Hello, everyone. This is Conspiruality, where we investigate the intersections and roots of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism. My name is Matthew Remski. You can follow myself, Derek and Julian, on Blue Sky. The podcast is on Instagram and threads under the handle at Conspiruality Pod,

and you can also find me on YouTube and TikTok as Anti-Fascist Dad. Very, very short bonus episode

today. I want to outline a single idea from the work of Simone Vei, who you might remember I spoke about

in some detail a few months back with reference to their anti-fascist life and how I believe

it was enriched and challenged by their lived experience of autism. I also believe that

they was non-binary, which is why I'm using they then.

Now, the one idea that I want to look at today is that Vey says we as human beings have obligations

before we have rights, and that it is only our obligations that make rights truly attainable.

Obligations, Vey argues, come from the nature of our existence,

and they allow us to grant rights to each other.

As pervay's autism, this argument, I believe, is deeply informed

by the common intolerance of hypocrisy reported by many autistic people.

Because they're basically saying to all liberal democracies, all of your talk about individual rights is undermined by your neglect of obligations to each other.

Now, I'm making this short because I believe it's a singular and powerful idea to present as

cleanly as possible, and then I just want to let it hang there for you to think about.

Now, the clarity part for a little audio essay is a challenge, because Vey was an extremely

creative, episodic, and parallel processing

type of thinker who never boiled down their thoughts into book form and only rarely did essays.

Now, I argued in that series that VE presented a common skills and talent challenge of some autistic people, which is the tendency to

favor infotumping over concision. And in those previous episodes, I argued that they were also

hypergraphic. I noted that their complete works have been put out by 16 volumes by Galimard,

and, you know, I don't have a total page count on that collection.

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