Blondy - What Was It Like Growing Up?

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Garry Valentine was a member of the band blondy. He says he didn't enjoy fame as much as other musicians did. The music just kind of came out of him, because he absorbed all this music from listening to the radio when he was a kid. Gave up playing guitar after 10 years and writing his own songs.

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.