American Identity, Psychedelics, and Narcissism

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with a fascinating gent who goes by

FOOL Ψ

and writes at

OmniMyth: Grand Narrative

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Check out his most popular articles below:

• How to ostracize yourself: having no niche

• Musings on monotheism and American identity

• Metaphysics

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Topics include:

• Competing narratives of American identity

• Sociological impacts of the collapse of a coherent American identity

• Meritocracy/empire/immigration vs. stability/safety/nativism

• Is America a Christian nation?

• Masonic / Esoteric / Mystery Cult influence on Christianity

• Early church history and Ammon Hillman’s reinterpretation of Christianity

• Dark practices of early Christian sects

• Why hasn’t Walt heard of all the creepy stuff Fool is talking about?

• Historic use of psychedelics to interface with angels and demons

• Limitations of translating Ancient Greek etc. when divorced from context

• Academic/religious persecution of figures like Ammon Hillman

• Blackmail against public figures (Julian Assange, Lindsey Graham, Epstein)

• The inherent entropy of institutions and need for disruption and rebirth

• Is there an authentic American identity distinct from immigrant influence?

• American schizophrenia vs. European sclerosis

• The Silicon Valley “cult of the machine god”

• People are intimidated by the formalization of power dynamics

• Disengaging with unpleasant aspects of human nature (masculine predation, racial difference etc.) is actually more dangerous to society

• Best way to handle dealing with normies

• Alchemy, psychotherapy, and shadow integration

• How useful is “narcissist” as a category?

• The inevitability of performativity and Walt’s metamodernism

• Conscious vs. unconscious performance

• Overlap between narcissism and high functioning hyperverbal autism

• Every girl has a “narcissist ex”

• The necessity of personal mythmaking

• Psychology is a branch of philosophy and not science

• Every field of scholarship has physics envy

• Fool’s interest in psychedelic research

• Psychedelics and ego death—can it cure extreme neurosis/autism?

• Apollonian stimulants vs. Dionysian psychedelics

• Psychedelics and dreams

• LLMs as a mechanization of the collective unconscious

• Walt’s experience with AI-induced visual psychosis

• Lucid dreams and hypnogogic imagery

• Risks of AI-assisted self-gaslighting