The Western esoteric tradition has two genealogies nobody bothers to separate.
The workshop: walls that protect openness.
The lodge: closure that protect the elite.
One is a grimy dojo filled with killers. One charges for belt promotions.
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Marc Andreessen announced he has zero introspection. Then cited Nietzsche incorrectly.
Peter Thiel named his personal holding company after Elven travel rations.
JD Vance quoted Aragorn to justify covert elite domination.
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I’ve been gone from here long enough that this platform has become a near-perfect illustration of everything I’m about to write about.
Four-part series on conspiracy, esotericism, and elite power. Starts with Chapel Perilous.
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@thisdiegolopez@EricWilzon Come hang. I’ll be teaching every Sunday at 10:30 starting in the New Year. I’m also there (and often teaching) at 7AM on MWF.
@MathiasxDC@DJRTistic But we have easier access to everything now, so that’s kind of neither here nor there. You know what’s really different? Us old fucks know what the teens are listening to. 42 year olds had no clue what I was listening to when I was 16.
@MathiasxDC@DJRTistic It might have just been my friends, but we were listening to Esham and shit. The wildest shit imaginable was available in the 90s if you wanted it.
@DavidLeftyMA There was no reason for Aljo to be shooting on Cejudo in the open. Even if he was doing it behind punches (which he wasn’t) it wasn’t gonna happen.
@DavidLeftyMA Also - could’ve gone tarikoplata on that kimura when he came on top and almost certainly ended the fight. He had legit opportunities. Great fight though.
@boKnowsDJING @PHNM I saw 10x more fights break out to shit like Pony than to Bia Bia over my 20+ years DJing. I always chalked up to frustrated horny dudes.
@Dazzleox@riseandgrindcor That’s exactly right. Military martial arts training is pretty minimal - but if you know how to put someone in an RNC, you also know how to back mount them and put them face first on the floor with hooks in and just sit on them indefinitely. Absolutely a moral failure.
Due to my MMA fandom and the fact that I have two sphynx cats, the @instagram recommendation engine shows me nothing but anti-trans propaganda mixed with videos of baby wombats.
As a highly trained submission grappler, I think it’s important to note that you can very, very easily physically contain and control someone without choking them to death. I do it everyday.
Between the massive media layoffs, the looming bankruptcy of Vice, the studios forcing the writers into a strike & the rise of A.I. there's been a grotesque devaluation of imagination & creativity – during a time where it feels like people are more desperate for it than ever.