13. Astral

Astral joins me for episode 12 of The Carousel podcast. Creator of the powerful Astral Flight Simulation Substack and pod, Astral plays the role of dissident impresario: chronicler, connector, true believer. If BAP is Kurtz, Astral is The Harlequin. Topics include: * Astral’s unique brand of comparative literary analysis. He creates his own independent academia. * The course of his ideological transformation from left to right after discovering Curtis Yarvin. How BAP’s vitalism pulled him out of a depression.* The longhouse and whether the correct term is matriarchy or gynocracy.* Astral’s fantastic piece THE DIGITAL HORIZON on culture’s gaze and whether there’s any hope for escaping a single global technocracy.* Woke advertising: why it happens and what it means.* The state of the dissident movement; whether anons have heart.* Or do they suffer from what we label The Beautiful Ones problem?Astral Flight Simulation SubstackAstral Flight Simulation podcast on SpotifyAstral on TwitterThe Carousel is for you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe