. Whatever is rejected by the mainstream culture, the outsider culture jumps on to be careful what you reject. In France before the French Revolution, coffee houses scattered all over Paris and every significant city in France, where people just get together and hang out. And that's where the ideas that made the French Revolution happen were born. The American Revolution was brought up in an Anabostin pub,. That's the way these things happen.
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/