Subliminal Jihad

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

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.

[#285] DIALECTICS OF IMPERIAL COLLAPSE, Part One: Ancient Greece w/ The Return of the Repressed

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

*PREVIEW* [#284] I SEE SATAN: René Girard, Peter Thiel, and the Antichrist

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.

*UNLOCKED* [#260] THE NEXT WAR: Trump, Mexican “Cartels”, & the Monroe Doctrine on Steroids

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.

[#283] GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XXXV *PREVIEW*

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.