Fergal Schmudlach
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Combat Parasocialism: Book of Thoth (Egypt, 300 BCE – 300 CE?), Frank Kitson, Low Intensity Operations (Kenya, 1971), The Gateless Gate (China, 1228) [PREVIEW]
🕑 Added 2021-12-28 06:47:55 +0000 UTCWith the internet, every ordinary social interaction is now subject to counterinsurgency tactics like COINTELPRO and GLADIO. In places like Vietnam, Kenya, and Ireland, counterinsurgency strategists have allowed the working class to organize while embedding agents within their orgs and also encapsulating these orgs within controlled structures, so that they may be manipulated, frustrated, and even misdirected to cause general chaos and drive society as a whole further toward authoritarianism. Today with Signature Reduction, Integrity Initiative, and similar programs in Japan and across the world, we know (and they want us to know) that similar forces are being brought to bear directly on every human mind. On the other hand, this is nothing new: ancient Egyptian scribes’ guilds celebrated initiation rites glorifying their craft of writing itself as being able to grab like a claw, catch like a net, or embalm like salt, any element of reality in the interest of ruling class control (and this general idea became the loose basis for hellenistic Hermeticism, or logos mysticism like that found in the Gospel of John). So what the fuck am I doing recording a podcast?
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Comments
Fergal Schmudlach
Very sincerely that is great to hear! I have a lot of scrambling to do before the end of the Japanese fiscal year at the end of this month, but when I come up on the other side I will take that with me as I get back on the mic, my friend.
Aaron Berge
Not my intention to flatter but your insights are tremendous and this episode specifically has catalyzed the ferriswheel of my mind to increase rotation-velocity lmao. I hope you produce more monological material in the future. Hearing you expound/ponder is of certain value to me rn
Fergal Schmudlach
This is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me: thank you very much indeed! You’ve given me a lot of energy to keep creating.
Yon Brownn
My man, this is the most uncannily salutary podcast project I’ve ever encountered. That it’s so nimbly and presciently in dialogue with it’s textual comrades and cousins (not to mention it’s enemies) of the moment, I find face-melting, then just heart-warming. And uncanny all the while. Eternal respect and gratitude. The path seems wider today
