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🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 225 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's James Lindsay. You are listening to the New Disc Forces podcast |
0:23.4 | and we're going to go somewhere deep and crazy today. We're going to cover Queer Theory. |
0:28.8 | But I'm not going to cover Queer Theory as Queer Theory. I'm not going to do some overarching introduction to it. |
0:33.2 | In fact, this podcast has been something that I've been kind of sitting on or working on as a better way to put it, |
0:38.7 | because I finally put my notes together and finished them today for the better part of three months. |
0:45.1 | And since it's like mid-March in the new year here, most of this year, I've been trying to figure out how to put this together. |
0:53.0 | I didn't know how I wanted to communicate this. |
0:56.6 | And so there's been a little bit of a struggle, but we're going to talk about Queer Theory as a form of postmodern, |
1:03.6 | nostic cult or religion. Because I think that's the way we have to understand it. |
1:08.9 | We have to understand that Queer Theory is a cult religion. In fact, it is based on nosticism and her metasism. |
1:15.1 | If you've listened to the podcast, if a nosticism in the modern West, that I did recently, it's a couple of hours long. |
1:22.7 | It's not really easy. I go into nosticism. I talk about the word nosis and what nostic represents. |
1:28.7 | I give four definitions for nostic. I explain why it's a complicated term and complicated terminology. |
1:35.0 | I give some explanation as to how Hegel and Marx, that some characters we're probably going to talk about here today, |
1:41.0 | especially Hegel. I know for sure we're going to mention quite a bit retooled nosticism. |
1:46.8 | The basic case I make is that in the middle ages, maybe starting as early as the 12th and 13th century, |
1:52.7 | but certainly by the 15th century in Europe, there was a kind of what we would consider a new age bloom, |
1:58.2 | this new age theosophy that we see with all the spiritualism and the consciousness and all of this |
2:06.3 | mindfulness stuff that we see today, everything we think of as a new age hippie spiritual stuff turns out |
2:12.2 | there was a new age movement of a kind in the middle ages, and the new age movement was in my opinion |
2:21.0 | rooted in nosticism and hermeticism. I don't actually think that that's particularly controversial. |
2:27.4 | It spread like kind of wildfire in certain circles, especially elite circles throughout Europe, |
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