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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
John Michael Greer writes:
Good for you, you peak-oil meme-magic druid, for keeping your corner of the net weird.
Yeah, I began losing interest in Greer as it became clear that he was perfectly happy squatting in the middle of the red-brown alliance during the Trump era. His critiques of industrialism and unquestioning belief in technological progress broadly align with what we discuss here, but he will always coddle MAHA types and tale a shrugging āwell, what can ya do?ā attitude towards people like Trump, as it fits his preference for cyclical theories of civilization.
I noticed a couple months ago that he actually managed to dig Nick Land out of whatever tweaker den that guyās been hiding in for a podcast, which says a lot about what heās willing to indulge these days.
I like to keep my analysis separate from my word-magic (making things happen by saying them). Greer is trying to remake the world and not just work up his courage which is a harmless and consensual form of word-magic.
I still respect the definition he gives for magic, which he probably pulled forward from one of the many past ritual magicians heās studied. Magic is the change in consciousness in accordance with willā¦ but we must always remember that that doesnāt say whose consciousness, nor whose will.
āAny Sufficiently Transparent Magicā¦ā by Damien P. Williams talks about chatbots as sorcery https://pages.charlotte.edu/damien-p-williams/wp-content/uploads/sites/1342/2024/01/DPW_Any-Sufficiently-Transparent-Magic_Edits-PrePrint.pdf
That Greer/Land crossover podcast is one of the funnier things Iāve listened to in a while, thanks for the ref, I guess I had missed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-pcSez32-s if others are interested.
Land opens with a Greer/Land yin-yang and weāre off the to races. Greer definitely brings up Spengler. Then Land starts talking about āFather Chad the Colorado Exorcistā and Greer is just yes-and-ing about the Solomonic tradition of binding demons.
ā¦ Half way through, thatās enough for one sitting.
Relatedly, C2C had a guy on talking about the singularity plus the bible. https://kfiam640.iheart.com/featured/coast-to-coast-am/content/2026-07-22-1100-the-best-of-coast-to-coas-the-singularity-best-of-coast-to-coast-am-72/
Seems like America is definitely getting ready for this stuff to cross over to the Left Behind crowd, I predict more Tucker segments. Iāll post some of the other guys Iāve found, digging into the āAI is actually the demonic spiritual energy of surviving nephilimā theory rn.
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