(AR+IO) Eisel Mazard

Doomed Republic

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A podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome China, India, Europe and America. AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

Author

(AR+IO) Eisel Mazard

Episodes

The Rejection of Philosophy Becomes a Philosophy Unto Itself: Plato, Buddhism, Nihilism. 03.05.2026 1:12:18

On à-bas-le-ciel: LINK: ⁠https://youtube.com/live/t6vBgeJRiyI⁠ On Eisel Mazard, Monolingual Polyglot: LINK: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tY7o0cE-sk⁠ 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_ci...

Youtube is dead: the lost avant garde of intellectual dissent on the internet 11.10.2025 47:29

Implicitly, this is a significant contrast to my old "manifesto" titled On Community , although it does not address the thesis of that video, directly, in any way: if you regard this as a manifesto, it is addressed to the youtuber (or podcaster) as a solitary intellectual dissident, cultural critic, commentator and comedian --not as the center of an incipient community, pulling together...

BLM FAILED. Martyrs are not messiahs, victims are not heroes: the ancient philosophy that ruined a revolution in our time. 06.07.2025 1:23:25

Doomed Republic: a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome China, India, Europe and America. 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_...

QNA2: Polyamory in the Library, Nihilism in the Bedroom. 30.05.2025 1:18:25

Intellectual honesty and sexual infidelity in 2025. 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...

QNA1: The Unmasking of Ancient Athens and Rome; the Paradox of Required Reading. 26.05.2025 34:02

The first of many QNA episodes on Doomed Republic : a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome, China, India, Europe and America. 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_ci...

Learning Ancient LATIN: Now, Baby, or Never (2025 to 2030) 05.05.2025 58:58

Watch for the sequel, "Latin: Racism Without a Race" and, of course, "Veganism: Racism Without a Race." 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 In...

First Alcibiades, Socrates as Conspirator and Cult Leader, Plato as Comedian 22.01.2025 1:38:39

Doomed Republic: a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome China, India, Europe and America. This is episode 5 of Doomed Republic, (AR+IO-008). 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....

Socrates Must Die, Confucius Must Rule: Failed Revolutionaries and Doomed Utopias of the Ancient World. 13.01.2025 1:00:21

Why Was Socrates Tried? Aristophanes, Alcibiades, Failed Revolutions and Philosophies of Education. 13.01.2025 1:39:52

Doomed Republic: a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome China, India, Europe and America. This is episode 3 of Doomed Republic, (AR+IO-007) . 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...

Elagabalus and the Religion of Rome: Emperor, Empress, Priest and Priestess. 07.12.2024 1:14:55

Elagabalus is now celebrated as "the first transgender emperor of Rome", raising questions of the limits of tolerance in the Ancient Greco-Roman world: did he cross some line that Nero never crossed? And was that line sexual, religious or political? Why is it that Elagabalus would be remembered as the lowest of the low by Roman historians who had already narrated the excesses (gay, straight and bi...

Thrasymachus: Nihilism Against Idealism, Plato's Republic and the Socratic Method. 25.11.2024 1:43:48

Episode 01 of Doomed Republic: a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome China, India, Europe and America. (AR+IO-004) 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.patre...