à-bas-le-ciel: vegan politics and the politics of veganism

Only on à-bas-le-ciel. Where else? #vegan #vegans #veganism Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providi...

The vegan movement didn't tear itself apart out of pure stupidity: envy and the strange shallowness required to choose (and trust) political leaders primarily on the basis of their sex appeal… amounting to  impure stupidity,  I suppose. This is the least controversial video I've ever uploaded: "I am more attractive than you, it's genetic, don't blame me, I was born this way.&q...

The only vegan perspective on the domestication of animals. The only one. Pets and "Petism": the single most divisive issue in the vegan movement —and the problem most likely to get you kicked out of it. Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_cie...

This is an interesting contrast to the conclusions presented in the book (Veganism: Future of an Illusion) written many years later, where the futility of trying to convert your relatives (parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters —sometimes even husbands and wives) is a major subject of contention. Philosophical, political, personal AND pragmatic contention. Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Pa...

I will need to upload a separate video dealing with Peter Singer's odious involvement with "Effective Altruism" entailing a direct connection to SBF from FTX (Sam Bankman-Fried) but here, for the moment, is a mere hour and a half dealing with the sex scandal of the century and the stupidest moral philosophy of the millennium… FROM A VEGAN PERSPECTIVE. ;-) Find me on Instagram.  Suppo...

Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eise...

A long title for a long video: most of this can be understood as an audio-only podcast, but there are charts and factoids on screen in the "video podcast" version (along with the expression on my face, for better or worse). Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings)...

You don't choose to be loved or hated: you choose to be known or unknown. And if it is inevitable, in choosing to make yourself known, that you also make yourself hated, then you must decide if you will be hated for reasons shallow or profound —if you will dispute things that are trivial or of great significance —with honesty or deception —with or without wearing a mask. The conflict between mysel...

Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eise...

Solar panels and wind farms aren't going to make the necessary difference: if the vegan movement fails, this is the end of the world. Some call it "global warming", some call it "climate change". Some prefer to speak more specifically about carbon PPM (parts per million) in the atmosphere, rising ocean levels, and so on. It's a simple problem with a simple solution, from a vegan perspective, and y...

Formerly known as Cosmic Skeptic, Alex O'Connor was a major, influential leader in the vegan movement, and presented himself as a philosopher, arguing that it was morally obligatory for other atheist philosophers like Matt Dillahunty to be vegan —until, one day, he revealed that he wasn't vegan anymore, and, perhaps, if we just listen to what he said so plainly, he never was vegan at all. Followin...

The end of the era of utilitarianism and its implications. Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numberi...

• This is Terrorism: the Nonviolence of Extinction Rebellion.  28 October 2021 • The Vegan Antichrist: Questioning Extinction Rebellion.  18 January 2022 • Peaceful Protest Doesn't Work. #NotSatire  19 November 2021 • Climate change: the vegan perspective is the only perspective.  24 January 2022 Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episode...

A discussion (and scorching critique!) of three films in one podcast: Cowspiracy, Seaspiracy, Christspiracy —not necessarily in that order. ;-) As the thumbnail image states: "I'm vegan but… this is nuts". ;-) Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_...

One of the most despised (but most influential) movements in veganism's 21st century, DXE was known for public protest "stunts" that earned them momentary notice in newspapers but permanently discredited the movement as a whole. Initially claiming to be "fully horizontal" and "leaderless", the organization later revealed just how narrowly hierarchical it was as the donations poured in, eventually...

Search for it: "Brand New Ancient Buddhism" isn't just the name of an episode of this podcast… it is, in fact, the name of an entirely separate podcast (where you'll find many more episodes on this subject and along these lines). Episode two on that podcast (not this one) is titled, "Why I am not a Buddhist"… and that may be of interest to quite a few of you who come to the end of this one. ;-) Fi...

What is compassion, and what role does it play in the rationalization of religious and secular political movements alike? Here, in French and English both, you're confronted with the text of the third chapter of Veganism: Future of an Illusion (a book that has thus far only been published in English and Spanish, not (yet) French). Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide no...

This is an entirely serious (and yet thoroughly hilarious and utterly absurd) introduction to the book that resulted from ten years on youtube as a dissident intellectual, cross-examining (and sometimes ridiculing) the vegan movement —a "career" that suddenly ended with the whole channel being banned from youtube, with over eight million views and 13,000 subscribers evaporating overnight. The book...