To join my Discord server, request an invitation here: https://theotherlifenow.com/join/ I'm now publishing a weekly newsletter highlighting the best stuff coming out each week from the weird, wide world of independent intellectuals on the internet. https://theotherlifenow.com/newsletter/ Big thanks to my patrons who help me keep the lights on. Consider becoming one. https://patreon.com/jmrphy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnRfU6wdO8k

Geoff Shullenberger (@daily_barbarian) is lecturer at NYU and runs the newsletter and podcast https://outsidertheory.com. He teaches the Other Life course on René Girard (https://girardcourse.com). The Girard Course ✦ Download our free 18-page syllabus to get started reading Girard: https://GirardCourse.com Other Life ✦ Subscribe to the coolest newsletter in the world https://OtherLife.co ✦ Get a free Urbit ship at https://imperceptible.computer ✦ We're building a new country at https://imperceptible.country IndieThinkers.org ✦ If you're working on independent intellectual work, join the next cohort of https://IndieThinkers.org ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKXwjJCvNY

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James Poulos is a Tocqueville scholar who wrote The Art of Being Free (2017) and Human Forever (2021). He was a co-founder of The American Mind and his latest project is a magazine called Return. We discuss humanism and post-humanism, the merging of Big Tech and Woke Capital into an atheist cyborg theocracy, why James rejects accelerationism, the importance of human memory, Bitcoin, Urbit, and much more. ✦ Human Forever: https://humanforever.us/ ✦ Return Magazine: https://return.life/ ✦ James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamespoulos Other Life ✦ Subscribe to the coolest free newsletter in the world https://OtherLife.co ✦ Get a free Urbit planet at https://imperceptible.computer ✦ We're building a new country at https://imperceptible.country IndieThinkers.org ✦ If you're working on independent intellectual work, join the next cohort of https://IndieThinkers.org 0:00 Intro 1:35 The history of American technotheology 15:09 Collective amnesia & generational conflict 20:19 The glory of Christianity & the danger of digital Gnosticism 24:29 Year Zero & the Woke Big Tech war on memory 31:25 Escaping the cyborg theocracy 34:30 Building & using humanity-preserving technological tools 41:28 The emancipatory advantage of independent publishing 46:24 Exit the cybernetic enclosure DIY 49:28 Bitcoin = weapon 51:01 Is crypto demonic? 58:24 Urbit & the conservation of human civilization 1:03:41 Preserving humanity on digital foundations 1:08:13 The future of digital branding & publishing 1:15:56 Closing words ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D-elL3T1Zk