Podcast
Behind the Bastards
It was mentioned as a book summarizing the goal of the Discordians, who wanted to break the trance that kept America at war and blindly consuming.
But as Guffey notes over the ensuing decades, it was the progressive left whose ideas wound up being mainstreamed, really from all in the family onward, it was progressive values and fictional TV mod...
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Episode: Part Six: A Complete History of the Illuminati
It was mentioned as a book summarizing the goal of the Discordians, who wanted to break the trance that kept America at war and blindly consuming.
But as Guffey notes over the ensuing decades, it was the progressive left whose ideas wound up being mainstreamed, really from all in the family onward, it was progressive values and fictional TV mod to mash Murphy Brown to the West Wing.
And as that became the dominant cultural narrative, Operation Mindfuck became a tool of the old right.
And that yeah, that is over time kind of what you see is as a lot of the stuff, not all of it, obviously, these guys are much more radical than the fucking West Wing, but as some of this like these attitudes towards militarism and shit and attitudes towards like, you know, sexual liberation and like that kind of stuff, like radical political equality and whatnot, as those become more mainstreamed, the the it's like the the toolbox loses its power for that side.
Right. But becomes a more powerful tool of the people who are now kind of the insurgents.