Oct 27 2024 83 mins 5
On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with a fascinating gent who goes by FOOL Ψ and writes at OmniMyth: Grand Narrative.
Check out his most popular articles below:
* How to ostracize yourself: having no niche
* Musings on monotheism and American identity
Topics include:
* Competing narratives of American identity
* Sociological impacts of the collapse of a coherent American identity
* Meritocracy/empire/immigration vs. stability/safety/nativism
* Is America a Christian nation?
* Masonic / Esoteric / Mystery Cult influence on Christianity
* Early church history and Ammon Hillman’s reinterpretation of Christianity
* Dark practices of early Christian sects
* Why hasn’t Walt heard of all the creepy stuff Fool is talking about?
* Historic use of psychedelics to interface with angels and demons
* Limitations of translating Ancient Greek etc. when divorced from context
* Academic/religious persecution of figures like Ammon Hillman
* Blackmail against public figures (Julian Assange, Lindsey Graham, Epstein)
* The inherent entropy of institutions and need for disruption and rebirth
* Is there an authentic American identity distinct from immigrant influence?
* American schizophrenia vs. European sclerosis
* The Silicon Valley “cult of the machine god”
* People are intimidated by the formalization of power dynamics
* Disengaging with unpleasant aspects of human nature (masculine predation, racial difference etc.) is actually more dangerous to society
* Best way to handle dealing with normies
* Alchemy, psychotherapy, and shadow integration
* How useful is “narcissist” as a category?
* The inevitability of performativity and Walt’s metamodernism
* Conscious vs. unconscious performance
* Overlap between narcissism and high functioning hyperverbal autism
* Every girl has a “narcissist ex”
* The necessity of personal mythmaking
* Psychology is a branch of philosophy and not science
* Every field of scholarship has physics envy
* Fool’s interest in psychedelic research
* Psychedelics and ego death—can it cure extreme neurosis/autism?
* Apollonian stimulants vs. Dionysian psychedelics
* Psychedelics and dreams
* LLMs as a mechanization of the collective unconscious
* Walt’s experience with AI-induced visual psychosis
* Lucid dreams and hypnogogic imagery
* Risks of AI-assisted self-gaslighting
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