Acid Horizon

Listening to Acid Horizon is like attending the graduate program in philosophy I never got to attend. The three enviously powerful young minds of Adam, Will and Craig (Craig perhaps a little less young but quite youthful and spry) cut radiants from a core of poststructuralist theory into the many folds of thinking, feeling, and living, always with an urgent ethical dimension and flight towards a yet-to-be mapped possibility and freedom. There some great podcasts out there, but this by far is my favorite.

Can’t get that 20 minutes back

It’s like listening to a group of students turned teacher assistants in philosophy, trying to impress impressionable young people with not much life experience to look back on.

I find nothing of intellectual or moral value on the right wing of the political spectrum and I question anyone who does. From Kirk and Guenon to Schmitt to Hayek. It’s all just worship of hierarchy and purity - satisfying basic animal emotions and projecting the savage sick conservative psyche on all humans and calling it “human nature”. Considering the above, I’m left (no pun intended) to separate the wheat from the chaff on the left and center left. As far as I can see there is an orgy of ideas on the left - good and bad. The fundamental problem is finding the time to seriously consider them all because accepting any at face value would be stupid, as there are plenty of very stupid leftist ideas. There are also plenty of dangerous leftist ideas and leftist claims that are disgusting lies (biological sex isn’t binary, Darren Merrager isn’t a criminal, etc). In any case, the episode on Campagna’s Technik and Magic model was wonderful, and it was fun to hear the author expound on the ideas I hear referenced so often on the Weird Studies podcast. I’m on the side of Magic. Reality cannot be reduced to language. No matter what the leftist activists or the fascists say.