Book Club From Hell

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." - Jason Genova (2022) To be a modern Australian is to be bombarded with arguments from all sides. The newspapers exist to shout at you from their front pages, your 'friends' always want you to take a position on something, social media demands that you be brave and stand up for whatever's curr...

Famed for its coherence and plot, Mike Ma's novel 'Harassment Architecture' condenses the irony-soaked, online provocations of your favourite chan into around 150 pages. It reads like the thoughts of a prolific shitposter, and probably is. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http:...

Have you ever talked to a woman? Chances are, you have at some point. Have you ever understood a woman? If you haven’t read Practical Female Psychology for the Practical Man, then you definitely haven’t. World-renowned seducers Joseph South, David Clare and the mononymic Franco have pooled their knowledge, gained over years of bedding the fairer sex, and condensed it into a handy, practical, field...

Julius Evola’s ‘Revolt Against the Modern World’ is a book in two parts. Book I is where Evola lays out his metaphysics. Book II is where he applies them to human history, explaining why things are so awful now, and why they’ll only get worse. In episode #8, we discussed book I. In this episode, we tackle book II, except without Levi’s audio. You see, we lost Levi’s audio tracks. Rather than admit...

Have you ever wanted to talk to a dolphin? I mean, not talk talk, but telepathically communicate? Well, now you don’t have to, because Ilona Selke has been there, done that, and wrote a book to prove it: 'Wisdom of the Dolphins: Discovering the Mystery of the Holographic Universe’. Turns out, talking to dolphins gives you all sorts of powers, including but not limited to time travel, inter-dimensi...

Having shot Andy Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya, Valerie Solanas tried to shoot Warhol’s manager in the head, but then her pistol jammed. The year before, she published the SCUM Manifesto, a venomous attack on all men and their ‘daddy’s girl’ enablers. It’s a notorious piece of misandry. Fortunately, hosting this podcast are the most qualified people in the world to talk about the most radical...

From military dictatorships and rigid caste systems to telepathy, sexual magic, and Atlantis, "Revolt Against the Modern World" by self-described "super fascist" Julius Evola has it all. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website...

Benito Mussolini, il Duce, was The Father of Fascism. Formerly an Italian socialist, Mussolini founded Italian fascism as a reaction to the failures he perceived in communism and socialism. Under his authoritarian leadership, Italy was one of the two primary Axis powers in Europe during World War II, alongside Nazi Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. He was the Duce of Fascism (1919) and...

Part 2 of Food of the Gods by Terrence McKenna. Terence McKenna was one of the most influential psychedelic advocates of the modern era. We read his seminal work, Food of the Gods, in which he proposes a radical explanation for the origins of our species: Stoned Ape Theory. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=m...

Terence McKenna was one of the most influential psychedelic advocates of the modern era. We read his seminal work, Food of the Gods , in which he proposes a radical explanation for the origins of our species: Stoned Ape Theory . Influenced by his transcendental experiences with shamans in Central and South America, McKenna suggests the process of evolution from primates to early hominids and the r...

We read the 1997 classic, Varsgmal, a manifesto on Norwegian cultural destiny written by the infamous Norwegian black metal artist, Varg Vikernes. Varg was the bass guitarist for Mayhem, one of the most influential bands in the black metal genre, on their first album before he murdered his bandmate, Euronymous. In addition to the murder of Euronymous, Varg was also convicted for the burning of sev...

J. Posadas was visionary communist thought leader who advocated nuclear war to bring about the Marxist World Revolution, praised the use of child soldiers in revolutions, believed that aliens are communists, and predicted the end of animal predation in the future socialist utopia. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9...

Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, is a US domestic terrorist who is currently serving 8 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for a series of mail and transportation bombings he committed between 1978 and 1995. On this episode, we read his essay "Industrial Society and Its Future", regarded as a seminal text in the anarchoprimitivist tradition. Kaczyns...

Inspired by such great minds as Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Camille Paglia, "Bronze Age Mindset" is a self-published polemic masterpiece by pseudonymous Internet-alpha male and iconoclastic philosopher, Bronze Age Pervert. In this breathtaking volume, the author critically analyses the conceits of modern society, including the corruption of modern masculinity and oppression by th...