The Critique of Sam Harris, Hallucinogenic Drugs, Hinduism, Meditation and Pseudo-Skepticism.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bnXU9A6lqYBGMqSMnnsE9

This is Episode 13 of Nihilism Now, a podcast about the politics of atheism (and the importance of atheism in politics) from a nihilist perspective. You may also want to take a glance at my other podcast, Brand New Ancient Buddhism.

Nihilism: the only religion you can believe in, the only philosophy you can live by.

Episode 12 of Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LsU7pYlvEqO58tKYU6hb7

Quote, "the most European of non-European countries."

Oh, and how would you feel if SOUTH AFRICA made the same claim? Australia? Mexico? Brazil?

What he means, in fact, is "the most genocidal of European colonies, the most utterly lacking in any culture, philosophy or political tradition of its own."

The revival of pro-genocide, pro-European-empire discourse in Canada (primarily by the Liberal Party) ought to be astonishing to everyone, but has been noticed and remarked upon by nobody but myself: the narrative of settling the prairies was reiterated many times in the Liberal leadership debates (and connected interviews).

And in these narratives, precisely what it is that Canadians are supposed to be so proud of accomplishing, in the process of "sweeping aside" the indigenous languages and cultures, is always left dangerously unspecified: we haven't exactly built the sphinx or the pyramids. We have absolutely nothing to boast of, even if compared to the Americans, and yet the boasting has become impossible to ignore: everyone in Canada must be reassured that we have some kind of ineffably special society that's worth fighting for —whereas the Americans are supposedly lacking these unspecified accomplishments that mark us for greatness.

And to return to the title for just one moment, let me say: if Montreal were a city in Western Europe, it would be one of the ugliest —keep in mind that the French consider Lyon to be drab and dull, but it outshines anything (and everything) Canada has to offer. There is not a single city in Canada more beautiful than the ugliest city in Spain, and even the ugliest city in Spain is more beautiful than the most beautiful city in Canada.

And the ugliness runs deep: Canada is an unspeakably depressing place to live for reasons that are not shallow enough to be solved through improvements to architecture or public transportation.

Nihilism vs antisemitism: from the occult origins of the Nazi movement to Kanye West.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5W0pO9Rs1AZPoIWwQ3JSye

Occult in its origins, occult in its undoing in the end: this could instead be titled Nihilism vs the Neo-Nazis (although we might need a footnote to clarify that this category includes Kanye West).

Burning Down Notre Dame Cathedral: the Atheist Revolution in Practice, not in Principle.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3PbvrblPksZcLIg3JCaN1X

This is episode 10 of Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism, a podcast about the politics of atheism (and the importance of atheism in politics) from a nihilist perspective.

Nihilism vs Judaism: Jaclyn Glenn and the Greatest Taboo in the Atheist Movement.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/78udP3XvyRkTZ7EIxNAowJ

Although it is commonly said that Judaism is not quite the same thing as Jewishness, supporting either one while rejecting the other entails a paradox that comes close to racism —and these are precisely the arguments that Jaclyn Glenn attempts to make, defending the continuation of the religion "as an identity" that is supposedly rooted in D.N.A. while remaining nominally atheist, and yet demonstrating her faith through prayer and ritual, including circumcision. This is episode 09 of Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism. 

Polyamory Hell Book Review Condom Club Episode 1: Escape from Gor.

ESCAPE FROM GOR! Alternative titles include:

• Gor & the Goreans: the Anti-Feminist Fantasy that Became… Slavery.

• The Politics of Being Pro-Slavery in the 21st Century: "GOR".

• Delusions of Gor: Interviews with John Norman on the Gorean Philosophy.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/36UQO4Y78HUlpUknvSlbfV

I am more attractive than you, it's genetic, don't blame me, I was born this way.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6oMOBtqP6UWkgyqdnbC1RG

The vegan movement didn't tear itself apart out of pure stupidity: envy and the strange shallowness required to choose (and trust) political leaders primarily on the basis of their sex appeal… amounting to impure stupidity, I suppose. This is the least controversial video I've ever uploaded: "I am more attractive than you, it's genetic, don't blame me, I was born this way." Jealous? By the end of the video, you will be. ;-)

Economic Nihilism: Neoliberalism's Fatal Flaw.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/62jfyxOxYDnPHSynicTEVj

The problem is not so much that Milton Friedman is wrong about everything, but, instead, the extent to which people presume that being right about any particular factoid (in the overlapping fields of politics and economics) means that you "must be" correct about anything (or everything) else.  (AR+IO-014)  A podcast about the politics of atheism (and the importance of atheism in politics) from a nihilist perspective. 

The American Empire with the Mask Off: the Canadian Empire with the Mask On.

Episode thirteen (AR+IO-013). Let us be blunt: if Quebec has the right to establish its independence by a referendum, then the Crimea does, too —along with the Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk) and Taiwan and everyone else, everywhere else. If not, we're back to the phony sovereignty (and even phonier empire-building) of the Napoleonic wars. How, after all, was Poland supposed to establish its independence during the reign of Napoleon? And Haiti? Oh no, let's not give ourselves nightmares by talking about Poland and Haiti.

There is no doubt, in praxis, that the people of Greenland would benefit enormously from being annexed by the United States of America. The people of Canada would, too, and yet we are staring at an advantage in praxis without a principle. The philosophical poverty of the American Empire is so profound that when the mask comes off we can only laugh at its face laid bare: what could be more absurd than Canada and Greenland joining the American Empire? What could be more absurd than regarding the United States of America as —morally— no different from the Russian Empire of Vladimir Putin? Communism is dead in one place and Democracy is dead in the other: what is it, now, that they are conquering the world for? The inability to articulate an American philosophy entails the inability to administer an empire, here, there, everywhere: from Afghanistan to Greenland.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5bXnSQIGAdvbu3B0REfG4Q