Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hey everyone. Welcome to Conspiratoriality where we investigate the intersection of

conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults,

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your support. And today Matthew and I are producing a brief called The God Pivot

Rogin, Brand, and Huberman.

Let's say you're a charismatic guy burning with passion and hunger looking for your slice of eternal glory.

And starting out, you made a name for yourself as a cultural critic or a comedian or as a

Maverick scientist. Your fans saw you as brilliant, charming,

inspiring. But how many fans? Was it enough? You rode home from your gigs in a humming limo thinking about that theater, the comedy club, that undergrad class you were teaching, such small, shabby spaces.

Keeping your light, as Jesus says, under a barrel.

But then one day, as if in a dream you feel the door of the internet crack open,

and in the cold blue light you see the streams of infinite code that can turn the

fans you can see into followers you can monetize. The algorithm shows you the

emotional wounds of the whole world and how to both soothe and pick at them.

Following your intuition, you seek out the norms of journalistic, political, and medical consensus,

so you can test those norms and break them.

You enter a flow state as a perpetual disruptor,

and you can't even count the money that pours in.

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