A Ghost in the Machine: part absurdist humor, part armchair philosophy, and part political dissidence! It's all part of Life's rich pageant!

A Ghost in the Machine by Daniel D

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A Ghost in the Machine features hot takes on modern life from Daniel D, a regular human in a world gone mad. Daniel is nerdy and philosophical like Woody Allen, loud and angry like Sam Kinison, and full of shit like a clogged gas station toilet. It's all part of Life's rich pageant! aghostinthemachine.substack.com

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A Ghost in the Machine: part absurdist humor, part armchair philosophy, and part political dissidence! It's all part of Life's rich pageant!

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The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail 01.12.2025 1:38:11

Despite being over 50 years old, The Camp of the Saints reads as if it was written only yesterday. It’s basically the story of the West since the end of World War II, condensed into a roughly two-month farce, set in the Spring of 1973. It’s not a novel in the traditional sense; it’s more like a collection of sketches and vignettes depicting the reactions (and non-reactions) of various people throu...

Pride and Identity 15.07.2025 59:36

Greetings and salutations! This episode is about pride and identity, and the fact that pride based on an unstable or unhealthy identity is 100% of the time the kind of pride that “ goeth before the fall ,” if it’s not dealt with. Of course, Life has a way of dealing with that kind of pride, sometimes gently dropping hints, other times knocking you on your ass, and of course that’s always unpleasan...

The Inversion of Good & Evil in Vampire Stories 03.06.2025 57:12

Welcome back to another episode of the regular A Ghost in the Machine Podcast . As many of you already know, I’ve started doing a separate podcast series called “ Paging the Everlasting Man ,” in which I read chapters of G. K. Chesterton books, starting with Heretics , and give some commentary after each reading. If you like Chesterton, check it out. While not reading Chesterton, I have I recently...

Christianity, Spiritual Warfare, and the Quest for Truth 01.09.2024 1:35:24

Wow, this thing is starting to turn into a real podcast! This time, I even have a real guest, Mark Bisone ! Mark writes the always interesting and incredibly insightful blog The Cat Was Never Found . If you haven’t read his work, you’re missing out, so subscribe already! We have a fun and thought-provoking conversation about Christianity, the recent infighting between Christians and pagans on the...

Chesterton: the Anti-Gamma Philosopher 07.07.2024 35:18

If Friedrich Nietzsche is the “ Gamma Philosopher ,” as Vox Day called him in a recent post, then G K Chesterton is the Anti -Gamma Philosopher. This isn’t to say that Chesterton was an Alpha or Sigma — he definitely wasn’t. To all appearances, he was not especially virile; he was nerdy, unathletic, and could be a bit slovenly in his everyday appearance; he definitely wasn’t handsome or any kind o...