*PREVIEW* [#286] WE ARE AS GODS, Part 1: Stewart Brand, Epstein, & the Long Now of Cyberfascism

Dimitri and Khalid speak with Dr. Neşe Devenot about Psymposia’s new report “The Psychedelic Syndicate”, Bryan Johnson’s recent livestreamed psilocybin trip featuring Hamilton Morris and Genevieve Jurvetson, the not-so-crypto-transhumanism abounding in the Esalen/MAPS milieu, Steve Jurvetson hob-nobbing with Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister in the dot-com nineties, the high abuse potential of Grofian therapy practices, the murky CIA ties of ‘90s LSD missile silo impresarios William Leonard Pickard and Gordon Todd Skinner, Alexander Shulgin’s Chomsky-esque double-dealing with the DEA and Bohemian Grove, the possibility that MK-Ultra “research” never really ended, the coordinated backlash that occurs when you hold abusers accountable, and more. For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid finally take spiritual aim at one of the most pivotal "countercultural" suslords of modern American culture: Whole Earth Catalog creator and consummate Silicon Valley hippie connector Stewart Brand. For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid speak with Marcus (@Marcus_TROTR) from The Return of the Repressed podcast about class conflict, the slave mode of production, and dynamics of expansion and collapse in 1st millennia BC Greece. Topics include: the rise of maritime city states out of the rubble of the Bronze Age Collapse, iron-forging as disruptive technology, questioning the class structure of this era and defining who the “aristocracy” actually were, intra-elite struggles between nouveau riche and “old money” landowner factions, the curious co-existence of free and slave labor, the slave mode of production’s rapid expansion during the so-called golden age of Athenian “democracy”, the rise of coinage via Philip II of Macedonia’s mercenary armies, Alexander’s construction of a vast Eurasian web of city states connected by “currency”, and more… Subscribe to the Return of the Repressed: https://www.patreon.com/thereturnoftherepressed For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad

Dimitri and Khalid examine the philosophical oeuvre of Peter Thiel’s favorite Stanford professor, the French Catholic academic René Girard, including: Girard’s core theories of mimetic rivalry and the scapegoat mechanism, his hot takes about why Christianity is different from every other religion, pagan gods-as-sacralized victims of communal violence, using the devil to drive out the devil, Thiel’s disturbing 2004 paper “The Straussian Moment”, his sus efforts to blend Girardian ideas with those of Leo Strauss and Nazi legal theorist Karl Schmitt to revitalize Western Civilization, becoming the Anti-Christ to stop the Anti-Christ (Greta Thunberg), JD Vance’s gallingly two-faced embrace of Girardian Catholicism, Thiel installing memetic rivalry as the core dynamic of 21st century social media platforms, and more… For access to the full-length episode, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

To better understand Trump’s current military posturing towards Mexican drug “cartels”, Dimitri and Khalid look for clues in a 1998 book by Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and “Victory” author Peter Schweizer called “The Next War”: a fever-dream Tom Clancy technothriller describing five potential future US military conflicts with North Korea & China, Iran, Mexico, Russia, and Japan. Topics include: how the Iran and Russia scenarios have partly come to fruition, Oswaldo Zavala’s “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist”, the ont-op of “Mexican Drug Cartels” in public discourse from academia to popular TV shows like “Narcos”, how The Next War’s sinister left-populist “President Ruiz” character foreshadows the smearing of Nicolas Maduro and Claudia Sheinbaum as “narcopoliticos”, the inseparability of the US deep state and drug trafficking networks, and more... For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid answer questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord about: Graham Greene's 1966 novel "The Comedians" and subversion ops against "Papa Doc" Duvalier in Haiti, CIA veteran/college professor Brian Glyn Williams and his interactions with Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the "Tartaria" conspiracy theory and the World's Fairs, and the long strange tricks of Paul Krassner associate/"sex-positive feminist"/San Francisco madam Margo St. James... For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid expand their investigation into the most recent batch of Epstein files, including: Bill Gates Foundation advisor (and scorned Bill Gates mistress?) Dr. Melinda Walker riffing with Epstein about blockchain health data technology and launching some kind of QVC biotech platform in partnership with (the justifiably soft-purged Chinese billionaire) Jack Ma and Jeff Bezos; EDGE Foundation/Reality Club digerati John Brockman and his extremely hits-different-now interviews in the 2003 German documentary “The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet”; and last but not least, a long-overdue suscheck of OG dirtbag alt-journalist, Yippie, Merry Prankster, Mae Brussell publisher, sponsor of MK-Ultra troubled teen/gifted child experimental schools, and dear friend of Jeffrey Epstein, PAUL KRASSNER. For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid take a deep dive into the new batch of 20,000 Epstein emails released last week... For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid explore the life and philosophy of early 20th century French esotericist René Guénon, including: Guénon's philosophy of "Traditionalism", how it overlaps with and differs from "Perennialism", his mostly solid criticisms of Theosophy as a sus pseudo-tradition, his influence on the Italian fascist mystic Julius Evola, Guénon's (partially) salient critiques of "rationalism", capitalism, and the spiritual void of Western Civilization, intriguing overlaps between Marxist and Traditionalist critiques of modernity, his later embrace of Sufism and quasi-Third Worldist tendencies, the Guenonist-inspired thought of His Majesty King Charles, and more... For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Dimitri and Khalid explore the de Tocquevillesque 1991 book “America Against America” by Chinese academic Wang Huning (now a high-ranking member of the CPC Politburo and one of President Xi’s most influential ideologues), wherein he reflects on his travels across the US in 1988... For access to full-length premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.