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Interviewing John Carter and Russell Gmirkin

A MindMatters Interlude of Epic Proportions

Harrison Koehli
Jul 20, 2022
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Just in case any of my readers aren’t already subscribed to John Carter (Postcards from Barsoom), you may not know I interviewed him recently on MindMatters (along with my co-hosts, including Luc over at LucTalks)—and you should really head over there and subscribe post-haste.

We had as much fun talking to him as you would expect, which is to say, loads of fun were had by all. So please, especially considering the reverse-time-dilation-stabilization costs alone to establish a decent connection with Barsoom, you really should take advantage of this opportunity to avail yourselves of your portion of that fun, join in, and have a listen. And share it with a friend, because sharing is caring:

John wrote a post inspired by part of that conversation, which you can read here:

Postcards From Barsoom
A Conspiracy of Systems, A System of Conspiracies
One of the perennial debates in dissident circles is the old question of whether the rampant weirdness and fuckery of clown world is an emergent consequence of a severely maladaptive society, or a deliberate imposition by malign influences operating from the shadows on high. There are good arguments either way, which is o…
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a year ago · 56 likes · 129 comments · John Carter

And the piece of my own which I referenced has now been published here:

Political Ponerology
The Psychology of Totalitarianism Part 4
For previous installments of this series, see Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Chapter 8 of Mattias Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism (PT) continues his discussion of the nature of totalitarian leadership, specifically his contention that the causality of totalitarianism is not best explained by either greed or deliberate conspiracy…
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a year ago · 14 likes · 4 comments · Harrison Koehli

Prior to that, as promised, we also interviewed Russell Gmirkin about his new book, Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts.

Russell is always a blast and we reached previously unheard levels of eudaimonia discussing Plato, cosmic monotheism, terrestrial polytheism, Judaism as the first real belief system (and Marxism-Leninism as its latest great success), and why Plato and Kim Jong-Un might’ve been besties if not for the age gap.

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Rurik Skywalker
Writes The Slavland Chronicles
Jul 23, 2022Liked by Harrison Koehli

Who was it that said that Christianity was the grandmother of Bolshevism?

They should have said that Judaism is the grandmother of all political ideologies.

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York Luethje
Jul 23, 2022Liked by Harrison Koehli

Regarding the influence of Plato on Marx there is a direct line from the role of the authorities described, particularly in the last three books of the Laws, to Marx. Specifically the authorities are tasked not just with upholding order in the community but also with policing order within each individual, i.e. thought control.

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