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Premium Episode 217: Esoteric Agenda and the Rise Of Online Video Conspiracism (Sample)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In the ‘00s there were three big Conspiracy theory movies on the internet: the 9/11 conspiracy theory film Loose Change, the multi-conspiracy film Zeitgeist, and the illuminati and conspirituality film Esoteric Agenda. Esoteric Agenda is perhaps less famous than the other two, but it was just as impactful for the first generation of internet users who watched videos online. On this episode, we talk about the movie and its creator Ben Stewart. Stewart was the singer/songwriter for an up-and-coming but unsigned band called Hierosonic. While Stewart initially made conspiracy videos to discuss topics in his songs, he soon discovered his YouTube clips were making a bigger impact than his music did. That set him on a path towards becoming a professional conspiracist that stretches to today. He now makes series for the conspirituality streaming network Gaia TV and right wing YouTuber Tim Pool. To help us learn more about Ben Stewart’s career arc Travis spoke to one time Hierosonic roadie Steven Wynne. Travis, Liv, and Jake ponder the chicken-and-the-egg problem of the conspiracy theory media industry. What really drives the popularity of online conspiracy theories? Is it suppliers like Ben Stewart? Or does the demand for exciting misinformation create influencers like Ben Stewart? Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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0:00.0

What's up QAA listeners?

0:07.0

The fun games have begun.

0:10.0

I found a way to connect to the internet.

0:12.0

I'm sorry boy.

0:16.0

Welcome listener to premium chapter 217 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the esoteric

0:21.7

agenda and the rise of online video conspiracism episode.

0:25.6

As always we are your host Jake Rakutansky.

0:27.6

Live Aikar.

0:28.6

And Travis Vue.

0:30.6

Today I'm going to be talking about a significant movie in the history of online conspiracism called

0:37.2

esoteric agenda and it was published in its complete form back in 2008.

0:41.6

This movie is interesting because it was actually made out of the struggles of a rock band

0:46.3

leader to find a popular audience.

0:48.6

One of the reasons I find conspiracism so fascinating is that it's a mode of thinking that

0:53.6

it's very very old but it constantly reinvents itself in each generation and particularly

0:59.4

it reinvents itself with the development of new information technology.

1:03.1

So all these wonderful inventions that allow us to learn facts about the world and be enriched

1:07.8

with literature and also empowers the spread of the basis of conspiracy theories.

1:11.6

You can't really have a culture of conspiracism without first having widespread literacy

1:16.9

first of all.

1:17.9

And then the printing press and then pamphlets that are cheap enough to just give away

1:21.0

for free and then the industrial revolution that allows us to make books and newspapers

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