124: No Bad Idea Ever Dies (w/Thomas Lecaque)
Conspirituality13 Okt 2022

124: No Bad Idea Ever Dies (w/Thomas Lecaque)

For the prophet and the revolutionary alike, the time is always now. Gird up your loins brave heroes, and show your true faith! The signs portend that The Last World Emperor is rising to do battle against the AntiChrist. The time is always now, but in that flat circle of iterative history, no bad idea is really new under the Black Sun—it's just been engineered to go more viral. Our guest today is history professor Thomas Lecaque, who writes about how medieval ethnonationalist holy war is woven into hugely popular video games, right-wing political rhetoric, and even how assault weapons are marketed. Julian talks with him about the Hobbit-fetish of new Italian PM and heir to Mussolini, Giorgia Meloni, as well as the American right’s obsession with the Templar Knights, and the troubling midterm election trend of open White Christian Nationalism. For TWIC, Matthew muses on the overlaps between conspirituality and neo-fascism, but first Derek reports on the battle between testicular cuisine and buttery coffee. Show NotesManclan Episode 1: Liver King vs the Soy Boys Cornell Expert Warns Against Megadosing VitaminsDietary Supplements Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report -- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(799)

Brief: My Neighbourhood Data Center Conspiracy

Brief: My Neighbourhood Data Center Conspiracy

Matthew investigates the under-construction STACK data centre at 3650 Danforth Avenue in Scarborough, two miles from his home, tracing what he finds through concentric circles of capital, neglect, hyp...

30 Mai 38min

310: The Bait & Switch Complex

310: The Bait & Switch Complex

In the early 20th century, some retailers would advertise a product at an attractively low price to lure customers into the store, claim the item was out of stock or of poor quality then pressure cust...

28 Mai 1h 6min

Bonus Sample: Poetry As Resistance & Embodied Spirituality

Bonus Sample: Poetry As Resistance & Embodied Spirituality

Across continents and centuries outsider poets have made a bold stand for the life of the body, contemplative ecstasy, sexual liberation, and the sacredness of nature, often in the face of religious a...

25 Mai 5min

Brief: Living with Prediabetes

Brief: Living with Prediabetes

In February, Derek and his wife, Callan, were surprised to discover she was diagnosed with prediabetes. They didn't know that Asian American adults are at a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes than others ...

23 Mai 24min

309: Crybully Christians in the White House

309: Crybully Christians in the White House

The Trump DOJ's 565-page report from the Task Force for Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias is one of the strangest federal documents in American history. It’s a crybully tome, arguing that the most power...

21 Mai 56min

Bonus Sample: Liberals Punching Left

Bonus Sample: Liberals Punching Left

Listen to the full episode In this contribution to an ongoing co-host conversation, Matthew argues that the liberal centre's habit of punching left is a historically conditioned class strategy. From ...

18 Mai 5min

Brief: Spirituality After Atheism?

Brief: Spirituality After Atheism?

It’s normal to feel lost after leaving a cult, transitioning out of fundamentalist religion, or abandoning conspiracy theories. Whether you’ve left behind, you may be asking, "What now?"  Britt Hartl...

16 Mai 43min

308: The AI Slop Machine is Worse Than You Think [feat Mallory DeMille]

308: The AI Slop Machine is Worse Than You Think [feat Mallory DeMille]

Two months ago, we recorded Episode 291: My Chinese Buddhist Israeli AI Guru, surveying the growing field of AI slopfluencers churning out wellness supplements via Amazon affiliate links. At the time,...

14 Mai 58min

Populært innen Vitenskap

fastlegen
tingenes-tilstand
jss
liberal-halvtime
rekommandert
sinnsyn
forskningno
villmarksliv
rss-paradigmepodden
tomprat-med-gunnar-tjomlid
dekodet-2
nevropodden
rss-nysgjerrige-norge
rss-zahid-ali-hjelper-deg
fjellsportpodden
tidlose-historier
grunnstoffene
diagnose
rss-rekommandert
kvinnehelsepodden