Isai: We need a new myth, we need new stories. How do you think about that problem? Isai: It's one of the major questions i think we've been facing for the last couple of hundred years and it's come to a head now. I inny adde ill, what's in the favor of this, it's usually something that grips you in some kind of way, and you can't kind of plan that," he says.
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.