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EMPIRE & CHURCH Anglo-America’s Buyout of the Vatican and the Hyper-Modern Demise of Catholicism

Guido Giacomo Preparata

Empire & Church Over the past century, the Anglo-American Commonwealth succeeded in knocking down all rival empires, except one: the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Without armies or a capillary bureaucracy, the Catholic Church looms as a de-territorialized kingdom embracing worldwide a billion subject...

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Behind the Bastards

The book was discussed in the context of the author's views on race and eugenics. The podcast host was critical of the book, calling it racist and noting that the author's views were cited in Mark Andreessen's manifesto.

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So that's cool.

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The book was discussed in the context of the author's views on race and eugenics. The podcast host was critical of the book, calling it racist and noting that the author's views were cited in Mark Andreessen's manifesto.

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So that's cool.

Yeah. You know, I'm I'm stuck on this like, you know, journey to the stars through evolution thing, because I don't know. Robert, do you play Warhammer 40?

By the way, the name of the article Land wrote all this in is called Hyper Racism. So cool guy. Glad Mark Andreessen cites him in his manifesto.

Well, that's the sequel to Flume's Hyper Realism. So that's yeah, it is interesting.

And these guys don't tend to cite it as much. I think you get in some of the deeper stuff. They're all talking about these techno capitalist concepts that Nick Land plays with. They don't talk about what I think is actually one of his most sort of insightful points, which is about a concept called hyperstition.

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