The 12th of the Vanguard Podcasts. The original "triumvirate" of 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."
Originally uploaded on the original Alternative Right site on the 6th of January, 2013.
Running Order
00:00 Intro: Neo-Noir
04:00 They Live: first impressions
11:50 The distorting "glasses of ideology"
22:34 They Live as a Left-Wing film
27:30 The David Icke factor
30:45 They Live as an Anti-Semitic allegory
42:00 The Matrix: romanticising the internet
49:25 Extract from The Matrix (low volume)
52:40 "The Desert of the Real" vs. "The Rabbit Hole of Delusion" (warning: heavy duty philosophical segment)
62:00 Conspiritardism
67:15 The Matrix as "The End of History"
74:50 The Matrix as a Hong Kong action flick
79:40 Transhumanism and AI
86:34 Enslavement of the masses vs. Make-work
