Revisiting Apocalypse Pharmaka | Solo Show
Rune Soup
Gordon White
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week we complete our revisitation of classic blog post series from back in the day. And we have saved my favourite for last: Apocalypse Pharmaka.
It’s my favourite for a bunch of reasons that I explain in the episode. But, basically, the contested landscape of medicine and power and the body is where the witch and the cunning person has always lived. (Not that you’d know it from looking around in the past couple of years, although the shrillness is mercifully receding.) So if you want to say you are a participant in the ‘western’ understanding of magic or witchcraft in any capacity and have the people around you keep a straight face, one way or the other you need to ‘come to terms’ -in the animist sense- with this contested landscape that is our homeland. It really is as simple as that.
Of course -and this is pretty much the whole point- we have all been pushed off these homelands over the past two years and into both literal and metaphoric quarantine camps. Which is to say these discussions are even more fraught than at the time I wrote the series. So you won’t find this episode on YouTube. You can listen to the audio version as per usual, or you can watch along on Odysee or Rumble.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | The Chabambini, another solo show this week and not just any solo show we are doing the final revisiting of classic blog post series |
| 0:28.6 | this week we're doing Apocalypse Farmica which is actually my favorite of the Classic blog post series. And I guess the |
| 0:39.5 | main reason for that, it's interesting right, because looking at some of it it hasn't |
| 0:44.4 | held up quite as well. A couple of bits haven't held up quite as well as say the series. But I named it Apocalypse Pharmacur because I like sort of uncanny not quite |
| 0:59.2 | correct old-timey names. Now it basically means apocalypse medicines, but it does it in a way that's |
| 1:06.4 | kind of jarring and eerie. And the reason for that, I guess, is if you look at what Northwest European but generally speaking |
| 1:18.9 | European magic was and should be I'm gonna to say is but that's not quite right we have to widen magic |
| 1:26.4 | out for that to be the case it is cunning traditions right and so it is it is situated entirely in the fraught ontological field of healing |
| 1:38.7 | curing poisoning understanding abortificance, all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:46.0 | It is where we belong. |
| 1:49.0 | And you may have noticed... |
| 1:51.0 | It's interesting, well the other thing that's interesting about that, right, is I was going to do this show last year, didn't feel right, didn't feel right. |
| 1:59.0 | So I did a different show as what have you. Oh, by the way, if you're listening to this, |
| 2:04.2 | it's a video one that's, |
| 2:06.2 | don't go looking for it on YouTube, of course, |
| 2:08.2 | because much like Archanology, |
| 2:10.5 | this kind of material, shall we say, accurate health-based material is far too dangerous for YouTube, |
| 2:17.0 | so find it on my Odyssey or Rumble channels. Anyway, you don't need it though, like it's, you know that there's plenty of medicine in the audio |
| 2:24.4 | version only right anyway so going along thinking I'm going to do it last year |
| 2:29.6 | last year didn't feel right didn't feel right. And you may have observed in the last week or so the |
| 2:38.1 | beginnings of the end of the pandemic narrative, right? The narrative that is the health narrative that is being used to push |
| 2:46.7 | forward as much as possible with technocratic control and digital currencies and |
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