Nihilism Now: Politics After Atheism

(AR+IO) Eisel Mazard
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A podcast about the politics of atheism, about atheist perspectives on politics, and the nihilist critique of both, in the era following after the failure and dissolution of "New Atheism" as a movement. AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

  1. Everything you're saying is a lie: political science, how not why.

    12/06/2025

    Everything you're saying is a lie: political science, how not why.

    "I'm making a statement about a type of danger that doesn't arise from false facts. It doesn't arise from factually incorrect information. It's a more profound problem in our attitude." A fifty minute lecture on how to think about politics, in ways both shallow and profound. And, yes, it just happens to include a critique of Colleen Patrick-Goudreau. "The problem is not that you believe the wrong things, but that you blame the wrong things: this is an error in the precedence of your reasoning." 14:37 "What these people didn't suspect, during those years, when money, fame, power, respect and sex seemed to be so easily gotten (by becoming a mouthpiece, by becoming a leader for the vegan movement)… what they did not suspect was that when the freak show stopped there would be no show at all." Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

    50 min
  2. Ecology and Ego: Veganism and False Humility.

    11/11/2025

    Ecology and Ego: Veganism and False Humility.

    Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

    8 min
  3. Youtube is dead: the lost avant garde of intellectual dissent on the internet.

    10/11/2025

    Youtube is dead: the lost avant garde of intellectual dissent on the internet.

    Implicitly, this is a significant contrast to my old "manifesto" titled On Community, although it does not address the thesis of that video, directly, in any way: if you regard this as a manifesto, it is addressed to the youtuber (or podcaster) as a solitary intellectual dissident, cultural critic, commentator and comedian --not as the center of an incipient community, pulling together like-minded people (as per "the spirit season one") with an ambition to accomplish something more than they could ever attempt alone. Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

    47 min

  4. 09/26/2025

    Escaping the Cult of Happiness: who you are is what you make excuses for.

    Nihilism doesn't just mean that you refuse to believe OTHER PEOPLE'S bullshit… but, also, your own. The excuses are harder to quit than the thing itself, bro. Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

    17 min

  5. 09/26/2025

    The Process of Learning is the Meaning of Life: Skepticism & Self-Doubt (vs. Cosmic Skeptic, Galileo, etc.)

    Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

    13 min
  6. The Opposite of Islam: Genocide in Gaza, Genocide in Xinjiang, in Parallel.

    08/14/2025

    The Opposite of Islam: Genocide in Gaza, Genocide in Xinjiang, in Parallel.

    Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

    1h 23m
  7. The Necessity of Nihilism: Atheism is Not Enough.

    07/28/2025

    The Necessity of Nihilism: Atheism is Not Enough.

    Explained in ten minutes or less. ;-) Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

    10 min
  8. Multiculturalism means another dozen dark ages, all at the same time: ignorance and antisemitism instead of atheism.

    06/29/2025

    Multiculturalism means another dozen dark ages, all at the same time: ignorance and antisemitism instead of atheism.

    "When you think about what culture is, it is the accumulation of past beliefs: it is the burden of ignorance we take on from our ancestors.  It is a set of authoritarian attitudes that the past is trying to impose upon the present and the future.  And we have to resist it all." Many minutes later: "What are we talking about, when we talk about culture, if not a way for the dead to impose their will upon the living?" This is PART TWO OF TWO.  Atheism opposes a single belief only, whereas nihilism opposes them all, dealing with the root causes (and fundamental defects) of belief as such; therefore, a nihilistic critique of multiculturalism is inevitable, as a nihilist cannot see a plurality of false beliefs as an improvement on just one --for all the same reasons that we would not see a country divided between many warring forms and factions of islam as superior to a country unified by just one (although that one and the many would be equally false). Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

    2h 44m
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A podcast about the politics of atheism, about atheist perspectives on politics, and the nihilist critique of both, in the era following after the failure and dissolution of "New Atheism" as a movement. AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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