Deleuze and the post modernists are garbage.

Wait, so people paid for you to get a tattoo?

Incels are reincarnated radfems. Casanovas reincarnate as prostitutes.

Glad your move went well. What draws you a Toltec inspired sigil of the self? Is the upper cresent symbolic of the "incomplete man" moving beyond noetics? In it I see the truth of my mortal coil which, while alone is accompanied by psyche, which goes out to infinity and is in the dust right now blowing atop Olympus Mons for it is the energy of the cosmos.

Finally becoming a teenager. Congratulations

John Dee was based… you sir are not.

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Do you think you are john dee reincarnated? Didnt quite understand that statement in the start. Some sort of transmigration?

Loved all these, great videos!

John, have you ever considered recreating the Dee’s magical system and angelic calls? Some people have speculated that the system has the power to bring about the apocalypse. You of all people have the intellect to do so.

I hope you do a video about Megalopolis now that it's out

Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun , the Moon , and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity , and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre.

God Bless you. You influenced me and my writing more than you’ll likely know. Thank you

John: Just retouching this once again. Fascinating stuff. Would you recommend Eliade's "Shamanism?" What do you think about Jodorosky who refers to Tarot as a kind of Western therapeutic shamanism?

The sun is the capital “I” ego I believe. While the moon is the astral and the lower case “i”

Please finish the series!

A wild mischaracterization of Trump. Small towns declined because the digital age requires monopolizing time, attention and money, which necessarily gravitates towards to the largest nodes in the network aka the big cities. Trump had nothing do with it, though he benefited from it. He's also drastically different, in person, than the media portrays. The cynicism and scapegoating is really tiresome. Everything you said about Trump could be said a hundred fold about Obama, Biden, Harris, Walz and so.. they are the political equivalent of balloon animals, floated to distract the children from the powermongers behind the scenes. Trump isn't a neoliberal. He will drop the hammer on neoliberalism as it is a toxic ideology.

Is that Chloe and bimbo? Lol

such a good explanation, thanks!

I tend to think there is merit to the CIA use Pollock as a counter to Russian and European ideas at the time. It feels empty in that way.

you are so good at explaining things, thanks!

Is that a Jesse Wiedel painting behind your right shoulder?

what is the best translation o lf rilke's pketry?

I just wanted to thank you, as, I am reading this book for the first time. I am not one of your students but this is an immensely generous 'gift' of work and knowledge.

This is a solid conversation but goddamn John is arrogant

Wonderful! Thank you for this; a big fan of Baudrillard!🚬🌝📐🧠🦋

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The highbrow intellectual nature of the author you’re reading and your own sophomoric kremlin-laced interjections about quote ‘nato expansionism’ is discordant. If you’d do a fraction of a second’s research you’d learn that putin and nato were considering russia’s ascension into nato and kremlin complaints about nato expansion didn’t exist until quite recently as a grievance for local rt watching locals. Also if moscovia was so worried about nato expansionism -then why are they removing their army from nato borders to feed into the woodchipper of Ukraine? 😂

My take: Twin Peaks is the dream of JFK upon his death; Dale is the SS agent who shot him. She whispers to him: “You shot me!” Thus, his surprise mixed with a look of recognition. That’s why ‘Bobby’ was dating her and she was so above the world. Her ‘Dad’ is just herself in her past life with his out of control sex desire. It makes a lot of sense if you watch it that way. That means Judy (Laura’s Mom) is actually Jackie, looking like she did after the killing with a cigarette.🚬 25 years from ‘63 is ‘88 when GHWB, the man who coordinated the killing, became President. “I’ll see YOU in 25 years…”means exactly that. That is why Phillip Jeffries, who has left the FBI to become a contract killer, points at Agent Cooper with such anger and betrayal: “That isn’t agent Cooper!” It’s the killer. We aren’t going to talk about the assassination, no we aren’t going to talk about what happened over the rainbow in the last life. Then, we see the men who arranged the killing and their ritual. When she is killed, Laura finally knows the truth of her past life and her present life, and what it all meant. She remembers that she is JFK; and how her conscience made her live a life so that she could understand her past life and how it hurt so many, while taking us all on a journey, literally and figuratively, ‘to the moon.’ Our moon, who she is. The reflection of the Sun exploding upon the air of the 📺 god. The reflection of the Master Masonic ritual of King Kill 33. And that is why the sledgehammer breaks the 4th wall; breaks the curse; and gets revenge. Gets revenge on the box that held the body of Osiris. That is the ‘magic bullet’ or sperm or Tau they find under Ronnet's (or Ron Reagan) finger nail-shot by the same conspiracy from above the convenience store. Why they just shot at Trump; but because Trump is Laura in Real life, they cannot hit the target. She and He are 'already dead' over the rainbow. Now Laura can be President Jewish Triumph over the fallen world of gentile/genital men. Believe It, or Not.

Keep doing shows with him!

I'm not sure about the supposed exclusive "advancement" o spiritual capacities of the human brain. Elephants, whales, maybe even dolphins seem to me to hide outstanding inner worlds.

lol at Spengler's polemic against the man of thought

This looks like the holy grail of courses tbh.

This looks absolutely amazing! I just picked up one of your books and I’m about to get more and I’m curious on your thoughts about Spenglers understanding of the civilizations also going with Steiners work? As in do they ultimately connect to each other in some way or are they really just separate from one another? It seems to me that these great thinkers are understanding pieces of the larger truth about reality and we just need to connect them together as best we can.

Your critique of Spengler regarding his misunderstanding of the man of intellect and the man of action is sound. I think Heinrich Heine said it best when he wrote - “Mark this, Ye proud men of action: Ye are nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought who, often in humblest seclusion, have appointed you to your inevitable task. Maximilian Robespierre was merely the hand of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

I miss these videos where you're just a floating head and hands lol

I'm thinking of buying his book on the critique of cynic reason.

That information about the first known usage of the personal pronoun “I” is interesting in light of Rousseau’s famous quote from his discourse on inequality - “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, “This is mine”, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”” If only Rousseau had known the culprit, lol!

Thanks for making such a detailed breakdown of Spengler’s work. It’s interesting how a lot of the things you discuss in this video have only gotten worse in the last 12 years (drug addiction, addiction and engrossment in technology, deterioration of family values etc.).

great background!

10:21 taloman does he say Ptolemy, and what is the model for the Ptolemy West? Isn't Ptolemy just an earth center model of the universe? IOW is he saying from Earth centered to Sun centered (Copernicus) ? Is this the dividing line for Spangler ?

Hey, "correct on the physical plane" is nothing to sneer at.

Does this get into emerging/future forms of authoritarian or totalitarian governments?

Link between puritans and Nazis? (Maybe because they value grand term like Voice over text - modernist) Black clothes to signal nighttime (on edge of society/outsiders from the sun) Gold rush 1849 (lot of immigrants of trystero coming to America for gold rush) Pynchon does Derrida of opposites (either or conspiracy or paranoia). Oedipa trapped in either or thinking (logocentric thinking). Derrida deconstructs these metaphysical oppositions into a chaotic mess (postmodernism). Pulls out metaphysics of the west oedipa inherits this Derrida - man woman, voice text, derrida questions the focus on the lhs of the binary and deconstructs it so its no longer absolute. So end up with no grand metaphysical terms, which leads to postmodernism. For oedipa, this means she cant find the answer to her question, the actual resolution cannot be shown. I guess this is where we end up with thinking beyond propositional (vervaeke) and plausibility over asbolute conditions. How go act in this post-modern space

Entropy as social waste, outsiders from the system. Tristero exists to counteract entropy (to improve signal as comms breakdown occurs from this waste) Social encounters going wrong - indicative of social encounters IA (anonymous) with muted horn badr trying at least to establish communications She counters the dispossessed. She sympathises with these people. Oh entropy as bias? Entropy as medium is the message, biasing people outside of the centre? Lsd confereing computerised(binary) abilities but comes eith schizo/isolating tendencies The novel itself as a way for communicate with others. A medium/metaphor to delay communication entropy/social waste.by reading the book you become part of a underground group that understands the symbol and its meaning, empathy for the audience themselves.

Can Oedipa reverse entropy? Oedipas investigations allowing metaphor to extend and entropy not to fully realise

What is your opinion on Gnosticism?

jon-dividdy-bert :)

No intention of disrespect but I still can't believe that you actually examined and compared the natal chart of those two authors. The first time I saw someone do this. Unbelievable !

Muted horn - hand over mouth, covered womb. Myth as mouthed but also silent/transcendent. Menacing because it means keep quiet regarding the organisation or else Logocentrism of the west (voice over the text) - closer to the origin means closer to the aura of authenticity. Glass onion - can interpret everything Something to do with the sublime and either realising its not there, or its there but not being allowed to disseminate. The sublime as more than The looking for authenticity can be a paranoid act (again it could actually lead to truth, we are never told the ending of the novel). Something religious about this searching (deserving of compassion).