Richard Spencer, Andy Nowicki, and Colin Liddell, discuss two "paranoid" films that bookend the 1990s: They Live (1988) and The Matrix (1999). Topics of discussion include the "conspiratorial" impulse, the nature of reality and the virtual, trans-humanism, and anti-Semitism and the "power elite." Topics of discussion include the "conspiratorial" impulse, virtual reality, trans-humanism, anti-Semitism, and the "power elite."
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Running Order
00:00 Intro: Neo-Noir
03:30 They Live: first impressions
10:00 The distorting "glasses of ideology"
19:50 They Live as a Left-Wing film
26:40 They Live as an Anti-Semitic allegory
36:15 The Matrix: romanticising the internet
42:45 Extract from The Matrix (low volume)
47:20 "The Desert of the Real" vs. "The Rabbit Hole of Delusion" (warning: heavy duty philosophical segment)
53:40 Conspiritardism
62:00 The Matrix as "The End of History"
65:30 The Matrix as a Hong Kong action flick
68:40 Transhumanism and AI
73:54 Enslavement of the masses vs. Make-work
