Astral joins me for episode 12 of The Carousel podcast. Creator of the powerful Astral Flight Simulation Substack and pod, Astral plays the role of dissident impresario: chronicler, connector, true believer. If BAP is Kurtz, Astral is The Harlequin.

Topics include:

* Astral’s unique brand of comparative literary analysis. He creates his own independent academia.

* The course of his ideological transformation from left to right after discovering Curtis Yarvin. How BAP’s vitalism pulled him out of a depression.

* The longhouse and whether the correct term is matriarchy or gynocracy.

* Astral’s fantastic piece THE DIGITAL HORIZON on culture’s gaze and whether there’s any hope for escaping a single global technocracy.

* Woke advertising: why it happens and what it means.

* The state of the dissident movement; whether anons have heart.

* Or do they suffer from what we label The Beautiful Ones problem?

Astral Flight Simulation Substack

Astral Flight Simulation podcast on Spotify

Astral on Twitter

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