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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1110

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Beau, Harry and Josh discuss how we live in the shadow of the postwar consensus, South Africa’s impossible situation and how Salman Rushdie’s attacker has been found guilty.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Islander Issue 3 is now available to purchase from shop.loatesties.com and is the next step in the story that we are telling with this magazine.

0:07.2

For this issue, we have collected piercing and esoteric essays from the finest right-wing minds on the theme of our civilizational winter.

0:15.4

Each of our authors is an expert in bringing forth the most important hidden revelations from the lowest reaches

0:21.6

of the soul, and it has all been beautifully rendered in a medievalist revivalist aesthetic.

0:26.5

For this issue, I commissioned a new translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem, The Wanderer,

0:32.1

and have written a companion essay exploring how it is a reflection of our modern experience. I personally feel that this is the most important thing I've ever written, so I will be looking

0:41.3

forward to your feedback on it. We have resolved our distribution issues with the magazines

0:45.3

being printed in advance of the orders, so we can guarantee that you will receive your

0:49.3

copy very soon after ordering it. You will also receive email updates so you can see exactly where it is.

0:55.3

Hopefully issue three can provide you with the space and context to engage in deep

1:00.1

reflection about the nature of our circumstances, to discover hidden truths about yourself

1:05.2

and find the resolve to make it through our spiritual exile.

1:11.6

Oh hello there. I didn't see you there. I was just enjoying Islander magazine, you see.

1:19.6

There's this wonderful new publication that's come out. You might want to pick it up. I hear it's very good. I've enjoyed it so far.

1:26.6

Very, very nice aesthetic thing.

1:30.3

But anyway, I am joined by Bowen Harry today. And other than sitting here reading, we're going to be

1:37.1

talking about... You would like to just sit here and read for an hour and a half for you instead,

1:41.4

but sort of ASMR podcast. But it's just the sound of pages shuffling along.

1:46.2

But instead we have to do our jobs. Well, Harry is talking about living in the shadow of the

1:53.1

post-war consensus. Constantly. Every day. I see him everywhere, except it's just a big shadow

1:58.6

of Hitler. That's how the British and... That's being cut out of context.

2:02.6

That's how all of the establishment in all of the West treats everything.

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