Astral Flight Simulation Podcast

We got the sci-fi dystopia...without the cyborg killer cops!Today me and my guest Granite Mountain Movie Club, found here on youtube, discuss several science fiction classics and cult classics: Robocop, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, Back to the Future 2, Demolition Man, and Judge Dredd.Is America in 2024 better or worse than the future depicted in these films?Follow me on twitter @astralflite to listen to these podcasts live and join the discussion, and follow me on substack at astralflight.substack.com and subscribe for written content, bonus episodes, and paywalled episodes with extra content!And visit Passage.Press and BUY BOOKS! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

Charles Haywood joins me once again, this time to discuss Elon Musk and the future of American politics. This episode was based on his review of a recent biography of Elon Musk, published on his blog The Worthy House. I highly recommend everyone go read through this blog, it’s an education in history and political philosophy in and of itself.Follow me on twitter @astralflite, some of these episodes are recorded live on twitter with time for audience participation, and remember to become a PAID SUBSCRIBER to my substack!Also follow Passage Press on Twitter @passagepress and Man's World @mansworldmag_, and visit both their websites, Passage.Press and Mansworldmag.online to buy the books and read the articles we discuss on this show, and much more! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

I discuss Freud with Garfieldbot, writer at "The Egg Report" on substack. He's writing a long series of articles reconsidering many of Freuds ideas, which he thinks are embedded in the framework of the modern individuals understanding of themselves, their relation to the world, and the primary mode of describing human interactions for all of the 20th century.Perhaps now its time for people like us to dispel these ideas, and you can do so without reading a now out of print book, The Ordeal of Civility, by John Murray Cuddihy. This book goes a long way to undermine the veneer of science and professionalism that Freud tried to cloak his rather petty ideas in.Today, we go into detail about some of Cuddihy's critiques of Freud. Follow me on substack and twitter, and please become a paid subscriber to my substack to help support me continue to bring this show to you, and gain access to content not otherwise available.Go to the Passage.Press website and pre order Xenosystems, buy Unqualified Reservations in Hardcover, buy Steve Sailer's Noticing, and subscribe to Man's World Magaine in FULL PRINT! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

This version contains an extra hour of discussion than the episode released on iTunes and Spotify and is for Substack subscribers only! I make the case that American Psycho is a failed feminist critique of toxic masculinity, but succeeds as a film, with Bateman as the hero, despite the directors best efforts.I then veer off wildly and give a detailed breakdown of the difference in narrative structure between film vs digital storytelling, and explain the characteristics of post-modern film, of which American Psycho is one of the last.This episode was recorded live on twitter last year, follow me @astralflite and listen live and join the conversation. Visit @passagepress and @mansworldmag_ on twitter for updates on continued literary content and book releases, which include book clubs hosted by me that you can join (these also turn into podcasts) and many, many opportunities for you to get your own work and ideas in print. Please visit Passage.Press and MansWorldMag.online This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

UK based painter and Passage Prize 3 judge Matthew the Stoat joins me to discuss the state of art today, and we ask how can the work of art help get us out of the morass of post-modernity? We also careen off topic and discuss black metal and one of our favorite bands, Agalloch.Follow Passage Press on twitter and visit the Passage Press website to buy their books, and follow me on twitter @astralflite to join these conversations live, and on Substack to get much more content. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

Passage Press hosts the annual Passage Prize, with over $20 thousand in cash prizes for poetry, fiction, non fiction, and visual arts. This years terms and submission deadlines were just announced, so go over to Passage.Press and see if you have what it takes to be be an artist or writer .This episode is a discusssion of the artistic process of the winners from Passage Prize I in fiction, non fiction, and visual arts, as well as contributions from Lomez, part-owner and visionary behind Passage Press and Passage Prize.Also visit my substack where you can find interviews with all four judges of Passage Prize I and two more conversations with Lomez. All of these episodes combined will provide the listener with the artists vision for their work, a publishers perspective, and an assessment of the work of art in the digital age. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

Join me and my friends Dave of the and Brendan of Aureus Press as we discuss all things horror! While we go over a few zombie movies, the main focus is John Carpenter and his classic, Hallowee n This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

Athenian Stranger and I use the essays “Over the Line” by Ernst Junger and “The Origin of the Work of Art” by Martin Heidegger to introduce the possibility of the work of art in an age of nihilism. What is the importance of the work of art, how can we produce it, and what value can it have for us? This is part of an ongoing series in Overcoming Nihilism, in which Athenian and I explore the works of various thinkers on nihilism: what it is, how it affects our lives, and what we can do about it . This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

This is part 4, the final discussion from our Open Letter to Open Minded Progressives reading group. I spend about an hour drawing connections between the political philosophy of Carl Schmitt and Moldbug, and try to argue that Moldbug’s political philosophy is built upon the framework Schmitt laid out. After that it opens to discussion, including Adrian Georges and Athenian Stranger, both who’ve been on the show before, and both who know Schmitt and Moldbug well. Part Three will be uploaded shortly. To get in on these reading groups, follow me on twitter at @astralflite and @PassagePress, and go to the Passage Publishing website and buy Unqualified Reservations. A portion of this discussion will be uploaded to itunes and spotify shortly . This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

Is it possible to come through nihilism with a an intact faith in God? Worse, if you lose faith, can you get it back? If so, how may it have changed? We discuss Nietzsche and Dostoyevski and explore what their writing can tell us about these questions, and examine whether they contain within them instructions for those grappling with a loss of faith and how to get it back. I am joined by @1147x1147, translator of many of Dostoyevsky’s letters, and returning guest @Athens_Stranger This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

The digital age ushers in the Aquarian Consciousness. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

This is a special collaboration episode with Passage Press for their publication of Curtis Yarvin’s original blog, under the name Mencious Modldbug, Unqualified Reservations. This four hour episode is only part one of a series of discussions examining Yarvin’s thought, concepts, and discussing his legacy. Please visit the Passage Press website and follow Passage Publishing on twitter to purchase the hardcover edition of Unqualified Reservations and Passage Prize Volume II This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

The legend Ryan Dawson and I discuss exactly what you’d think we’d discuss: Epstein, “conspiracies,” Ted K, and the nature of blackmail/money laundering in the American government. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

Very excited to have gotten the chance to sit down with Aimee and talk! I don’t even know what to say, just listen. She takes no prisoners! I tried to get out of the way! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

My friend Conan Esquire and I discuss the literary heritage of Robert E. Howard and his most famous character, Conan. Can we use his Conan stories to gain insight into our modern world? Is Robert E. Howards writing worthy of elevation to that of literary greats of his genre and beyond , like Poe, Tolkein, and Lovecraft? We think the answer is yes, and hope to discuss Conan and Howard more in the future.Todays episode is a discussion of Conans article "Conan the Culture Hero," found on the Man's World Magazine Website. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

While at Harvard, Ted Kaczynski underwent a psychological experiment administered by CIA and MKUltra affiliated psychiatrist Henry Murray. Who was Murray, what was the purpose of this test, and what other activities did he participate in while working for the OSS, military intelligence, and the MKUltra program? In this episode, I argue the possibility that this experiment may have been far more nefarious than is admitted, and may have played a central role in Kaczynski's mental illness, philosophy, and crimes. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

The history of Arktos Media, and where they're going for the future.Constantin von Hoffmeister, writer and editor, and Daniel Friberg, founder and editor in chief at Arktos media join me to tell the story of Arktos Media, promote their new website, and discuss some of the thinkers they publish. Stay tuned to this podcast for much more from them! Follow them at Arktos Media This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

Modern man is unmoored and uprooted from his essence and set off-course from his destiny. Is there any way to recapture our true Being and “destine,” as a culture, towards a new future? We elucidate some of Heideggers’ most foundational and troublesome concepts, expand the insights with Carl Jungs idea of the unconscious and archetypes, and propose what may be a way to get western civilization back on track and carry us into the future. In one of the most intellectually stimulating conversations thus far on the Astral Flight podcast, Scott Mannion and I explore the current state of nihilism in the west, and in so doing perhaps make Hedieggers technical jargon more accessible and Jungs metaphysical concepts more real. Scott Mannion is one of the most insightful and intellectually nimble podcasters working today, and his youtube show and podcast are without peer. He brings some of the most important thinkers of the dissident right together to discuss a heritage that sometimes seems to be slipping through our fingers, and how to regain our cultural and spiritual foundations. I’m honored to have been on his show and to have him on mine. I look forward to having him back. Follow him here: ScottMannion.com This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

Mans World Magazine, still a one man editorial operation, has recently launched a new website where you can find Mans World articles as well as Raw Egg Nationalist merchandise, including all of his books. Give it a visit and patronize at will.Today we take an hour discussing the site itself and some of the content of the new issue.Follow me on twitter This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe

Discussing some basic concepts in Spengler, particularly his idiosyncratic use of decline, and applying it to the present. This episode made me decide to do a mini series on Spengler, as Pirate and I discuss at the end, so stay tuned. Spengler has been coming up over and over again so at this point we should probably just lay t he whole thing out for those who haven’t read him, because his name and ideas are only growing in influence. Follow Last Pirate on twitter and buy his book! And follow me on twitter for live twitter spaces several times a week. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit astralflight.substack.com/subscribe