After doing a post about the spiritual importance of optimism, I realized the logical way to follow up that post would be to do a podcast interview featuring one of the bleakest of blackpillers, Rurik Skywalker, because obviously I should immediately alienate all the people who subbed in order to get uplifting hopium from me, right?
Well, if you’ve followed me for any length of time, none of this will be surprising, because I’m all over the map in terms of my spiritual journey and artistic explorations, and the content of this blog and podcast reflect that wandering spirit. Also, I don’t think my optimism is as incompatible with Rurik’s pessimism as might appear at first glance: I think we both agree that the god of this world — who connives people into worshipping him/her/it as the ultimate and universal God and who has managed to skinsuit pretty much all of the major religions and cultural institutions — is evil and anti-human. I believe there is an u…
