Thank you all for coming. I'm very grateful to be back here in Arizona with you all, you know,

as here in June and felt very warmly received, feeling very warmly received so far. So thank

you. So my three lectures at this this mere similarity conference have actually a running theme,

and the theme is the kind of like a sub-conference. I'm just doing my own thing. It's called the Secret

Religions of the West. And so now that he's left the room, I want you to all take a minute to laugh

at Mr. O'Fallon behind his back because what we're going to do in the next hour and a half or so is

make Mr. O'Fallon stay up all night writing his talk for tomorrow over again. Unlike last time, I

didn't share my notes with him in advance. I thought of it earlier and emailed it to him while I was

while he was speaking, which was very kind of me. So the running theme for my three lectures that I'm

going to be giving in this workshop then is like I said, the Secret Religions of the West. And what I

want to communicate with that is that the West, what we call the West has been populated, not just by

the so-called magisteria of faith and science as we sometimes refer to them, but also by a set of

secret religions, which are more appropriately labeled cults. I don't mean that there have been

cults or that there are cults or cults start up. I mean cults have been central to the construction of

the West all along. They're huge, they're giganically influential, and nobody notices them because

we don't talk about them. And so we have three lectures. I want to try to stay with the mere

simulacrity theme, and I'm going to talk about that some in the minute. But the first of these talks

is actually titled, if you've looked, it's called negating the real. We have to destroy the real

if we want to install something fake. That's, you got it, the whole talk. See you. Thank you for coming.

We have to negate the real if we want to install something fake. And what I want to make the

cases with these secret religions is these secret religions, I said they're cults, they're false

religions. And if you're going to install a false religion, you have to negate the real religions.

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